It is said that "the offspring of a cat follows its mother's nature". These religious fanatics who did not previously find the chance to carry out a religious war now found opportune conditions with the leadership of the "Jebha" in their hands and they started to roll up their sleeves and sharpen their knives to murder the "Christian" fighters whom they always viewed from a religious standpoint. To accomplish their scheme, their first Step was to eliminate those within their ranks who were opposed to them. Thus they placed six members of the "Kiada El Ama" in prison and subjected them to harsh treatment. Further, right in the heart of Kessela, they murdered the two revolutionary fighters, comrades Kidane Kiflu and Welday Gidey, who for many years had energetically worked to redirect the course of the struggle. They were under the impression that if they killed these valiant and insightful leaders, the rest could hardly accomplish anything. The dead bodies were placed in sacks and put on a taxi to be transported to a trash dump called Hafera. On the way however, as if to plead their case to the world-public, the corpses of the two martyrs fell out in the middle of the street.
After the death of those martyrs an order was passed, similar to that of 1967, to kill all the "Christians" who were in the field. Consequently, more than two hundred revolutionaries were slain throughout the field. In desperation, over two hundred others surrendered to the Haile Selassie government. Besides giving orders to kill Christian peasants, the leaders of "Kiada El Ama" also tried to further their criminal schemes by distributing arms under the cover name of 'Militia' to people who did not understand the concept, and then started to stir up long forgotten feuds that existed between some Christian and Muslim communities.
Moreover, they committed and are still committing savage crimes in the highlands by throwing bombs, opening machine gun fire in public gatherings, looting and raping women. In general, almost all the Christian fighters in the ranks of the "Jebha" were either murdered or forced to surrender to the Haile Selassie government.