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In December 2006, Ethiopia invaded Somalia to oust the Islamic Courts Union (ICU). An armed engagement occurred as a result of Ethiopian military occupation between the Islamic militant groups and the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) peacekeepers in the next two years, leading to the formation of Al-Shabaab, serving as the wing of ICU.
The Gimbi massacre is the deadliest massacre in the West Welega Zone of Ethiopia in recent years, and was harshly criticized by the Ethiopian government. Witnesses told Human Rights Watch (HRW) that the perpetrators spoke Oromo and some had a distinctive hairstyle common among OLA fighters.
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]
Map illustrating the Ethiopian civil conflict as of 2022; included are al-Shabaab attacks, the Tigray war zone, and the redeployment of federal troops from the southeast to the north. Somali Region officials claimed that the al-Shabaab invaders had planned to advance up to Oromia to coordinate with the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA).
Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED) is a non-profit organization specializing in disaggregated conflict data collection, analysis, and crisis mapping. ACLED codes the dates, actors, locations, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and demonstration events around the world in real time.
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 .
About Category:Terrorist incidents in Ethiopia and related categories The scope of this category includes pages whose subjects relate to terrorism , a contentious label . Value-laden labels —such as calling an organization and/or individual a terrorist—may express contentious opinion and are best avoided unless widely used by reliable ...
The killings continued through 2021, with people being tortured, tied up and thrown in the Tekeze River. The Italian weekly magazine Panorama published a graphic video in which Amhara soldiers killed a group of 9 people in Humera in August 2021 and then set fire to their bodies. The video also shows torturing of one man by Amhara soldiers, then ...