{"id":276889,"date":"2019-05-23T07:28:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T11:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiO2h0dHA6Ly93d3cueGluaHVhbmV0LmNvbS9lbmdsaXNoLzIwMTktMDUvMjMvY18xMzgwODM0MzUuaHRt0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:48:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:48:15","slug":"federal-prosecutors-charged-53-people-over-deadly-2018-riots-in-benishangul-gumuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276889","title":{"rendered":"Federal prosecutors charged 53 people over deadly 2018 riots in Benishangul-Gumuz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Xinhua reported that Ethiopia\u2019s Federal Attorney General charged 53 people over June 2018 riots in Benishangul-Gumuz that left 16 dead, including the former mayor of Assosa and a regional special police chief among the accused.<\/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=\"Federal prosecutors charged 53 people over deadly 2018 riots in Benishangul-Gumuz\" \/>\n<p>The region along the Sudan border had seen repeated ethnic violence, and it also hosts the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile, so local security failures carried national weight.<\/p>\n<p>Charging sheets after mass violence are only one step; conviction rates and whether communities feel protected are separate tests.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as rights and governance archive, the 53-person indictment dates federal handling of Benishangul-Gumuz killings under Abiy Ahmed\u2019s early government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2019-05\/23\/c_138083435.htm\">Xinhua<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>53 Ethiopians charged in connection with deadly riots that left 16 people dead &#8211; Xinhua | English.news.cn&nbsp;&nbsp;XinhuaADDIS ABABA, May 23 (Xinhua) &#8212; The Ethiopia Federal Attorney General Office on Thursday charged 53 people in connection with dea&#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-276889","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-1a1X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276889","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=276889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754875,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276889\/revisions\/754875"}],"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=276889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}