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Wednesday 23 December 2020
Burned houses
More than 100 killed in massacre in Ethiopia
Armed attackers have attacked villages in western Ethiopia. According to the human rights organization Amnesty International, the people were stabbed and shot. Survivors report that houses are on fire. The number of deaths is going to increase.
According to Amnesty International, more than 100 people were killed in a massacre in western Ethiopia. In the morning, armed members of the Amhara, Oromo and Shinasha communities attacked villages in the Benishangul-Gumuz region, the human rights organization said. People were stabbed and shot and houses were burned.
Amnesty said it spoke to five survivors of the attack by phone. There have been reports of at least 100 deaths so far, but the number is likely to increase. The regional news agency for the Amhara region, the Amhara Media Agency, reported that eyewitnesses spoke of several dozen deaths and houses burned.
This brutal attack underscores the “urgent need for the Ethiopian government to act to stop violence against ethnic minorities,” said Amnesty International’s Netsanet Belay. Since September there have been several waves of violence against members of the Amhara, Shinasha, Oromo and Agew in this region.
A lot of tensions between population groups
In the multi-ethnic state of Ethiopia, with about 112 million inhabitants, there is a lot of tension between population groups. They have risen with Abiy Ahmed, who has been in power since 2018. There is currently a conflict in the northern Tigray region between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which was in power there, and the central government in Addis. Abeba.
Over the weekend, after weeks of fighting in Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict region, tensions erupted with neighboring Sudan state over border problems. After about a month of fighting, almost 50,000 Ethiopians fled the Tigray region across the border with Sudan.
