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‘Ethiopia kills dozens allegedly behind massacre’
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December 25, 2020
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia’s military killed 42 people allegedly among those responsible for massacring more than 100 civilians in a troubled western part of the country, local officials said on Thursday.
The federal troops also seized firearms and arrows during the operation, the government of the Benishangul-Gumuz region said, after gunmen waged the brutal pre-dawn assault on Wednesday in which dozens were also injured. The Ethiopia Defence Force has destroyed 42 anti-peace forces who attacked civilians yesterday in the Metekel zone of Benishangul-Gumuz, the regional government said in a statement. Contests over land and resources in Benishangul-Gumuz have spurred violence between ethnic groups, and Wednesday’s massacre was just the latest gruesome atrocity in the region in recent months.
Nairobi, Dec. 24, 2020 (PANA/Naija247news) Amnesty International has condemned the killing of at least 100 people by armed assailants in Ethiopia’s Benishangul-Gumuz Region on Wednesday morning.
In a statement, Netsanet Belay, Research and Advocacy Director of Amnesty International, said: “This brutal attack against Amhara, Oromo and Shinasha residents of villages in Benishangul-Gumuz underscores the urgent need for the Ethiopian government to act to stop violence against ethnic minorities.”
Belay said said Amnesty International independently interviewed via phone five survivors of the attack and one official from Bulen District, all of whom described how armed members of the ethnic Gumuz community attacked houses of people from the Amhara, Oromo and Shinasha communities starting from around 5 am on Wednesday.
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