Ethiopia Insight posted on 29 December 2020 a commentary titled "The Murky Politics behind the Metekel Massacres" by Tsegaye Birhanu, from Benishangul-Gumuz Region and now a student at Linnaeus University in Sweden.
On 23 December 2020, an armed Gumuz group slaughtered 207 persons based on their light skin color in Ethiopia's Benishangul-Gumuz region bordering Sudan. The commentary discusses the complex reasons behind the ethnic attacks.