More than 60 people were killed in late August in a new massacre in Ethiopia's Oromia region, the country's largest and most populous, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said Tuesday. US envoy in Ethiopia to halt ongoing conflicts https://t.co/7TFsnoIPwE — africanews 😷 (@africanews) September 6, 2022Two residents of an affected locality accused Amhara militiamen of committing the killings and claimed that around 100 people were killed. The regional authorities had blamed the OLA, an organization classified as a terrorist, which they have been fighting with federal forces since 2018. On June 18 and July 4, several hundred villagers - mostly Amhara - were killed in massacres by gunmen in two remote areas of western Oromia. The federal government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed blamed the OLA, which firmly denied the incident and pointed the finger at a militia group set up by the authorities.

Source: Ethiopian News September 07, 2022 16:49 UTC