An interesting article on Substack: https://substack.com/home/post/p-160589479
"... Fano’s resurgence taps into the legacy of the Amhara political dynasty, which shaped modern Ethiopia’s multi-ethnic state before its eclipse in the 20th century. This elite, comprising nobility, regional military leaders, land owners, technocrats, religious leaders, and scholars, once wielded power through a decentralized local governance system, a structure suppressed by Emperor Haileselassie and dismantled by the Derg and TPLF. The Derg’s collectivization and the TPLF’s ethnic federalism decimated the Amhara political dynasty until Abiy Ahmed orchestrated a campaign that was designed to eliminate the Amhara identity altogether by mass eviction of Amhara people from Oromia, Benishangul, Addis Ababa, and other regions of Ethiopia. The Amhara youth, channeling centuries of regional pride and resistance, have organized themselves under the Fano traditional civil defense system and started opposing what they see as Oromo-led overreach from Addis Ababa..."