The ‘New Auschwitz’? Targeted Atrocities against Orthodox Amharas in Arsi, Oromia, Ethiopia
Editor’s Foreword
The Ethiopian Tribune presents this urgent contribution by Professor Girma Berhanu of the University of Gothenburg with a deep sense of editorial responsibility. At a time when Orthodox Christian Amhara communities in the Arsi Zone of Oromia face documented patterns of targeted killings, abductions, and mass displacement, Professor Berhanu’s essay challenges both Ethiopian authorities and the international community to confront what he argues is a gravely underreported humanitarian crisis. Drawing on statements from the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, major religious institutions, and independent media, and framing his analysis against the moral lessons of the Holocaust, the author makes a compelling and sobering case that silence in the face of systematic violence is not neutrality, it is complicity. We commend this piece to our readers as a necessary and courageous contribution to a conversation Ethiopia can no longer afford to avoid.
The Editors
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