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According to a report by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, Saturday night’s attack in the Benishangul-Gumuz region “is likely to increase the number of victims, which currently stands at 34.”
A representative of the Commission, an independent government body, confirmed that all of these people had died.
Their report notes that the attack took place in the Dibata administrative area and that “there are reports of similar attacks” in three other areas, as well as “asylum seekers.”
The government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed does not publish much information about the recent violence in Benishangul-Gumuz, especially in the Metekel area where Dibate is located.
The attack killed 12 people in the region in October and killed 15 people in a similar attack in late September.
Addressing lawmakers last month, Abiy Ahmed claimed that the killers responsible for the killings had been trained and lived in neighboring Sudan and that Khartoum needed help to stabilize the area.
There is no known link between the violence in Benishangul-Gumuz and the military operations in the Tigris region of northern Ethiopia, which killed hundreds and more than 20,000 people across the border from Sudan.
Opposition politicians call for benevolent-Gumuz violence on ethnic grounds.
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