AMHARA STATE OF EMERGENCY!!!

GENOCIDAL WAR HAS BEEN DECLARED ON AMHARA PEOPLE

BY THE FASCIST ORMO-LED REGIME OF ABIY AHMED ALI

April 30th, 2023

On April 27th, 2023, Amhara Professional Union along with many Ethiopians heard the shocking news of the killing of yet another high official in the Amhara regional government, Ato Girma Yeshitela. Minutes after the news of the attempted assassination was broadcast (by Ethio-360 a US based non state affiliated media), Abiy Ahmed Ali quickly posted on his social media the confirmation of the assassination in a very conspicuous way. Additionally in that same post he placed blame and motivation on the Amhara people as a whole and vowed to eliminate those he accused. This is unprecedented and dangerous for a so-called head of state to make such a declaration without any appropriate investigative evidence.

The timing, the place, and the circumstances of the latest assassination of an Amhara official and the assignment of blame to another group has become a signature killing pattern of Abiy Ahmed Ali that has played itself over and over in the country for the last five years.

For Abiy Ahmed as the regime's leader, public stoning, public clubbing, beheading, decapitating of Amharas, Gurages, Gamos, Gedeos, Gambellans, Somalis, and other ethnic groups by his Oromo extremist group has neither been his concern nor worth mourning, yet even before any credible investigation was made available, he went on blaming others and threatening annihilation.

In the days and weeks leading to this latest killing, Abiy Ahmed Ali and his Army Chief of Staff have both been inciting violence on Amhara Fanos and Amhara Special Forces whom they exploited at will during the two-year-old war with the TPLF.

This assassination of an Amhara official comes after the extremist and ultranationalist Oromo-led Abiy Ahmed Ali's regime has completed the final preparation to execute the continued genocide (Ethiopia's Final Solution) at full scale on Amharas. Abiy Ahmed Ali's trip to Nekemte Welega on April 19th, 2023 extensively discussed in Amharic language in the following link (በመጨረሻም አብይ አመነ ስልጣኑ ተናገረ ፡ ብርሃኑ ጁላ ሳይውል ሳያደር ተጋለጡ ፡ የባህርዳሩ ዝግ ስብሰባ ፡ የነቀምቴው ስብሰባ - YouTube) was intended to consolidate his Oromo forces for his planned annihilation of the Amhara people. Media reports have revealed that he told the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) contingent in Welega that he needs them to support his all-out final push to make the Amhara region irrelevant. In addition, he threatened that if they do not cooperate, the drones intended for Bahir Dar will target Welega. After his return he gave direct orders to the invading Oromo commanders to begin the operation in the Amhara region, including shooting and killing all resistance.

The Amhara Professional Union is calling on the Amhara People to invoke the recognized and morally justified natural right: Universal Right to Self Defense. All Amharas should be prepared to stand their ground and resist against the extremist Oromo forces, which have been deployed under the guise of Centralized Ethiopian National Defense Forces. These Oromo paramilitaries have been given army uniforms and are poised to shoot and kill any and all Amharas who stand in their way. These are the same Oromo forces (OLA, OSF, OLF) who have been massacring innocent Amhara women, children and families in Shashemene, Arsi, Ataye, Metekel, Shewa Robit, Horo Guduru, and many other places as referenced in detail in many documents such as HRW Tole Massacre, Keeremu welega Amhara Massacre, AAA Amhara Massacres Report, AAA Complaint against GoE Centre for Human Rights. In our previous documentations, we have repeatedly stated the above indiscriminate massacre which are also supported by undisputed proof through NGOs such as Genocide Prevention in Ethiopia (GPE), Amhara Association of America (AAA) in the diaspora, various other credible media sources, and even by the regime’s own Council of Human Rights.

In recent weeks the demolition of thousands of Amhara houses around Addis Abeba, the relentless ethnic profiling and mass incarceration of Amhara journalists, scholars, business people and any Amhara who the regime deems undesirable, is a clear indication of the ethnic cleansing and genocidal actions of the failed regime and the regime’s attempts to stay in power by all means necessary or to realize the establishment/formation of Oromo only ethnic country (AAA: Amhara Journalists profiles & arrested, Disappearances of Amharas in Addis Ababa, GPE: OLF Atrocity in Amhara Region). [this will further plunge the entire region into even more chaos]

The ethnic regime has declared Amharas as obstacles and eternal enemies. It has declared a genocidal war under a disguise of peace. One of the primary driving forces is the Anti-Semitic ideology of Oromo ultranationalist groups as expressed in this article OLF's Anti Semitism. We caution all collaborators (internal or external) with this genocidal fascist regime in any form (financial, or military assistance) to become aware of their direct or indirect participation in crimes against humanity.

The Amhara Professionals Union:

Calls for the regime to immediately release all political prisoners, journalists, Amhara businesspeople, human right advocates, and other prisoners of conscience.
Calls on every Amhara in Ethiopia to stand their ground and to resist against the open genocide war waged on them.
Calls on Amharas worldwide to immediately put into motion the Remittance Reduction campaign.
Calls on all peace seeking countries and institutions to engage with Amhara leaders and organizations such as the Amhara Association of America (AAA), International Amhara Movement (iAM) and local Amhara associations to bring about lasting peace.
Asks the international community and friends of Ethiopia to open direct dialogue with the leaders of the over 2 million Amhara diaspora and the over 55 million strong Amhara people, through the Amhara People Negotiation Delegation (APND); Link Statement by APND.
Calls on those who wish to see a stable region and a democratic Ethiopia to reconsider their misplaced support for groups such as the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and Oromo Prosperity Party (OPP). • Calls on international humanitarian organizations to provide urgent humanitarian aid to millions of Amhara IDPs displaced from the so-called Oromia region.
Calls on independent organizations to investigate the alarmingly high genocide against Amharas in Ethiopia for the last 30 years, which has intensified during Abiy Ahmed’s regime.

Amhara Professionals Union condemns the regimes terrorism, genocide, assassination of officials, and the blaming of non-related groups to impose dictatorship and failed ideological agendas on the people.