Field level reception of wollo people during visit to watershed works

The Wollo Oromo people are an Oromo subgroup inhabiting the historic

Wollo Province Wollo (Amharic: ወሎ) was a historical province of northern Ethiopia that overlayed part of the present day Amhara, Afar, and Tigray regions. During the Middle Ages this region was known as Bete Amhara and had Amhara kings. Bete Amhara had ...

of northern

Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

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The Wollo Oromo speak an Oromo dialect. However, linguistic descriptions of the Wollo and nearby Raya Oromo areas are still lacking.

Amhara region's Militia attack Wollo Oromo

According to Hassan Hadiya, a resident of

Kemise Kemise (; ) is a town and administrative seat of the Oromia Zone in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia. Kemise is northeast of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa and has a latitude and longitude of with an elevation of 1424 meters above sea level. It ...

, the conflict started between Wollo Oromo people and Amhara Special Forces after Amhara Special Forces killed an individual at the entrances of the grand mosque in Ataye,

Oromia zone The Oromia Zone ( om, Godina Oromiyaa; Amharic: ኦሮሚያ ዞን) is a zone in Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Oromia is named for the Oromo people, who settled along the edge of the Ethiopian Highlands that form this Zone. Oromia Zone is bordered ...

of Amhara region. Ahmed says the Amhara Special Forces are attacking civilians and ongoing a blazing movement. eyewitness evidence blames the Amhara regional special forces while the Amhara regional government accuses both OLF-Shene and TPLF as a scapegoat of the violence. Two Members of the Ethiopian parliament accused Amhara liyu police for killing Oromo civilians in ataye,

by labeling them what he called ‘’bread name” which refers to OLF. “Amhara Militia used OLF-Shane as a pretext to commit war crime on Oromo farmers in Wollo for the three major reasons the MP said on 11th Session of parliament of Ethiopia. The reasons are (1) their national identity (being an Oromo), (2) their religious identity (being Muslim), and (3)use the atrocity as a bargaining threat to fulfill all their demands in the Oromia region” This violence is common as Oromos have been discriminated by Amharas in Shewa and Wollo for centuries for having ethnic, regional, linguistic, cultural, and religious differences.

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Ethnic groups in Ethiopia Oromo groups {{Ethiopia-ethno-group-stub

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Amhara region's Militia attack Wollo Oromo

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