How a secretive Ethiopian security committee ordered killings, arrests: Reuters investigation

A secretive committee of senior officials in Ethiopia’s largest and most populous region, Oromiya, has ordered extra-judicial killings and illegal detentions to crush an insurgency there, a Reuters investigation has found.... #oromia #oromiya #ethiopia #eastafrica #abiy #torture #humanrights #africa #extrajudicial #reuters #investigativejournalism #worldnews

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ethiopia-violence-committee/

How a secretive Ethiopian security committee ordered killings, arrests: Reuters

A secretive committee of senior officials in Ethiopia’s largest and most populous region, Oromiya, has ordered extra-judicial killings and illegal detentions to crush an insurgency there, a Reuters investigation has found. Reuters interviewed more than 30 federal and local officials, judges, lawyers and victims of abuses by... #oromiya #oromia #ethiopia #abiy #abiyahmed #humanrights #deathsquads #crime #politics

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ethiopia-violence-committee/

In #Ethiopia, a secret committee orders killings and arrests to crush rebels

"A #secretive committee of senior officials in Ethiopia’s largest and most populous region, #Oromiya, has ordered #extraJudicial killings and illegal detentions to crush an #insurgency there, a #Reuters investigation has found."

Even the investigation of the secretive committee is so secretive that Reuters has no further info on it [yet] beside the tiny blurb above.

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/ethiopia-secret-committee-orders-killings-arrests-crush-rebels-2024-02-23/