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What does the US administration want Tigrayans and Tigray authorities to do, really?
Sit and watch the people starve to death until regimes in Addis Ababa and Asmara say enough Tigrayans have died, and Tigray kneels and submits to be ruled by viceroys of Asmara and Addis Ababa? 1
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People are starved to death. Thousands are in mass detention. Thousands in refugee camps, millions displaced.
Brutal medieval siege choking Tigray out of existence.
Abiy's Ethiopia is the epitome of war, death, displacement, detention, extortion, and impoverishment of Tigrayans.
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My sincere appreciation to all who called for the restoration of my Twitter account and for upholding freedom of speech.
Thanks again for expressing your confidence in my contributions to the Twitter community.
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Tigray defends itself. No one has done anything for Tigray. Neither the West nor the East.
As a matter of fact, some western and other powers have joined the genocidal war on Tigray- deploying their technology or through third parties supporting the regimes in Addis and Asmara.
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My Statement on Recent Coordinated Character Attacks:
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Dear Nobel Committee:
@NobelPrize
@NobelPeaceOslo
Your statement brings to mind Pontius Pilate washing his hands of responsibility.
Your award came when the war on Tigray was being secretly hatched; and when the Asmera-Addis-Mogadishu axis of instability was in full swing. 1
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Peace is what we all crave.
We need the fighting to stop right now; we want the siege to be lifted in its entirety right now; adequate humanitarian relief be guaranteed right now, and non-Tigrayan forces to leave Tigray right now; we want the negotiations to commence right now.
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The history of Tigray cannot begin and end with this genocide; genocidaires rarely win.
With this genocide, a new history of Tigray begins.
This genocide will be the frame and the starting point that determines Tigrayans and their future military, political and social stand.
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Just read the Report of the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia (ICHREE) to
@UN_HRC
Long thread:
Given the political challenges and the financial and time constraints ICHREE faces, the Report is a refreshing mark of a truly independent investigation.
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A genocidal war is waged on Tigray because its people refused to kneel down to political and economic hitmen, and surrender policy and territorial sovereignty.
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Dear High Commissioner
@mbachelet
1. What is urgently needed is a UNSC resolution to establish a UN-mandated investigation into all atrocities and violations of international law, especially war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide
@antonioguterres
@CyrilRamaphosa
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Tragic to see a relapse to a preventable military offensive against Tigray by Ethiopia.
This fresh military offensive is disastrous for the people of Tigray, who have already gone through unimaginable suffering, for the peoples of Ethiopia and for peace in the Horn of Africa. 1
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Indiscriminate aerial bombardment has killed civilians in Alamat. Not the first time and will not be the last unless the international community acts in unison to end impunity.
The
@UN_HRC
Special Session offers a precious opportunity that must be seized.
@nazhatskhan
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The siege is killing people, so is aerial bombardments and drones attacks.
No medicine for bedridden patients.
No food aid for the needy.
No access to banking services.
Mass detention, extortion, and pauperisation of Tigrayans.
The extermination of Tigrayans is in full action.
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Anyone opposed to government policy of starving the people of Tigray gets a slap in the face.
No one is spared, not even UN agencies with strikingly timid opposition to the war on Tigray.
Now; war is declared on the UN, what will the Security Council and the UN leadership do?
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Impose a no-fly zone over Tigray, deny and disrupt military supply, including military-grade drones, by imposing an immediate arms embargo on Eritrea and Ethiopia.
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“Tigrayan Kunama have an estimated population of 10,000. Like Irob, the Ethio-Eritrean border war subjected Kunama on both sides of the border to mass livestock looting, abduction, and severe livelihood destruction. However, very little has been reported..”
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The ongoing military assault to take over Tigray reveals that Ethiopian, Amhara and Eritrean forces never gave up plans to subjugate Tigray as a final solution.
Tigray is in an existential defensive war for survival.
How, then, will they prevail without exterminating Tigrayans?
