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Toronto – Three Orthodox Christians were killed on Monday in the latest string of attack in East Arsi, Oromia region of Ethiopia.
Mahibere Kidusan, Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo church entity, reported that the incident took place around 9 a.m. in the Teleta Gebriel locality of Arsi.
According to the source, the victims were working on a harvest in their farms. They were riddled with bullets to death in the farm, it was said.
The victims are identified as Diacon Ejigu (apparently serving in a church), Tilahun Boge and Tsadkane Serawitu who is said to be a ten years old boy.
Government forces deployed to the area seem to have failed to prevent killings.
Furthermore, an unspecified number of youth from the area are reportedly arrested over disclosing information on the killings and kidnapping of Orthodox Christians in the area.
News of the latest killing came at a time when the Inter Religious Council of Ethiopia released its first report on the investigation of the killings in four districts in Arsi area. It said the killing did not target the followers of a single religion or their clerics.
Thousands of followers of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church are reportedly displaced from locations where there had been recurring attacks against Orthodox Christians.
Political observers and activists seem to allege that killings in Arsi were orchestrated with a goal of ethnic and religious cleansing. Moreover, they tend to see involvement of government officials in the orchestration of the killings.
Notably, government authorities from the area denied that there has been no killing in the area, and that the reports are “false with a political goal to instigate instability.”
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No matter who perpetrated this savage act or who was victimized, the killings should never be condoned. What puzzles me is how these well educated among us who hail from that area have kept their mouths zip locked on the matter. They must have first hand information about it since they have close relatives who still live there. I have done my own vetting through my merchant relatives since I read news about it.
The two major religions of that country had their own unordinary ways how they set their feet in Arsi and the adjoining Western Hararghe region. There are Muslims with Sunni majority dabbled with previous and current traditional ways that has resisted the extremist Wahhabi ways. There are plenty of those who profess Christianity that got there by Orthodox, Catholic and Evangelical missionaries. Catholic and Evangelical missionaries had better success in converting a considerable number of the indigenous youth to their brand of Christianity. As an example, there was a large local Oromo Catholic community in Bekaa which is not too far from the vicinity of Asabot where I was born and spent my formative years. I also remember that most of the devout adherents of the Orthodox denomination were Oromos who migrated to the areas from the Selale region. One of my childhood friends was named Gemechu and he was not a Māori but a red blooded Christian Oromo. Many of our glorious athletes are from that region. The Dibaba sisters ain’t Filipinas. Derertu Tulu who made this beyond repair Afro-Ethio-Centric cry like a cranky baby when she won the 10,000 meters in the 1992 Olympics. She ain’t a Navajo. Kenenisa Bekele never told us he is a Taiwanese. They are Christian Oromos through and through. These will not be spared if demons target Christians. They could be Orthodox, Catholics and Evangelists. They must have been Amharas, Oromos and many other ethnic groups. Are Orthodox less of a human than other types Christianity? Are Catholics less of a human than other types Christianity? Are Amharas less of a human than other ethnic groups? Are Oromos less of a human than other ethnic groups? And so on.
We have to be religion and ethnic blind in reporting such barbaric acts. We should never be motivated by trying to feed on the raw emotion of the gullible out there. We should leave that to the satanic bigots and connivers among us.