Killing by government forces in West Wollega (Dec 2018)
- Ref
- OHRM-2018-0031
- Date of incident
- Zone
- West Wollega
Government forces, especially Oromia Special Forces operating out of military command posts established in December 2018 (Guji) and in January 2019 (Wallega and elsewhere), continue to hunt down and execute Qeerroo members but the majority of those killed in 2022 have been killed on the pretext that they were ‘associates’ of OLA, the Oromo Liberation Army. Really, they were killed simply because they were Oromo living in an area where OLA had been active or they were killed in an act of ethnic cleansing by Amhara forces in …
Source: Oromia Support Group, OSG Report 60 (2022-08-02), p.3. https://oromiasupport.org/wp-content/uploads/simple-file-list/Report-60-.pdf