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After 50 days of intense battles on dozens of fronts, the genocidaire forces of ENDF, ASF and EDF have turned the war meant to conquer, occupy and rule Tigray into a war of attrition and exhaustion. The enemies of Tigray mark their achievement by the number of Tigrayans killed,
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"Worthy" vs "unworthy" victims of war
Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman's Manufacturing Consent, on the dichotomy of treating victims as 'worthy' and 'unworthy' partially explain this disparity...
@ndula_victor
@The_EastAfrican
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This utterly gruesome scene of beating and burning of persons alive is not an isolated incident, nor are the victims.
The killings are systemic, part of larger, premeditated, coordinated genocidal campaigns and killings to annihilate Tigrayans.
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Deeply disturbed by the
@SecBlinken
decision to condition the release of the Report on determination of genocide on mediation.
It is immoral to condition declaration of fact on highest crime to diplomacy. It is also ahistoric.
Where and when did appeasement tame a genocidaire?
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To protect civilians, the international community needs to impose a No-Fly zone over Tigray, deny and disrupt military supply, including military-grade drones, by imposing an immediate arms embargo.
@EstoniaUN
@franceonu
@USAmbUN
@NATO
@jensstoltenberg
@SecBlinken
@PowerUSAID
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Despite 13 Security Council meetings, 4 Special Envoys, over 500,000 deaths, 5.4 million IDPs and refugees, International Community failed to end the siege, ensure full access, and prevent relapse to war.
It is criminal for Council members to continue to arm the regime in Addis.
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The catastrophic food insecurity will be further prolonged if seeds and fertilizers are not availed on time to farmers ahead of Kiremt/summer harvest season. In Tigray, 60,000 MT of fertilizers, 50,000 MT of seeds, 40k and 30k litres of pesticides and fungicides required.
@UNOCHA
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Given its pedigree, Europe should not be an accomplice of starvation and war on Tigray and other parts, end up siding with the genocidal regimes.
Europe should take a strong stance against perpetrators of atrocities drawing on recent history in its backyard and in Rwanda.
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HH Abune Mathias, Head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church says "they want to destroy the people of Tigray" with actions of "the highest brutality and cruelty."
He lived in exile for 30 years for criticizing country's then-communist regime.
Now, He is under house arrest.
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End the siege and blockade on Tigray.
Allow humanitarian access.
Stop the ongoing military mobilisation aiming at a repetition of the genocidal war on Tigray.
Start negotiations.
Recall that Bosnian and Croatian forces ended the siege which led to the Dayton Agreement.
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As part of the strategy of containment of Tigray, Afar, sadly, is the new proxy, in addition to Western Tigray.
The Eritrean dictatorship and Ethiopian federal and regional governments want to continue with the siege and blockade to starve as many Tigrayans to death as they can.
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By its inaction, the international community has decided to sit and watch genocide being committed. This might be due to one or combination of following reasons:
a) undying hope that the Addis regime will militarily prevail and Tigray popular resistance will be somehow crushed 1
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According to
@USAIDSCharles
, Tigray received only five truckloads of aid supply per week out of required 500 truckloads- this is a dismal 1%
The government barred humanitarian access
A concrete step to ensure humanitarian access will be to end the brutal siege imposed on Tigray.
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“As is now becoming clear, he timed military action against Tigray for night of U.S. presidential election. Isaias will not be relaxing during coming days’ holiday season. World leaders should be on alert. Christmas must not become slaughter of innocents.”
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By not resigning - as should when mediator's role is contested - Chief Obasanjo is now part of the problem rather than solution.
AU can redeem its failure and sullied reputation in the war on Tigray by appointing an envoy for Ethiopia while Mr Obasanjo remains envoy for the Horn.
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Another drone attacks in Mekelle civilian residential area.
Drone signature strike—strikes that target individuals based on patterns of behaviour are particularly dangerous for civilians in urban or densely populated settings as witnessed in many other cases.
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Earlier repeated official denials, by both countries, of the invasion of Tigray by Eritrean forces at the behest of Ethiopia make this hard to trust. Also, this comes after a recent statement about the need to keep Eritrean forces in Tigray indefinitely.1
@ChrisCoons
@SecBlinken
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"Almost 200 children under the age of five died of starvation in 14 hospitals across Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region between late June and October, according to data collected by local doctors and researchers."
