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HRS remains gravely alarmed by the relentless genocide being waged against the Amhara people across Ethiopia. For over eight years, Amhara civilians have faced systematic extermination based solely on their ethnic identity. This has involved mass killings, widespread abductions, horrific sexual violence, torture, and arbitrary mass detentions, resulting in tens of thousands of civilian deaths and millions displaced. Displacement camps are overcrowded, schools are closed, and access to food, water, and medical care is critically scarce, with children forced into child labor or survival sex work in makeshift camps without sanitation or electricity. (counterpunch.org/2025/11/07/wer…) Since early 2023, the Oromo Prosperity Party regime under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has intensified a full-scale genocidal war against the Amhara population. This campaign is executed primarily through the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) and allied forces, including Oromia Region Special Forces, elements linked to the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), Tigray Peace Force, Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), and various ethnic militias. These atrocities represent a direct continuation of the abuses inflicted during and after the Northern Ethiopia War (2020–2022). Between August 2023 and August 2024 alone, documented atrocities include 3,283 civilian casualties—2,592 killed and 691 injured—across over 200 massacres spanning 16 zones and city administrations in the Amhara Region, Addis Ababa, and other Amhara-inhabited areas. (dailynewsegypt.com/2024/09/17/tho…) The violence has spread across multiple regions but remains most concentrated in the Amhara Region, Oromia Region (particularly Wollega zones), Benishangul-Gumuz, Addis Ababa, and their surroundings. Federal and regional forces have repeatedly carried out indiscriminate drone and artillery strikes on civilian targets. A BBC investigation documented 2,700 rape cases at just 43 health facilities only 4% of those in the Amhara region between July 2023 and May 2025, with victims aged 8 to 65, over half testing positive for STIs; extrapolated region-wide, survivors likely exceed 50,000. In Merawi, on January 29–30, 2024, ENDF soldiers carried out door-to-door summary executions of between 50 and 100 civilians in retaliation for a Fano militia engagement. Humanitarian aid has been systematically blocked from the Amhara Region, where nearly 2 million people urgently require life-saving assistance, with dozens—possibly hundreds—already dying from starvation. Health workers have been deliberately targeted; WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus publicly reported the abduction and killing of Dr. Tsegahun Sime by security forces, and separately confirmed that three additional health workers in Amhara were shot and killed. The Ethiopian government has simultaneously banned independent journalists from the region and severed internet access, enforcing a near-total information blackout designed to shield perpetrators from accountability and deny victims any international witness. (borkena.com/2026/02/17/eth…)

The Illusion of Alliance: A Masterclass in Contradiction A generation is growing up clutching regional flags they did not design, repeating scripts of hatred they did not write, and learning to look at their neighbors not as compatriots, but as existential threats. In schoolyards and local administrations, the minds of children are being systematically weaponized, trained by ethno-nationalist narratives to view the Amhara people as a collective historical phantom of oppression. Now, facing political pressure and a shifting center, these same regional factions approach the Amhara seeking alliances and tactical cooperation. They expect a clean slate. They expect the Amhara to simply overlook the past three decades of targeted policy and the highly specific banners they continue to carry. Politically, this is an absurdity. the-amhara-knowledge-base.gitbook.io/akb/the-illusi…

The international community must act immediately to address the hidden humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in Ethiopia’s Amhara region. As veteran journalist and activist Eskinder Nega has warned, millions of Amhara civilians are enduring unimaginable suffering in a decentralized war that has turned towns, villages, farms, and mountains into zones of constant danger. There are no safe front lines. Families live under collective punishment: massacres, drone strikes, arbitrary detentions, and village raids are used to intimidate and subdue entire communities suspected of supporting Fano self-defense forces. Markets have collapsed, farming has been interrupted, and basic services have vanished. Hunger - already severe before the war-is now hidden and widespread, with monitoring systems destroyed and supplementary feeding programs for children, pregnant women, and the vulnerable cut off. Malnutrition threatens to scar an entire generation physically and cognitively for decades. Health clinics stand empty, education has halted, and the sick, elderly, and displaced have nowhere to turn. This crisis is not random violence. It is rooted in a state-sponsored ideology that targets Amharas not for what they believe, but for who they are-an ethnic identity weaponized under Ethiopia’s ethnic federalism. Aid is controlled and misdirected, never reaching those in greatest need. The world has been kept blind by restricted access and media silence. Fano forces have declared they will allow independent investigators full access and accept accountability. The Ethiopian government must be held to the same standard. We call on the United Nations, human rights organizations, international media, and humanitarian agencies to investigate without delay, demand direct and unhindered aid delivery, and break the silence that enables this catastrophe. Genocide begins in thought; it must be stopped there. The international community can no longer claim ignorance. Act now-before the mountains of Amhara become graves. #AmharaGenocide @UNGeneva @UN_HRC @UNHumanRights @EU_Commission @EUCouncil @realDonaldTrump @StateDept @SecRubio @SenateForeign @HouseGOP @HouseForeignGOP @HouseForeign @POTUS @antonioguterres Eskinder Nega Warns of a Hidden Humanitarian Catastrophe in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia @sovereign_voice/eskinder-nega-warns-of-a-hidden-humanitarian-catastrophe-in-the-amhara-region-of-ethiopia-efc9d75e578f" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@sovereign_voi…

