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July 26, 2024
The Amhara Fano in Gojjam's Bitwedded Mengesha Jembere Brigade reveals how Oromo Prosperity Party regime forces entered public schools and residential houses and carried out widespread property destruction and looting in Afessa Kebele of Dangila-Zuriya Woreda (Awi Zone, Amhara Region, Ethiopia).
Transcript:
Greetings, my name is Fano Miskizedingel, and I am head of public relations for the Amhara Fano in Gojjam's Bitwedded Mengesha Jembere Brigade of the Agew Midir Division.
Yesterday, the enemy, the ruling party's army, completely destroyed Afessa Primary and Secondary Schools after entering Afessa town. Afessa School is found in Afessa Kebele in Dangila Woreda.
I will show you the destruction they have caused, follow me.
As you can see, these are office properties of Afessa Secondary School. They are office documents and receipts. They have completely burned it down.
They have completely destroyed the schools plasma screen that was used by students. As you can see, they have destroyed it.
Even though this is a pattern we have come to expect from the Prosperity Party regime, what we are seeing is deliberate destruction of schools so that young Amhara do not have access to education.
This is a copy machine, if you estimate the price this is something that costs around 300,000 to 400,000 birr. They are destroying the wealth of the school and the community that Fano was protecting.
Fano had left the town for another mission when the federal army entered the town. They did not even stay for more than 30 minutes but they destroyed all this property.
As you can see, all these papers, they are office documents, student test results. This is how they have destroyed it.
This is how it looks, it is very sad how they destroyed it.
It would have been great if they were only fighting against Fano. We both see each other as enemies so they can have any type of war with us.
But to destroy properties that the community uses, this is a good example that shows the destruction to public infrastructures that this genocidal and dictatorial regime is causing.
I will show you the rest.
What you see here is the computer class of Afessa Secondary School. As you can see, they have destroyed all the computers.
This clearly shows how anti-Amhara this government is, and its hate is not just against Fano but the entire Amhara people.
As you can see, they have completely destroyed all the computer classes.
This is the Afessa Primary School, this was the office of the head teacher. Fano was protecting this place for a long time with no issues.
As I told you earlier, Fano had left the town for another mission when the federal army came and destroyed it, and even destroyed the test results of the students.
This was a store of a child of a poor farmer. Look how they looted it. They have completely looted it and destroyed what was left.
This is the work of a government claiming to fight for the people and accusing Fano of looting. They have completely looted the store.
Look how they broke the lock.
Now look what they did to the homes of the farmers. This is the house of one of the farmers. Look how they mixed the corn with the wheat and destroyed it. They destroyed his TV.
Look at the TV. This man did not do anything, his only crime is being Amhara but they looted and destroyed his home.
This is very sad. This is his fertilizer, its urea. Look how they destroyed and dumped it.
They claim that they provide fertilizers to the farmers, but look what they're doing to the farmers when they enter their homes.
This is finger millet, its a grain that is eaten. They mixed it with urea fertilizer and dumped it.
They were breaking open the fertilizers, look this is finger millet. Look how they destroyed it. They mixed the finger millet with the fertilizer.
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