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(OPride) – U.S. Congressman Keith Ellison expressed condolences over the killing last month of Oromo students by Ethiopian security forces in a meeting with Oromo community members on Wednesday. The Minnesota congressman joined members of the local community in Saint Paul, Minn. for an hour-long afternoon briefing on the state of human rights in Ethiopia.
Minnesota is home to the largest Oromo community in the United States. It is in recognition of the growing Oromo influence in the Twin Cities that the two-term congressman’s office organized the discussion at the community’s meeting hall. “Countries are not moral agents, including our own. However, at least here we can organize and change what the government does,” said Ellison, who also participated in a moment of silence in remembrance of those who were killed in Ethiopia.