by Mesfin Tegenu, opinion contributor
It was 7 a.m. on a Friday morning when a Turkish-made drone controlled by government forces slammed into a health center in the Ethiopian villages in Gojjam, in the Amhara region of Africa’s second-most populous nation. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s regime says it’s targeting Fano rebels in this northern region, but on this day the dead were civilians, including a nine-year-old child and a 70-year-old village elder.
This was one of the latest in a series of drone strikes that have shaken the Amhara Region this autumn — yet have been largely ignored by the outside world. Credible reports from the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, the BBC and others say aerial attacks since the start of October have killed more than 200 civilians.