{"id":274212,"date":"2019-04-27T03:36:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T07:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiamh0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wNC8yNy92aW9sZW5jZS1pbi1iZW5pc2hhbmd1bC1ndW11ei1yZWdpb25hbC1zdGF0ZS1vZi1ldGhpb3BpYS1jbGFpbWVkLXNpeC1saXZlcy_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-14T11:41:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T15:41:34","slug":"violence-in-benishangul-gumuz-killed-at-least-six-borkena-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/274212","title":{"rendered":"Violence in Benishangul-Gumuz killed at least six, borkena reported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 27 April 2019, borkena reported deadly violence in Ethiopia\u2019s Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State that claimed at least six lives, another entry in a year when peripheral regions burned while Addis sold reform.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-362736\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Benishangul-Gumuz-Bulen-town.png?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Violence in Benishangul-Gumuz killed at least six, borkena reported\" \/>\n<p>Benishangul-Gumuz sits on sensitive ground: GERD politics, resettlement history, and ethnic federal fault lines. Killings there are never only local crime blotter.<\/p>\n<p>Abiy Ahmed\u2019s government talked federal peace while regional security vacuums widened. Counting the dead was often left to diaspora and independent sites when official silence stretched.<\/p>\n<p>As conflict\/rights archive, even a short wire matters. Patterns of Benishangul violence later grew uglier; 2019\u2019s body counts were early warnings, not anomalies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/04\/27\/violence-in-benishangul-gumuz-regional-state-of-ethiopia-claimed-six-lives\/\">borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violence in Benishangul Gumuz Regional State of Ethiopia claimed six lives&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comSix people are killed in Benishangul Gumuz region of Ethiopia following a violence involving laborers Ethiopian State Broadcaster ( EBC) reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":362736,"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-274212","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\/2021\/07\/Benishangul-Gumuz-Bulen-town.png?fit=976%2C700&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19kM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274212","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601454,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274212\/revisions\/601454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}