unbridled violence in gambella leaves ethiopia searching for answers | william davison /

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Why did a group of South Sudanese people cross the border into western Ethiopia and start shooting mothers and abducting their children?The South Sudanese attackers arrived on foot before dawn. In the Nuer villages in the grasslands of Gambella in western Ethiopia,people woke to the sound of gunshots and tried to flee, but armed men stopped them. Mothers were shot when they tried to halt the raiders taking their children.
Bol Choul, and 26,tried
to run away but one of the attackers caught him in his hut and they fought. Bol injured his hand but managed to win out. He had to leave without his wife and children, and his blind father, or who was shot but survived.
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Source: theguardian.com