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@AmharaAdvocacy1 Generations of Amharas have endured genocide & systematic exclusion, fueling their current struggle for survival & genuine democracy. It's time for the IC to acknowledge its plight & take a stand against the ongoing atrocities. #AmharaGenocide @hrw @UN

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The Lemkin Institute’s latest alert confirms a dark reality: the Amhara people are facing a systematic, state-coordinated campaign of genocide in Ethiopia. Under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, the Ethiopian military and allied militias have launched a full-scale war on Amhara communities, utilizing heavy artillery and drone strikes against crowded civilian areas. The atrocities are devastating: ranging from extrajudicial executions and targeted killings of health professionals to systematic sexual violence. To fuel this violence, state officials have openly weaponized dehumanizing, "Amharaphobic" slurs to justify the slaughter. The human toll is catastrophic, with over 4.4 million children forced out of school and entire regional infrastructures gutted. Meanwhile, the Ethiopian regime continues to hide behind "peace agreements," which serve as a diplomatic smokescreen while the violence continues unabated against the targeted communities. This persecution relies on a deeply rooted historical narrative. The current administration has weaponized "divide and rule" rhetoric originally introduced during the fascist Italian occupation of the 1930s, continuing to scapegoat the Amhara to justify modern ethnic cleansing. The international community must address this crisis before it is too late. The Lemkin Institute emphasizes the need for immediate global accountability, urging that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed be referred to the International Criminal Court for serial genocide and that foreign enablers, such as the UAE, halt all military funding to the regime. There is still ongoing #AmharaGenocide in Ethiopia 🇪🇹 lemkininstitute.com/active-genocid…

⚡️Four regime drone strikes hit market, schools, and civilians in Mahderemaryam town, Farta Woreda (📍South Gonder Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia) on May 13th, causing mass casualties. 🔴 The strikes targeted multiple locations, including a temporary detention site holding POWs (killing 13 captured soldiers), an EOTC religious school (killing four students), and Mahderemaryam Primary School where children were present. 🔴 A fourth strike hit farmers traveling to the weekly market, causing numerous casualties, with many victims reported to be women. 🔴 Reports indicate the strikes were guided by a regime spotter from the 73rd ENDF Division operating within the market, who was later apprehended by Fano forces. 🔴 The attacks occurred during peak market activity, amplifying civilian harm and raising concerns over deliberate targeting of populated areas. #Amhara_War_Updates

WELKAIT, ETHIOPIA - APRIL 08, 2022: A mound of stones marks the grave of three individuals on April 08, 2022 in Welkait, Ethiopia. The three individuals had been murdered in the town of Adriment during the TPLF occupation. During the TPLF occupation of the region a total of five individuals who had been murdered on a hill on the outskirts of town were dumped at this location and buried in a mass grave. They were members of the Welkait-Tegede community who were murdered because of their ethnicity. The nearby torture camp at Gehennab began operating 37 years ago in 1985 when the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) occupied Welkait as they fought against the Derg Regime before gaining control of the area 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 (2021-2022) after the TPLF was pushed out of Welkait. (Photo by J. Countess/Getty Images)

