The genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Amhara people has entered a different phase where the attack is no longer through non-State actor proxies, however through the full force of the National Defense Force.
In Ethiopia, the Amhara people, who are primarily an Orthodox Christian community, have been subjected to violent and systematic persecution for decades.
On September 17, 2021, by Executive Order 14046, I declared a national emergency pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States constituted by the situation in and in relation to northern Ethiopia.
Witnesses say federal forces have been looting villages and shooting farmers in their hunt for defiant Fano militiamen.
Appeal Letter to the UN Secretary-General Regarding Crises in Ethiopia's Amhara Region.
The United Nations human rights office says at least 183 people have been killed in clashes in Ethiopia’s Amhara region since July as Amhara fighters resist efforts by the federal government to disband them.
Saudi Arabian border guards have killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants, including women and children, who attempted to enter the kingdom along its mountainous border with Yemen, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Monday.
