ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - At least 50 people were killed in Ethiopia's Oromiya region this month in an attack by a banned rebel group, the state-appointed human rights commission said on Wednesday. The killings on Feb. 2 mainly targeted internally displaced persons in the town of Ano, about 380 km (235 miles) west of the capital Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said in a report. Ethiopia government spokesman Legesse Tulu also did not respond to a request for comment. The violence in Oromiya is separate from the two-year conflict between the federal government and forces in the northern Tigray region, which ended in November following a peace agreement between the government and Tigray forces. (Reporting by Dawit Endeshaw in Addis Ababa; Writing by Bhargav Acharya; Editing by Aaron Ross and Matthew Lewis)

Source: Ethiopian News February 16, 2023 05:13 UTC