Anti-Amhara sentiment

Anti-Amhara sentiment was existed throughout late 19th and 20th century during the Ethiopian Empire. Amharan hegemony is viewed by some beliefs that posit anti-egalitarian apart from African classical ideologues, and territorial expansions demonstrate "cultural imperialism" that imposed religion and customs on other ethnic identity.{{Cite book |last1=Pye |first1=Lucian W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hBDWCgAAQBAJ&dq=anti+amhara+sentiment&pg=PA247 |title=Political Culture and Political Development |last2=Verba |first2=Sidney |date=2015-12-08 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-7532-0 |page=247 |language=en}} The spread of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church has been an influence of anti-Amhara persecutions.{{Cite web |last=Davies |first=Lindsey |date=2017-10-25 |title=Who are the Amhara? |url=https://eu.aimint.org/amharanov2017/ |access-date=2023-08-23 |website=Africa Inland Mission (Europe) |language=en-US}} Many Oromo elites and revolutionaries see Amhara as a "colonizer" that subjugated and exploited Oromo people from their land.{{Cite book |last=Lewis |first=I. M. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uDdyAAAAMAAJ&q=anti+amhara+sentiment |title=Nationalism & Self Determination in the Horn of Africa |date=1983 |publisher=Ithaca Press |isbn=978-0-903729-93-2 |language=en}} Arsi Oromos accepted Islam in large demonstration of anti-Amhara sentiment and rejected associated values and norms.{{Cite book |last=Benti |first=Ujulu Tesso |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xu6MDwAAQBAJ&dq=anti+amhara+sentiment&pg=PA128 |title=Oromo Indigenous Religion and Oromo Christianity: Contradictory or Compatible? A Comparative Religious Study from a Theological Perspective |date=2018-05-31 |publisher=Georg Olms Verlag |isbn=978-3-487-15687-3 |language=en}} Eritrean secessionist during the Eritrean War of Independence also expressed anti-Amhara sentiment.{{Cite book |last=Baker |first=Bruce |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HrT1u6yrDrAC&dq=anti+amhara+sentiment&pg=PA91 |title=Escape from Domination in Africa: Political Disengagement & Its Consequences |date=2000 |publisher=James Currey |isbn=978-0-85255-838-6 |language=en}} The relations between Amhara nationalist and Eritrea in the Tigray War is mutualistic cooperation in present-day; both Amharan regional armies and local militias, and Eritrean National Defense Forces involved an intervention in Tigray Region.{{Cite web |last=Insight |first=Ethiopia |date=2023-03-08 |title=Uncertainty in the Horn as a wary Eritrea seeks new alliances |url=https://www.ethiopia-insight.com/2023/03/08/uncertainty-in-the-horn-as-a-wary-eritrea-seeks-new-alliances/ |access-date=2023-08-23 |website=Ethiopia Insight |language=en-US}} During the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, the Italians used anti-Amhara rhetoric to undermine Ethiopia by portraying it as a "colonial state". Birhanu Bitew wrote that such views persists to current Ethiopian ethnic politics, promoting violence and damaging the Ethiopian state.{{Cite journal |last=Bitew Geremew |first=Birhanu |date=2023-01-04 |title=The Tragedy of Colonialism in a Non-Colonised Society: Italy's Historical Narratives and the Amhara Genocide in Ethiopia |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00219096221147002 |journal=Journal of Asian and African Studies |volume=59 |issue=6 |language=en |pages=1892–1907 |doi=10.1177/00219096221147002 |s2cid=255728651 |issn=0021-9096|url-access=subscription }} It is also evident that the Somalis, who were waged resistance against Haile Selassie regime, demonstrated anti-Amhara sentiment, and more broadly, they expressed during the British rule.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gHgMAQAAMAAJ&q=anti+amhara+sentiment |title=Northeast African Studies |date=1991 |publisher=African Studies Center, Michigan State University |language=en}}

The post-1991 EPRDF regime was led by ethnic Tigrayans and Amharas are systematically persecuted. The Tigrayan-ruled TPLF regime has been viewed as a reprisal of the Ethiopian Empire and Derg regimes, which were ruled majority by ethnic Amharas.{{Cite book |last1=Plaut |first1=Martin |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NLWtEAAAQBAJ&dq=anti+amhara+sentiment&pg=PT83 |title=Understanding Ethiopia's Tigray War |last2=Vaughan |first2=Sarah |date=2023-02-16 |publisher=Hurst Publishers |isbn=978-1-80526-063-9 |language=en}} During this period, Amharas are targeted to false accusation as a former oppressor in the imperial rule in veil of ethnic diversity.{{Cite web |last=Account |date=2023-08-19 |title=Amharas: The New Tutsi? State-Sponsored Genocide of the Amhara People |url=https://borkena.com/2023/08/19/amharas-the-new-tutsi-state-sponsored-genocide-of-the-amhara-people/ |access-date=2023-08-23 |website=Borkena Ethiopian News |language=en-US}} The recognition of Welkait to Amhara led fierce violence. In 2016, the Welkait Committee members arrested and tortured after petitioning the Welkait question to Amhara. Zafie Atalay, a testimony told in 2020 interview that "Now it is worse than before. You cannot speak Amharic at all, you cannot have Amharic songs on your phone or flash drive, you cannot display the national flag without the EPRDF symbol; you cannot wear the shirt of the Gondar football club Fasil Kenema. You risk your life simply being Amhara."

During Abiy Ahmed administration, most of Amharas resented to his party who attempted to disarm Fano militia in April 2023.{{Cite web |title=Ethiopia's new rift: Amhara vs Abiy |url=https://www.theafricareport.com/210237/ethiopias-new-rift-amhara-vs-abiy/ |access-date=2023-08-23 |website=The Africa Report.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Account |date=2023-08-17 |title=Abiy Ahmed's War of Terrorism to Eradicate Amhara is Genocide-why the international community cannot sit idle |url=https://borkena.com/2023/08/17/ethiopia-abiy-ahmeds-war-of-terrorism-to-eradicate-amhara-is-genocide/ |access-date=2023-08-23 |website=Borkena Ethiopian News |language=en-US}} Numerous massacres against Amhara civilians took place during Abiy's administration, notably in Oromia Zone in Amhara Region, Mai Kadra and West Welega Zone.{{Cite web |date=2020-11-02 |title=Armed group attacked village killing ethnic Amharas, destroying homes |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2020/11/ethiopia-over-50-ethnic-amhara-killed-in-attack-on-village-by-armed-group/ |access-date=2023-08-23 |website=Amnesty International |language=en}} The Mai Kadra massacre went mainstream phenomena where the Tigray Defense Forces committed war crime against 600 Amhara civilians.{{Cite news |date=2021-06-07 |title=How ethnic killings exploded from an Ethiopian town |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ethiopia-conflict-expulsions/ |access-date=2023-08-23}}

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