At least nine civilians were shot to death on Saturday March 10 by members of the Ethiopian army in Moyale town, 790 km south of Addis Abeba, on the border between Ethiopia and Kenya. More than fifteen were also wounded, four of them critically.
Members of the army responsible for the killing were operating under the supervision of the command post established to oversee the current state of emergency. In a statement published on the state run EBC, the command post secretariat, led by defense minister Siraj Fegessa, said the killing happened when five members of the army acted based on a "mistaken intelligence report." It also said the army was pursuing members of the banned Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), who "crossed in to the Ethiopian side." The statement offered no details but said five members of the army were disarmed and are under investigations.
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