Amhara Genocide

The Amhara people are one of the largest ethnic groups in Ethiopia, with their own alphabet, numerals, and calendar. Amharic (አማርኛ) is the language of the Amhara people and also the official language of the federal government of Ethiopia. The contribution of the Amhara people to the civilization and the long-sustained independence of the Ethiopian statehood is immense.

The Amhara people have been highly stigmatized and portrayed as enemies in the political realm of Ethiopia, following the continuous fabrication and dissemination of false narratives driven solely by hatred. Hatred, mutual suspicion, antagonism, and exclusion have been employed as strategies of political mobilization by political and rebel groups in the ethnically divided Ethiopia. Almost all political and armed movements have one thing in common: they portray the Amhara people as enemies. Consequently, anti-Amhara political, social, and media movements have intensified and become an existential threat to the Amhara people.

State power has been seized by political groups that have portrayed the Amhara ethnic group as an enemy since 1991. Since then, the Amhara have been exposed to various forms of political, economic, cultural, religious, and psychological persecution. The Amhara people in Ethiopia have been facing war, genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass killings, mass arrests, looting, rape, restrictions on movement, human rights violations, and other atrocities on a daily basis for the last three consecutive decades.

Under the Abiy Ahmed-led regime of Ethiopia, the Amhara people, who predominantly live in the Amhara Regional State within the ethnically organized federal arrangement of Ethiopia, have been invaded by their own government and exposed to genocide, gross human rights violations, rape, arbitrary killings, mass arrests, looting, and robbery. The Amhara people are under total lockdown and have no way to escape from the brutal attacks by the military forces of the ruling regime. The military forces of the central government are not obeying international war laws and international human rights conventions. They have brutally cut off the breasts of dead girls, mutilated the reproductive organs of dead men and boys, raped pregnant women, killed civilians indiscriminately, and murdered children, disabled people, and elderly people in drone attacks.