Ethiopia: Crackdown On Dissent Takes Deadly Toll

10 January 2016

Wolonkomi — Security forces have killed at least 140 people during a crackdown on anti-government demonstrations in Ethiopia in recent weeks, activists and rights groups say.

The protests - by members of the country's largest ethnic group, Oromo - have been prompted by fears that farmers will be displaced by government development plans.

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