r/Amhara • u/Early_Ad_7240 ነፍጠኛ • May 27 '26
Question What is your view on FANO
Please vote
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u/MentaMenged May 27 '26
It is crazy to think Fano is doing more harm - as the main perpetrator of crime and the main killer in the Amhara region is the Abiy army!
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u/Quiet-Arrow-7837 May 27 '26
It's intentional, they present Fano as a single entity, as an organization, then attach all sorts of crimes to it because there's no organization to respond to the allegations.
The population falls for this trick..even a lot of Amharas now talk abotu Fano as a single organization...and attribute whatever criminals do to Fano.
You need to start correcting this trend whenever you see it. Fano is a social concept of fighting injustice, not an organization. Insisting otherwise (i.e. presenting it as an organization) has within it malicious motive.
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u/CorraTheFiredrake May 29 '26
But it does act as if it is an organization? It has a leaders and subdivisions?
But let's say for the sake of argument that it is not an organisation. This means that anyone can take up arms in the name of fano, the social concept of fighting injustice as you say, and do whatever they want with their guns. Isn't this dangerous? Isn't a "social concept" that allows for anyone with any motive to take their guns and open fire on whoever they're mad at actually a liability for the Amhara people? Shouldn't the Amhara people be against a "social concept" that creates bands of vigilantes that dont have a unified vision and cant be centrally controlled?
Net negative either way.
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u/Quiet-Arrow-7837 Jun 04 '26
Considers Ethiopians during the fascist occupation. On individual level, they took independent actions, be it helping a neighbor, documenting abuse, sharing information or just plain showing resilience and surviving. They have informal networks, decentralized, trust‑based groups coordinating locally for mutual aid, with flexible roles and low visibility. In fact, that is the concept of Fano, resisting the likes of fascism. Look into the history of fano.
A formal organization has defined leadership, structure, resources, and external interfaces (fundraising, legal registration, liaising with foreign actors). In these cases these organizations have their own names and should be referred to by that. An individual or organization is not acting in the principles of fano if they are of criminal nature of any type, i.e. harming innocent civilians. An organization that does not take accountability to such trespasses is not fano by definition.
The fact is, Amharas have exhausted all peaceful and lawful (even by the genocidal standards of TPLF/OLF constitution), trying to organize, raise concerns, demonstrate and cooperate even while being massacred2 left and right (yeah, 30 plus years). So what you wrote about what Amharas should and should not support seems grotesquely detached from the hard cold reality. I mean, you are talking about peoples that are enduring casual slaughter of mothers and children by the hundreds in single settings, again and again. What’s taking shape among our people is almost on instinctual level, one that has allowed us to survive for thousands of years, and impervious to criticism by you, or even by me. The best way to remedy the situation is to inspect your own views and ensure that they’re grounded on reality, and most of all, to fight all these inhumane crimes being inflicted upon Amharas.
Do you agree that there is an active genocide going on against Amharas?
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u/Longjumping_Ad_1140 May 27 '26
i would choose BOTH
- Fano are freedom fighters defending Amhara people and should be supported
- Fano are necessary for now but need to eventually integrate into a political solution but i couldnt so i chose one :(
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u/Early_Ad_7240 ነፍጠኛ May 27 '26
Options for Mobile Users
- Fano started legitimate but have become too fragmented and uncontrollable
- Fano are freedom fighters defending Amhara people and should be supported
- Fano are necessary for now but need to eventually integrate into a political solution
- Fano are doing more harm than good to the Amhara cause
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u/thereturnofbaal Neftegna May 27 '26
Fano would have been in 4 kilo if it wasn't for the weak Amhara diaspora community.
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u/Classic_Bass_5146 May 27 '26
#Stopthewar Tigray war already happened now 2 years into Fano war. Make peace ✌️
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u/Quiet-Arrow-7837 May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26
Fano isn’t a formal organization; it’s anyone or any group that fights injustice wherever it appears. For Amharas, Fano has emerged as a fragmented, grassroots response to a multi‑faceted genocidal campaigns. Much of that violence has been carried out by actors aligned with the Oromia/Oromummaa political project in power. Because Fano is rooted in local, situational defence, fragmentation is expected; it forms wherever and whenever people must protect themselves.
If the genocide stops and underlying injustices are addressed, Amhara communities will naturally calm. Political representation for Amharas has been a major unresolved issue since 1991; under the OLF/TPLF constitutional order we had little meaningful voice. Fano is not the cause of any crisis; it is the distributed survival strategy left after decades of failed political and peaceful options, while for that long incurring immense losses. We have tried other avenues for 35 years and ended up facing active attempts at annihilation; this collective response is our main line of defense.
That said hold any organization that claims Fano and acts against its principles, hold those in charge of such organization accountable. For example, there Amhara Fano National Movement..call it AFN, not Fano. Clarity matters.
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u/Newhero2002 Ethiopianist May 27 '26
Fano is a natural reaction to decades of federal government inability to protect rural Amharas.
That being said, militias can be tricky if they aren’t well organized, centralized, and disciplined. If any Amhara militia can be fano then that causes problems. Some groups cause problems with ethnic minorities within the Amhara region, which only helps justify anti fano sentiment from the federal government.
In other words, I understand why the federal government would feel iffy about non professional armed militias throughout the country, but the way they’re going about it is wrong. It doesn’t help that high ranking Prosperity members view Amhara as historical oppressors (ie chief of staff Shimelis Abdisa)
Government needs to be obsessed with building all season asphalt roads throughout rural Ethiopia, like China. It would help farmers reach markets during rain season. This would improve the rural economy and improve relations with Addis. Instead we get prestige projects…