(HCH24, Google Translate from French) — According to preliminary reports from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 6 Oromo civilians were killed and 20 officers of the federal forces have died following clashes between Ethiopian security forces and Oromo civilians.
In Ethiopia, the media reported that at least 20 soldiers died without specifying the numbers of civilians from the Oromo ethnic group killed following clashes occurred during the destruction of Lafto district headquarters of the Oromo ethnic group located in the Southwest Addis Ababa.
Residents of the neighborhood Lafto trying to defend their makeshift dwellings are responding to the police who used firearms and tear gas. The population used to defend machetes and stones against the police. The clash occurred when the Municipality of Addis Ababa ordered the destruction of a neighborhood of the Oromo ethnic group without warning and without giving consideration to the poor dispossessed of their shelters fortunes by force.
One could see on the roads of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, cars soldiers heading to Lafto and across local residents decided to resist are always on hand to defend their neighborhood. Women and children Lafto go cry in front of the Church of St. Mary Church Addis Ababa the same day, Wednesday, June 29, 2016.
The situation is tense in Addis Ababa and human rights activists fear that the revolt spread throughout the city.