{"id":274640,"date":"2019-05-03T08:28:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T12:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiYWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRpbWVzb2Zpc3JhZWwuY29tL2RvemVucy1raWxsZWQtaW4tZXRobmljLWNsYXNoZXMtaW4tZXRoaW9waWEtcmVnaW9uYWwtb2ZmaWNpYWwtc2F5cy_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-17T11:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:34:12","slug":"dozens-killed-in-amhara-gumuz-retaliatory-clashes-in-early-may-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/274640","title":{"rendered":"Dozens killed in Amhara\u2013Gumuz retaliatory clashes in early May 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 3 May 2019 a Benishangul-Gumuz communications official told AFP that dozens of civilians had been shot dead in Ethiopia\u2019s Amhara region in attacks described as retaliation for earlier Gumuz\u2013Amhara violence, with more than 80 injured and about 90 sheltering in a school.<\/p>\n\"Dozens\n

Search and rescue was still underway. Gunmen had not been publicly identified, but officials linked the assault to revenge for weekend killings that themselves began as a laborer dispute and burned homes.<\/p>\n

Tit-for-tat massacres along the Amhara\u2013Benishangul line became a pattern Abiy Ahmed\u2019s federal command posts never truly ended. Body counts moved faster than honest federal briefings.<\/p>\n

Kept as conflict archive, the \u2018dozens killed\u2019 wire is the escalation step after the 17-dead report. Readers tracing Metekel\u2019s later horrors need these 2019 timestamps.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/strong> The Times of Israel \/ AFP<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dozens killed in ethnic clashes in Ethiopia, regional official says  The Times of IsraelADDIS ABABA (AFP) \u2014 Dozens of civilians were shot dead in ethnic clashes in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara state, a regional official said Friday, describing …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":602495,"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-274640","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\/2026\/09\/amhara-lake-tana-1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19rG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274640","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=274640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602517,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274640\/revisions\/602517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}