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Ethiopia: this was a massacre

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Ethiopia, Human Rights, Politics, Protest

The Sub-Saharan Africa Roundtable declares [1], “This was a massacre,”: “Ethiopia struck me as a story of crucial importance. Parliamentary elections had just been held on May 15, and the opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy charged fraud upon the announcement of the results. Anti-government demonstrations transformed into riots, which Ethiopian security forces used live fire to quash.”