{"id":454754,"date":"2023-07-15T06:30:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T10:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=454754"},"modified":"2023-07-15T06:30:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T10:30:06","slug":"state-backed-watchdog-discloses-8-killed-in-attack-in-western-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/454754","title":{"rendered":"State backed watchdog discloses 8 killed in attack in western Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The state backed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) disclosed on Thursday evening an attack in western Ethiopia has left at least eight people dead.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAn attack on residents of Gilgil-Beles city in Metekel zone of Benishangul-Gumuz region on July 7 killed eight people including three local militiamen and injured 16 other civilians,\u201d the EHRC disclosed in a press statement sent to Mereja.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The EHRC statement said local residents and officials have disclosed to it it the attackers were members of an ex-rebel group, the Gumuz Peoples Democratic Movement (GPDM) and that non-Gumuz ethnic groups were targeted in the attack.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The EHRC information stated, members of the GPDM who are currently living in a nearby disarmament camp carried out the attack in part due to complaints that main points of a peace agreement reached with the government hasn\u2019t been implemented so far.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The EHRC statement further said relative calm has returned to Gilgil-Beles district currently with the deployment of Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) personnel to the affected area.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state backed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) disclosed on Thursday evening an attack in western Ethiopia has left at least eight people dead.\u00a0 \u201cAn attack on residents of Gilgil-Beles city in Metekel zone of Benishangul-Gumuz region on July 7 killed eight people including three local militiamen and injured 16 other civilians,\u201d the EHRC disclosed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":444687,"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":[8,4821],"tags":[5845],"class_list":["post-454754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","category-news","tag-ethiopia-agoa-pm-abiyu-s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/human-right-scaled.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1UiK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454754","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\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":454755,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454754\/revisions\/454755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}