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The massacre began with the killing of over 400 Anuak tribe members and more than a dozen Anuak villages. These attacks were made by the Ethiopian military.
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On the morning of December 13 before all the killings happened in Gambella, an unidentified group of people attacked a car containing eight Highlander Government Officals, killing all of them. They then displayed the bodies downtown.
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The Military ordered hundreds of ethnic Ethiopian "highlanders" living in Gambella to go get their machetes, knives, and spears so that they could join the killings of the Anuak people.
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The Ethiopian military broadens its attacks by dispatching troop trucks and helicopters.
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5 days after the killings Gebre-Ab released a statement blaming the killings on Oromo Libertarian Front and the Eritean Peoples' Liberation Front, two forces who have been fighting the Meles regime.
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Governor of the Gambella State Okello Kuai, an Anuak himself fled for his life and he know lives in Europe
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The massacre continued through April. A dozen Anuak villages have been burned to the ground and over 10,000 Anuak tribe members evacuated to refugee camps in Sudan and Kenya.
