http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/03/world/africa/ethiopia-student-protesters-killed-in-clashes-with-police.html?_r=0
Ethiopia: Student Protesters Killed in Clashes With Police
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSMAY 2, 2014
At least 11 students have been killed in violent clashes with Ethiopian
police in a region that has long been the scene of a secessionist movement,
the government said late Thursday. Violence has erupted in a number of
university campuses across Oromia State as ethnic Oromo students protest a
plan by the central government to expand the capital, Addis Ababa, into
parts of Oromia, the government said. Student protests, which started on
April 28, are happening in at least four university campuses in Oromia. The
violence appears to be spreading from the campuses into nearby towns.
Protesters set fire to a bank, a gas station and some government buildings,
according to the police. Oromo, the largest state in Ethiopia, has long had
a difficult relationship with the central government in Addis Ababa. A
movement has been growing there for independence from Ethiopia and a
secessionist group, the Oromo Liberation Front, has been outlawed by the
government.
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