Past Government report revealed that around 2.5 million Amharas were missing after a previous census. There has been a controversy regarding what happened to all these people over the years. Several studies have been conducted through analysis of the census carried out over the last 27 years with some estimating the number of missing Amharas as high as 6 million since the 1984 census.
What exactly happened to all these people remains a mystery but government officials and several scholars have offered their views.
At the parliament, discussions on the result of the census about the missing Amharas @15:13
This is a snippet from a certain summary caption:
"The census committee chair Mrs. Samira detailed the result on Amahras. She details that 2.5 million Amharas are missing from the population and that she cannot explain why. She explains that the committee looked at the data again and again, and even brought in outside experts to confirm the accuracy of the stats. According to outside experts and the committee, the states looked fine and accurate. However, they cannot explain the discrepancy of 2.5 million Amharas missing.
She describes the statistics on Amhara by saying there is an obvious systematic reduction in the number of Amharas."
One of the studies available confirms this and even estimates 3 million missing.
On another report:
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