Rights violations on all sides of Ethiopia conflict, U.N. says

FILE PHOTO: A boy sits on the barrel of a military tank destroyed recently during fighting between the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) in Damot Kebele of Amhara region, Ethiopia December 7, 2021. Picture taken December 7, 2021. REUTERS/Kumera Gemechu/File Photo

GENEVA (Reuters) -All sides in the deepening conflict in northern Ethiopia are committing severe human rights violations and should pull back from their year-old war, the United Nations said on Friday.

An estimated 5,000 to 7,000 people are detained, including nine U.N. staff, under a state of emergency and its "excessively broad provision" declared by the government last month, the U.N. Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Nada al-Nashif, said.