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< Back State Sponsored Amhara Genocide By Nazrawi K, for more detail refer AAA report The June 18 Genocide on Amharas' was programmed, authorized, and reinforced by authorities of Oromiya Regional State and federal government. Primarily, the militias of the Kebele who were in charge of keeping the security of the area left the place some days prior to the heinous genocidal attack. Then, open the door to militants of Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) to do the dirty work without any challenge. An eyewitness spoke that, the Gimbi Woreda Administration (where Tole Kebele is located) had been informed in advance that OLA militias had surrounded the kebele. To the contrary, the concerned body of the woreda administration transferred stationed armed forces to a place called Dedesa camp while leaving the Amhara dwellers unprotected. Meanwhile, there were also concerning evidence that show possible synchronization and conflict of interest flanked by government officials and OLA. For instance, an OLA member Gemechu Ometa is a son of Nigatu Ometa who is the Kebele Administrator. There is also a brotherhood relationship between Abebe Wakoya who is an OLA member and Kidanu Wakoya the Kebele’s security head. These people including the head of government militia office in Tole Kebele left behind the area 3 days ahead of the racial killing. Second, at the time when the massacre was actively underway, the coverage of telecommunication outlets including phone and internet in the area was totally blackout (take into account that Ethio Telecom which is the service provider of national telecommunications, is possessed and ran by the federal government), successfully denying victims any means to alert the entire world regarding their plight. Thirdly, the members of Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) and Oromia Special Force (aka Oromiya Liyu Hayil) were not deployed during the course of the 9-hour long racial killing. However, when these forces returned back to the area after the successful massacre happened, they threatened survivor individuals not to record the mass slaughtered dead bodies, the funeral process as well as the mass graves for the reason that the genocide could potentially bring outrage against the local and federal governments. This latest state sponsored massacre managed by the OLA has been happening side by side to the huge crackdown named “law enforcement operation” against Amharas (particularly to demolish Fano groups). The operation has been led by the coordination of 1. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, 2. His Oromo Prosperity Party (OPP), 3. The Amhara Regional Government [Amhara Prosperity Party (APP)] As a result, the government acknowledged to the detention of more than twelve thousand Amharas starting from mid-May 2022. Those detained comprise 1. Over 20 journalists from mainstream and social medias, 2. 62 opposition political party members, 3. Lawyers, 4. University professors, 5. Current/ex-government officials All of the above-mentioned detainees were critical of the Prosperity Party and the government. Moreover, they have been well known to opposing the intermittent massacres that has been systematical made against Amharas. On several occasions, it has been observed that family members of missed targets were also kidnaped to lure out the targets. Accordingly, more than thirty peaceful protesters were murdered by government security forces only in May 2022 in different parts of Amhara Region. Irritated by the intermittent and coordinated crackdown operations on dissenting voices and genocides, Ethiopians in general and the Amhara community in particular are requesting Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to step down and leave office. Furthermore, they demand an independent international inquiry to be carried out into the continuing state-sponsored genocide against ethnic Amharas' in different parts of Oromiya. Previous Share Next

< Back The Amhara People Ethiopia Amhara region is in the cool highlands of Ethiopia. There are many wonderful ancient churches and castles in the Amhara region and a long history of famous kings and emperors. When people tell stories in Amharic (the language of the Amhara region) they often start with the phrase teret teret ye lam beret. This means that the cows are safely in the barn, and it's time to tell stories. The Amhara People, also known as Abyssinians, are an ethnic group traditionally inhabiting the northern and central highlands of Ethiopia, particularly the Amhara Region. The Amhara, who are the second largest ethno-linguistic group after the Oromo people, are descendants of ancient Semitic conquerors who migrated southward to mingled with indigenous Cushitic peoples who built the powerful ancient Kingdom of Aksum in Ethiopia. They claim ancestry through Shem the eldest son of biblical Noah and trace their lineage all the way to King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba; aw well as the legendary ancient King Menelik I. They carried that same ancestral line all the way to 1974 with Emperor Haile Selassie. Also, about 50 % of the Amhara are part of what is known as the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, which is an ancient Christian church founded around the 4th century. Previous Share Next

