Ethiopians are expressing anger and frustration over several university students, most of them female, who remain missing after their kidnapping two months ago.
A growing social media campaign echoes the BringBackOurGirls activism in Nigeria over the mass kidnapping there of scores of schoolgirls in Ethiopians are pressuring the government for answers in the abduction in the Oromia region. It is not clear how many of the students remain captive.
She said youths from the local area took them to the forest. We are crying every day. We want to know whether they are alive or dead. No one is giving us any information. The Association for Human Rights in Ethiopia says 18 university students, 14 of them female, were seized while returning home from university. No one has claimed responsibility for the abduction, but Oromia regional officials have blamed the armed Oromo Liberation Army, which is clashing with government forces in the Western Oromia region.
The armed group has denied the accusation and said the government itself was to blame for the kidnapping. It was thanks to journalists that the news of 17 Dembi Dolo University students being kidnapped reached the public. Students are missing. The government is not taking action. There is no information about them. BringBackOurStudents amnesty pic. I don't know what you tell your 3 daughters, but they'll know you fail them by failing the students.
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