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Gambela massacre
Gambela is located in Ethiopia
Gambela
Gambela
Gambela (Ethiopia)
LocationGambela Gambela massacre, Ethiopia
Date13–15 December 2003; New attacks since June 2022
TargetAnuak people; For 2022 attacks, various groups targeted
Attack type
  • Mass shooting
  • Rape
  • Arson
  • Pogrom
Deaths65 (Ethiopian claim)
300+ (EHRC)
424 (Anuak groups)
InjuredUnknown
PerpetratorsENDF's 43rd Division
non-Anauk civilians
  • In 2022, Oromo Liberation Army; Gambela Liberation Front (GLF); Government forces

The Gambela Massacre was a three-day-long massacre in the city of Gambela targeting Anuak people in December of 2003. The massacre perpetrated by the ENDF and "highlander" militias after an ambush of ARRA employees. Calls from International community made to condemn and stop the various forms of attacks against the Anuak people- i.e. Ethiopia to take immediate action and to comply to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (“ICERD”). The calls included actions against: 1) Racial Discrimination, 2) State obligation to protect and ensure economic development, economic, social, and cultural rights, 3) Freedom of movement, 4)The right to equal treatment in the justice system, 5) Protection Against Violence, and 6) Access to Remedies and Justice for Crimes of Racial Discrimination.[1]

  1. ^ "The Anuak of Gambella, Ethiopia" (PDF). The International Human Rights Law Clinic Washington College of Law and the Anuak Justice CouncilSaskatoon. March 2007. Retrieved 23 July 2022.

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