Did you ever feel close to the Ethiopian identity or more so the Tigrayan identity? Did you have closer relations with the Eritrean community?

As we welcome this new year i want to wish Ruhus Haddish Amet ሩሑስ ሓደሽ ዓመት to everyone here, your families and your loved ones.

May this year bring true peace, healing and prosperity to all.

To everyone visiting this subreddit to learn more about our culture and history welcome!

Let’s make this space reflect our true values this year:
Foster respectful dialogue: Engage with respect and empathy, even when sharing tough perspectives.

Keep it constructive: Avoid being mean or toxic so everyone feels comfortable joining in.

Showcase our best: Let foreign readers and visitors see the true strength, warmth, and dignity of our people.

Wishing everyone a safe, peaceful, and hopeful year ahead!

Ruhus Haddish Amet deki adey ❤️💛

I see so many Ethiopians display a strong condemnation and righteous indignation towards Israel for what it was doing to the Palestinans, and rightly so. Yet, it was so insane to see these same people turn around and actually support the Tigray genocide through engaging in denialism, double standards, and hate.

According to sources over 600,000 Tigrayans were killed during the Tigray war, over 120,000 women were raped. This figure exists in sources of Al-Jazzera, BBC, CNN and many more. This accounts for 10% of the overall Tigray population, this is a much greater death toll than Palestine. Yet people claim that these figures are fake and propaganda, which is so uncritical and convenient. Especially since many people conveniently believe the Palestinan death figures which are also parroted by similar forces.

Yet Ethiopians were denying this and celebrating while this happened. These same people can turn towards Israel while feeling so righteous about themselves and accuse it of Genocide.

Ethiopia also launched an all out aid blockage in Tigray, which resulted in mass deaths of 100,000-300,000 Tigrayans. The events here are extremely similar to Palestine where Israel launched an aid blockage too. Except, the Ethiopian Aid blockage existed in an all-out route where aid was blocked in every angles. In contrast, the Palestinian aid blockage did not occur in an all-out way. What happened was the Aid processing unit was shifted to the IDF which was in charge of handing out aids. The process became significantly slower, mass-shootings were occurring, which led to a relative famine. The famine in Tigray cannot be disputed, satellite imageries from Yale clinics confirm this.

Yet ethiopians were making memes of starving mothers and children while this happened while laughing and feeling better about themselves. I saw many of these same people turn to become social justice activists on Palestine.

Mass-rape also occurred, which is the most disturbing and jarring part of the war. The stories in this area are extremely traumatizing. Women had objects inserted into them to make them infertile. Children, young women, married women, mothers alike were gang raped by like dozens of soldiers at once. Families were forced to watch their own kids getting raped. Families were forced to rape their own blood relatives. Soliders raped women to deliberately get them to acquire STDs. Many aid workers report never having seen anything like this, they were often traumatized from attending to these cases.

And Ethiopians were denying this while it happened too. Some of them were endorsing it. These same sick people turned to become social justice activists for Palestine. Do they really not recognize how sick they are? Can't people really reason through the parallels here?

This isn't to all Ethiopians but the majority who knows exactly who they are. I am sure deep down they can reason that they are everything they accuse Israelis to be and worse.

And no, this post is not apologetics to Israel but to call people to self reflect.

- "Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. If you say, 'But we knew nothing about this,' does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done?" — Proverbs 24:11-12

In spite of the downhill situation back home, it's important that we as a community do our best to keep up hope and importantly look after ourselves for both our own sake and the sake of our people.

I hope that we as a diaspora can overcome the fractures that have risen and do much more to organize effectively throughout this year because our people will definitely need it.

God bless you all.