Brigadier General Tefera Mamo did not return home after leaving Addis Ababa, according to his wife Menen Haile.
Ms. Menen talks about her husband on Monday, May 17, 2022. Tefera Mamo who left his home around 11:00 Pm said he had an appointment with a friend. After that, he repeatedly called on his cell phones, but they did not answer.
Gen. Tefera previously served as head of the Amhara Regional State Peace and Security Bureau and most recently as commander of the region's Special Forces. After that, her husband said that he did not know what had happened.
After leaving the Amhara Regional State Special Forces, General Tefera Momo appeared in various media outlets to comment. He added that they have been searching for various possible security and security agencies and are continuing their search.
Gen. Tefera Mamo is married and the father of four children. "He is accustomed to his detention and disappeared. We are concerned about his health," his wife said.
Neither the federal nor Addis Ababa police have yet commented on the general's disappearance.
He has been serving in various capacities since the administration of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power.
(ESAT quotes BBC)
It has become customary under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s
administration, especially in recent months, to kidnap critical voices
including journalists.
Gobeze Sisay,
an Ethiopian Journalist, was kidnapped from his residence on May 3and
held incommunicado for well over a week until he was released on May 9.
A study involving 10 university presidents and researchers was unveiled today.
According to a press release issued by the study, Tafere Melaku, President of Debre Markos University and President of the Universities Forum in the Amhara Region, said the study covered human, psychological and material issues.
He said the summary of the study included eight zones that were destroyed during the occupation by the terrorist group.
According to the study, a total of 828,862 people were directly injured. Of those injured, 409,178 were women.
In addition to the psychological trauma, 24,236 people were injured in various ways.
Innocents who were not directly involved in the fighting were reportedly killed, beaten, raped, and otherwise injured.
The number of abducted and unaccounted for is 7,460.
A total of 1,782 women were reported raped.
Regarding material damage: The study states that the invading group caused significant damage to family assets, governmental and non-governmental organizations, organizations and infrastructure.
It is estimated to be worth more than 288 billion birr.
It is estimated that more than 9 billion birr damage was caused to houses and properties.
The study included damage to education, health facilities, and other facilities.
However, there are indications that some federal institutions in the region have been damaged due to data collection problems.
The results of this study showed that the study team did not include areas still under the control of the invading group.
According to the Amhara Media Corporation (AMIC), the five-month study involved Amhara regional universities, the regional government and the Central Statistics Agency.
The fact that the terrorist TPLF is preparing for another invasion proves that it has not learned from its mistakes and will continue to be anti-people.
Agegnehu Teshagere - The Speaker of the House of Federation
The Speaker of the House of Federation met with the Speaker of the House of Federation on May 6, 2014.
He also called on the international community to put an end to the inhumane acts of the terrorist group to prevent humanitarian access to the people of Tigray State.
The Speaker of the House met him and crossed over; During a meeting with ENA on current affairs, he said the terrorist TPLF was trying to thwart real change in the struggle of the people, saying "Ethiopia is not the only one to be destroyed".
He noted that the terrorist group was clearly preparing for a new war and that international journalists were exposing it, adding that "I will go to hell to destroy Ethiopia."
He also said that the TPLF is preparing for a ceasefire to ensure that humanitarian aid and agriculture are not disrupted.
He noted that the government was providing humanitarian assistance in the Amhara, Afar and Tigray states, but that the terrorist group had intervened on several occasions.
He said the government is committed to making international humanitarian assistance accessible.
However, the TPLF is publicly declaring that it is preparing for another invasion of neighboring Tigray states, and international journalists are also exposing it, he said.
Thus, he said, the terrorist group has repeatedly learned from its mistakes and is continuing its anti-people activities.
He said seed and fertilizer supply is being made available to farmers in war-torn areas. In Tigray, however, the terrorist TPLF continues to be an obstacle to its agricultural and humanitarian activities.
He said the terrorist TPLF was forcing people from children to the elderly to go to war in Tigray, adding that the international community should oppose and openly condemn the act.
He said the international community should support the government's efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to the people of Tigray State.
The humanitarian situation in Western Oromia has further deteriorated in 2022 due to intensified hostilities and inter-communal violence. Reportedly, some 500,000 people have been recently displaced in the sub-region, including thousands displaced multiple times from Kamashi zone (Benishangul Gumuz Region, BGR) since 2018, who are unable to return to their place of origin due to insecurity. Aid workers, mostly Ethiopian nationals, continue working to deliver humanitarian assistance in a volatile environment where humanitarian principles are continuously challenged. In 2022, partners have come under increased security threats, including two shooting incidents, various harassment, temporary detention, and forceful commandeering of their vehicles.
