{"id":275976,"date":"2019-05-11T02:55:08","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T06:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiVWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZXJlcG9ydGVyZXRoaW9waWEuY29tL2FydGljbGUvdmlvbGVuY2UtYmVuaXNoYW5ndWwtYW1oYXJhLWJvYXJkZXItdG93bnPSAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:52:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:52:39","slug":"reporter-benishangul-party-condemned-killings-in-amhara-border-towns-including-jawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/275976","title":{"rendered":"Reporter: Benishangul party condemned killings in Amhara border towns including Jawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 The Reporter Ethiopia wrote that Benishangul-Gumuz\u2019s ruling party, in an emergency meeting, condemned recent killings of hundreds of civilians in neighboring Amhara towns including Jawi after border violence spread.<\/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=\"Reporter: Benishangul party condemned killings in Amhara border towns including Jawi\" \/>\n<p>The coverage sat inside the same late-April and early-May bloodletting that other outlets tallied in smaller opening death counts before the toll rose. Communal fights over labor, land, and belonging in Metekel and adjacent woredas were already turning into mass atrocity patterns.<\/p>\n<p>Official condemnations after the fact do not reverse burned houses. They do create a dated paper trail of what regional parties admitted while federal forces deployed.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as conflict accountability archive, the Reporter file helps map how Benishangul-Amhara border violence was described in Ethiopian media before later Metekel horrors made the zone internationally known.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thereporterethiopia.com\/article\/violence-benishangul-amhara-boarder-towns\">The Reporter Ethiopia<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Violence in Benishangul-Amhara Border towns&nbsp;&nbsp;The Reporter EthiopiaIn an emergency meeting held last week, Benishangul Gumz regional party condemned the recent killings of hundreds of civilians in neighboring towns of Jawi &#8230;<\/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-275976","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-19Ne","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275976","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=275976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754506,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275976\/revisions\/754506"}],"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=275976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}