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  2. Mai Kadra massacre - Wikipedia

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    The Mai Kadra massacre was a massacre and ethnic cleansing carried out during the Tigray War on 9–10 November 2020 in the town of Mai Kadra in Welkait (a disputed area between the Amhara and Tigray Regions) in northwestern Ethiopia, near the Sudanese border. [11]

  3. Persecution of Amhara people - Wikipedia

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    The Persecution of Amhara people [8] is the ongoing persecution of the Amhara and Agaw people of Ethiopia.Since the early 1990s, the Amhara people have been subject to ethnic violence, including massacres by Tigrayan, Oromo and Gumuz ethnic groups among others, which some have characterized as a genocide.

  4. List of massacres in Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    Ethiopia 10,000–980,000 Derg: Wukro air raid: 8 April–3 May 1988 Wukro, Tigray: 176 Derg [8] Hawzen massacre: 22 June 1988 Hawzen, Tigray: 2,500 Derg [9]

  5. Fasika - Wikipedia

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    Jesus' crucifixion which led to his death on a Friday, according to Orthodox thought was for the purpose of fulfilling the word of God, and led to the conquest of death and Jesus' resurrection from the tomb after three days, the third day being the Sunday when Ethiopian Easter is celebrated. Fasika is a climactic celebration.

  6. Axum massacre - Wikipedia

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    Eritrean human rights campaigners, such as Vanessa Tsehaye, [24] have contributed to the Amnesty International report titled "Ethiopia: The Massacre in Axum". Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report on the massacre on 5 March 2021, based on interviews with 28 witnesses and survivors and the analysis of videos. HRW attributed the massacre to ...

  7. Capital punishment in Ethiopia - Wikipedia

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    The death sentence was approved by President Girma Wolde-Giorgis. Death penalty also occurred prior in the Eritrean–Ethiopian War in 1998, when the government executed Eritrean businessman for the shooting of a popular Ethiopian general. [10] [9] Ethiopia opposes the UN General Assembly memorandum on the use of death penalty. [11]

  8. Arwe - Wikipedia

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    Arwe (Ge’ez: አርዌ), also known as Wainaba, in Ethiopian mythology, is a serpent-king who rules for four hundred years before being destroyed by the founder of the Solomonic dynasty. His story comes in a number of versions, all of which have him as a tyrannical ruler who demands sacrifice.

  9. Mingi - Wikipedia

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    Mingi is the traditional belief among the South Omotic-speaking Karo and Hamar peoples of southern Ethiopia that children with perceived and true physical abnormalities are ritually impure. An example of perceived abnormalities include the top teeth erupting before bottom teeth.