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EHRC Calls for an Urgent Reinforcement of Government Security Forces

EHRC Calls for an Urgent Reinforcement of Government Security Forces

The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) is alarmed by reports of the massacre of an as yet unconfirmed number of civilians in Mender (village) 20 and Mender 21 of Hawa Gelan Woreda in Kellem Wollega Zone, Oromia. The Commission is monitoring the situation and has spoken with survivors who have fled the area and local

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Prosecutors indict Journalist Temesgen with three criminal counts

Prosecutors indict Journalist Temesgen with three criminal counts

By Mahlet Fasil @MahletFasil Federal Prosecutors indicted journalist Temesgen Desalegn, owner and managing director of the Amharic weekly, “Fitih” magazine, this morning with three separate criminal counts. The charges were formally read to the defendant at the Federal High Court Lideta Branch, First Constitutional and Anti-Terrorism Bench. Accordingly, the prosecutor indicted Temesgen with the first count

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Loving Mothers, infants and Elders were slaughtered with their infants without remorse.

Loving Mothers, infants and Elders were slaughtered with their infants without remorse.

June 30, 2022 Tesfaye Z. Yigzaw Mothers and children are unable to weep, with no chance to bury one another as all slaughtered at once with horrifying acts of terrorist Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and Tigray People Liberation Front (TPLF). This act is by no means would have a political justification, and it’s below the

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Stop Deliberate and Accelerated Amhara Genocide: appeal to the international community and to all Ethiopians

Stop Deliberate and Accelerated Amhara Genocide: appeal to the international community and to all Ethiopians

Ethiopian Dialogue Forum (EDF) From the Ethiopian Dialogue Forum Board (EDF) – June 25, 2022 The 1994 Rwandan Genocide that claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Tutsis shocked the entire world. Yet, the Ethiopian census of 2007 that showed 2.5 million ethnic Amhara missing did not draw attention at all. It became

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Account of the Recent Genocide in the Tole Locality of Wellega, Western Ethiopia

Account of the Recent Genocide in the Tole Locality of Wellega, Western Ethiopia

This report has been compiled and written by Mrs. Genet Asmamaw, a journalist. Translation of the compiled text from Amharic into English by Assefa Negash, M.D. Amsterdam, Holland – the 25th of June 2022 E-mail address: Debesso@gmail.com “Let All Human Beings Listen to this” A resident of Tole said “I swear in the name of Allah”

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Abiy Ahmed’s Administration Continued Overt and Covert Support and Systematic Sanctioning of the Genocide of the Amhara People

Abiy Ahmed’s Administration Continued Overt and Covert Support and Systematic Sanctioning of the Genocide of the Amhara People

Bruke Lemma, Ph.D. “Genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.” Jerry Costello The extremely brutal and sickeningly inhuman mass slaughtering of mothers with their newly born and as yet unborn babies, children as

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More than 400 ethnic Amharas and 47 Gambellas people murdered by OLF Army in Oromia Region

More than 400 ethnic Amharas and 47 Gambellas people murdered by OLF Army in Oromia Region

Obang Metho As I mourn the recent death of more than 400 ethnic Amharas people in Tole Kebele, Gimbi Woreda, West Welega Zone, Oromia Region of Ethiopia, and 47 people in the Gambella Region by the same terrorist groups, the Oromo Liberation Front/Army (/A) or Shene and Gambella Liberation Front (GLF), my heart is broken

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Ethiopia More than 200 Ethnic Amhara have been killed in Oromia region

Ethiopia More than 200 Ethnic Amhara have been killed in Oromia region

Witnesses in Ethiopia said on 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 deadliest such attacks in recent memory as ethnic tensions continue in Africa’s second most populous country. “I have counted 230

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