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Ethiopian National Defense Force (per Associated Press, Agence France-Presse) [6] [7] 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 ...
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.
The Ethiopian Empire used a coronation ritual for its emperors. The last such event was held on 2 November 1930, for Haile Selassie , the final Emperor of Ethiopia . Heavily influenced by Ethiopia's Oriental Orthodox Christian tradition, preparation for the coronation ceremony commenced seven days prior to the actual event.
Ethiopian National Defence Force Eritrea; Metekel massacre: 22–23 December 2020 Bikuji, Benishangul-Gumuz: 142+ Gumuz militiamen; Oromo Liberation Army [39] [40] [41] Debre Abbay massacre: 5–6 January 2021 Debre Abbay, Tigray: 40 Ethiopian National Defence Force: Kola Tembien February 2021 massacres: February 10, 2021: Kola Tembien, Tigray 182
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]
Birhan Woldu (born 1981) is an Ethiopian who, as a child during the 1983-1985 Ethiopian famine, appeared in video footage taken while she was starving and close to death. The footage was shown at Live Aid in 1985.
A debtera (or dabtara; [1] Ge'ez/Tigrinya/Amharic: ደብተራ (Däbtära); plural, Ge'ez\Tigrinya: debterat, Amharic: debtrawoch [2]) is an itinerant religious figure in the Ethiopian and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Churches, [3] and the Beta Israel, [4] who sings hymns and dances for churchgoers, and who performs exorcisms and white magic to aid the congregation.
On 19 March 2021, in a video by Channel 4 News posted on Channel4.com, Jamal Osman promised to present a report on the Axum massacre. He estimated a lower number of casualties than those in other reports, stating, "The international community talked about, [what] had happened in Axum, where 43 people were killed.