By SAMUEL GEBRE | Bloomberg News | Published: January 2, 2021 Deadly protests and attacks in Ethiopia in which over 100 people died after the assassination of prominent musician Hachalu Hundessa constitute crimes against humanity and require further investigation, according to an independent human rights body. Hachalu was a popular voice during protests by the Oromo, Ethiopia’s biggest ethnic group, for reforms in the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front that led to the appointment of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in 2018. The singer-songwriter’s shooting on June 29, 2020, led to riots in the capital Addis Ababa and parts of Oromia. In the three days that followed groups broke into houses armed with “knives, stones, flammables, electric cables, sticks, axes and machetes; beat, injured and killed people in a gruesome manner, including through torture and beheading”, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said in a statement released Friday.
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