More than 210 people have been killed over numerous days of ethnic violence in Ethiopia’s demanding Oromia area last week, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) stated on Thursday. The state-affiliated however unbiased fee stated witnesses defined gunmen affiliated with the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), a revolting group, arriving on August 18 after safety forces withdrew from Gida-Kirimu withinside the western area.
“The area’s citizens and others stated greater than 150 humans have been killed through the gunmen,” the EHRC stated. The assault pressured girls and kids to escape to neighbouring regions and sparked a wave of revenge killings.
“In next days, a few citizens carried out ethnic-primarily based totally reprisal attacks, killing greater than 60 people” and triggering an in addition exodus of civilians fleeing the violence, the commission stated. The panel referred to as for “immediate action” to prevent the instability from spreading in addition and research into why safety forces withdrew from the bothered area.