Dozens of people killed and thousands of others were displaced in targeted attacks against ethnic Amharas and Agews in Ethiopia’s Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State, according to the Amhara Regional State officials. <\/p>\n
Amhara Region stated that the security situation in Benishangul-Gumuz has worsened as attackers have continued to kill ethnic Amhara and Agew people.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the federal and regional governments are not defending the people, the Amhara people will resort to natural right to defend their lives,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeveral people have been killed in Metekel and Dibate zones in Benishangul-Gumuz region and over 30,000 others have been displaced due to attacks against ethnic Amharas and Agew,\u201d Gizachew Muluneh, head of the Amhara regional state communication affairs office, said. \u201cWomen and children were not spared\u201d he added<\/p>\n
\u201cThe killings could lead to widespread bloodshed and civil war if the government doesn’t take action,\u201d Gizachew warned.<\/p>\n
The Amahra Region Administration and National Movement of the Amhara (NAMA) have demanded the ongoing \u201claw enforcement operations\u201d in Tigray be repeated in Benishangul-Gumuz.<\/p>\n
New reports of massacres also reported in Wellega zone in Oromia region. The exact number of victims from what is believed to be ethnic cleansing attacks in both regions has not been known.<\/p>\n
The federal and regional governments have been criticized for failing to take serious measures. They also were accused of participating in what is called a \u201csystemic ethnic cleansing of ethnic Amhara\u201d in the western Ethiopian region.<\/p>\n
Victims of the attacks accused government officials in both regions of providing structural support and protection for extremist forces. <\/p>\n
Benishangul-Gumuz Administration on its part accused the Amhara Region of threatening a military intervention in its territory in violation of the region\u2019s right to self administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dozens of people killed and thousands of others were displaced in targeted attacks against ethnic Amharas and Agews in Ethiopia’s Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State, according to the Amhara Regional State officials. Amhara Region stated that the security situation in Benishangul-Gumuz has worsened as attackers have continued to kill ethnic Amhara and Agew people. \u201cIf the federal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":341365,"comment_status":"open","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-341364","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\/2020\/12\/Ethnic-Amhara-People.jpg?fit=1080%2C608&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1qNS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341364","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\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341364"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":341431,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341364\/revisions\/341431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}