Extrajudicial Killings Leave 66 Dead in Ethiopia, Group Says
- Attacks on civilians took place last month in three towns
- Conflict erupted in August over state plans to absorb militia
Federal Ethiopian forces and Fano fighters have clashed since August.
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Government security forces killed at least 60 civilians in an attack in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region last month, a state-run human rights body said.
The extrajudicial killings of 45 people took place Jan. 29 in the town of Merawi, after soldiers accused residents of supporting the rebel Fano militia, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission said in a statement emailed from the capital, Addis Ababa, on Tuesday.