Ethiopia’s human rights chief as war rages in Tigray: ‘we get accused by all ethnic groups’

Former political prisoner Daniel Bekele has made the commission more autonomous but critics claim he is biased on current conflict

There was a time when a report by Ethiopia's human rights commission was a staid affair, its findings offering window-dressing for hand-wringing donors and legal cover to the government.

Between 2013 and 2017 the commission systematically whitewashed human rights violations through compromised methodologies, dismissing credible allegations", according to a 2019 Amnesty International study that accused it of brazen bias against victims".