The fact that this crime was committed under the watch of the TPLF regime makes the regime no less responsible. This tragedy is a continuation of massacres and killings instigated by the wrong-headed ethnic policies of the regime that is terminally pitting one ethnic group against another.

As the Ethiopian people and the international community, at large, know, the recent crime committed against the Anuak people is just another act of genocide by the TPLF/EPRDF regime against our people in the name of democracy.

On December 13, 2003, the regime's army has indiscriminately mowed down civilians, women, children, and elders of Anuak in Gambella region with a pretext that they had been involved in killing incident of UN officials in the area. Reliable sources have reported that the number of people killed in this massacre estimated to reach more than two hundred. The area is now under the state of emergency. It is absolutely impossible to reach out there and provide any emergency assistance to the needy at this time.

Such kind of barbaric acts of the regime in power have been well documented and registered, as they have occurred in the past. Similar acts of massacres have been committed against the peaceful civilians in Arba Gugue, Areka Water, Adebabay Yesus in Gondar, at Anwar mosque in Addis Ababa and else where

EPRP strongly condemns this brutal and treacherous acts of genocide against the Anuak people in Gambella region by the regime in power. EPRP would also like to call upon all peace loving people, democratic and humanitarian organizations both at home and abroad to condemn this brutal and barbarous act of this dictatorial regime in Ethiopia.

EPRP believes that the regime in Addis Ababa was totally behind and master minded the whole operation of these acts of genocide. The Ethiopian people hold the regime in power responsible for the massacre of the innocent people of our fellow citizens, the Anuaks people in Gambella region. EPRP also demands that those responsible for this heinous crime be held accountable and brought to justice.

EPRP has time and again expressed its concern to the Ethiopian people and to the international community at large that unless we Ethiopians rise up in unison and challenge this regime and strive to bring about democratic alternative, more horrific and senseless acts will continue in greater frenzy by this narrow nationalist regime in Addis Ababa.

Finally, EPRP would like to take this opportunity, to express its profound sorrow and extends its condolences to the family of the victims in Gambella. It also would like to appeal to the international community to extend their humanitarian assistance to the families of the victims.

THE DEMOCRATIC STRUGGLE SHALL CONTINUE!
The Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Party (EPRP)