ISG Action Alert

Operation Sunny Mountain

Soldiers, Oil, and Ongoing State Terror against Anuak & Other Indigenous Minorities of Southwestern Ethiopia
A Genocide Watch and Survivors' Rights International Field Report
13 December 2004

Contents

Preface to the second GW/SRI report on state terror in Anuak Areas
Map of Gambella state & Natural Resources
SUMMARY
- Ongoing persecution of Anuaks
- Military Occupation & Depopulation of Anuak Villages
- Rape and Sexual Slavery Against Women and Girls
- Burning, Looting and Destruction of Property
- Arbitrary Arrest, Illegal Detention and Torture
- Accelerated Petroleum Operations
- Immunity for the Perpetrators
BACKGROUND
OPERATION SUNNY MOUNTAIN-- The massacres of December 2003
MILITARY OCCUPATION-- continuing State Terror: January to December 2004
ACCELERATED PETROLEUM OPERATIONS
INTERNATIONAL LEGAL STANDARDS
- Crimes Against Humanity
- Genocide
- Arbitrary Arrest, Illegal Detention and Torture
- Protection of Objects Indispensable to the Survival of Civillians
THE UNITED STATES AND ETHIOPIA
CONCLUSIONS
RECOMMENDATIONS
APPENDICES
- List of Police Perpetrators Identified by Government
- Partial List of Anuak Villages Targeted by Ethiopian Military
- Anuak Police Jailed by Government During August 2004 Evaluation
- List of Anuak Leaders Jailed 13 December Prior to Killings of UN workers

REFERENCES

The full report can be found here: http://www.genocidewatch.org/EthiopiaAnuakOperationSunnyMountainGWSRIReport13December2004.htm

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