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Tensions Flare at Park Plaza Victoria as Amhara Community Stages Major Protest
Amanuel
LONDON, UK—The Ethiopian National Dialogue Commission’s (ENDC) effort to collect agenda items from the UK diaspora at the Park Plaza Victoria London today, Saturday, October 11, 2025, was dominated by vocal and organized rejection from members of the Ethiopian-Amhara community.
While the ENDC proceeded with its closed-door session, the event was effectively overshadowed by a concerted protest led by groups including London Fano and the Birmingham Amhara Community. These groups maintain that the entire dialogue process lacks credibility and cannot serve as a genuine path to peace while the conflict in the Amhara region continues.
The protest served as a powerful declaration that a significant segment of the diaspora is boycotting the process, viewing it as a state-controlled mechanism designed to validate current government policies rather than address fundamental national crises.
Key Takeaways from the Day’s Action:
- Unified Boycott: Opposition groups succeeded in mobilizing a visible turnout, effectively amplifying their message of non-cooperation with the dialogue commission.
- Focus on Justice: The core message remained: there must be an immediate cessation of hostilities against Amhara civilians and a clear commitment to transitional justice before any national dialogue can be legitimate.
- Unaddressed Demands: There has been no immediate public response from the ENDC or the Ethiopian Embassy in the UK regarding the protesters’ central demands for the release of detained community leaders or a commitment to addressing alleged atrocities.
The polarizing event in London today underscores the massive challenge facing the ENDC as it attempts to market its initiative to a skeptical international audience and a deeply divided diaspora community.
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I thought the so-called “Amhara” were supposed to be smarter than the average “Ethiopian”
These type of protests do nothing to help your cause. It puts you in unfavorable view with the public.
“Amharas” should go to law school.
This is not the right decision. They at least should send their delegation to the dialogue session(meeting) with open mind and see what can be achieved. War is not the correct option. That country has had enough wars and the death and destruction that come with violence. Millions, that is right, millions and not hundreds of thousands, of citizens have lost their Almighty blessed lives in the violent form of struggle and its consequences since 1974. What armed struggle started and waged to resolve internal issues achieved anywhere in the world achieved since The American War of Independence has been replacing one despot with another one just like the previous one or a craftier other. I don’t need to give you an example because all you have to do is just look around in that region itself.
Ethiopia for Ethiopians ONLY: ONLY Ethiopians in Ethiopia SHOULD chart their own future! They SHOULD be the ONLY ONES who DECIDE anything regarding Ethiopia!
Part-Time Ethiopians [‘Ethiopian Diaspora (ED)’]: Over 70% of ED are officials/servants/beneficiaries of former self-appointed regimes. Since the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, never expect a dove from a snake’s egg either!
Anti-Amaras in Amara Hats: These whiners are just wolves in sheep’s clothing shedding their crocodile tears for Amaras [just to turn around and devour Amaras & others like before]. They want to use Amaras as spring board back to power!
Ethiopia & Dual Citizenship: Ethiopia should never ever allow dual citizenship! Ethiopia should never also allow the ED to meddle in matters that affect the lives of the Ethiopians in Ethiopia. Ethiopia for Ethiopians ONLY →NOTHING less!
well said!! THANK YOU
I never counted these immature diaspora people both in USA and in EU, how come all of them are filled with anger and miscalculation for everything while they don’t even understand what’s happening. who told them that they know better for Ethiopia while they live more than 20 or 30 years abroad which indirectly eroded their brain to the point, they demand Ethiopian government to transform the country into western standard immediately for the sake of human right bull**it… How come someone demand such privilege while the country was going through hell because of people like modern day diaspora, most still trying to speak and write English after 35 years abroad but they studied the word Freedom, Freedom, Freedom thanks to that young guy who scared W/O Meles Zenawi to death, anyways, chill, chill, chill.. at list recognize some of the good stuff that are happening right now because of such a great leader Ethiopia finally got. Just because your farmer friend is trying to fight a government who is fully equipped, you don’t have to be such naïve and fall under backwardness, stop being blind, stop demanding the impossible…