While you obsess over trivialities, VOA has spoken to Amhara residents in Wellega, who are now facing disarmament by the Abiy regime: a chilling dress rehearsal for another genocide. The regime’s systematic disarming of Amharas in the region is a prelude to unchecked violence, as evidenced by the horrific 12-second footage I’ve attached. This brief but harrowing glimpse captures the aftermath of brutal atrocities under Abiy’s watch, revealing the unimaginable suffering inflicted upon a community already facing relentless aggression. Meanwhile, you indulge in blood money from Oromumma goons, staying silent while the Amhara people in Wellega are prepared for slaughter. Your silence isn’t just amoral; it’s as bestial as the regime you serve. It’s time to stop hiding behind deflections and address the horrifying reality in Ethiopia: the targeted and ongoing decimation of the Amhara people. Until you confront this with honesty, every word you write rings hollow. #WarOnAmhara #AmharaGenocide #AmharaResistance @UNHumanRights @EthioHRC @UNITEDAMARA @AndargachewTse2 @jeffpropulsion @SenaitSenay @Eritrea_1st @DahlaKib @AAA_Amhara @NeaminZeleke @GPEthiopia @LemkinInstitute

A Healer Who Could Not Be Silenced: The Life and Legacy of Professor Asrat Woldeyes (1928–1999) Professor Asrat Woldeyes was born in Addis Ababa on June 20, 1928, into a world that would test him from his very first years. When Italian fascist forces invaded Ethiopia in 1936, the young Asrat lost his father to mass reprisal killings ordered by occupying forces, and his mother to grief shortly afterward. Orphaned before adolescence, he carried those wounds silently and turned them into fuel. He excelled in school, earned his way to the University of Edinburgh, and returned home in 1956 as Ethiopia's first western-trained surgeon, choosing service over comfort, his people over personal gain, at every turn. For nearly four decades, Professor Asrat was the conscience and backbone of Ethiopian medicine. He was a founding force behind Addis Ababa University's medical faculty, which opened in 1965, and served as its dean and professor of surgery for years. He treated emperors and street paupers with equal care, never opened a private clinic to enrich himself, and consistently refused to let ideologues, whether Italian colonizers, socialist Dergue cadres, or ethnic nationalists, dictate how medicine should be practiced or taught. When the Dergue regime tried to water down medical education in the 1970s, he stood at the podium of the Ethiopian Medical Association and told them plainly that their proposals echoed the colonial logic of keeping Africans permanently dependent on foreign masters. In an era when such words could cost a man his life, he said them anyway. When the EPRDF took power in 1991, Professor Asrat was the lone voice at the national peace conference who refused to endorse a transitional charter he believed would fragment Ethiopia along ethnic lines. As Amhara communities across the country faced violence, displacement, and systematic persecution, he put down his surgical instruments and picked up a different kind of tool: organizing. In January 1992 he co-founded the All Amhara People's Organisation (AAPO), which rapidly grew into a powerful, peaceful civic movement demanding equal rights and an end to ethnic discrimination for all Ethiopians. The government understood what this meant. A senior EPRDF military figure acknowledged openly that Professor Asrat's ability to mobilize people was more threatening to the regime than any armed opposition. That is why they imprisoned him. In 1994, on the basis of a fabricated charge of inciting armed revolt, drawn from a speech that in fact called explicitly for peace, Professor Asrat was thrown into Kerchele prison. He was nearly 70 years old, suffered from a serious heart condition, and depended on a pacemaker to survive. The regime knew this. They held him in isolation, denied him books and newspapers, organized fellow inmates to harass him, restricted his family visits to twice a week for thirty minutes, and deliberately adjourned his court appearances more than 120 times as a form of psychological torture. Amnesty International declared him a prisoner of conscience and called for his unconditional release, stating the evidence against him was slender, dubious, and without direct proof of any conspiracy. The world was watching. The regime did not care. By 1998 his health had collapsed. Only when it was clear that death was approaching did the government finally grant him compassionate release on Christmas Day 1998, not out of mercy, but because a death in their prison would have been too costly to defend. He traveled to London and then to Houston for surgery. The operation went well, but decades of service, years of imprisonment, and the deliberate denial of adequate medical care had taken an irreversible toll. On May 14, 1999, Professor Asrat Woldeyes died at the University of Pennsylvania Hospital, aged 70, in freedom, but on foreign soil, far from the country he had given everything to heal. He was a pioneer who built Ethiopia's first medical school. He was a healer who treated the poor for free his entire life. He was a statesman who stood alone in a room full of compromise and said no. And he was a prisoner whose slow death by deliberate neglect stands as one of the most painful chapters in modern Ethiopian history. His name deserves to be spoken with the same reverence we reserve for those who gave their lives so that others might live with dignity. Sources: 1. alumni.ed.ac.uk/services/notab… 2. ethiopians.com/asrat2.html

