“I lost my 16-year-old daughter in the attack shot by a bullet from the (OLA) gunmen,” one Amhara man said, adding that the rebels had blocked the main highway. “The Abiy regime is again blaming the OLA for atrocities committed by its own retreating fighters,” he said on Twitter. The EHRC, a state-affiliated independent rights body, said in a statement that security forces had carried out “door-to-door executions” in Gambella, which borders Oromia. The OLA last year forged an alliance with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which has been locked in conflict with federal forces in northern Ethiopia since November 2020. Ethiopia’s government declared a “humanitarian truce” in March, allowing limited supplies of international aid into Tigray for the first time since mid-December.

Source: The Guardian June 20, 2022 11:38 UTC