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Enforced Disappearance critical West Arsi

Disappearance by government forces in West Arsi (4 Apr 2025)

Ref
OHRM-2025-0249
Date of incident
Zone
West Arsi

On the day two brothers were killed in Doyee Gorbee village, Martii district, 4 April (see above), the government forces ‘also destroyed the house of a man named Awwal Xahaa without any crime, slaughtered and ate his livestock and then severely beat him and threw him in jail,’ ONM reported. Another young man, a laborer in the village from elsewhere, was abducted and disappeared a few days later.

Source: Oromia Support Group, OSG Report 70 (2025-06-24), p.30. https://oromiasupport.org/wp-content/uploads/simple-file-list/OSG-Report-70-24-June-2025.pdf

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