London Fano is a UK advocacy group working on behalf of the Amhara people of Ethiopia. This website is where we set out what is happening to them, what we are asking for, and what people in Britain can do about it.
For over fifty years, the Amhara people have faced systemic violence, displacement and persecution. Very little of it has reached British news, British politics or British conversation. That gap is not an accident of distance. It is what happens when nobody with a platform decides the story is worth telling.
Who we are
We are a group of volunteers in the United Kingdom, drawn largely from the Amhara community here. We are independent. We are not a branch of a larger body, we are not aligned with a political party, and we are not a combatant group. We campaign, we document, and we speak publicly.
Many of us have family still in Ethiopia, which shapes how we work. It is why you will not see photographs of everyone involved, and why we are careful about what we publish and how.
Why this site exists
Until now, what we knew was carried in private messages, in community halls and in phone calls home. That is not nothing, but it does not reach anyone outside the community, and reaching outside the community is the whole point. A permanent, public record is harder to ignore than a conversation, and it gives journalists, researchers and members of the public somewhere to look.
So this site has a simple job. The Crisis gives the background. Who We Are explains who is behind this and why. Updates is where our statements, reports, news and events will be published as they come. Get Involved is for anyone who reads all of that and wants to do something with it.
What we are asking
Less than you might expect. We are asking for attention first, because nothing else follows without it. Read what is here. Tell someone else. Write to the person who represents you. None of that resolves a crisis on its own, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. But a crisis that nobody is watching is far easier to continue than one that people have started to ask about.
You do not need to be Amhara to care about this. You only need to be willing to know about it. That is where we are asking you to start.