Current War and Destruction

• During a six-hour period, Ethiopian soldiers shot civilians on the streets and during house-to-house searches
  “My husband was carrying our 2-month-old child. They told him to let our child go, and after he did, they shot him right outside the house. After they shot him, they did the same thing to the neighbor.”
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• “Ethiopian government troops went door-to-door killing dozens of civilians last month in a town in the country’s Amhara region “ …
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• Slow to emerge due to an internet shutdown, partial communications blackouts under the state of emergency, and fear of reprisals by survivors and witnesses. While it will take time to establish broader trends, this briefing – Amnesty International’s first on this armed conflict – documents how ENDF forces killed at least 11 civilians …
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• Slow to emerge due to an internet shutdown, partial communications blackouts under the state of emergency, and fear of reprisals by survivors and witnesses. While it will take time to establish broader trends, this briefing – Amnesty International’s first on this armed conflict – documents how ENDF forces killed at least 11 civilians …
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• Ethiopia’s army “summarily executed several dozen civilians” and committed other war crimes in the northwestern Amhara region earlier this year, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has said, as it called on the United Nations to launch an independent investigation …
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• Several witnesses told Al Jazeera that a drone fired on an ambulance as it approached the Delanta Primary Hospital in Wegel Tena and obliterated it. Hospital staff, including a doctor and the ambulance driver, as well as employees from a nearby construction site died instantly…
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• "We first heard an explosion and the area was covered with smoke and dust," a priest said. "We collected 15 bodies. It was more a matter of collecting their dismembered bodies. Hands, legs and heads were everywhere." Another resident, who said he lost 10 family members in the strike, said at least 30 people had been killed. The commission EHRC has documented the deaths of at least 81 civilians that it said were killed in drone strikes or extrajudicial killings by government security forces
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• On the morning of Monday 19 February, an Ethiopian drone struck a truck while it was dropping off passengers near Sasit, a town in Ethiopia’s embattled Amhara state. The truck was reportedly carrying up to 50 passengers. At least 30 civilians were killed, and 18 injured
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Economical Marginalization

• Denying agricultural row material
  Unjust resource and budget allocation
  Amhara region, not only the poorest in Ethiopia but the poorest in the world… More Info

  
  

• Amhara region is the poorest region in Ethiopia with IWI value of 16 More Info

  
  

• Primary schools below the National Average
  Change in poverty rate, below the National Average
  Urbanization below the National Average …. More Info

  
  

Social Marginalization

• Labeling and dehumanizing the Amhara.
  Restriction from entering the capital city of Ethiopia, Addis Abeba.
  Limiting access to education and health care.

  
  

• The 2020 UNICEF Ethiopia and CSA report on multidimensional and monetary child poverty in Ethiopia shows that Amhara Region has the third-highest incidence of deprivation on the health dimension among children under five years, representing 76 per cent of children whose mothers did not receive skilled birth attendance. health facilities (one primary hospital, 8 health centers and 37 health posts) serve population of around 170,308 inhabitants. However, the distribution of health posts across health centers is not uniform, and most health centers were stated to have a catchment below the national standard.
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Political Marginalization

• The negative political narrative of Amhara as an oppressor.
  Denying Amhara identity and committing genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Amhara in order to reduce them to minority ethnic group with the intention of less seat in the Ethiopian parliament.

  
  

• The current Ethiopian Constitution suffers from a severe lack of legitimacy. It lacks legitimacy as a result of a constitution-making process that was not inclusive, as well as the subsequent serious lack of integrity and vitality in the constitutional system …
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