Genocide Against the Amhara - Benshangul-Gumuz, Metekel Zone

Moresh Wegenie Amara Organization

This report has been compiled on the recent incidents of genocide in Wembera and Bulen district (Woredas) of Metekel Zone of Benshangul-Gumuz Regional State in Ethiopia. The report pinpoints and underscores the outrageous atrocities committed by members of the Gumuz ethnic group against Amaras with the full knowledge and encouragement of Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the current Oligarchy ruling Ethiopia. The cruel and inhumane crimes are another sad chapter in recent human history. During the last 25 years the ruling TPLF regime and its cohorts have committed various gruesome human rights violations against members of the Amara (Amhara) ethnic group in Ethiopia. Based on factual evidence compiled by Ethiopian Human Rights Organization (EHRO), Human Rights Watch (HRW) and others, thousands of Amaras have been systematically evicted and displaced from all corners of Ethiopia through TPLF sponsored ethnic cleansing program. At a hearing testimony presented to the TPLF rubber stamp Parliament by Miss Samia Zekaria, Director of the Central Statistical Agency, she had publicly admitted that between 1994 and 2007, about 2.5 million Amaras have been systematically unaccounted for in the 2007 census 3 results1 . This fact is corroborated by independent research results, and through interviews of Amaras who escaped and survived the genocide and the systematic elimination. According to eye witness accounts of the survivors, the number of Amaras removed from their livelihoods and eliminated during the last 24 years could soar up to about 6 million2 . In a reminiscent of Italian fascist massacre of the 1930s, when captured Ethiopian resistance fighters suffered with not even a piece of cloth to hide their delicate organs day and night, beginning in 2012 through 2014, Amaras have been particularly singled out for eviction, genocide, and ethnic cleansing in Benshangul-Gumuz Regional State.

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