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Documentation, research and advocacy for civilian protection in Ethiopia’s Amhara region.

In this issue  ·  No. 53  ·  October 2026 Last updated 26 October 2026

Investigations.

Each investigation here is a written report assembled from institutional sources, field documentation, and cross-source verification. Where the press cannot enter, we count, we read, and we record.

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Civilian protection

Wollega: an ongoing erasure.

Eight years of killings in the four Wollega zones of western Oromia, 2018 to 2026, and the investigation that never came. Numbered paragraphs, every figure tied to a source and graded by standard of proof.

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Church attacks

A drone strike on consecrated ground.

On 22 July 2026 a drone struck the St. Arsema Unity Monastery in South Wollo as nuns prepared food for worshippers — at least seven killed, most of them nuns and clergy. A developing record.

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Political prisoners

Voices behind the walls.

Eleven detained Amhara — a historian, journalists, physicians, elected officials, a party chairman — and the machinery of emergency law, capital charges and defied courts behind them.

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Education

Half the crisis, one region.

In Ethiopia, 9 million children are out of school. 4.4 million come from a single region. The structural anatomy of an educational collapse.

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Conflict-related sexual violence

Violence against women — a silent war crime.

The institutional record on the systematic use of sexual violence as a weapon of war — and the silence around it.

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02
Religious persecution

The oldest faith, the newest target.

Clergy killed, congregations ambushed, holy sites shelled — the Ethiopian Orthodox church, and the Amhara faithful, as a target.

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Drone warfare

From a clear sky, a chosen target.

Since 2023, government drones have killed more than 1,000 civilians in Amhara — the weapon, the toll, and the silence around it.

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