Killing in Borena (10 Jun 2023)
- Ref
- OHRM-2023-0221
- Date of incident
- Zone
- Borena
Hate speech Dr Debru Negash was described as a ‘physician-pilot and an academic who has served in the United Nations as a senior medical advisor’ by Borkena, when he wrote a polemic against ‘loathsome America’ and Abiy Ahmed in July 2021. On 10 June, a short presentation by Dr Negash appeared on Twitter. In the 37second excerpt of a presentation as a ‘Special Guest of Honour’ at an unspecified event, he says in Amharic: ‘To be as heroes as Amharas, Tigre and Galla [Oromo] are creatures that kill Amharas and drink blood. Tigre and Galla inferiority complex has no limit, that inferiority makes them like this.
Source: Oromia Support Group, OSG Report 63 (2023-09-12), p.9. https://oromiasupport.org/wp-content/uploads/simple-file-list/Report-63.pdf