@ea_akin
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It is urgent to grant immediate, unconditional and unimpeded humanitarian access to the war zone.
Obstructing or hampering aid channels and deliberate creation of starvation conditions, arbitrary displacement may constitute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
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The increase in aerial bombardment on Mekelle echoes a familiar act of desperation by a familiar enemy.
It adds more barriers to humanitarian access and famine that is claiming lives.
It further delays a negotiated end of the war.
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My latest
@ForeignPolicy
piece
There Is a Path to Peace in Tigray
In the eyes of the people of Tigray, there is a clear route to peace, but it will require tough decisions, starting with a willingness to accede to the peoples' most essential demands. 1
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The Security Council needs to take measures to ensure:
1. Civilian protection in all areas including those under EDF, ENDF, and ASF
2. Humanitarian truce (cessation of hostilities) and humanitarian access direct to Tigray without interference or control from warring parties
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Prof Jan Nyssen and
@tvbempt
: "there are between 150,000 and 200,000 starvation deaths, 50,000 to 100,000 victims of killings, and over 100,000 additional deaths due to lack of health care" in Tigray. Estimates based on IPC (400k in famine, May/June 2021), USAID (900k June 2021)
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More than 2,400 tonnes of food aid as well as equipment are blocked at Semera.
Fuel is in extremely short supply in Tigray, where deliveries have not been allowed since August 2, with the exception of two trucks of
@WFP
,
@UNOCHA
said.
via
@BarronsOnline
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News of talks between warring parties is not a surprise; what needs explaining, rather, is why 95 days after the withdrawal of TDF, there is no breakthrough.
That Tigray is still under siege, and humanitarian access is blockaded. Cessation of hostilities is yet to materialize.
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If the Pretoria Talks are to have any impact, a cessation of hostilities and humanitarian access must be signed, and now.
Every day counts.
Every day, civilians are shot, burned, uprooted, or starved to death in Tigray.
For the dying, every second of delay is potentially fatal.
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US lawmakers call for suspension of drone technology to Turkey
“The letter was the latest push by members of Congress against Turkey, an ally of the US under the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato).”
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1. Removal of invading forces
2. Security and well-being of population including from famine
3. Guarantees against non repetition of genocidal wars
4. Respect to will of the people, right to self-determination
5. Hold criminals accountable
6. Effective remedies and satisfaction.
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A humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in Tigray, a repeat of the 1994 Rwanda genocide against Tutsis in Ethiopia today in the genocide against Tigrayans, and constitutes a "threat to international peace".
But no lesson was learned by the UN and the Security Council.
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At this moment in time, this flag represents the opposite of the victory of Adwa and the very reasons for its commemoration.
Invaders, expansionists, and Génocidaires are dishonouring the venerated victory of Adwa.
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Aid groups suspend work in part of Ethiopia's Tigray after air strike - UN
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Starving Tigrai: Deliberate, Systematic and Rigorous
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Tigrayans are being rounded up in internment camps and killed under the watch of the international community, which is at the same time urging for a cessation of advances by TDF.
The question: what is the plan?
What is expected of TDF, to sit and watch a pogrom of Tigrayans?
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Doctors without medical supplies
Doctors say lives are lost in hospitals in Ethiopia's Tigray due to dwindling supplies, blame blockade
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War cannot end when Ethiopia strangles Tigray to death.
How many more concessions should Tigray make for international community to act to ensure humanitarian access?
How many more concessions is Tigray willing to make before it says enough is enough and disengages from talks?
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End the blockade, save lives!
"While humanitarian access is now viable and overall secure inside most of Tigray, the region remains under a de facto humanitarian aid blockade, where access to bring life-saving humanitarian relief continues to be extremely restricted."
@UNOCHA
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The Ethiopian government’s chokehold on humanitarian aid needs to end.
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Once again: the international community needs to discharge its core responsibility- protection of civilians.
Civilians should be protected from vengeful indiscriminate aerial bombardment.
