The son of an Ethiopian academic killed after being pointed out on Facebook: “They did nothing and three weeks later, they killed my father”

On 3 November 2021, Meareg Amare Abrha, a renowned professor of chemistry with more than 40 years of experience, was returning from Bahir Dar University in northern Ethiopia when a group of armed men shot him in the back a few meters from the house where he lived with his family. Abrha was lying on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds to the chest and legs while the assailants, who surrounded his body, warned passers-by that they would do the…