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The Persecution of Amhara people [8] is the ongoing persecution of the Amhara and Agaw people of Ethiopia. Since the early 1990s, the Amhara people have been subject to ethnic violence , including massacres by Tigrayan , Oromo and Gumuz ethnic groups among others, which some have characterized as a genocide .
The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) stated on 6 February 2024 that 80 civilians, mostly men, had been killed in house-to-house searches. [6] On 13 February 2024, the EHRC stated that it had identified 45 of the civilians extrajudicially killed by "government security forces" in the massacre, and that it expected the true number of ...
The Mai Kadra massacre was a massacre and ethnic cleansing carried out during the Tigray War on 9–10 November 2020 in the town of Mai Kadra in Welkait (a disputed area between the Amhara and Tigray Regions) in northwestern Ethiopia, near the Sudanese border. [11]
Three children were killed and one person was wounded in an air strike on the capital of the Tigray region in Ethiopia on Monday, the United Nations cited local health workers as saying. The ...
Witnesses in Ethiopia said Sunday that more than 200 ethnic Amhara have been killed in an attack in the country’s The post Witnesses say more than 200 killed in Ethiopia ethnic attack appeared ...
Witnesses in Ethiopia said Sunday that more than 200 ethnic Amhara have been killed in an attack in the country’s Oromia region and are blaming a rebel group, which denies it. It is one of the ...
Killings of the Koore people: 1994 to present Amaro woreda zone; Gedeo; West Guji: Ongoing. 52+ killed; 15+ injured; Hundreds of IDPs from the conflict areas. Civilians homes burned down and livestocks stolen OLF or OLF-shene, militants from various ethnic groups in SNNPR and Oromia regions [11] [12] [13] Civilians killing in Konso: 1994 to ...
The case was not publicized until the next year, sparking widespread public outrage in Ethiopia with many arguing the sentencing of the alleged perpetrator was too "merciful". More than 200,000 people signed a petition demanding appropriate justice for Getnet's alleged crime. Getnet was apprehended and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. [4]