
Ethiopian president and rebel group blame each other for apparent civilian massacre
CNN
Ethiopian President Abiy Ahmed and rebel group Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) are blaming each other's military forces after an unconfirmed number of civilians were killed Monday in the country's Oromia region.
The incident appears to be an ethnically targeted attack, according to a statement from the state-appointed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC). This is the second attack against civilians in the Oromia region in under a month.
The EHRC says the populations of the villages of Mender 20 and Mender 21 in Hawa Gelan in Oromia's Kellem Wollega Zone are "primarily of Amhara ethnic origin" and that residents are hiding elsewhere despite security forces having reached the area.

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