ETHIOPIA - HUMANITARIAN UPDATE
26 Jun 2022
United Nations OCHA published an informative humanitarian update on June 27, 2022 detailing the humanitarian situation across Ethiopia. AAA is thankful to UNOCHA for its efforts & has extracted several passages which highlight the ongoing plight of Amharas in Ethiopia due to war, genocidal violence & natural causes:
A press release by the U.S. State Department regarding the genocidal act committed in June 18th by OLA.
20 Jun 2022
The United States is gravely concerned by reported killings of civilians in the Amhara community of the Oromia Region of Ethiopia this weekend. We mourn for the victims and extend our sincerest condolences to survivors and all those who lost loved ones in this horrific act.
Locals in Ethiopia’s Oromia ‘Waiting to Die’ After Latest Mass Killing
19 Jun 2022
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA — Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has condemned the killing of more than 200 people, most of them ethnic Amhara, in the eastern Oromia region. Locals have blamed the killings Saturday on the rebel Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), which has denied responsibility.
UPDATE 2-Attack in Ethiopia's Oromiya region kills at least 260 -residents
19 Jun 2022
ADDIS ABABA, June 20 (Reuters) - An attack by gunmen in Ethiopia’s western Oromiya region left at least 260 civilians dead on Saturday, according to two residents who gave detailed accounts on Monday of how they had taken part in burying corpses in mass graves.