Archivado en: internacional | escrito por goleech | 03/24/2005 | 21:03

Human Rights Watch denuncia que soldados de Etiopía han cometido asesinatos, torturas y violaciones en contra de la población Anuak desde finales del 2003.

The HRW report says: "The prevailing climate of impunity that now exists in Gambella has allowed ENDF (Ethiopia National Defence Forces) soldiers to prey upon and terrorise the Anuak communities they patrol."

A three-day rampage followed the ambush in December 2003 in which local Anuak people were killed, raped and mobs burned down more than 400 houses.

Out of the 19 communities surveyed by HRW, entire villages were burned to the ground and thousands of Anuak fled their homes after the reprisal attacks.

BBC News

El conflicto, para variar, se centra en interéses por el petróleo y yacimientos de oro en la región. Así lo dicho el presidente de la provincia de Gambulla, Okello Okuaye:

Okello Okuaye, the former president of Gambella province and an Anuak living in exile in Norway, told the Associated Press that he fled fighting in the region, home to 280,000 people, in January 2004. He said government officials want to drive the Anuak from the ethnically diverse area to exploit oil and gold resources there.

The Guardian

* Ethiopia army 'killed and raped'
* Ethiopian troops blamed for deaths, rape and torture

La organización Human Rights Watch documentó por medio de testimonos las atrocidades cometidas por los soldados Etiopes:

One [man], the soldiers tied his hands to his legs and put him on the road and then ran him over with a military truck. This person had been running. The soldiers caught him, between five and ten of them. They tied his hands and legs and were saying, “Why do you want to shoot him? We can kill him in another way instead.” There were some highlander children there and they were crying, saying, “Don’t kill him, don’t kill him!” They [the soldiers] put him on the road, and they yelled, “Go over him, go over him!” and then the truck ran him over once. Then the soldiers and highlanders clapped and cheered together.
— Anuak man describing massacre in Gambella town, December 13, 2003

* Human Rights Watch:
Ethiopia: Crimes Against Humanity in Gambella Region

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