Enat Party calls for the government to let people in the area to protect themselves
Borkena
Toronto – What appears to be a targeted attack on Orthodox Christian continues in the Arsi zone of the Oromia region of Ethiopia as the country starts the 2018 new year.
This week, Enat Party, one of the leading opposition parties in the country, announced that two Orthodox Christians were killed and another man left wounded in a life-threatening condition.
The incident occurred on Monday around 5 a.m. in the Robe district of East Arsi Dioceses.
One of the victims is identified as Kebede Mamo, a 65 years old man, and Woizero Abere Seyoum who is said to be a widowed mother of two. Her 14 year old boy is in a life threatening condition.
Enat party said it has confirmed the story.
Residents in the area are cited as saying, as reported by Enat Party, “In Arsi Robe, the fate of citizens has become death, displacement, property loss and damage.”
The party vehemently condemned the killing. “The government will have to allow the people to defend itself if it is negligible to protect the people,” Enat Pary said in a brief news release it shared on a social media page.
The identities of the gunmen behind the attack is unspecified. The recurring attacks targeting the followers of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the region were mostly linked to the radical ethnic Oromo nationalist group operating the region. From the nature of the attacks, which is recurring, the group perpetrating it appears to have a religous motive in addition to radical ethnic nationalism.
This is the first attack of the Ethiopian year. There has been a recurring attack against Orthodox Christians over the past few years.
At the time of this writing, the government, federal or regional, did not remark on the incident.
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