Ethiopia: Govt Downplays Amnesty Report on Extrajudicial Killings

Ethiopia has downplayed an Amnesty International report accusing its security forces of executing 39 opposition supporters in the Oromiya region last year.

In the report released last Friday, Amnesty International claimed that Ethiopian security forces had committed "horrendous human rights violations including burning homes to the ground, extrajudicial executions, rape, arbitrary arrests and detentions" in four districts of the Amhara and Oromia regional states.

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