< Back Who are the Amhara People? Lij Tedla Melaku Worede The Amhara people are a Semitic-speaking people who inhabit modern-day Ethiopia. The language of the Amhara people, Amharic, is the second most-spoken Semitic language in the world after Arabic and has served as Ethiopia’s official language since the 13th century AD. The Amhara people have inhabited the Ethiopian plateau for thousands of years. Descendants of Axumites, Amhara's are considered cultural and political heirs of the ancient Axumite Empire. The Amhara people, along with related Ethiopian ethnic groups, are historically known as the Abyssinians. The Solomonic dynasty, which hailed from Amhara in the medieval era, was the longest-surviving dynasty in the world until 1974. The restorer of the Solomonic dynasty, Yekuno Amlak, who reigned in 1270, hailed from the old province of Amhara. The Amhara culture and civilization are one of the greatest human achievements in the world with fascinating historical rock-hewn monuments, unique iconography, palaces and edifices, literature, music, and preserved Biblical practices dating to the First Temple period of Judea. The most important book relating the origin of the people is known as the Kebra Nagast, and it recounts the tale of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon. According to the Kebra Nagast, the Queen of Sheba gave birth to Menelik I, the first King of Ethiopia’s Solomonic dynasty, from King Solomon, after conceiving the child during her visit in Judea. Recent scientific research on the genetics of Ethiopians has supported the claim of the Kebra Nagast, with the discovery of evidence of gene flow into the Ethiopian plateau from the Levant (modern-day Israel and Syria regions) 3,000 years. Previous Share Next

< Back Amhara Genocide Testimonies By Nazrawi K, for more detail refer AAA report This pogrom has been principally catastrophic. Local Oromo residents and the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) surrounded our villages from all directions. They carried out the racial killing in the villages relentlessly for eight consecutive hours. I witnessed two Amhara peasants named Ahmed Sherif and Ahmed Ali get shot dead cruelly with a heavy weapon called Dishqa from a distance. My family members together with six other individuals were murdered with close range gunshots in an empty room located near my house. Their corpses were then inhumanely mutilated using machetes. Twelve innocent civilian ethnic Amharas were burnt to death inside a house located in the center of Gutin Sefer. Fifty-Five other people, residents of Silsaw village were mass slaughtered at once in a jungle located in Chefie village. Among the dead only two were adult men whereas the remaining fifty-three were children and women. Forty-Eight other Amharas were also blood bathed at the backyard of Jafar Mosque found in Silsaw Village where they were hiding to escape the massacre. With this disregard for the mosque and human life however, the killers turned a sacred place into a mass homicidal playground. It was the local Oromo vigilant youths who showed shortcut paths to and from the villages to the OLA militias, cutting the last breath of suspected gunfire survivors using machetes, demolishing, and robbing the properties of the Amharas. I identified thirty-one people who were slaughtered in mass from Ahmed Yusuf’s family alone: comprising his children and grandchildren. Another individual whom I cannot name right now has also lost his twelve family members. On the other hand, the entire family members of Ahmed Sherif (Man who got shot dead using Dishqa) who were seven in number were annihilated altogether. Accordingly, we have buried four hundred fifty dead bodies thus far all over the villages. I even anticipate more dead bodies will be found in the jungle and other areas where we have not yet visited. I have never suspected such genocide to happen on us in my lifetime. The killers were acting by far as wild animals. I do not think they belong to the human race. Even wild animals like the Hyenas do not kill human beings in a way the OLAs did. I am more than certain if they were to come back again, they would kill all of us who survived by miracle. There is nothing remaining that attaches and connects me to live together anymore. I only need the responsible body to get me and the other survivors out and let us live in our parents’ land in Wollo, Amhara Region. Please help us get relocated before we totally vanish, and our race (Amhara) gets exterminated without a new generation to replace and continue after me. Please, please, please.” Previous Share Next

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