Both the EHRC and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed blamed the Oromo Liberation Army, a banned splinter group of an opposition party, for the killings, which Abiy called a ‘massacre’
Ethiopia’s prime minister and a rebel group have traded blame for a mass killing in Oromiya, the country’s most populous region, where hundreds of people have died in recent months in escalating violence between rival ethnic groups.
OLA spokesman Odaa Tarbii rejected the accusations, saying government-allied militias were responsible for the slaughter, while federal troops recently deployed in the area did nothing to stop it. Oromiya, which accounts for more than a third of Ethiopia’s population of around 110 million, has experienced spasms of ethnic violence for many years, often rooted in grievances about political marginalization and neglect by the central government.
Since Abiy came to power in 2018 after nearly three decades of firm rule by a TPLF-led government, political reforms have encouraged regional power brokers to seek to build ethnic power bases.
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