Source: Xinhua| 2017-07-17 20:18:28|Editor: Song LifangVideo Player CloseADDIS ABABA, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Fifteen Ethiopians have been charged on Monday before the Federal High Court in Addis Ababa with terror offenses for allegedly conspiring and committing terror acts to undermine the Ethiopian state. The 15 Ethiopians are allegedly members of an outlawed ethnic rebel group Gambella People's Liberation Movement (GPLM) who committed the terror acts from October 2015 to February 2017. Since then, the common border between Eritrea and Ethiopia has had an uneasy calm punctuated occasionally by sporadic armed flare-ups. The defendants had also allegedly planned to assassinate officials of Gambella regional state and civilians living in the regional state in order to ignite communal strife. In one particular incident, the defendants are accused of attacking a public transportation vehicle travelling between cities in Gambella regional state that left five civilians dead and injured nine others.

Source: Ethiopian News July 17, 2017 12:22 UTC