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Two years ago, on the edge of Chitu in Ethiopia’s unsettled Oromia region, local officials told Chamara Mamoye his farmland might be developed when the small town expanded. He hasn’t heard anything since.
“Losing the land would be a big problem for me, but if the government forces us, we can’t do anything,” the father-of-five says outside his compound.
Last month, Chamara, 45, saw the bodies of two protesters lying on the road after demonstrations rocked Chito. The dead were among up to 140 people killed by security forces during region-wide protests triggered by claims of injustice and marginalisation from the nation’s largest ethnic group, the Oromo. ....
News Analysis: 123 people killed in June-July unrest, 76 by security forces; attacks constitute elements of crime against humanity: Ethiopia Rights Commission addisstandard 2021-01-01 EHRC Press briefing on its latest report detailing the violence that swept Oromia in the wake of the assassination of Oromo artist Hachalu Hundessa Please Addis Abeba, January 01/2021 – A report by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has found that “crimes against humanity was committed by individuals and groups who directly participated in the violence and security crisis that swept through Oromia Region following the death of musician Hachalu Hundessa on June 29th, 2020.” EHRC said its the report, which was released today, was published after its team “visited over 40 different localities in Oromia Region over the course of several days as part of its investigation into human rights abuses committed there between June 29 – July 2, 2020.” ....