Gambella: Scores killed in cross-border raid

ESAT News (March 13, 2017)

At least 22 people were killed in a cross-border raid on Friday and Saturday by the Murle of South Sudan against the Anyuaks in Gambella, western Ethiopia.

Eleven people were killed 21 others, including children were abducted on Saturday.

Meanwhile, the Gambella Nilotic Unity Movement said in a statement sent to ESAT that a total of 11 Anyuaks were killed in the first week of  March in a cross-border raid by the Murle of south Sudan.

The Movement called on the UN and the international community to intervene to stop further bloodshed of the Anyuaks in Ethiopia.

A total of 161 people were killed and over 170, including children, were kidnapped in the last two months.

A UN multi-agency team that visited the Gambella region in February said at least 3,714 have been displaced following the cross border attack by the Murle ethnic group from South Sudan.

In April 2016, 208 people were killed and over 100 children were kidnapped in a cross border raid by the Murle. Some 50 children were returned.