Will Ethiopia Be a Failed State Due to Amhara Genocide?

by Nathan Belay Abtew (Anthropologist and Freelance Researcher)
(Toronto, Canada January, 16, 2021)

Detailed Statement

In the history of building modern Ethiopia, the Amhara people contributed their significant part. Thanks to the Ethiopian Orthodox church, different scholars and thinkers were emerged in Ethiopia.

When Ethiopian scholars were writing their history using their own writing tools and alphabet, most of the today’s developed world had no idea about writing.

Judicial procedures, different policies and programs including diplomatic charters were designed by the antic Ethiopian Orthodox church. Teaching books, schools and different levels of education were predesigned by the church before modern Education came in Ethiopia.

However, the year 1991 was a turning point for Ethiopian history. In 1991, extremely racist and anti-Amhara military group came from the northern part of the country (today’s Tigray region). The name of this military mafia group is Tigriean People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).

At the beginning, this mafia group had no plan to rule the country, rather their objective was to divide Tigray region from Ethiopia and to form an independent Tekeze republic. When they arrived in central Ethiopia, TPLF has changed its idea and they preferred to rule the country because they were attracted by the natural resources of central Ethiopia.

For more than 27 years, TPLF lead the country, and they have collected almost all resources of the country. While staying in power, TPLF formed their political puppets in all parts of the country.

They have designed national hatred policy against Amhara society, and they have preached all over the country. For the past thirty years, this policy was included in the academics, and all the new generation grew up with Amhara phobia.

As a result, since 1991 up to now, thousands of innocent Amhara lives are getting massacred. Especially, in Oromia, Somali and Benishangul Gumuz regions, very organized ethnic cleansings were done against orthodox Christian Amhara society. Thousands of innocent men and women were slaughtered; some were raped or castrated.

The 2018 Political reform and Clear Declaration of Amhara Genocide

After twenty-seven years xenophobic leadership system, TPLF’s cadres lost their seat in the federal government and they fled to Tigray region. Since then, the so-called reformist leader, Abiye Ahmad Ali came to power.

Abiye Ahmed is from Oromo society in which TPLF has worked much on this society regarding Amhara hatred. When the Oromo centered politics started in 2018, clear genocide movements have been declared against Christian Amhara communities in the country.

The first genocide after the 2018 political reform took place in Somali region where hundreds were killed; priests and monks were burned in the church and thousands were displaced.

The second genocide was done in Oromia region by the virtual call of an Oromo Muslim extremist and activist named Jawar Mohammed. During this ethnic cleansing, more than hundred innocent Amhara souls were massacred.

The third genocide was done in Shashemene, Zeway, Bale Robe and Arsi Negele areas of Oromia region. This genocide was planned, financed and executed by different stakeholders among whom Oromo extremists, Tigrayan People Liberation Front (TPLF), Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and the government itself were active participants.

The fourth Amhara genocide is the one which is in progress at Benishangul Gumuz region. This genocide is typically planned by Oromia regional state in collaboration with TPLF and Oromo Liberation Front.

Why the Genocide Against Amhara is Needed?

The clear objective of the current Oromo-centered federal government is to build greater Oromia which is free from Amhara society. The Novel prize winner prime minister, Abiye Ahmed Ali is playing symbolic role by pretending as if he is working for national unity.

For the international society, it is told that the prime minister is working hard for human rights & deepening of democracy in the country.

This strategy of Abiye Ahmed not only convinced the international society but also it created non-responsive dormant Amhara leaders in the country. Knowing that thousands are dying inhumanly, many Amhara leaders, activists & human right specialists are keeping quiet.

However, the long-term objective of Abiye Ahemed’s government is disclosed by Mr. Shimeles Abdissa (Oromia region president) in his clearly stated public speeches. Shimeles Abdissa is implementing all what he said in public.

