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Ethiopia’s prime minister and a rebel group have traded fault for mass murder in Oromiya, the largest and most populated region, where hundreds have died in escalating violence in recent months.
The latest killings occurred on Monday in two villages in the Kellem Wollega zone, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) west of Addis Abeba, according to the state-appointed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC).
Both the EHRC and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed blamed the killings on the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), a banned breakaway faction of an opposition party that Abiy called a “massacre.
According to OLA spokesman Odaa Tarbii, government-allied militias were willing to take responsibility for the slaughter, and federal forces started deploying in the area failed to stop it.
