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Daniel Kordan is a landscape photographer based in Bali, known for his stunning aerial shots of Australia, sweeping views of Vietnam, and much more. In this article, we're excited to share a ...
Human rights groups are asking why federal soldiers left the area just hours before attackers moved in. Ethiopia's government has blamed a rebel group, the Oromo Liberation Army. Survivors count ...
The Oromo people (Oromo: Oromoo, pron. / ˈ ɒr əm oʊ / ORR-əm-oh [11]; Amharic: ኦሮሞ) are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Oromia region of Ethiopia and parts of Northern Kenya. [12] They speak the Oromo language (also called Afaan Oromoo ), which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family . [ 12 ]
A resident, whose brother was one of the victims, told Addis Standard of seeing 50 dead bodies in Merawi's streets after the massacre. [2] A monk stated that he saw twelve ENDF soldiers take 18 young men out of a bar, beat them, line them up, force them to kneel, and execute them. [1]
A witness who spent two months "going from village to village on foot" around the Tembien and Naeder Adet areas stated in Ethiopia Insight that some of the killings were done by Eritrean soldiers who killed people in their homes. According to the witness, a priest from Maryam Ts'iyon church stated that on one particular day, 243 victims had ...
Ethiopian Army soldiers at a ceremony marking Ethiopia joining AMISOM in Somalia. Ethiopia has served in various United Nations and African Union peacekeeping missions. These have included Ivory Coast, [15] [16] on the Burundi border, [15] [17] and in Rwanda. Two major previous Ethiopian missions were in Liberia and Darfur.
Soldiers went house to house and executed more than 160 people. Done killing, the soldiers stopped families from taking their dead. Only two days after the slaughter were gravediggers allowed to set about their grim task; one of them buried 26 corpses in the graveyard of the Abune Aregawi Church, survivors said. [15] [16]
The Humera massacre was an ethnic mass murder event carried out in November 2020 in the town of Humera (Tigrinya: ሑሞራ) in the Tigray Region of northwestern Ethiopia, next to the Sudanese border. The massacre took place during an armed conflict between the regional government of Tigray and the federal government of Ethiopia.