OFDM calls for probe into "massacre"
Reuters - June 30, 2008

An Ethiopian opposition party called on Monday for an official probe into what it said was a massacre of 400 women and children in the west of the Horn of Africa nation.

The government, which has put the number of dead at more than 20 from the ethnic clashes in May, called the version by the Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM) an exaggeration.

Fighting between different communities over scant resources and grazing is common in outlying areas of Ethiopia. Read More.