General elections were supposed to be held in Ethiopia on 29 August 2020 to elect officials to the House of Peoples' Representatives,[1] but were delayed, supposedly due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] Regional and municipal council elections were also plann Wollo (Oromia zone)
Oromia Zone (Oromo: Godina Oromiyaa) is a zone in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. In early January, According Hassan Hadiya,
a resident of Kemise, Conflict started between Oromo residents and Amhara Special Forces after Amhara Special Forces killing an individual at the entrances of the grand mosque in ataye, Oromia Zone of Amhara region.Another resident of kamise, Ahmed says The Amhara region Liyu Police are attacking civilians and ongoing a blazing movement. eyewitness evidences blame the Amhara regional special forces while the Amhara regional government accuse both OLF-Shene and TPLF as scape goat of the violence.[8][9]Two Members of Ethiopian parliament accused Amhara liyu police for killing Oromo civilian in ataye, Oromia Zone by labelling them what he called ‘’bread name” refers to OLF. “Amhara Militia used OLF-Shane as a pretext to commit war crime on Oromo farmers in Wollo for the three major reasons the MP said on 11th Session of parliament of Ethiopia. The reasons are (1) their national identity (being an Oromo), (2) their religious identity (being Muslim) and (3)use the atrocity as a bargaining threat to fulfill all their demands in Oromia region”[10] On the occasion of the attack of wallo Oromos in Oromia Zone of Amhara Region by Amhara region militia in March 2021, OPP and APP came with opposite statements, each blaming the other ethnic group for being the cause of the violence and killings.[11][12]Borkena news website and Amhara region official claimed OLF involved ataye town[13]
Many news outlasts[14] reported on the "massacre" but many responsible bodies, mainly the Federal army failed to stop the killing hundreds of people and the burning of many crops as shown latter in many satellite and civilian images/videos. The statues quo has not changed, the Amhara special forces exert unrestricted mutiny and the situation remains dire for the helpless Oromos, as one local put it. "Oromo farmers in the area are surrounded by all sides by hostile Amhara's and they are cut off from the much larger Oromo community and forced to sleep with one eye open"
Metekel
Metekel is a district in north western Ethiopia where massacre of civilians has been happening regularly [15][16][17][18][19][20][21] in the past three years. The massacres [22] have been deemed to be as genocidal acts[23] by some where formal investigation is being conducted in order to bring the perpetrators and their chain of command to trial. Shashemene
Shashemene is a town south of Addis Ababa and was a scene of a massacre [24][25][26][27][28] where Orthodox Christians and Ethnic Amharas were targeted. The violence was triggred by the assassination of singer Hachalu Hundessa in Addis Ababa. An umbrella humanitarian organization, OTAGE, has engaged a legal firm, specialising in international crimes, to bring those responsible to justice. Mai Kadra
Mai Kadra is a small town in north Western Ethiopia where a massacre [29][30][31][32][33] was perpetrated against the civilian population based on their Amhara ethnicity. The atrocities are alleged to have been perpetrated by militia linked to TPLF. Tigray War
Main article: Tigray War
The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), the dominant component of the EPRDF, was the only constituent party that did not merge into the new Prosperity Party. In September 2020, Tigray Region held regional election that the government of Ethiopia deemed illegal.[34]
Attacks on 4 November 2020 by Tigray regional security forces on the headquarters of the Northern Command of the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) belonging to the Government of Ethiopia led to armed conflict in the Tigray region. In late November and in December, the Tigray Region government was replaced by the Transitional Government of Tigray.[35] TPLF was then dissolved by NEBE.[36]
There have been various reports of atrocities[37][38][39][40][41][42][43] committed against civilians since the breakout of the war.
