Since young university students in the 1960s mistook the status of Amharic as a government language for ethnic Amhara dominance in Ethiopia, Amharas have been the subject of collective scapegoating hate speech and killings in Ethiopia. The apartheid-style ethnic federation established in the 1990s followed the ascendance of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF)-dominated government into power which transformed the hatred towards Amharas into recurrent massacre of Amharas in many regions of Ethiopia. A dramatic upsurge in mass killings and displacement of Amharas and burning of villages began in 2018 after Abiy Ahmed Ali, an ethnic Oromo, was selected as Prime Minister of Ethiopia. While ethnic Amhara civilians have been targeted repeatedly in other parts of the country, most notably in Benishangul-Gumuz, since 2018, the Oromia Region has been the epicenter of frequent massacres against Amharas.
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