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As Jan. 2022 draws to a close, we focus on the #Irob minority of #Tigray. Jan. 7 was the 1️⃣ year anniversary of the #IrobMassacre by 🇪🇷 forces in which at least 72 people were killed as they celebrated Christmas.
More on the massacre while under 🇪🇷 occupation since Nov. 2020👇🏾
More on the massacre while under 🇪🇷 occupation since Nov. 2020👇🏾
Without electricity, telecommunication services, the internet & access to most of the district, Irob remains largely cut off from the rest of the world. But we know the #Irob continue to face an existential threat under #Eritrea|n occupation.
#IrobMassacre #AllowAccessToTigray
#IrobMassacre #AllowAccessToTigray
We honor all the victims of the #IrobMassacre, known and yet to be accounted for. We also honor and remember those who were kidnapped during #Eritrea’s last occupation of #Irob (1998-2000) who are never forgotten.
43 floating bodies on Tekeze river attracted huge international attention and Amhara forces have started dumping bodies elsewhere. Quotes from article ⬇️ #TigrayGenocide #TigrayMassArrest #HumeraMassacre #Justice4TigraysWomenandGirls #AllowAccessToTigray telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
“Elderly people, children & pregnant women have all been taken to several detention centres and three different warehouses across the city, which have been turned into makeshift ‘concentration camps’, survivors said.” #TigrayMassArrest #TigrayGenocide
“imagery analysis by Vigil Monitor (previously DX Open Network), an atrocity early warning & detection research organisation based in the UK, shows that ethnic Amhara forces & allied Ethiopian troops have been at all the centres for the past few months.”
Collective trauma of the #WarOnTigray on Tigrayan children:
The #WarOnTigray is perhaps one of the most under-reported and the bloodiest events in Africa in recent decades. Over 52,000 civilians have reportedly been killed as of last week,
washingtonpost.com/world/africa/t…
The #WarOnTigray is perhaps one of the most under-reported and the bloodiest events in Africa in recent decades. Over 52,000 civilians have reportedly been killed as of last week,
washingtonpost.com/world/africa/t…
more than 60k crossed the border to Sudan for safety, over 4.5 million face starvation as their harvests are looted & destroyed by Ethiopian & Eritrean armies.
But, what is most distressing is the trauma that the war is leaving Tigrayan children with. As towns and villages across Tigray have constantly been bombed for the last 3 months, children have seen so much that will remain with them forever.
Thread: (hrw.org/news/2021/02/1…)
1) In Nov. "ENDF carried out apparently indiscriminate shelling of urban areas in the Tigray region in violation of the laws of war.
#100DaysOfGenocide
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1) In Nov. "ENDF carried out apparently indiscriminate shelling of urban areas in the Tigray region in violation of the laws of war.
#100DaysOfGenocide
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2) "Artillery attacks at the start of the armed conflict struck homes, hospitals, schools, & markets in the city of Mekelle, & the towns of Humera and Shire, killing >83 civilians, including children, & wounding >300. Many of artillery attacks struck generalized populated areas"
3) ENDF "attacks caused civilian deaths & injuries; damaged homes, businesses, & infrastructure; struck near schools; disrupted medical services; & prompted 1000s of civilians to flee. Shells repeatedly struck populated areas that contained no evident military target"
