text: [{"text_idx": "#000002", "text": "Protests in Ethiopia leave at least five dead, possibly many more"}, {"text_idx": "#000003", "text": "\u201cBoth then and today, the demonstrators are ostensibly protesting the expansion of Addis Ababa\u2019s municipal boundary into the surrounding Oromia region, which protesters fear will displace Oromo farmers from their land\u201d, HRW said."}, {"text_idx": "#000004", "text": "Anti-terror rhetoric by Ethiopia\u2019s authorities might escalate right into a brutal crackdown on protesters, . \u201cThe party [Ethiopian People\u2019s Revolutionary Democratic Front] looks to have neither developed the society \u2013 we are begging food aid now \u2013 nor democratized the state-society relationships in Ethiopia\u201d."}, {"text_idx": "#000007", "text": "The Oromo make up Ethiopia\u2019s largest ethnic group, at about 27 million individuals. However, Amnesty International, as well as the Oromo Federalist Congress, claim the death toll to be as high as 40. Al-Shabab has previously targeted Kenya, Uganda and Djibouti who have also deployed troops to Somalia under the banner of the African Union to bolster the country\u2019s weak U.N.-backed government from an insurgency by the militants. According to reports from the region, the conflict began in the town of Ginci, about 55 miles from Addis Ababa. The constitution declares the \u201cspecial interest\u201d of Oromia in the capital should be respected, although this hasn\u2019t been defined by law."}, {"text_idx": "#000010", "text": "Insurgent forces organized from home to abroad to terrorize the country were arrested"}, {"text_idx": "#000013", "text": "Witnesses say latest ethnic clashes in Ethiopia kill dozens"}]