“I’ve never seen or heard of anything like this,” a stunned friend of one of the victims told the Voice of America (VOA) Amharic service on Sunday. “Soldiers were shooting at people crossing roads; they even shot at people eating in restaurants.”Prior killings took place at protests, religious gatherings or funerals. “There was no security threat at the time,” the town’s mayor, Aschalew Yohannes, told VOA. When he tried to get up and run, soldiers shot again, twice, eyewitnesses said. Yared Hailemariam, the executive director of the Swiss-based Association for Human Rights in Ethiopia, told VOA: “Apologizing after massacring people is not acceptable.

Source: Ethiopian News March 13, 2018 17:03 UTC