Nathan W. Demesse

150 + Amharas stood outside @BBC HQ today and refused to let the world look away from the #AmharaGenocide. #StopAmharaGenocide #LondonFano

⚡️ℹ️ #EVENT: Join the Journal of Amhara (JA) tomorrow (Sat, Apr 25th) at 2 pm EST to commemorate the journal's inaugural issue. The program will feature a presentation of the inaugural issue and remarks from scholars and community leaders.

WELKAIT, ETHIOPIA - APRIL 07, 2022: Addisu Mamaye Ayane wipes his brow as he stands next to the remains of at least three individuals excavated from a mass grave in the town of Adi Selam on April 07, 2022 in Welkait, Ethiopia. The town of Adi Selam was adjacent to a torture camp run by the TPLF called Ghehenab or "Hell". When "Ghehenab" was in operation between 1985 and 1991 hundreds if not thousands of ethnic Amhara's were tortured and killed by the TPLF in the camp. Since the TPLF was pushed out of Welkait, there have been efforts by individuals and organizations to assist members of the Welkait-Tegede community in finding the remains of missing loved ones and giving them proper burials. Currently there are untold hundreds if not thousands of individuals still buried in mass graves around the numerous torture prisons and obscure mass graves throughout Welkait. The torture prison Ghehenab which is adjacent to the town of Adi Selam contained a few man-made cells along with multiple caves and natural formations that served as torture facilities where members of the Welkait-Tegede community were imprisoned, tortured and murdered because of their Amhara ethnicity. The camp began operating in 1985 during the time the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) occupied Welkait as they fought against the Derg Regime before gaining control of all of Ethiopia in 1991. Welkait was Amhara land for as much as 1000 years prior to 1991 when the region was annexed and incorporated into Tigray by the TPLF. The discovery of multiple mass graves and extermination camps has been taking place over the past year after the TPLF was pushed out of Welkait. (Photo by J. Countess/Getty Images)

As April ends, let this be clear: the #AmharaGenocide doesn't follow a calendar. Our pain is real, our history is documented, and our demand for justice is unwavering. We deserve the same global recognition afforded to every other genocide in history. The awareness month closes,

⚡ℹ️ #UPDATE: On April 22, 2026 diaspora community members held a demonstration outside the @BBC Headquarters in London, UK🇬🇧 calling for an end to the Abiy Ahmed regime’s genocidal war on Amhara people in Ethiopia. Source: London Fano

Customary IHL Rules 1, 7, 12 distinction, protection of civilian objects, prohibition of indiscriminate attacks Source: BBC Amharic, April 22, 2026 | bbc.com/amharic/articl…

Art. 16 protection of cultural objects and places of worship | Genocide Convention Art. Il(a) killing members of the group | ICCPR Art. 6 right to life | Art. 18 freedom of religion |

@BBC Amharic has reported the massacre in Sali Town, South Gondar Zone that was reported by @AAA_Amhara 3 days ago in detail with first hand witnesses. Regime soldiers stormed Debre Birhan Sali Bala Ezgi Church & murdered 3 #Amhara civilians & a further 4 in their home & street.

Stop Financing the Genocider. #StopAmharaGenocide

Every single time the regime in Ethiopia is threatened due to any kind of art....music, movie,poem,books they get so paranoid that they start hunting down the audience! This is such an established MO of the regime one can simply expect a string of arrests as soon as an art piece that opposes the tyrannical/genicidal nature of the regime drops! #TeddyAfro who recently took the global music scene like a storm is having his colleagues, friends and his massive fan base being targeted in Ethiopia. Over a 100 people arrested already! #RemoveTheRegimeInEthiopia #MassArrestsInEthiopia End #AmharaGenocide

Beza_bel has given her view on this development in this video.

Even @hrw put out an article today titled “EU’s Relations with Ethiopia Ignore Grim Human Rights Reality: Heightened Repression, Lack of Accountability Shouldn’t be Overlooked”, describing this as rewarding "a repressive pre-electoral phase”. hrw.org/news/2026/04/2…

Shocking & disgusting! On April 20, the EU resumed direct budget support to the Ethiopian regime after having suspended it for 5+ years, approving €420 mill. with NO conditions, calling it "governance reforms." While the #AmharaGenocide goes on.

Though not enough!! @amnesty International’s global report, published yesterday mentions the genocide against the Amhara people. #StopAmharaGenocide #Fano

The list keeps growing. 94 #Amharas now transferred from Kilinto at Aba Samuel Maximum Security Prison. 13 new names since April 16. No conviction. No food. No medicine. Mass trials are a weapon to behead #Amhara political and intellectual leadership. #AmharaGenocide

Targeting by ethnicity constitutes persecution under Rome Statute Art. 7(1)(h). The Lemkin Institute has flagged this pattern as a genocide red flag.

PHASE 03 STARVATION BY DESIGN Transferred to Aba Samuel. No sentence means no food budget. Banned from buying food themselves. The courtroom feeds directly into state-sanctioned starvation.