Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has provided the following answer to your written parliamentary question (HL4444):
Question by Lord Alton of Liverpool :
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of reports of massacres and incitements to ethnic cleansing in Ethiopia; what plans they have, if any, to review the UK citizenship of Andargachew Tsege regarding reports of his involvement in such activities. (HL4444)
Tabled on: 29 November 2021
Answer:
Lord Goldsmith of Richmond Park:
We do not comment on individual deprivation of citizenship cases.
We are extremely concerned by reports of widespread human rights violations and abuses in Ethiopia committed by all sides in the conflict, including but not limited to mass killings in the north and incidents of ethnic targeting in Addis Ababa and elsewhere. The Foreign Secretary, our Ambassador in Addis Ababa and the Minister for Africa continue to raise human rights issues in our discussions with the Ethiopian Government and more broadly we have reminded all warring parties of their obligations under international humanitarian law and international human rights law. The Minister for Africa raised our concerns about ethnic profiling and detentions with Ethiopian State Minister Redwan on 18 November and made clear our concerns on this issue in her tweet of 30 November: “…All sides must avoid hate speech which is fueling ethnic tensions…”.
Date and time of answer: 10 Dec 2021 at 12:02.
