WHAT'S
NEW
Under Abiy’s leadership, there have been severe acts of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes committed by the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF), Oromo Special Force, and OLA militia against the Amhara population. These acts of immense atrocities, including ethnic cleansing, mass killings, extrajudicial executions, the deliberate creation of famines, and the use of sexual and gender-based violence as a weapon, are instances of rape and gang rape.
IT MUST END
Tilahun Baye, 35, recounts his escape on March 5, 2021 in Mai Kadra, Ethiopia. He states: “I spent November 9, 2020 on the outskirts of Mai Kadra in the farmland. On the next day, in order to save my life me and other laborers started escaping towards Sudan which is 40 kilometers away. But while on our way we encountered 20 to 30 Tigrayan Samri youth and Tigray special forces who were heading towards Mai Kadra after cleansing Amharas in Farm camps. They started shooting towards us, killing some of us dead and wounding others. I was among the wounded, but I pretended to be dead. Believing I was dead they left me. Afterwards I escaped and I crossed the Sudanese border with the help of other survivors. But once I got to Sudan we saw those youths who killed our friends, claiming they are civilian refugees. When they recognized me they even accused me of being a killer and prohibited from getting medical treatment. On November 15, a Sudanese General took me to a medical center and I returned back to Ethiopia with the help of Ethiopian Embassy” The violence occurred during a wider conflict between the Ethiopian government and the TPLF that was ignited on November 3, 2020, when forces aligned with the TPLF attacked 5 bases of the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) Northern Command whose headquarters were in Mekelle, the capital city of the Tigray region.
(Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images).
I Spent the day visiting with and recording the testimonies of the over 300,000 IDP’s from Lalibela, Sekota, Wag Humera and other locales in the Amhara region near Gonder. Their needs for food, the basic necessities and health services are immense. This story is getting little to no play in the main stream/western media.
(Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images)
amhara'S PAIN
SEKOTA, ETHIOPIA - MARCH 30: Thirty-year-old Belete Berhann of Abergele sits with her child within her designated space at the Woleh IDP (internally displaced peoples) camp on March 30, 2022 in Sekota, Ethiopia.
The Woleh IDP camp is home to an estimated 1,500 IDP's from the Abergele and surrounding areas. Residents of the Woleh IDP camp face shortages of food, food preparation materials and mattresses. State authorities in Amhara recently said that 11.6 million people in the region are in need of food aid, including hundreds of thousands displaced by the conflict between the Ethiopian government and Tigrayan forces.
Views of the Dessie Referral Hospital in Wollo as seen on January 12, 2022 as it replenishes and rebuilds after having most of its medical and pharmaceutical supplies and major equipment looted and taken to Tigray or destroyed during the 2021 TPLF occupation.
Fighting
Injustice
“As an Amhara individual, I have experienced the effects of discrimination and marginalization firsthand. I have witnessed how our community has been targeted and mistreated solely because of our social identity. The mistreatment ranges from economic and political disenfranchisement to social exclusion, and in some cases, outright violence.”