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Mistrust between the Amhara people and Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party heightened when Abiy Ahmed made the surprise decision to retreat from Tigray on July 1, 2021, leading to the TPLF aligned Tigray Defense Forces marching thorough cities in North Gonder, North Wollo, and Wag Hemra causing mass rape and destruction.
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.
Amhara may refer to: Amhara people, an ethnic group of Ethiopia; Amharic, a language spoken by the Amhara people; Bete Amhara, a lordship and later province of medieval Ethiopia; Amhara Province, a historical region of Ethiopia; Amhara Region, an administrative region of modern Ethiopia; Amhara, Bihar, India
Amharization is the process seeking to establish the dominance of Amhara traditions, culture and language above over ethnic groups in Ethiopia. During the Imperial rule, Amhara enjoyed greater influence, from imposing Amharic language and culture to dominating Ethiopian politics. Amhara elites also aspired to build Ethiopian nation.
The Amhara Region (Amharic: አማራ ክልል, romanized: Åmara Kilil), officially the Amhara National Regional State (Amharic: የአማራ ብሔራዊ ክልላዊ መንግሥት), [2] is a regional state in northern Ethiopia and the homeland of the Amhara, Awi, Xamir, Argobba, and Qemant people.
The spread of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church has been an influence of anti-Amhara persecutions. [6] Many Oromo elites and revolutionaries see Amhara as a "colonizer" that subjugated and exploited Oromo people from their land. [7] Arsi Oromos accepted Islam in large demonstration of anti-Amhara sentiment and rejected associated values and norms. [8]
The Ethiopian flag with no emblem is widely advocated by the Fano militia. Fano is an ethno-nationalist Amhara militia and former protest movement that first emerged in 2010s. . Ideologically Amhara nationalist and Pan-Ethiopianist, Fano has been engaged with several wars and civil conflicts in Ethiopia, and were a major belligerent in the Tigray War and the OLA insurgen
The All-Amhara People's Organization was created by Asrat Woldeyes in 1993 to try to limit the domination of Ethiopian politics by the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) that took power after the 1991 overthrow of the dictator Mengistu Haile-Mariam. [1]