Ethiopian herdsmen kill Kenyan police officer
February 28, 2010 (ADDIS ABABA) — Ethiopian cattle herders killed a Kenyan police officer in attack carried out after they had been prevented from reaching the waters of Lake Turkana near the border between the two countries.
The officer from the paramilitary General Service Unit (GSU) was killed late on Friday after 500 militiamen, from the Ethiopian Merille tribe, attacked the unit’s camp in Todonyang, a village abandoned since 1997 when the two ethnic groups fought.
Six GSU officers who were said to have gone missing after the attack are now safe, said the Turkana Regional Commissioner Christopher Musambu.
“We did not lose any other personnel apart from the senior GSU officer. Casualties on the militia side remain unknown,” he added.
A Kenyan police officer has been killed by members of an Ethiopian tribal militia after a clash along the two countries’ common border, Kenyan media said on Saturday.
On January 24, Merille herdsmen killed three people including an administration policeman and a police reservist in an attack took place at Todonyang village near River Omo, a tributary of Lake Turkana. The assailants killed a woman alongside two security men and abducted three fishermen during the attack.
A security meeting between officials from the two countries would be held on Monday to discuss how to secure the volatile region that has witnessed cross border attacks in the recent past.
The incident follows the killing of two army men and injury of six others early last month by Toposa militia at Nadapal region on the Kenya-Southern Sudan border.
Kenya’s long borders with Sudan, Ethiopia and politically unstable Somalia care a constant source of security concerns.
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Ethiopian herdsmen kill Kenyan police officer
Sudan Tribune should be careful, the Kenya soldier which you claim was killed by Toposa man is not true, please get your facts right or get some hard evidence here if you have some, do not talk about hearsay, the Kenyan defense ministry said it did not know the identity of the attackers, but i blame the Kenya authorities for allowing European mercenaries to roam around freely in their country, they where behind the Kenyan election chaos not htey want to destabilize your country, they are smuggling weapons to some tribal men to make attacks, that is the problem with Europeans it is the trust and honestly issue , they do not have it, when African trust them and allow them to live freely and do what they want like in Kenya, soon they will start to violate the laws and start arming different tribes and start to destroy your country, all i can conclude is do not trust any of them if you want to have a better situation. Those who want to continue to trust them will continue to have their civilians killed everyday. Kenyan security should open its eyes on the Europeans working and living in Kenya especially those living in the country side, keep watch on their activities. monitor them, soon you will find who is responsible for this killings of your soldiers instead of pointing wrong fingers from the media, they want to destabilize Kenya and Ethiopia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Sudan and Uganda should work together on this matters, no country should overreact or start pointing fingers without concrete evidence, because the identity of the attackers cannot be confirm or verified in most cases when they escape unless some are capture and interrogated, there is a secret plan going on to destabilize the region by thos same evil forces that we already know.