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WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 10: Members of the Washington DC Ethiopian community demonstrate outside of the U.S. State Department to protest attacks by the Ethiopian government on ethnic Amharas and the Amhara region in Ethiopia on August 10, 2023, in Washington, DC.  (Photo by J. Countess/Getty Images)

Ethiopian forces killed ‘at least 45 civilians’

The killings followed months of clashes between Ethiopia’s military and a Amhara militia known as Fano

File photo: Members of the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) are seen on a truck in Shewa Robit, Ethiopia, on December 05, 2021. (Photo by Amanuel Sileshi / AFP) (Photo by AMANUEL SILESHI/AFP via Getty Images)

Ethiopian forces implicated in Amhara war crimes

Footage filmed in Debre Markos appears to show Ethiopian troops executing two unarmed individuals

In November, a peace deal was signed between the government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), ending a civil war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. Photo: Supplied

The war in Ethiopia is not over

The government and Tigrayan politicians signed a peace deal but for minority groups there is little choice but to keep fighting

People react as captive Ethiopian soldiers walk towards Mekele Rehabilitation Center in Mekele, the capital of Tigray region, Ethiopia, on July 2, 2021. (Photo by Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP)

TPLF rebels announce retreat towards Ethiopia’s Tigray

The move marks a major reversal by the rebels, who previously dismissed the government’s insistence on their withdrawal from Afar and Amhara as “an absolute non-starter” for…

A man stands in front of his destroyed house in the village of Bisober in Ethiopia’s Tigray region (Photo: Eduardo Soteras/AFP via Getty Images)

UN denies Sudan refugee camps used as bolthole for Tigray rebels

Last month Sudan recalled its ambassador to Ethiopia, saying Addis Ababa had spurned its efforts to broker a ceasefire in the Tigray conflict.

Members of the Amhara Special Forces seat on the top of a truck in the city of Alamata, Ethiopia, on December 11, 2020. (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP)

Open Letter: Ethiopia needs a political — not a military — solution to end the devastating civil war

Retributive justice merely leads to generational cycles of violence. And the civilians continue to be subjected to rape, torture, death and illegal detentions

People walk in the street in the city of Gondar, on November 09, 2020. (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP)

Ethiopia is about to cross the point of no return

As the conflict between the national government and Tigray escalates, the window for intervention is closing fast