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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 ...

The latest bloody massacre in Ethiopia has seen gunmen slaughter more than 100 civilians before the military took revenge by killing 42 armed militants.

Text size 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 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 state...

Ethiopia, in the Horn of Africa, is a rugged, landlocked country split by the Great Rift Valley. Gunmen killed more than 100 people in an attack on Wednesday in western Ethiopia, the national human rights body said, the latest in a series of deadly assaults in the area. The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC), a government-affiliated but independent body, said in a statement late on Wednesday that “more than 100 people have been killed in fires and shooting perpetrated by armed men” in the Benishangul-Gumuz region. The commission said survivors had “disturbing photo evidence” of...

Wednesday's horrific attack occurred in the country's western village of Bekoji in the Metekel zone of Benishangul-Gumuz, an area where multiple ethnic groups are living.