Undying Love Until the Very Last Minute
Look at her arm. Even in death, it is around her child.
She was a farmer. She was a mother. She had no politics, no ideology, no part in whatever grievance was used to justify what was done to her and to the little one she was still holding when they found them. She was simply a woman who loved her child the way every mother loves her child, completely, instinctively, until the last breath.
Their greatest crime: Being An
#Amhara
This image was taken in
#Wollega. While it was happening, while communities like hers were being systematically massacred by forces armed with the supremacist ideology of
#Oromumma, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was giving a celebrated interview to the New Yorker. Two realities, existing simultaneously. Only one of them was being covered.
Every one of us came into the world held by arms like hers. Every human being alive knows what a mother's protection means, regardless of ethnicity, language, or faith. That is why this image is not only an Amhara tragedy. It is a human indictment.
Her name is not recorded here. It should be.
#AmharaGenocide
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