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November 2020

Ethiopia: Over 54 ethnic Amhara killed in attack on village by OLF-Shene

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL NEWSFLASH 2 November 2020 Amnesty International can reveal that at least 54 people from the Amhara ethnic group were killed in an attack late on 1 November by suspected members of the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) armed group. The attack on Gawa Qanqa village in Guliso District of West Wellega Zone took place […]

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‘Horrendous’ OLF-Shene Attack massacred ethnic Amhara in West Ethiopia: Government

Gunmen from the Oromo Liberation Army carried out the attack Sunday in an area known as Wollega, with one survivor saying he counted over 50 corpses. An armed group in Ethiopia’s restive Oromia region has carried out a “horrendous” attack on civilians, the government said Monday, with one survivor saying dozens had died. The incident

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Ethiopia: Investigation reveals evidence that scores of civilians were killed in massacre in Tigray state

Amnesty International November 2020 Amnesty International can today confirm that scores, and likely hundreds, of people were stabbed or hacked to death in Mai-Kadra (May Cadera) town in the South West Zone of Ethiopia’s Tigray Region on the night of 9 November. The organization’s Crisis Evidence Lab has examined and digitally verified gruesome photographs and

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Conflict looms in Ethiopia as tensions between Addis Ababa and Tigray region escalate

EARS of war and the possible break-up of Ethiopia were raised today as the northern Tigray region blocked a military appointment of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government. The unnamed brigadier general is said to have flown north to Tigray on Thursday evening, but returned to the capital Addis Ababa after being told “his appointment would

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