(1/4) I’ve discovered seeds of anti-Amhara rhetoric while reading an old publication of The Journal of Ethiopian Studies which was published by Addis Ababa University from 1963-92GC. JOURNAL OF ETHIOPIAN STUDIES ————————————————MEMORIZATION IN ETHIOPIAN SCHOOLS AUTHOR: GIRMA AMARE PUBLISH DATE: JANUARY 1963 In the past, many foreigners interested in education in Ethiopia have been puzzled by the fact that there was so much memorizing and apparently so little understanding in Ethiopian schools. Some were even led to confirm a previous belief that the African is basically of inferior intelligence to the European or American. Fortunately, the modern view, based on psychological experiments, is that the distribution of intelligence among the races of the world is fairly even. In all races there are a few who are exceptionally dull, and a few who are exceptionally bright, and in between these two extremes there is the majority of average intelligence having an I.Q. between 90 and 115. Why then do Ethiopian children memorize so much? There are, of course, two kinds of memorization: memorization without understanding and memorization with understanding. That Ethiopian children memorize with little understanding is now a well established fact. Mr. William M. Wrinkle, formerly Chief of the USOM Ethiopian Educational Advisory Staff, recalls in his article, "A Language Problem in Education in Ethiopia," the experience he had when a science student who had been studying about conduction through iron filings was asked, "Why do burning wood shavings burn faster when you blow on them?" The student answered, "Because wood shavings are good conductors of heat." This and similar examples show that when the Ethiopian student fails to understand what he is taught, he resorts to the surest, but not always the most reliable, means of learning, memorization. Attempts have been made to go to the very source of the problem, to find out why Ethiopian children memorize to the extent they do instead of trying to understand. As in many of the other developing areas of the world, there is a tradition of memorizing in the Ethiopian culture. This tradition permeates all of the vital aspeots of Ethiopian life, the home and the church, as well as the school. The Home ————— Unlike most American and Canadian homes, where children seem actually to be in command, the relationship of parents to children in Ethiopian homes is an authoritarian one. The father is the boss and what he says is final. Like children the world over, Ethiopian children become inquisitive at times - they ask questions. Unfortunately, however, questioning by their children is frowned upon by the parents, both father and mother. There is in fact a deliberate effort on their part to make the children's questions become "what" instead of "why", because "why" may bring with it doubt, and doubting can lead to rebellion. There is a story told and often repeated to every Ethiopian child in the home: Once upon a time there were four men who were intrigued by the mystery of the Trinity. They sat down together and began questioning each other: Why three instead of two? Where did they come from? —and soon God became annoyed and angry with these men: then the earth split open beneath them and the four men fell into the crack. They fell down and down to the depths of the earth, and one can still hear the angry noise the earth makes as those disbelieving men are carried down to the depths. As a result of these parental pressures towards conformity, the Ethiopian child develops a subservient attitude towards all that he is told and he never questions it. This attitude persists even when in due course his parents deny him the liberty to choose his own wife. Sons and daughters must accept the wives and husbands that are selected by their parents.

Academic Freedom Under Siege: 7 Instructors and 28 Students Abducted from Debre Markos Polytechnic College Over Election Boycott (May 8, 2026 — Ethio 251 Media) The administration of Debre Markos Polytechnic College in East Gojjam has issued a formal statement condemning the abduction of seven instructors and 28 students by security agents attached to the East Gojjam Zone Police Department. The individuals were forcibly taken from the college premises yesterday, April 29 (Ethiopian Calendar), following their refusal to participate in a ruling Prosperity Party election rally and their decision not to register for election cards. The college management disclosed that for the past 30 days, the institution has been under intense pressure from government officials to serve as a political tool. According to the statement, teachers, administrative staff, and students were unlawfully coerced into registering for five to seven election cards each under various aliases. Despite the college filing formal complaints to stop these illegal activities and protect the neutrality of the educational institution, authorities responded by demanding a detailed list of personnel who had not yet complied with the mandatory registration. The situation escalated on April 29 when the Prosperity Party organized a campaign rally in Debre Markos city. Those who did not attend the rally or failed to present election cards were identified and subsequently detained by security forces. The college administration has strongly denounced this move, stating that the institution is being forced to operate outside its academic mandate and that its community is facing systematic harassment by state security apparatus. In its concluding appeal, Debre Markos Polytechnic College demanded the immediate and unconditional release of its abducted staff and students. The institution called upon the public to stand in solidarity with the college against the weaponization of academic spaces for political ends, emphasizing that such state-sponsored intimidation undermines the fundamental purpose of higher education. Ethio 251 Media The Voice of Freedom!

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