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Ethiopia’s mass arrests show rift with former Amhara allies

FILE - Getachew Abebe, 20, who fled his hometown of Addi Arkay when Tigrayan fighters took it over and was finalizing basic training so that he could fight with the Fano Youth Liberation Movement militia, poses for a photo at a center for the internally-displaced in Debark, in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia on Aug. 27, 2021. Once a key ally of the federal government in its deadly war in the Tigray region, the neighboring Amhara region has in May 2022 experienced government-led mass arrests and disappearances of activists, journalists and other perceived critics. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene, File) FILE - Terraced hills are seen off the road between Gondar and Danshe, a town in an area of western Tigray then annexed by the Amhara region during the ongoing conflict, in Ethiopia on May 1, 2021. Once a key ally of the federal government in its deadly war in the Tigray region, the neighboring Amhara region has in May 2022 experienced government-led mass arrests and disappearances of activists, journalists and other perceived critics. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) FILE - New volunteer Mekdess Muluneh Asayehegn, center, and others receive basic training to become potential reinforcements for pro-government militias or military forces, in a school courtyard in Gondar, in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia on Aug. 24, 2021. Once a key ally of the federal government in its deadly war in the Tigray region, the neighboring Amhara region has in May 2022 experienced government-led mass arrests and disappearances of activists, journalists and other perceived critics. (AP Photo, File) FILE - Traders herd their sheep to sell in a street market, a day before Ethiopian Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter Sunday, in Gondar, in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia on May 1, 2021. Once a key ally of the federal government in its deadly war in the Tigray region, the neighboring Amhara region has in May 2022 experienced government-led mass arrests and disappearances of activists, journalists and other perceived critics. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) FILE - New volunteers receive basic training to become potential reinforcements for pro-government militias or military forces, in a school courtyard in Gondar, in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia on Aug. 24, 2021. Once a key ally of the federal government in its deadly war in the Tigray region, the neighboring Amhara region has in May 2022 experienced government-led mass arrests and disappearances of activists, journalists and other perceived critics. (AP Photo, File) FILE - Passengers look out from an auto-rickshaw, known locally as a "bajaj", in Gondar, in the Amhara region of Ethiopia on May 2, 2021. Once a key ally of the federal government in its deadly war in the Tigray region, the neighboring Amhara region has in May 2022 experienced government-led mass arrests and disappearances of activists, journalists and other perceived critics. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
Ethiopia’s mass arrests show rift with former Amhara allies