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Gunmen shot and killed 34 people on a passenger bus in western Ethiopia. The attack took place in the Benishanjul-Gumuz area of the country on Saturday night amid bloody clashes between the government and the Tigre People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) forces in the Tigre region. The country’s national human rights body, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, said on Sunday.
The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said in a statement that a group of armed men attacked a passenger bus on Saturday night in the Debat administrative area of the Benishanjul-Gumuz region. The attack immediately killed 34 people. The death toll could rise. However, it is still unclear if there was any connection between the attack and the fighting between Ethiopia and TPLF.
The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said similar attacks were reported in three other areas in addition to the attack on the bus in the Debat administrative area. People who have taken refuge from the conflict have also been attacked.
The government of Prime Minister Abi Ahmed has not provided any information on the recent clashes. As a result, the actual number of victims in the conflict is unknown.
After Abi Ahmed came to power as Prime Minister in 2016, the political situation in Ethiopia began to change radically. The bloody two-decade conflict with neighboring Eritrea came to an end hand in hand. Abi received the Nobel Peace Prize just one year after coming to power.
Although Abi Ahmed was praised for establishing good relations with his neighbors, he did not take many steps to restore peace in the independence-loving Taigre region of his country. He is accused of rounding up the Tigris in the name of massive political reform. As a result, the central government’s dispute with the Tigre Popular Liberation Front Party (TPLF) intensified. The confrontation between the two sides lasted 12 days on Sunday.
Last Saturday night, Tiger forces fired rockets at an airport in neighboring Eritrea. TPLF leader Debertson Graeme Michael claimed responsibility for the attack and said the airport had been used by Ethiopian government forces to carry out attacks in Tigris. However, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abi Ahmed has denied the allegations.
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