Breaking news| Ethiopia: 8 “highlanders” killed by South Sudanese refugees

South Sudanese refugees killed at least eight Ethiopians, around Gambella town, on Thursday, locals told HornAffairs.

The incident was triggered after a refugee was killed by a car accident.

The driver was identified as a highlander – a term broadly used to refer to residents who are neither from Nuer nor Anuak tribes, who dominate Gambella regional government.

He is an employee of ACF, a humanitarian organization and believed to have fled the area for fear of retaliation.

The refugees attacked “highlanders” residents of the area in retaliation on Thursday.

Local residents told HornAffairs two women and six men were killed.

The victims were “carpenters, masonry workers and daily laborers”.

The refugees are posted at Jewi camp which hosts almost fifty thousand individuals, mostly from South Sudan’s Nuer tribe.

The camp is located 18 kms from Gambella town on the road to Addis Ababa.

Ethiopia hosts about 270 thousand South Sudanese refugees.

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  • Amharic and Amhara people is not easily destroyed. Those that tried to do that fall before Amara or Amharic is destroyed . Recently Ahmed Nasir, President of the Benishangul Gumuz State, Died at age 51 on Thursday May 18, 2016 he is remembered among many crimes for his ethnic cleansing especially in 2013 he was responsible for so many crimes against the Amara ethnicity members. He also made it a rule noone speak Amharic in his office. The whole idea and talk about oppression of nations and nationalities, as they call them, was propagated only to patronize the ethnic elites and facilitate their cooperation in the Bantustanization of Ethiopia and reduce the country to units manageable to rule. That was how you could manufacture surrogate ethnic parties. This was the reason the multiethnic Ethiopian People’s Democratic Movement (EPDM) was forced to become an ethnic Amhara party overnight, though it is obvious that none of it looks like a party created to help Amharas.

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    Yes, we are witnessing a painful tragedy in progress and I understand why many of you are crying. I myself did shade some tears when listening to the voices of the unfortunate. But don’t let your tears cloud you from seeing the real reason. There is a need for a huge change in Ethiopia.

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    He also served as state minister of agriculture and as head in various government offices.
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