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EHRC Reports Extrajudicial Killings and Rights Violations Across Ethiopia
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AI SUMMARY
The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission has released its annual report detailing extrajudicial killings, detentions, and other rights violations across multiple regions and Addis Ababa.
- The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission reported extrajudicial detentions, killings, and human rights violations across Oromia, Amhara, Tigray, Afar, Benishangul-Gumuz, Gambella, Central Ethiopia, South Ethiopia, South West Ethiopia, Somali regions, and Addis Ababa.
- The annual report covers the period up to last June.
- Government security forces in the Oromia region carried out extrajudicial actions and killings against civilians suspected of collaborating with or providing information to militants.
- Militants killed 22 people in an attack in the Abe Dongoro district of the Horo Guduru Wollega Zone.
- Numerous civilians were killed in similar attacks by armed groups in the Arsi and Nono districts of the West Shewa Zone.
- The Commission urged both government security forces and armed groups to immediately cease illegal killings and brutal attacks against civilians.
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