ICC Note:
Armed attackers are terrorizing the border regions of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia. Despite a continued state of emergency in Ethiopia, reports continue of Somali incursions that have left approximately 100 dead in east and south east Ethiopia. Continued attacks do not bode well for Christian populations who live close to the incursion areas in places like Mandera, Kenya. Large attacks within the last year have disrupted Mandera’s population.
3/05/2017 Ethiopia (All Africa) – Despite a six month nationwide state of emergency declared in Oct. 2016 and was hoped to restore a military style law and order throughout the country, weeks-long cross border incursions by armed militiamen into many localities in eastern and southern part of Oromia, (bordering the Ethiopian Somali regional state, in east and south east Ethiopia) have left more than 100 people dead and the destruction of unknown amount of properties, a local resident said in a phone interview with Addis Standard.
According to Abdurrahman Dubaa, a resident of Chinaksan town in east Hararghe, some 630km east of the capital Addis Abeba, many of the militiamen conducting cross border raids in various localities, including Chinaksan, Babile, Gursum and several other villages, are members of the Liyu Police, a special paramilitary force set up by the Somali regional state with the help of the federal government to counter rebel groups operating in the restive Ogaden region in eastern Ethiopia, and are stationed in and around Ethiopia’s Somali regional state.
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