The Amhara Association of America (AAA) has verified that between May 29 and June 2, 2024, Abiy regime soldiers (Ethiopian National Defense Forces), in collusion with the Oromia Special Forces and militant groups like Qeerro and Gachna-Sirna, carried out an ethnic-based massacre killing over 21 Amhara residents and detaining an additional 20 civilians in various kebeles of Abe-Dongoro Woreda in Horo Guduru Wollega Zone of Oromia Region in Ethiopia.

The Amhara Association of America (AAA) has documented ongoing identity-based persecution of ethnic Amhara residents including extrajudicial killing, inhumane treatment of detainees in remote facilities and arbitrary arrests between May 16th and 23rd, 2024 in various parts of Ethiopia.

AAA ) has verified that following a visit to Wolkite town by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on April 20th, 2024, arbitrary arrests and illegal detentions of Amhara residents have followed in Wolkite town and surrounding areas of Gurage Zone of Central Ethiopia Region. Among the targets of the arrest campaign are politically active young adult men, public officials and civil servants of Amhara ethnic identity including individuals with ties to the National Movement of Amhara (NaMA) party.

AAA has learned of a new wave of identity-based profiling and mass arrests carried out by Oromo Prosperity Party(OPP) regime security forces in Addis Ababa city, Ethiopia. Since late March through to early May 2024 the new wave of arrests has targeted ethnic Amhara residents and prominent leaders and scholars affiliated to the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC).

The Amhara Association of America (AAA) has undertaken a human rights investigation of reported massacres in Qota town of Amaya Woreda and Silkamba town of Nono Woreda (West Shewa Zone, Oromia Region, Ethiopia). Accordingly, AAA has verified that between April 4 and 8, 2024, Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) militants massacred more than 34 civilian Amharas and looted their belongings.