2005 Election Massacre
Just before the 2005 Ethiopian elections, the Oromo Liberation Front also allegedly killed 400 Oromo Ethiopians. According to the report detailed in James Madison University records, the OLF attacked pro-government Oromos about 1 month before the national elections took place. The Nelson Institute for International and Public Affairs also repeated the details of this issue during a testimony before the United States House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs.
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