To protect civilians, Security Council need to impose an immediate No-Fly zone over Tigray
To protect civilians, the international community needs to impose a No-Fly zone over Tigray, deny and disrupt military supply, including military-grade drones, by imposing an immediate arms embargo.
@EstoniaUN
@franceonu
@USAmbUN
@NATO
@jensstoltenberg
@SecBlinken
@PowerUSAID
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I exposed the Axum massacre, and faced the consequences - Ethiopia Insight
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My latest:
There is need for a truly independent probe into Ethiopia abuses via
@AJEnglish
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1. Credible reports are emerging that
@UnitedNations
peacekeepers of Tigrayan origin deployed as part of Ethiopian contingents of
@unmissmedia
in South Sudan are forcibly returned to Ethiopia, some physically abused
@UNHCR
@UNPeacekeeping
@flippograndi
,
@antonioguterres
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The Pretoria deal should not be weaponised to gain access to financial aid and grants, nor should it be misused to legitimise the genocide committed against Tigrayans.
Aid should reach all places with need without creating enclaves of urban aid centers, and denying rural areas.
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Two weeks after the AU's Tigray talks in South Africa ended in a fiasco, no new date has yet been set; no consultation reported, no new plan or strategy announced; no clarification given to questions from President Uhuru; no response to the queries by the Government of Tigray.
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Combination of Eritrean dictatorship and pro-genocidal war extremists with a firm grip on some states makes for a dangerous cocktail.
As long as these forces are in control of the state, Ethiopia will never be at peace with itself, nor with its neighbours, thus destabilizing HoA
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Israel took a moral stand against genocide in Rwanda and Darfur. It must act now when Tigrayans face that hideous prospect. It should tell its new-found ally in Abu Dhabi to stop, now, in the name of humanity.
Massacres, rape, siege: Why Israel must stop its UAE ally aiding Ethiopia’s atrocities
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In the 21st Century, Ethiopia enforced a medieval siege on Tigray blocking medical and humanitarian aid.
And the international community sits idly by and lets Genocide happen under its watch.
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Unless the drones stop killing civilians; unless the siege ends; the status quo is upgraded to an agreement on cessation of hostilities and humanitarian access, military logic will prevail.
Genuine negotiations should start, to save lives being starved to death or killed by war.
Refugees are not and should never be a target.
High Commissioner
@FilippoGrandi
's comments on the airstrike that hit Mai Aini refugee camp in northern Ethiopia.
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A significant territory of Ethiopia is outside of the government's effective administrative control.
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Protecting civilian lives should be the utmost priority for International Community to act. The new phase of the brutal earth-scorch military campaign in North Western Tigray is a repeat of what happened in Western Tigray - mass killings, accelerated depopulation and dislocation.
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"Witnesses said that security forces stopped and arrested Tigrayans on the streets and in cafés and other public places, and in their homes and workplaces, often during warrantless searches. security forces checked people’s identification cards to confirm their identity..."
@hrw
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Reports indicate that the second major offensive to overwhelm and subjugate Tigray militarily has already begun. The inauguration of a new government and purchases, build-ups and deployments might have delayed the assault.
@antonioguterres
@AmbMKimani
@LindaT_G
@JosepBorrellF
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Ethiopia has declared 7 UN officials persona non grata and expelled them.
In the words of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights,
@mbachelet
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One more day of delay of humanitarian aid is one more day of deaths
•Open all corridors
•Monetise humanitarian aid through cash transfer - flights can deliver most
•Establish Monitoring, Verification and Reporting Mechanisms
•Name and hold those impeding access to account
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Declaration of a state of emergency further militarizes the country and licenses state actors to intensify and legitimise more atrocities.
This declaration comes when calls from the Prime Minister and Amhara politicians for attacks against Tigrayans emerged in mainstream media.
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Congratulations
@DrTedros
!
This is a total vote of confidence in your leadership.
It is extraordinary that the globe voted for you overwhelmingly while the government of your own country led a crude and tribal campaign to unseat you.
You've got no idea how proud we are of you!
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The total media blackout, medieval-like siege and humanitarian blockade aims to hide such acts and other egregious crimes committed on Tigray and Tigrayans.
