New investigation out tomorrow documents sexual violence, summary killings, and displacement in Ethiopia’s Oromia region.
These are not isolated abuses; they are war crimes that demand justice.
Ethiopia: 34 Orthodox Christians have been killed in the Arsi, Oromia region.
Eight others remain hospitalized. Another eight are missing. Two were kidnapped.
These Christians were murdered by an ethno-nationalist group called the Oromo Liberation Army and is part of an ongoing pattern in the region.
The motivation behind the attacks is ethnic as much as it is religious, yet it is Christians who keep getting killed.
The OLA employs terrorism to pursue an independent Oromo state and frequently targets the Amhara tribe, many of whom are Orthodox Christians.
Many have condemned these killings and we add our voice to theirs.
Pray for the Christians of Ethiopia.
Arsi Orthodox Genocide
For seven years, Orthodox communities in Ethiopia have endured repeated killings, burned homes, and the erasure of entire families.
Yet the Church’s highest leadership has offered no sustained investigation, no institutional protection, and no public defense equal to the scale of the suffering.
Silence in the face of systematic attacks is not neutrality — it is abandonment.
The world must recognize these ongoing violations of life, faith, and identity, and act before more communities disappear in silence.
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"The Fano have taken control of vast rural areas in #Amhara, forcing federal forces to retreat into major regional cities, where insurgents occasionally launch lightning raids. #Eritrea is suspected of training the militia." https://t.co/ZFuE7QwIwj
#Ethiopia: Widespread rights abuses in #Amhara region as federal forces move to battle Fano insurgency – the Guardian reveals
Federal forces committed abuses in Amhara region, including kidnappings, massacres, sexual violence and attacks on humanitarian personnel, in an attempt to quell the Fano insurgency in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, the Guardian newspaper said in its photographic report.
It added that the situation is out of control, with more than 2 million people in urgent need of humanitarian assistance in a region that is also hosting refugees from the war in Sudan.
According to the Guardian newspaper in its photographic report, the Ethiopian federal army is regularly accused of massacres, arbitrary arrests, sexual violence and drone attacks targeting civilians in Amhara. Civilians interviewed described losing relatives to drone strikes and shelling, further fueling anger at the central government.
The report notes that while the Fano militia initially enjoyed broad community support, worsening insecurity and economic collapse are gradually undermining this trust, with some Fano groups increasingly accused of extorting civilians, particularly at checkpoints.
Once allies of the federal government during the Tigray war, the Fano turned against Addis Abeba after the Pretoria Agreement and the federal decision to dismantle regional special forces, which many Amhara fighters perceived as a direct threat to their security.
Thousands of former special forces personnel subsequently joined the Fano, creating a fragmented armed movement estimated at nearly 20,000 fighters. The Guardian says the Fano now control large rural areas of Amhara, while federal forces are largely confined to major towns, and both sides hold alternating areas of control as fighting intensifies.
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Global Diaspora Mobilizes in Historic “Amhara Mother’s Tear” Campaign Against Ethnic Violence in Ethiopia
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