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In Ethiopia, a secret committee orders killings and arrests to crush rebels

In Ethiopia, a secret committee orders killings and arrests to crush rebels

WARNING: This story contains disturbing visual content. A secretive committee of senior officials in Ethiopia’s largest and most populous region, Oromiya, has ordered extra-judicial killings and illegal detentions to crush an insurgency there, a Reuters investigation has found. Reuters interviewed more than 30 federal and local officials, judges, lawyers and victims of abuses by authorities. The agency also reviewed documents drafted by local political and judicial authorities. These interviews and documents for the first time shed light on the workings of the Koree Nageenyaa – Security Committee in the Oromo language - which began operating in the months after Prime Minister…
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Ethiopia’s Oromiya region accuses OLA rebels of killing ‘many’ people

Ethiopia’s Oromiya region accuses OLA rebels of killing ‘many’ people

THE government of Ethiopia's largest region, Oromiya, accused the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) rebel group of killing "many civilians" in attacks that followed the failure of peace talks in Tanzania. At least 36 people were killed when unidentified attackers struck three villages in Oromiya's Shirka district on November 24 and 27, residents told Reuters. Hailu Adugna, the Oromiya region's spokesman, blamed the attacks on the OLA, an outlawed splinter group of a formerly proscribed opposition party that returned from exile in 2018. "The terror group is committing brutal acts on civilians because it is now very anxious," Hailu told the…
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Ethiopia, rebel group trade blame over mass killing in west

Ethiopia, rebel group trade blame over mass killing in west

ETHIOPIA'S prime minister and a rebel group have traded blame for a mass killing in Oromiya, the country's most populous region, where hundreds of people have died in recent months in escalating violence. The latest killings took place on Monday in two villages in Kellem Wollega zone, around 400 km (250 miles) west of the capital Addis Ababa, the state-appointed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said. Both the EHRC and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed blamed the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), a banned splinter group of an opposition party, for the killings, which Abiy called a "massacre". OLA spokesman Odaa Tarbii…
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