Dozens of people were confirmed dead in a “brutal” terrorist attack in the West Wellega Zone of Ethiopia. It occurred after government forces left unexpectedly on 1 November. Following their departure, survivors said rebels identifying themselves from the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) arrived and claimed authority to the area. According to
Amnesty International, “[M]ilitants [then] gathered people who did not manage to flee, mainly women, children, and the elderly, and killed them,” while a witness speaking to Amhara Mass Media recalled the group gathering “200 people for a meeting around 5pm” and then “shooting at them.” Supporting
Amnesty’s claim that Sunday’s attack was the latest deliberation against ethnic minorities, Ethiopia’s Human Rights Commission (EHRC) cited reports of Amharas “dragged from their homes and taken to a school, where they were killed.” Although the EHRC officially stated the death toll at 32, the “actual number could be much hi
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Latest reports are now revealing that many of the big businesses owned by TPLF affiliated or indirectly owned by the TPLF cliques have also found not paying any taxes for the past few decades.
In addition to state level robbery and accumulation of wealth within one ethnic group and “yes boss” corrupt-minded puppets from other ethnic groups in Ethiopia, the TPLF-dominated regime of EPRDF was also known for grave human rights violations. It has tortured Ethiopians who opposed the regime. Within registered and unknown jails such as, in Somali region, TPLF was implicated in grave human rights violations, including amputating legs of prisoners in Addis Ababa. Reports of in jail rapes, sodomizations crimes among others, were common during the era of TPLF-dominated EPRDF regime. That was why the reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed described these crimes as state level terrorism acts immediately after he came to power and plead for forgiveness from the people of Ethiopia.