Stop the Amhara Genocide in Ethiopia #3 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Stop the Amhara Genocide in Ethiopia #3 / alisdare1
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | On Saturday 29 July 2023, Amhara activists marched across central London. In this photo they are making their way across London's Parliament Square. Some of them with placards carrying the words "Amhara Genocide." They were protesting the Ethiopian government's use of brutal armed force to crush Amharan autonomy as well as violence and ethnic cleansing against Amhara people living elsewhere within the country. The Amhara genocide and ethnic cleansing have been ongoing since 1990, but has worsened during the presidency of Abiy Ahmed. Recently Amnesty International reported that at least 400 Amhara were massacred on 18 June 2023 at Tole Kebele in the Oromia region while their homes were burned and possessions and cattle looted and that so far Ethiopian authorities have failed to bring those responsible to justice. According to Amnesty "Government forces did not intervene during the five-hour period in which the perpetrators killed residents and burned and pillaged homes in Tole, according to nine witnesses. Gimbi town, where the local district administration is based, is just 49 km away from Tole by road. Residents said government forces arrived hours after OLA (Oromo Liberation Army) fighters had left; survivors were already collecting bodies of their relatives." www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/07/ethiopia-authoriti...Rather than intervene to protect Amhara people, the Ethiopian president Abiy Ahmed has ordered his forces to disband Amhara's regional army. In response protesters across the Amhara region in northern Ethiopia have manned roadblocks of burning tyres. At the same time, shopkeepers have closed down their premises and transport and other workers have gone on strike. The Ethiopian government responded by shutting down mobile and internet communications. A year after he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, Abiy Ahmed began his project of centralizing power with a murderous assault on the Tigray region, also in northern Ethiopia. Despite the relatively small size of the region, and Ethiopia's brutal tactics of ethnic cleansing and extrajudicial killings, Abiy's forces not only failed to crush Tigrayan autonomy, but suffered a series of humiliating defeats before ultimately a peace settlement was reached in November last year (2022), after around half a million civilians had died as a result of the conflict. However, war crimes were also committed by Tigrean forces (the TPLF) against Amhara civilians living in the border areas. Since then Ahmed has refocused on the Amhara region, which accounts for nearly one fifth of Ethiopia's total population. His repressive tactics have included the detention and forced disappearances of journalists and prominent local leaders and politicians. Meanwhile, armed conflict has erupted with those elements of the region's local armed forces which have refused to disband, forcing the World Food Programme to suspend operations. Thousands of Amharas living in the Oromia region have also been targeted, with many murdered and others sexually assaulted or ethnically cleansed. [ If anyone uploads this photo to Wikimedia Commons or anywhere else online please attribute but please also write your own description/caption if possible. Thanks. ][Photos of a Julian Assange solidarity protest held in central London on Saturday 29 July are following soon.] |
| 撮影日 | 2023-07-29 14:56:27 |
| 撮影者 | alisdare1 , Woolwich, United Kingdom |
| 撮影地 | Westminster, England, UK 地図 |
| カメラ | X-S10 , FUJIFILM |
| 露出 | 1/2200 sec |
| 開放F値 | f/2.0 |
| 焦点距離 | 50 mm |