Amhara Awareness

Official AA page dedicated to bringing awareness and help to the Amhara people of Ethiopia. 🚨Urgent donation links in our bio ⇩ ➖#StopAmharaGenocide

[Amhara Awareness @AAM_HQ]

We are the first and official page dedicated to bringing awareness to the genocide happening to the Amhara people of Ethiopia.

Speak up!!! Join us and use your voice for the voiceless! Please share and follow this page. #StopAmharaGenocide

[Graham Peebles @peeblesgraham]

Official trailer for We're Still Breathing: Amhara Genocide in Ethiopia By Graham Peebles. Share widely

[Amhara Association of America (AAA) @AAA_Amhara]

📢#EVENT: The Amhara Association of America (AAA) presents a special documentary screening of We're Still Breathing, Amhara Genocide in Ethiopia. Tickets are available for screenings in Washington, DC and Plano, TX🇺🇸 simply scan the QR code below.
#StillBreathing #AmharaGenocide

[Cloudflare Radar @CloudflareRadar]

When clashes between local militiamen and federal military forces intensified on August 3, the government of #Ethiopia reportedly shut down #Internet services in the #Amhara region.

Over five weeks later, connectivity remains largely unavailable. #KeepItOn

[Amhara WAAG | ዋግ @AmharaWaag]

“Ethiopian soldiers killed more than 70 civilians and looted properties in a town in Amhara” #WarOnAmhara https://t.co/JYxR5E18Wh

[Genocide Prevention In Ethiopia @GPEthiopia]

#GPE_AtrocityReport
Incident dates: From March 30, 2023 on wards
#AddisAbaba
#Gelan, #TuluDimtu, #Ziway, #Oromo Region #Ethiopia
#Tepi #SouthWest Region
#Yirgalem #SNNP Region

Over 100,000 Amharas have been detained just for their identity since March 30, 2023 (GPE Report June 26, 2023: https://t.co/XWphAeU9bR). These are in addition to thousands of Amharas that were detained in a mass arrest campaign against Amharas two years earlier in May 2022.

The number of people abducted just for their identity has risen alarmingly over recent weeks. People are abducted with no reason after their IDs are checked randomly. The majority of the abductees from within Addis Ababa city are taken to make shift temporary holdings like high-school grounds and various industrial storage places from where they are moved to undisclosed locations often outside Addis Ababa to locations like Gelan, Tulu Dimtu and as far as Woliso, Arba Minch and Tepi.

Detainees in undisclosed locations are reported to get only one bread a day with some days of the week not getting any food at all. Leaked videos, audios and pictures of these detention centers show a very bleak reality reminiscent of early days of the Auschwitz-Birkenau detention centers where Nazi units held Jews just for their identity. The videos indicate Ambulances on standby to take bodies of Amharas that die out of extreme torture and starvation, the images also expose those who seem to inflict pain on the detainees all war masks and protective medical sanitation gear indicative of possible presence of communicable disease outbreak on the grounds.

Extreme torture, coercion and making Amharas abductees sign documents and testify against other Amharas under duress is continuously reported out of both temporary holding places and other concentration camps. Extra judicial killings have been continuously reported ever since the mass abductions began. The majority of the Amharas held at concentration camps are daily laborers, street vendors and people who were found to be Amhara after a random stop and search campaigns in the capital city Addis Ababa. Abuses reported thus far include, extreme torture, mutilations, mass murder, coercion, rape, humiliation, and starvation.

Majority of the detainees are:
1. Street vendors
2. Lottery vendors
3. Daily laborers
4. Young people from their homes and on the streets
5. Students abducted either from their homes or from the streets
6. Civil servants
7. Political party members (especially those of Balderas party members)
8. Amhara Peoples' representatives from Amhara Region and Addis Ababa

Location:
1. Addis Ababa, in all available police stations, schools (for example there were 100 in Wondiyrad high school, 150 in Belay Zeleke School, and over 150 in Biruh Tesfa School), Youth Centers, Various service centers (for example, at the Addis Ketema Senior Citizens help center found at the back of Abune Aregawi Church)

2. Outside Addis Ababa:
Yirgalem (SNNP Region): On August 10, 2023 over 28 buses full of Amhara detainees were taken to Yirgalem town from various police stations in Addis Ababa; where they are kept in SNNP region police training center.

Ziway and Meki (Oromo Region): Many Amharas taken from Addis Ababa and Nazareth cities are taken to undisclosed locations in Ziway and leaked information indicates that they are subjected to inhuman conditions.

