Girma Yeshitila (Amharic: ግርማ የሺጥላ; 1973 – 27 April 2023) was an
Ethiopian
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politician and the head of the
Prosperity Party
The Prosperity Party ( am, ብልጽግና ፓርቲ, Bilits’igina Paritī; om, Paartii Badhaadhiinaa) is a political party in Ethiopia that was established on 1 December 2019 as a successor to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic F ...
in the
Amhara region who was
assassinated
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in 2023.
Death
The government reported that he was traveling for work when he and his bodyguards were shot on 27 April 2023, in
Menz
Menz or Manz ( am, መንዝ, romanized: ''Mänz'') is a former subdivision of Ethiopia, located inside the boundaries of the modern Semien Shewa Zone of the Amhara Region. William Cornwallis Harris described Menz as lying "westward" of Gedem bu ...
,
North Shewa,
Ethiopia
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.
Abiy Ahmed
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blamed "extremist" but the
Amhara accused the Abiy's regime of the plot and assassination. At least 14 other people including Girma’s wife and police officers were injured. Another series of assassinations of the Amhara regional president and six other members were also reported in June 2019 which the government described as an ″
attempted coup.″
As of 10 May 2023, no independent investigation was made for all of these murders.
See also
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Asaminew Tsige
Brigadier General Asaminew Tsige ( am, አሳምነው ጽጌ; 1958/1959 – 24 June 2019) was an Ethiopian general who served as chief of the Amhara Region security forces during part of 2019. He had previously been serving a life sentence in ...
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Assassination of Amhara regional leaders
References
20th-century births
2023 deaths
2020 in Ethiopia
2023 murders in Ethiopia
Deaths by firearm in Ethiopia
Assassinations
People from Amhara Region
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