NAIROBI (Reuters) – More than 60 people have been killed and 20,000 displaced after three days of ethnic violence in southwestern Ethiopia in late August, the National Human Rights Commission said on Tuesday. .
Members of the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), the armed wing of the Oromo Liberation Front, attempted to seize the town of Obora, located in the Oromia region, on August 29, killing three members of ethnic Amhara, the Commission said.
In the days that followed, members of the Amhara community carried out retaliatory attacks against members of the Oromo ethnic group.
“Over 60 people were killed and over 70 injured in the two-day attack,” the commission said. “More than 20,000 people have been displaced and are now in Obora.”
The Oromia region is the most populated in Ethiopia, and the Oromo and Amhara ethnic groups are in the majority there. Violence there has intensified in recent years against a backdrop of political tensions and ethnic discord.
(Writing report from Nairobi, written by Estelle Shirbon; French version Camille Raynaud, edited by)
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