Tepi (South Western Region): Amharas detained before and after the illegal state of emergency declared in Amhara Region are kept in undisclosed locations in Tepi.
Awash Arba (Afar Region): Amharas detained before and after the illegal state of emergency declared in Amhara Region are kept in undisclosed locations in Tepi. Even people's representatives who were supposed to have immunity because of their status are among those who are held and tortured at this infamous location.

It is also feared that there are multiple undisclosed locations where Amhara detainees are being held as reports of them are surfacing but most who know about it fear for their lives to disclose these locations.

#AmharaGenocide
#WarOnAmhara
@UNHumanRights @IsraelMFA @UNGeneva @UNOSAPG @hrw @amnestyusa @SecBlinken @MikeHammerUSA @USUN @CNN @ReutersWitness @PrivateEyeNews @AFP @AP @VoteAprilBecker @redactednews

[The Associated Press @AP]

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. https://t.co/c3X7BCXjy1

[Amhara Awareness @AAM_HQ]

@UNOSAPG @Kigali_Memorial @AsstSecStateAF @StateDept @TheAfricaReport @AFP @Reuters @cnnbrk @UNReliefChief @UNICEFEthiopia @USAID_CPS @USAIDAfrica @WFP @VOANews @VOAAmharic @SophieHRW @LaetitiaBader @_AfricanUnion @EthioHRC @CPJAfrica @pressfreedom @nytimes To learn more, visit these sources:
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[Amhara Awareness @AAM_HQ]

The #WaronAmhara has progressed to airstrikes on civilians in Finote Selam and blockage of life-saving humanitarian aid for IDPs in the Amhara region. With sweeping arrests of Amharas and the silencing of reports of this tragedy, when will the International Community intervene?

[Amhara Awareness @AAM_HQ]

@UNOSAPG @Kigali_Memorial @AsstSecStateAF @StateDept @TheAfricaReport @AFP @Reuters @cnnbrk @UNReliefChief @UNICEFEthiopia @USAID_CPS @USAIDAfrica @WFP @VOANews @VOAAmharic @SophieHRW @LaetitiaBader @_AfricanUnion @EthioHRC @CPJAfrica @pressfreedom @nytimes Statements condemning the shelling of civilian towns in the Amhara region, killings of protestors, and mass arrests/ethnic profiling by Ethiopian authorities.
#FreeAmharaDetainees

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[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

An Ethiopian army drone has bombed protesters in Amhara, killing at least 70, local media reports.

Air strikes reportedly hit demonstrators, who'd gathered in the town of Finote Selam to protest federal forces who planned to enter the area. https://t.co/uudr3ZqHGk

[The Washington Times @WashTimes]

Authorities in Ethiopia are carrying out mass arrests of hundreds, even thousands, of people in the capital after deadly unrest in the country's Amhara region, lawyers and witnesses said. https://t.co/OUxnLUAtVL

[Laetitia Bader @LaetitiaBader]

Increased reports of casualties are emerging amidst a deepening crisis in #Ethiopia’s #Amhara region. Add to this the gov’ts sweeping state of emergency that risks further abuses, clear now is not the time for the intl community to ease its scrutiny @hrw https://t.co/YSncG3ELMv

[CPJ Africa @CPJAfrica]

Ethiopian authorities must immediately release journalist Bekalu Alamrew, founder and chief editor of Alpha Media, a YouTube-based news channel, and ensure the protection of press freedom - @pressfreedom https://t.co/W5A0r8euGA

[UN Human Rights Council @UN_HRC]

The International Commission of Human Rights Experts on #Ethiopia is deeply concerned about the reported deteriorating security situation in the north-west region of the country, particularly in Amhara.

STATEMENT ➡️https://t.co/ta8xRRsDnt

[Amhara Association of America (AAA) @AAA_Amhara]

.@UNHumanRights: "The International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia is deeply concerned about the reported deteriorating security situation in the north-west region of Ethiopia, particularly in Amhara."

#WarOnAmhara #AmharaGenocide

https://t.co/AnNvwdHu9P

[ICRC Ethiopia @ICRCEthiopia]

Health workers, medical facilities and #ambulances must be able to provide care safely at all times.

As fighting continues in #Amhara, @ICRC and @EthioRedCross call for urgent protection of all patients – including the wounded -and the healthcare services they rely on.#Ethiopia