KAMPALA, Uganda -- Ethiopian security forces have killed more than 400 people in a crackdown on protests in the Oromia region since November, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.
Tens of thousands of others have been arrested, the rights group said in a new report , citing the accounts of 125 protesters, witnesses and others.
The student-led protests were sparked by a government plan to expand the municipal boundaries of the capital, Addis Ababa, into Oromia, where farmers fear they will lose their land. The development proposal has since been retracted.
The security forces used live ammunition for crowd control repeatedly, killing one or more prote