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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 calls included actions against: 1) Racial Discrimination, 2) State obligation to protect and ensure economic development, economic, social, and cultural rights, 3) Freedom of movement, 4)The right to equal treatment in the justice system, 5) Protection Against Violence, and 6) Access to Remedies and Justice for Crimes of Racial Discrimination.
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+
The 2012 Gambella bus attack was a shooting incident on 12 March 2012, 20 kilometers, or 12 miles, from the town of Gambella in Ethiopia in which 19 people were killed and 8 others were wounded. [2] Odom Obang Olum, head of the local government describes the victims as Ethiopian residents who were travelling on a public bus, near the town of ...
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 .
The real message here is that violence is wrong, and a danger to our democracy. Or consider any of a long list of examples. The riots of Jan. 6 failed to achieve their objective of overturning the ...
Inter-ethnic violence between the Anuak and these so-called "highlanders" was commonplace during the 1990s and the 2000s. [6] The mostly insular social structure of the Anuak, combined with historical and modern inter-ethnic conflicts, have led to outside observers, such as Cultural Survival , to describe them as "very suspicious of outsiders ...