Ethiopia: Several People Killed in Another Communal Violence in Western Ethiopia

Several people were killed, many of them hacked to death, in yet another communal violence, this time in Illu Aba Bora (Illubabor) zone of the Oromia regional state in western Ethiopia, according to two sources who spoke to Addis Standard by phone. The news has been confirmed this morning by Addisu Arega Kitessa, head of the Oromia regional state communication affairs bureau.

According to one of the two sources who spoke to Addis Standard, violence began in Dega and Chora woredas in Buno Bedele zone as well as in Illu Aba Bora zone, about 330 kms west of the capital Addis Abeba, on Friday October 20/2017. It started as an anti-government protest called "via cell phone messages sent out to many receivers calling for a protest against the recent displacement of Oromos from the Somali regional state," said one of our sources on conditions of anonymity. "The protest quickly degenerated into fighting, then some young people started to go around killing people and burning houses," he said, adding that "many of those who were killed and whose houses were burned down were ethnic Amharas."

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