Here, it would be useful to refer his speeches and compare them with what is going on currently against the Amhara society. In 2019, when the Oromo society was celebrating Erecha (the Oromo traditional religious practice) in Addis Ababa, Shimeles Abdissa addressed the following speech: “we the current Oromo politicians, broke the backbone of Naftagna”.

The term Nafitagna refers the Amhara society in which currently, it is highly manipulated by politicians and activists who are working against the Amhara.

The same year, during regional political meeting, the same president of Oromia region said: “we are working to eradicate the Amharic language and the Amhara”.

He added: “in Benishangul and Addis Ababa, we are working to bring demographic change which means to replace the Amhara society by the Oromos”.

Therefore, the following reasons could be summarized for the reasons why the current Amhara genocide is needed:

• To build Amhara free greater Oromia and to dismantle Ethiopia
  
• To realize the already preached Amhara hatred by TPLF
  
• To avenge the false history perpetrated against the Amahra society
  
• To eradicate the Amhara race from the country and to build Amhara free independent states

Why the Amhara lost their courage and get Vulnerable?

For the last three decades, much has been done to break the unity and bold Amhara identity. Once, the former prime minister, Meles Zenawi said: “we broke the Amhara backbone and its courage. Now, we let its shoulder only for dance”.

This political conspiracy has been done in order that the Amhara could be shameful, suppressed and non-resistant society in the country.

The ethnic based federalism made the Amhara people to be alienated from all forms of participation. in order to achieve the TPLF’s policies and programs, corrupted and mindless Amhara leaders were recruited as puppet leaders of the Amhara people

Among these, Addisu Leggesse, the former Amhara regional state president could be mentioned. This mindless leader made ethnic cleansing in Wolkaite and Raya areas of Amhara people in which these areas are taken from Amhara region and they are incorporated under Tigray.

In order to bring demographic change, very dangerous sterility medications were given for Amhara female students starting from their teenage. As a result, millions of Amhara women became childless. Much has been done to eradicate the Amhara race from Ethiopia.

All these suppressions and psychological destabilization broke the Amhara unity and its courage. This made the people to be vulnerable for any form of group attacks. For instance, currently, there are mass killings against Amhara people almost everywhere in the country.

However, the Amhara are not responding because they are not organized at all, and this will cost million Amhara lives in the near future. The other hindering factor is the current Amhara leaders have no courage to build strong regional government.

The Amhara regional government has failed under irresponsible and mindless puppets who only want to advocate Oromo centered politics of Abiye Ahmed. For them, building strong and organized Amhara society will make them lose their political position.

Most of the Amhara leaders are uneducated, and they are out of cardinal virtues of the human race. For them, leadership is power. Staying in power concerns them much more than working for their people.

As a result, many Amhara activists believe that the Amhara leaders should take the lions share of accountability for the crime commuted against Amhara people for the last thirty years.

Why the Ongoing mass killing against the Amhara is Genocide?

1. The attacks are premeditated, planned. Trainings were/are given to accomplish the mission. Besides, killers have lists of victims by taking their full address and identity cards from kebele officials.
   
2. Many government officials are ignoring their roles as if it is not their duty to safeguard people’s lives, and some others are helping the attackers by financing and providing transportation service.
   
3. Hate speech and incitements of violence against the Amhara has been propagated by media outlets and activists. On the contrary, those who are fighting for human rights like the famous journalist and politician Iskindir Nega are imprisoned. Dimtse Woyane and Oromia Media Network are the prominent medias who are propagating hate speech against Amhara.
   
4. Blasphemy and horrific ways killings are circulated through social media in order to build fear and strong feeling of insecurity among the Amhara society.

For instance, killers open the stomach of pregnant mother. Decapitating children, chopping different organs, burning the dead body, crucifying upside down, giving the body for hyaena, playing games on the human body by piercing and throwing arrows; raping small kids in front of their mothers, slaughtering fathers in front of their wives and children, etc... are some of the horrific killing styles which are happening against the Amhara.

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