Country: Ethiopia

Group: Gedeo

Date Finalized: 3/22/2020

Team: Maya Shrikant (lead), Arisha Khan, Vianney Mancilla

Content Warning: physical violence, sexual assault

Approximate Time Period: 2010-present

The Gedeo are often conflicting with Guji Oromos for farmland areas (Obulutsu, 2018). About 700,000 people have been displaced due to the violence along the border of Gedeo and West Guji Zones (Mules, 2018). These include reports of burned houses, stolen land and crops, lynchings, rapes, and beheadings often with complicity of local officals, police, and militias (Gardner 2019).  The data quality is a 2 because there is a lot of data about ethnic conflict, but few specifics about the instances of killing. The data quality receives a 2, for the lack of details on causes of death and sparse journal articles written on the subject.

Sources

  1. Obulutsu, George (2018). Violence in southern Ethiopia forces more than 800,000 to flee. Reuters. Retrieved March 1, 2020, from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-violence/violence-in-southern-ethiopia-forces-more-than-800000-to-flee-idUSKBN1JU14W
  2. Gardner, T. (2019, March 14). Shadow falls over Ethiopia reforms as warnings of crisis go unheeded. Retrieved from https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/mar/14/shadow-falls-over-ethiopia-reforms-warnings-of-crisis-ignored-abiy-ahmed
  3. Mules, Ineke (2018). Ethiopia: Gedeo-Oromo ethnic clashes continue amid political reforms | DW | 11.08.2018. DW.COM. Retrieved March 1, 2020, from https://www.dw.com/en/ethiopia-gedeo-oromo-ethnic-clashes-continue-amid-political-reforms/a-45045605