3 Nov 2020 Jahr - 54 killed in Ethiopia massacre

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At least 54 killed in Ethiopia massacre, says Amnesty.

Victims mostly Amhara women and children and elderly people, say survivors.

At least 54 people were killed in a rebel attack in Ethiopia’s restive Oromia region at the weekend, according to Amnesty International.

Survivors of the massacre counted 54 bodies in a schoolyard in the village of Gawa Qanqa, which was targeted late on Sunday by suspected members of the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA). Most of the victims were women and children and elderly people, according to survivors who hid in nearby forests.

The incident is likely to ramp up pressure on the prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, winner of last year’s Nobel peace prize, to improve security in a country struggling with ethnic violence.

The violence occurred in an area of western Ethiopia known as Wollega and involved up to 60 armed and unarmed assailants, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said.

It said the assailants targeted members of the Amhara ethnic group, Ethiopia’s second largest, and victims “were dragged from their homes and taken to a school, where they were killed”. (The Guardian)