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Slow death by siege and starvation has been an everyday occurrence for more than a year, and now the rapid killings of Tigrayan civilians by aerial bombardment and drone strikes.
Providers of weapons and armament to the Addis Ababa regime are as guilty as the genocidaires.
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Pan Africanism has always been framed in view of struggle for independence from colonialism and apartheid.
It lacks introspection, accountability, and a self-corrective system.
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If Nkrumah, Lumumba, Nyerere, Mandela saw what has become of Pan Africanism, how it has been debased, how AU has become instrument of subjugation, covers up mass state violence, they would lead a popular revolt.
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Whilst marshalling Chinese, Turkish, Emirati, Iranian, Israeli support, the Addis regime chants anti-foreign interference slogans and curses the west.
While sabotaging African mediation, it beats drums of Pan Africanism.
The regime in Addis is making a mockery of Pan Africanism.
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Never before has a mediator insisted on staying put when one of the parties is opposed their participation.
What explains Mr Obasanjo's unprecedented inclination to remain as a mediator against established principles and practices?
Why would AU go to the stake for an individual?
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Again, humanitarian access should not be up for negotiations.
Humanitarian aid should remain separate and clear of any preconditions.
Peace efforts and humanitarian work need to reflect fast-changing politico-military realities on the ground.
Again, humanitarian access should not be up for negotiations.
Humanitarian aid should remain separate and clear of any preconditions.
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Somaliland's democracy passes the 8th test of competitive elections.
Congratulations to all, particularly the people of Somaliland and leadership, for making this possible in our troubled region, and at a time of reversal of significant gains made in past decades.
@musebiihi
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“There is no other way to define what is happening to the people of Tigray than by ethnic cleansing.”
@InterActionOrg
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"No favours for killers
Ethiopia is deliberately starving its own citizens
The world should apply whatever pressure it can to force it to stop"
@TheEconomist
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Deadly air strikes continue to kill civilians in Tigray.
Today, at least 17 people, mostly women are killed.
Brutal medieval siege choking Tigray out of existence.
Abiy's Ethiopia is the epitome of war, death, displacement, detention, extortion, and impoverishment of Tigrayans
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Airborne leaflets dropped over Tigray by Ethiopian airforce expose the political objective of the ongoing massive military offensive on Tigray.
The leaflets warn that populations in the encircled areas of the siege have forfeited their civilian status and, thus, protection.
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Two years on and no let-up for children’s education in Tigray
10 million children are missing out.
This puts Ethiopia among top five countries with most children out of school despite the rapid progress since the 1990s from a very low starting point.
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A deliberate trickling in of aid while maintaining the suspension of vital services for livelihood, including banking, transportation and communications, perpetuates the strategy of containing Tigray through the brutal siege imposed years ago.
Allow aid to reach all in need.
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There’s Genocide in Tigray, but Nobody’s Talking About it
@davidvolodzko
explains the reasons ranging from Internet shutdowns to just pure racism.
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Dumbfounded, to say the least, with
Amb Feltman's interview on ESAT.
What benefit will the US, Ethiopia or victims in the region gain from this appearance in the leading genocidaire media outlet?
For Tigrayans, ESAT is Ethiopia's version of the genocidaire RTLM of Rwanda.
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6 million people in Tigray are facing a healthcare crisis big enough to hasten a genocide
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"The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has also turned a blind eye to the atrocities being committed in Tigray and plans to issue $650 billion in aid to countries through a new Special Drawing Rights (SDR)."
#TigrayGenocide
#TigrayCantWait
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the number of Tigrayans starved to death, Tigrayan women raped, property looted, infrastructure destroyed, and the overall extermination and impoverishment of the Tigrayan people within and outside of Tigray.
Death and destruction on their side is the least of their worries.
End
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Biden Sends Senate Ally to Ethiopia to Address Tigray Conflict
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On the continuous and alarming reports of the unlawful mass detention of civilians of Tigrayan origin throughout Ethiopia
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What is chilling and revealing about the UN officials' expulsion is that it comes when the UN and other aid agencies are needed most in most parts of Ethiopia, particularly Tigray, Afar and Amhara.
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