Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.
This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ
Abiy Ahmed’s Genocidal War on Amhara Women: How Industrial-Scale Rape Became a Weapon to Erase a People!
The BBC investigation documents a genocidal war on Amhara women in Ethiopia, where, since Abiy Ahmed's open declaration of the genocidal war on Amharas two years ago, it has unleashed industrial-scale, systematic sexual violence.
It recounts harrowing testimonies of Amhara survivors like Enat, Tigist and Lemlem, raped at gunpoint by Abiy Ahmed's soldiers in their homes and on the street, often in front of children, then left with pregnancy, sexually transmitted infections, crushing stigma and severe psychological trauma.
Using data from 43 health facilities – only about 4% of all facilities in the so-called Amhara region – the BBC found at least 2,697 reported rapes between July 2023 and May 2025, 45% of them children under 18, while doctors warn this is only a “tip of the iceberg” as many victims never come forward. Despite rights groups’ reports linking Abiy Ahmed's genocidal army to targeted and systematic sexual violence against Amhara in Ethiopia, the international community has offered no meaningful call for accountability, leaving poor Amhara women and girls to carry the burden of a crime that threatens to become a public health and social catastrophe.
Even using only what the BBC reports, the scale of what is happening to Amhara women is almost indescribable. Those 2,697 cases come from just 43 facilities; if that 4% sample is even roughly representative, a simple extrapolation to the entire health system points to something on the order of 67,000 rape cases in under two years, with roughly 30,000 of the victims being children under 18. And the same doctors stress that these figures are only the “tip of the iceberg”, because fear, stigma, blocked roads and institutional collapse keep huge numbers of survivors away from clinics.
If we take an Amhara population of around 50 million, roughly 25 million of whom are women and girls, then even this very conservative extrapolation from reported cases alone would mean about 1 in every 370 Amhara women and girls has already been raped in this short period. If, as health workers fear, the real number of attacks is three to five times higher than the cases that reach facilities, we are looking at something on the order of 200,000–330,000 Amhara women and girls – roughly 1 in every 75–125 – being turned into direct victims of conflict-related rape in just two years.
By any conscientious human standard, these numbers tear away the lie of a “security operation” and expose what many Amhara and observers see as a deliberate genocidal project whose only aim is to break and erase a people: first through the industrial-scale bombardment of Amhara homes, businesses, churches, mosques and schools, and then through the industrial-scale rape of the women and children who survive the bombs – so that, in village after village, almost every extended family is scarred by at least one survivor of what they now call Abiy Ahmed’s rape war against the Amharas of Ethiopia.
Abiy Ahmed is a sworn pogromist who pledged his ethnic men to bring the booty of Amharas when he declared the genocidal war on Amhara, a war having only one aim in its two-year genocidal campaign on Amhara: to erase a people. His forces pummel Amhara towns with drone and air strikes wherever Amharas live, and the army then follows with mass sexual violence, deliberately destroying the bodies and futures of the women who survive.
A former insider, ex–State Minister of Peace Taye Dendea, has publicly testified that Abiy told him, “I’m going to exterminate Amhara” – a statement which, if true, turns this from a brutal counter-insurgency into an openly declared campaign of extermination. Against this backdrop of industrial-scale rape, bombardment and explicit genocidal rhetoric, the question hangs over the world’s conscience: how long will governments, institutions and courts remain silent while an army widely accused of mass rape and ethnic persecution continues to operate under Abiy Ahmed’s command, and while he and his generals remain unindicted, untried and free in the face of mounting allegations of genocide and crimes against humanity?
https://t.co/XxVg0rKFCc
Abiy Ahmed Ali’s Oromo Prosperity fascist regime brutally mutilated and killed this captured female fighter, a prisoner of war, and dumped her body in public. Unlike the barbaric regime, Fano has been caring for and providing medical treatment to hundreds of captured regime forces, and handed over many of them to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The regime’s barbaric actions and blatant violation of international humanitarian law must be condemned in the strongest terms! @ICRCEthiopia@ICRC@hrw@amnesty@washingtonpost@BBCAfrica@StateDept@AmnestyEARO