harvesting crops on their farms.Local Gumuz residents have recovered the bodies and carried out their burial.Partial list of victims 1. Bishaw Yirsaw 2. MItiku Bishaw 3. Belisti Yirsaw 4. Tewachew Asmare 5. Shegaw Chanie 6. Fentahun Bishaw 7. Aster 8. Tiblet 9. Zemen Gedefaye
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On December 25, 2021 #Worinka Kebele the #OLA terrorist group has abducted three women and a man. It’s reported the man has escaped and has reached Nekemt city. On the same date, a displaced senior man Ato Getachew Hassen was horrifically killed on his way to work on a farm.
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On Dec. 27, 2021, Ato Shega Hassen was attacked in #Worinka Kebele around a place called #Dalicha as he was trying to recover the body of Ato Getachew Hassen. The ENDF & the regional special forces were in the neighboring woreda #Sasiga when all these incidents took place.
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#GPE_AtrocityReport: Incident date: December 20, 2021, #Oromo Region #WestShoa Zone Ambo Zuria area, 10 ethnic Amharas were killed by the OLF/OLA Shanee armed group. The incident happened at 1 o'clock in the morning 10KM from Ambo city, close to the Wodessa Menkaka peasant 1/
association. It was reported that the victims were murdered execution style, they were dragged out of their houses, lined up and gunned down. The residents reported that early December, the armed group has killed a resident by the name Amsal and told his compatriots that they 2/
need to be prepared to pay 200,000 ETB each. Other residents have reported that it is has been more than a year since the group has been sending ultimatums to Amhara residents to leave the woreda or face death. 3/
...April 22, 2021 (Miyazia 14, 2013 EC) at approximately 4 am local time, three people including a man, his child daughter and another child were killed as local militias locked them in their home and set it on fire burning all three inside under gruesome circumstances.
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#GPE has obtained disturbing photographic evidence of their burned remains.
Names of the decedents are as follows:
1. Mr. Adam Hassen (father) 2. Hawa Adam (daughter) 3. Zewdia Fetene (neighbor’s child)
Residents also reported the militias opened fire on civilians...
In #Gidy_Ayana Woreda (district), Misraq (East) #Wollega/#Wellega/#Welega zone, #Oromia region, we received reports of shootings at ethnic #Amhara residents starting from 1:00 am local time. Credible reports...
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...reveal militamen of the #Oromo Liberation Front/Army (#OLF/#OLA) in collusion with regional officials & other collaborators have opened fire on ethnic #Amhara civilians in Village 10 of the district. Residents have stated that these groups who are bent on mayhem...
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...& destruction, are destroying storehouses & private residences.
After the withdrawal of the #Ethiopia|n National Defense Force (#ENDF) on April 7, 2021 (Megabit 29, 2013 EC), there were reports of stoning of residences belonging to ethnic #Amhara beginning on the...
#GPE_AtrocityReport: March 30, 2021, #Babu Woreda, #Wellega, #Oromo Region #Ethiopia. A coordinated attack by OLF/OLA and Oromo regional forces against targeted ethnic Amharas left 70 Amhara farmers dead. No one has ever been made accountable for these heinous crimes against 1/E
humanity. Local reporters have stated that 27 buses full of fleeing Amharas left Wollega already. Such mass exodus out of an area just because they are targeted due to their identity is a horrible indicator to what is to come, as the fighters are more emboldened, organized 2/E
We have received news from residents in Horo Guduru #Wellega that armed militias of the (1/E)
#Oromo Liberation Front (#OLF) have continued targeted killings of ethnic #Amhara across the region. Credible reports have emerged detailing a disturbing wedding massacre in which militiamen of the OLF converged onto a local wedding gathering killing all attendees except one(2/E)
elderly woman that survived the horrific incident by hiding under a family member’s dead body. All attendees including the bride, groom and 8 of their family members were all slaughtered in this horrific massacre.
Many sources have also reported that #OLF militia have been(3/E)
#GPE has been closely monitoring the unfolding situation in #Ethiopia.
The question of accountability for crimes committed is being posed not just by #Ethiopia/ns but also the world and with time, the truth will be revealed. #GPE also believes sexual violence against women(1/E)
must be unequivocally opposed by all #Ethiopia/ns.
Local authorities and administration at all levels must take measures to immediately stop all forms of violence against women in #Tigray. Any suffering inflicted upon women and children is no indication of victory but rather(2/E)
of a country’s fall.
Protection of civilians must be a top priority as long as there is believed to be an active threat to their safety. #Ethiopia has become a place where female students are kidnapped from their schools and murdered. Even now, under the cover of war, (3/E)