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‘They Set Everything On Fire’: The Paramilitary Forces Killing People They’re Meant to Protect

Ethiopia’s state-backed Amhara region security forces are attacking people in their own region. The resulting violence has displaced thousands.

Rehima Bushra, a 28-year-old single mother, is just grateful to be alive. In mid-March, ethnic tensions in her hometown in northern Ethiopia boiled over and led to days of armed clashes. Hundreds died and more were rendered homeless after fighters set houses and businesses ablaze.

“During Ramadan, we are to thank Allah for our blessings,” Rehima told VICE World News from her sister’s home in Ethiopia’s South Wollo district in the country’s Amhara region. Her own home, she said, was among those burnt down by uniformed assailants. “But at least we have roofs over our heads. So many others do not.”

Tens of thousands of people like Rehima and her children have been displaced from their homes by fighting between ethnic factions that erupted in Ethiopia’s Amhara region. The Ethiopian army deployed soldiers to calm tensions, but VICE World News spoke to 11 residents in the area who say that it was in fact uniformed members of the government-backed Amhara regional security forces who were behind much of the carnage and destruction over the past six weeks. Several residents said that as a result, they have been forced to shelter at makeshift camps after members of the paramilitary set their homes alight. In response, retaliatory attacks over the course of the following weeks led to more bloodshed, fomenting divisions among the ethnic Amhara and Oromo communities in the area.

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Written by TPLF OLF Zecharias Zelelam

By the way Kemise is not south wollo or wollo at all the Oromos abandoned wollo in the 90s due to some narrow minded supremacist indoctrination by OLF, Amhara did not burn one Oromo house in kemise galla can make fake news all they want if you want to see burned homes visit Ataye karakore Shewa Robit Oromos burned 400,000 Amhara homes mostly in Semien Shewa because they know Semien Shewa Amharas are not properly protected by the ENDF or ASF

Amhara Liyu Hayl has no culture of burning homes they are instead attacked by narrow minded Oromo supremacists because Oromo supremacists want to kill Amhara people the Liyu Hayl are just in the way for well organized angry fascistic brainwashed Oromo Serial killers

I’m pretty sure the people burning homes were the Oromo militias Shanes and ENDF that mistaken fellow Oromos as Amharas anyways the state of beta Amhara renamed to debub wollo and north Shewa are ancient the kereyu Oromo occupied and settled on bits of the Amhara Afari border in 17th century they are troublemakers even afar hate their guts deep down that fake weyane made zone is argobba ethnic afar ethnic and Amhara ethnic none of it belongs to troublemakers