Gunmen killed more than 100 people in a dawn attack in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region of Ethiopia on Wednesday, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said, as residents described fleeing the latest deadly assault in an area bedevilled by ethnic violence. The attack occurred in the village of Bekoji in Bulen county in the Metekel zone, the state-run Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said in a statement, an area where multiple ethnic groups are living. Ethiopia is also fighting an insurgency in the Oromiya region and faces long-running security threats from Somali Islamist militants along its porous eastern border. Another resident of the town, Hassen Yimama, said armed men stormed the area around 6 a.m. (0300 GMT). “The desire by enemies to divide Ethiopia along ethnic and religious lines still exists.

Source: Ethiopian News December 23, 2020 18:45 UTC