🚨 Gada Commando, ENDF and Qeerroo (Oromo youth) kill over 22 Amhara civilians in Mender 3 as massacres continue across East Wollega
More than 22 Amhara civilians, including religious leaders and elderly residents, were killed in Mender 3, Gida Ayana Woreda, East Wollega Zone, Oromia Region, beginning on August 24, 2026, as attacks against Amhara communities continue across the area.
The massacre was carried out by armed Qeerroo groups (Oromo youth) backed by Oromia Region Gada Commando, regional security and militia forces, and the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF). The attackers used Kalashnikov rifles, machetes, swords, and other weapons, while ENDF and Gada Commando forces provided support and heavy-weapons cover.
At least 22 bodies have been recovered in Mender 3, while additional bodies remain scattered across fields, unburied and exposed to wild animals and vultures.
The attacks have also involved widespread burning, destruction, and looting of Amhara communities. Numerous homes in Mender 3 were burned, while livestock and other property were looted, loaded onto vehicles, and transported toward Nekemte. Andode, Mender 3, Mender 22, Fendika, and other communities in the area have suffered extensive destruction, with entire villages reduced to ashes.
In Mender 22, numerous Amhara civilians were also killed, with bodies remaining uncollected and unburied in the surrounding area.
Oromia Region Gada Commando, regional riot-control forces, Gachana Sirna, Repelola, militia forces, and armed Qeerroo groups have participated in the attacks alongside ENDF forces. ENDF units have provided heavy-weapons cover and transported armed groups between affected communities using military Ural vehicles.
ENDF Central Command forces under Lieutenant General Zewdu Belay and Western Command forces under Major General Amare Bahta have been involved in supporting the operations, including providing heavy-weapons cover and facilitating the movement of forces carrying out the attacks.
The killings in Mender 3 are part of continuing violence against Amhara communities across Gida Ayana Woreda and other parts of East Wollega, where numerous civilians have been killed, villages destroyed and looted, and thousands of residents displaced.
"Action Requested from International Observers & Media
1. Urgent Verification: Humanitarian bodies (UN OCHA, UNHCR), regional monitors, and diplomatic missions must immediately direct monitoring assets toward rural Wollega to verify civilian protection failures.
2. Platform Intervention: Social media platforms (Meta, X, TikTok) are urged to act on elevated hate-speech escalations in Amharic and Afaan Oromo targeting ethnic Amhara populations in Western Oromia region, Ethiopia."
👆the above is a call for action included in the recent Red Alert issued by @GPEthiopia (quoted in the post below) regarding the grave situation ongoing in Wollega, Oromo Region Ethiopia against ethnic Amharas.
Can we at least make this stop? people are burning alive, how can we not feel responsible to save humans from such horrific suffering?
@UNHumanRights@OCHA_Ethiopia@X@Meta@tiktok_us
"In relation to Israels military operations in Gaza, we conclude that Israeli authorities are responsible for war crimes.
Including extermination, murder, using starvation as a method of war, forcible transfer"
-UN Human Rights Council
Heartbreaking! A minor girl, bullets shot from @AbiyAhmedAli soldiers killed her mother, and injured her. She had to stay lying on her mother’s body for over 4 days without medical help, food, or water!
🚨 Amhara mother killed by Oromia Region Geda Commando forces; wounded young daughter found beside her body days later
An Amhara mother was killed on August 21 during attacks by Oromia Region Geda Commando forces in East Wollega Zone, Oromia Region. Her body was discovered several days later with her young daughter still sitting beside her.
The child, who had also suffered a gunshot wound, was found injured and suffering from hunger beside her mother’s body. She was heard saying, “I’m hungry.”
The killing occurred amid attacks against Amhara communities in East Wollega that began on August 18 and involved Oromia Region Special Forces, Geda Commando forces, Qerro (Oromo youth), and ENDF personnel.
These regime forces have carried out house-to-house attacks against civilians who were unable to flee, including pregnant women, mothers, the elderly, and other vulnerable residents.
🚨 BREAKING:
UK public broadcaster Channel 4 News aired a documentary exposing how Israeli settlers seize Palestinian land.
From the documentary: A Palestinian father is shot by Israeli land grabbers, while his son is arrested.
#Ethiopia 🇪🇹 CPJ calls on Ethiopian authorities to release five journalists who have spent three years in jail awaiting trial for reporting on unrest in Amhara region. Gobeze Sisay, Meskerem Abera, Genet Asmamaw, and Dawit Begashaw were detained in April 2023 and face terrorism charges, for which they could face the death penalty, if found guilty.
In February 2026, a federal court ruled that the prosecution had presented sufficient evidence for their joint case to proceed. But repeated adjournments have pushed the hearing to November 19, following the court’s August-to-October recess, their lawyers told CPJ.
Separately, Abay Zewdu was detained on August 10, 2023, a week after authorities declared a state of emergency in response to the Amhara insurgency. The court has yet to decide whether the prosecution has sufficient evidence for his case to proceed. Hearings are due to resume on October 16.
Prolonged pretrial detention and repeated judicial delays effectively amount to punishment without conviction, damaging both bodies and minds. Ethiopian authorities must not treat journalists as terrorists and must ensure prompt, fair, and transparent proceedings that respect their rights to due legal process.
Read more: https://t.co/ywWPHH4VAe
The World Council of Churches has condemned the targeted drone strike carried out by Abiy Ahmed’s regime on St. Arsema Monastery of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in South Wollo, Amhara Region, Ethiopia.
Heartbreaking drone attack carried out by the regime
Today, July 22/ 2026GC or15/11/2018 E.C
A drone attack on the Arsema anidnet Monastery located in Abay Berha, Mekaneselam town, South Wollo zone, caused serious damage to the monastery and its monks.
👉Several female monks were martyred
👉Many were injured
👉Many artifacts were destroyed
War crime news from South Wollo, Ethiopia, horrific drone attack by @AbiyAhmedAli army on the Abay St. Arsema Monastery, leaving 7 dead & 10 critically wounded. Sacred sites continue to bleed as innocent lives are shattered while z world looks away
#AmharaGenocide@hrw@amnesty