
Ethnic Oromos from Mogor town, West Shewa Zone, participating in the nationwide protest on August 6 2015.

Protestors clashed with security forces and more than 100 people were killed, according to Amnesty International.

The protests took place in more than 200 towns and villages across Oromia, Ethiopia's largest region, and were attended by hundreds of thousands of people.

The Oromo people are the single largest ethnic group both in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa.