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Article: Ethiopia pledges to track down oil workers' killers ; WORLD
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 26, 2007
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Ethiopian soldiers are hunting for seven Chinese and Ethiopian
workers taken hostage after the deadliest backlash against China's
burgeoning interests in Africa left 74 people dead.
The Chinese government yesterday "strongly condemned" the killing
of nine Chinese and 65 Ethiopians by separatist fighters at a
Chinese oil exploration site in eastern Ethiopia.
The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) claimed
responsibility for the attack, saying the dead Chinese workers were
caught in the crossfire during their assault on Monday night on
Ethiopian soldiers guarding the facility. The separatist ethnic
Somalis had warned foreign oil and gas companies to stay out of the
region as long as the ...