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Here is an overview of the history of the Majang people in the Gambella region of Ethiopia: the Majang are an ethnic group indigenous to the Gambella region of western Ethiopia, near the border with South Sudan. They are agriculturalist people and their zone comprise the highest economy of the region, numbering around 50,000 people.
The Gambela Massacre was a three-day-long massacre in the city of Gambela targeting Anuak people in December of 2003. The massacre perpetrated by the ENDF and "highlander" militias after an ambush of ARRA employees.
The transitional period in Gambela was marred by ethnic violence between Anuaks and Nuer. The Anuak GPLM fighters are said to have worn a magic called kunjur, supposedly making them bulletproof. It is said that many Anuak youths joined the GPLM, impressed by the force of the kunjur. [15] Relations between the GPLM and the EPRDF remained ...
2012 Gambella bus attack: 12 March 2012 Gambella: 19 Gunmen with machine guns [21] Burayu massacre: 14–16 September 2018 Addis Ababa and Burayu, Oromia: 58-65 Pro-OLF and "mobs" of Oromo youth, Oromo Liberation Army [22] [23] [24] Shashemene massacre: 30 June–2 July 2020 Oromia, Addis Ababa, Shashemene, and Jimma: 240+
South Sudan – “Due to the risk of armed violence and ... Afar region, Gambella region, Oromia region, Somali Regional State and ... With regard to the definition of ‘essential travel’, the ...
The Gambela Region, also spelled Gambella, and officially the Gambela Peoples' Region (Amharic: ጋምቤላ ሕዝቦች ክልል), is a regional state in western Ethiopia. Previously known as Region 12 , its capital and largest city is Gambela .
Following the collapse of the self-proclaimed socialist People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in 1991, ethnic tensions and episodes of ethnic violence broke out in the Gambela Region. [6] Many Anuak openly resented the migration of non-Anuak residents into their historic lands, and perceived their ethnic territory to be shrinking. [6]
Mohammed Hassan Kakar argues that the definition should include political groups or any group so defined by the perpetrator. [7] He prefers the definition from Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn, which defines genocide as "a form of one-sided mass killing in which a state or other authority intends to destroy a group so defined by the perpetrator." [8]