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[70] [71] Fano are also accused of participating in the Mai Kadra massacre, which had both Amhara and Tigrayan victims, while Amnesty International, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, and the Ethiopian Human Rights Council attributed it to local Tigrayan youths. [72] [73]
Anti-Amharan mistreatment and abuse therefore much of concern for international organizations, notably Amnesty International called the problem "ethnically motivated attack and displacement. [27] British charity worker Graham Peebles argued on his article "The focus of the regime’s enmity is the Amhara people, a large ethnic group making up ...
Amnesty International believes that at least 108 journalists and opposition members were arrested in 2011 primarily because of their legitimate and peaceful criticism of the government. The sheer numbers involved in this wave of arrests represents the most far-reaching crackdown on freedom of expression seen in many years in Ethiopia. [20]
By Maggie Fick ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia has passed a law that grants amnesty to political prisoners who have been released recently and reverses decades of security-obsessed rule. The law ...
Young men from Ethiopia's Oromo proudly declare "we won" when describing their role in the rise of reformer Abiy Ahmed, to become prime minister. A problem for Ethiopia's leader: the young men who ...
NAIROBI/ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -A fresh eruption of fighting in northern Ethiopia has raised concerns among residents about the safety of rock-hewn churches in the town of Lalibela dating back to ...
Ethiopia Human Rights Council: Listed the names of detainees and condemned the mass arrests of media groups and public defenders. [25] Ethiopian Human Rights Defenders Center (EHRDC): the group called on the Ethiopian government to the immediate release of journalists and to stop the restriction of access to the free flow of information. [26]
The bank said its investments in Ethiopia had helped slash child mortality in half and increase primary school enrollment by 13 percent in less than a decade. The Ethiopian government has said its resettlement campaign in Gambella relocated 37,883 families before it concluded in mid-2013.