Western Oromia Access Map by UNOCHA
Addis Abeba: The humanitarian situation in Western Oromia has further deteriorated in 2022 due to intensified hostilities and inter-communal violence. Reportedly, some 500,000 people have been recently displaced in the sub-region, including thousands displaced multiple times from Kamashi zone (Benishangul Gumuz Region, BGR) since 2018, who are unable to return to their place of origin due to insecurity. Aid workers, mostly Ethiopian nationals, continue working to deliver humanitarian assistance in a volatile environment where humanitarian principles are continuously challenged. In 2022, partners have come under increased security threats, including two shooting incidents, various harassment, temporary detention, and forceful commandeering of their vehicles.
global acute malnutrition (GAM) rates among children under five years old have risen to 22 percent, and among pregnant and lactating women to 42 percent
UNOCHA
In 2018-2020, inter-communal violence between Oromo and Gumuz (BGR) communities as well as hostilities between security forces and armed groups impacted humanitarian access mainly in West and Kellem Wollega zones. Since 2021, clashes have expanded to East and Horo Guduru Wollegas as well as to North, West, South-west and East Shewa zones, prompting forced displacements within Oromia and into Amhara region. Further, insecurity has impacted partners’ movements along the Addis Abeba – Ambo – Nekemte road and into Assosa, impending the movement of supplies and fuel for relief operations to thousands of IDPs and refugees in Assosa and Mao Komo Special Woreda (BGR). On the other hand, some areas in Kellem Wollega that were hard to reach for years have now become accessible, and access to southern parts of East Wollega has improved.
The humanitarian response is severely impacted by a combination of access restrictions, inadequate funding, and limited partners’ presence. Subsequently, global acute malnutrition (GAM) rates among children under five years old have risen to 22 percent, and among pregnant and lactating women to 42 percent (source: Rapid Nutrition Assessment). Meanwhile, partners report not being able to distribute nutrition items – particularly high-energy biscuits – in certain areas due to security considerations, which is restricting the impact of the nutrition response. Insecurity is forcing partners to restrict activities along main roads, away from rural areas, which limits the number of people reached, leaving thousands of IDPs without assistance in Horo Gudru Wollega and those who moved back from Kamashi (BGR) and who have not been registered until now.
The population’s access to essential services such as education, healthcare or water and sanitation in recent years has been highly compromised because of violence and the destruction of existing infrastructure. Through Western Oromia, 426 health facilities are reportedly non-functional due to looting and destruction. In East Wollega, 144 schools remain closed and over 62,000 children out-of-school. Similarly, in West Wollega, 184 schools are closed and 89,000 students out of school. Partners are unable to re-stock essential health and nutrition supplies due to insecurity and other restrictions. Access to markets from rural areas is hindered, while woreda centers are facing shortages of essential supplies due to road blockage. Food deliveries to the affected population are intermittent and incomplete due to a combination of insecurity and budgetary/logistical challenges faced by authorities. Partners are considering ways to ensure food aid is delivered to remote locations.
Aid workers continue to operate in a high-risk environment often undergoing serious threats and risks such as intimidation, harassment, attacks on ambulances and medical missions. In recent months, Western Oromia has also experiencing a rise in criminal activity, with several incidents of abductions and carjacking reported, particularly along the Ambo-Nekemte Road. Dispatch
The truth about Fano (militia) and the false accusations against it
Eastern Fano
(Lij Tedla Melaku Worede)
Articles in biased international newspapers have accused the Amhara Fano militia of committing massacres of ethnic others. Fano's description on Wikipedia has also become a subject of controversy where arbitrary and dishonest descriptions of Fano painting it as a genocidal group have aroused controversy and fury as the Wikipedia page was locked to prevent any corrections or editing. The Wikipedia article, rather than fairly and justly explaining the history, ideology, and contexts of Fano's struggle, focuses on criminalizing the group in what seems to build a case to globally defame and neutralize it, associating it with massacres that were committed by opposing forces.
For example, in the Wikipedia article, Fano is described as having been accused of the Mai Kadra Massacre. The article itself admits that the Mai Kadra massacre was committed by TPLF's Tigrayan forces -- who invaded the Amhara region and occupied it for months while committing rapes, massacres, and atrocities -- and cites sources accusing local Tigrayan forces of targeting and massacring Amhara civilians. The statement in the article that the Fano militia is accused of participating in the Mai Kadra massacre is baseless, lacking any source, and intended to shift the blame and attention from the Tigrayan forces that committed the massacre. What's even more baffling is that the TDF (Tigrayan Defense Force) on Wikipedia, though having committed atrocities in Amhara, is described as a heroic freedom fighter without any mention of its crimes against humanity, which Fano was mobilized to resist and protect Amhara civilians from.
In that same (Wikipedia) article, Fano is accused of committing massacres on the Qemant ethnic group. But the context and reality were that there was, and still is, an armed group known as the Qemant Committee based in the Amhara region and allied to the TPLF and OLF (anti-Amhara armed ethnic organizations) that declared its struggle for freedom with a vision to create a Qemant ethnic state by dissolving the Amhara region and thus committing violent attacks and atrocities on ethnic Amharas. The Fano Amhara militia engaged in armed struggle against the Qemant Committee to resist the atrocious crimes that were committed, with TPLF's assistance, on Amhara people in the region. The Wikipedia article and other publications have falsely--and intently--mispresented Fano's resistance for its own survival as a massacre of ethnic Qemants committed by Fano.
Other similar events have also been misconstrued to make believe that Fano is a genocidal ethnic militia force that commits atrocities on ethnic others. The history of Fano has also been intently distorted and misrepresented. Wikipedia states that Fano was created or birthed in the 2010s. But the truth is that Fano signifies Ethiopia's historical popular force, the same popular force that successfully resisted and defeated the Italian colonial forces at Adwa in 1896, and Mussolini's Fascist Italian forces in the 1930s.
The Amhara people urgently appeal that international media and newspapers make the necessary amends and correct course to clear Fano's name of the worldwide defamation campaigns against it propagated by TPLF and OLF sympathizers. Wikipedia must also remove content falsely accusing Fano of massacres and make the necessary corrections.
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