{"id":260791,"date":"2019-01-11T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=d66534d1f5053d212aa643c7c035c97a"},"modified":"2019-02-08T04:57:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T09:57:50","slug":"calls-for-investigation-after-ethiopian-army-shoots-and-kills-civilians-in-amhara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/260791","title":{"rendered":"Call for investigation after Ethiopian army shoots and kills civilians in Amhara"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gedu Andargachew, the president of the Amhara Region, has called for an investigation into the deaths of about six civilians who were shot by the Ethiopian Army.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on Wednesday when the soldiers, who were escorting construction trucks, opened fire on a group of civilians. The civilians reportedly attacked the trucks which they suspected were transporting weapons.<\/p>\n<p>There have been several violent incidents in region in recent months. In December, ESAT reported the discovery of <a href=\"https:\/\/ethsat.com\/2018\/12\/ethiopia-three-illegal-military-training-facilities-found-in-amhara-region\/\">three illegal training facilities<\/a> in the region.<\/p>\n<p>According to Gedu, the recent shooting incident may have been a mistake should be thoroughly investigated. He also sent his condolences to the families of victims of the attack. [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/newbusinessethiopia.com\/president-urges-ethiopian-army-to-investigate-civilians-death\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President urges Ethiopian army to investigate civilians\u2019 death&nbsp;&nbsp;New Business EthiopiaFollowing the recent shootings of Ethiopian army at the people in Metema and Chilga areas of Amhara Region, President of Amhara Region Gedu &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1e4dbe582b6848de918933e085ce1b61_18.jpg?fit=1000%2C562&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-15Qj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260791"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260814,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260791\/revisions\/260814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}