text: [{"text_idx": "#000003", "text": "In Ethiopia\u2019s Gambella region, a June attack on the capital by a rebel group, the Oromo Liberation Army, has raised fears of more civil war spreading in the country. VOA spoke to local officials and analysts about what\u2019s behind the violence and what it could mean for Ethiopia\u2019s security."}, {"text_idx": "#000004", "text": "In Gambella city, security has been beefed up. Officials say local police have started working in cooperation with troops recently sent to the region by the federal government."}, {"text_idx": "#000005", "text": "A major attack by two rebel groups, the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) and the Gambella Liberation Front (GLF), caught the city by surprise in June. Local media said up to 37 people were killed."}, {"text_idx": "#000006", "text": "Analysts say it is the first time the Oromo conflict, a decades-old fight among local, federal forces and ethnic Oromo rebels, has reached Gambella city."}, {"text_idx": "#000008", "text": "He said the shooting began at around 6 a.m. No one was expecting it, so no one was well prepared, Abdu said the OLA and the GLF entered the city as far as the regional council building. He recalled that \u201cthey entered the city from three directions. I think the Gambella Liberation Front was leading the OLA.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000009", "text": "Less than a week later, in the Oromia region, around 400 ethnic Amhara were killed by OLA militants."}, {"text_idx": "#000010", "text": "The rapid uptick in violence in what Human Rights Watch calls Ethiopia\u2019s \u201cother conflict\u201d has led some to question if it constitutes a second civil war for the country."}, {"text_idx": "#000013", "text": "The Oromo comprise the largest ethnic group in the country."}, {"text_idx": "#000014", "text": "Asked if the conflict is as significant as Ethiopia\u2019s headline-grabbing war with Tigrayan rebels in the north of the country, Davison said that it is a conflict in its own right."}, {"text_idx": "#000015", "text": "\u201cIt probably doesn\u2019t immediately threaten the regional government authority in Adama or the federal government authority in Addis Ababa, but it is affecting a huge number of people in Oromia, as well as leading to direct violence that\u2019s killing combatants and civilians.\u201d"}, {"text_idx": "#000017", "text": "For now, Gambella is calm, but fewer than 10 kilometers beyond its outskirts, local police say there are regular firefights with the OLA."}, {"text_idx": "#000020", "text": "The OLA is an offshoot of another rebel group, the Oromo Liberation Front, which signed a peace deal with the Ethiopian government in 2018."}, {"text_idx": "#000022", "text": "Dhaabbanni Itiyoo-telekoom olaantummaa dhalattoota saba tokkoo qofaan kan dhuunftameedha"}]