ETHIOPIA, 4 November 2020, (TON):  Increased incidence are taking place in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, resulting in killing of fifty-four people.

Fifty-four people have been killed last weekend in an alleged rebel attack in the country’s restive Oromia region. Federal authorities have blamed the Liberation Army for the attacks and said that women and children are among the victims.

At least a dozen civilians were killed in Gura Ferda Woreda in Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Region in October. Several others were killed in the Afar Region that same month

In a statement Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) also condemned the killings of civilians.
Quoting eyewitnesses, the EHRC stated that around 60 armed assailants attacked Gawa-Kanka, Gilla-Gogola, and Seka-Jerbi kebeles on 1 November, soon after the withdrawal of federal forces form the region.

The Government officials have put the death toll at 32 and ordered inquiry into the killings, global human rights watchdog Amnesty International has said that a least 54 people were killed in the rebel attack. The survivors have counted 54 bodies in a schoolyard in the village of Gawa Qanqa.