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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.”
This @EthioHRC statement tells us that the #Galicoma #GaleKoma #Galikoma #AfarMassacre - in which 250 civilians including 107 children are thought to have been killed by TPLF fighters - occurred a day earlier than I previously thought, on August 5th.
This was on the day of @PowerUSAID's brief visit to Ethiopia.
@PowerUSAID None of the U.S. big Foreign Policy big hitters, @PowerUSAid, @StateDeptSpox, @SecBlinken nor @JakeSullivan have even acknowledged that this event, which became public knowledge on August 6th-7th has occurred. Among international media only @AJArabic has reported in any depth.
This is what the IC want. And yet the IC remains muted, almost silent as 250 are killed in #AfarMassacre
@UNSG @StateDept @eu_eeas
A new democracy was born on summer solstice. But eight months earlier a group of malignant thugs with a long history of malignant thuggery....
@UNSG @StateDept @eu_eeas
A new democracy was born on summer solstice. But eight months earlier a group of malignant thugs with a long history of malignant thuggery....
... including many commanders of the armed forces who had sworn to be loyal to their lawful Govt. attacked their fellow soldiers in Ethiopia's National Defence Force stole heavy armaments and massacred an unknown number of their fellow soldiers.
The US Govt. initially condemned the rebellion, but changed their tune fairly quickly as it became clear that the ruthless thugs who they had supported for nearly three decades had not been quickly defeated as claimed.
It appears that @PowerUSAID heard the request from Addis media (e.g. @GetachewSS) to hold a press conference and the transcript has now been published.
It is revealing in interesting ways and a lot more diplomatic than her recent tweets/videos.
usaid.gov/news-informati…
It is revealing in interesting ways and a lot more diplomatic than her recent tweets/videos.
usaid.gov/news-informati…
Some initial thoughts:
- She stays within her role as Secretary of @USAID, focusing on humanitarian issues.
- She warns about dangerous rhetoric without being offensive.
- She says she expects to meet with @AbiyAhmedAli soon.
- She refers to HoA envoy Jeffrey Feltman.
- She stays within her role as Secretary of @USAID, focusing on humanitarian issues.
- She warns about dangerous rhetoric without being offensive.
- She says she expects to meet with @AbiyAhmedAli soon.
- She refers to HoA envoy Jeffrey Feltman.
She took four questions. All of which addressed the TPLF directly.
In her answers she is more critical of the TPLF than she has been previously, and that is what this thread will focus on.
She was not asked about and does not mention the alleged #HumeraMassacre
In her answers she is more critical of the TPLF than she has been previously, and that is what this thread will focus on.
She was not asked about and does not mention the alleged #HumeraMassacre
One final thought for tonight. My reasons for being concerned about #CDFC and the site edited by @GPEditor.
The term "Lethal Journalism" is itself lethal to the truth. It tars all journalism with falsehood. And naming things is very important.
The term "Lethal Journalism" is itself lethal to the truth. It tars all journalism with falsehood. And naming things is very important.
The term is also dangerous to journalists. cpj.org
32 journalists were killed in 2020 cpj.org/data/killed/20…
And 13 so far in cpj.org/data/killed/20…
Good journalism is utterly vital in the fight for peace. And without journalism democracy cannot function.
32 journalists were killed in 2020 cpj.org/data/killed/20…
And 13 so far in cpj.org/data/killed/20…
Good journalism is utterly vital in the fight for peace. And without journalism democracy cannot function.
The documented use and abuse of journalism in war is also a very serious problem. Especially by the United States but not exclusively.
Information warfare is accelerating at massive pace via social media, and the U.S. is ground zero for its innovation and deployment.
Information warfare is accelerating at massive pace via social media, and the U.S. is ground zero for its innovation and deployment.
