An official inquiry into the killing of 193 unarmed protesters during the Ethiopian election has found that the victims were shot, beaten and strangled to death in a “massacre” by the security forces.
But the government is trying to suppress the report on the killings, according to a senior member of the inquiry team. Scores of teenagers were among the dead. Wolde-Michael Meshesha, an Ethiopian judge and the vice-chairman of the inquiry, said the assault by security forces on demonstrators during two waves of protests about the 2005 election had been indiscriminate.