Dear
@BurukAregawi
,
Let me remind you that we
#Tigrayan
brothers & sisters are with you during this darkest time. Forget the negative energies coming from any direction. Millions of
#Tigrayans
want you to be safe & alive. Tigray doesn't afford to lose a single son, ዝሓወይ!
A good non-
#Tigrayan
friend of mine asked me about my family and challenged me to share my private story.
Let me say it publicly that my dad was a proud TPLF fighter against the Derg in the 80s. He died fighting for the people of
#Tigray
. I don't know him💔.
A recently captured Ethiopian colonel is sitting, in a relaxed manner, next to a TDF commander. This is impossible if the scenario was the opposite. Any sane person across the world can see the differences in discipline & humanity between the TDF & ENDF.
#StopTigrayGenocide
@hrw
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I've translated an Amharic news published by Fana Broadcasting Corporation, Sep 30, in which 🇪🇹 has claimed it only targeted "military equipments WITHOUT harming civilians" at
#AdiDaero
, a
#Tigrayan
town levelled into rubbles on the morning of the Mesqel Holiday.
@AnnLinde
I've an Arab muslim friend. I asked him if he knows anything about the
#Alnejashi
Mosque. He said, "Yes, the holy place where a christian king sheltered the 1st muslims who're persecuted in
#Mecca
by the Quraysh." Then, I told him it got destroyed by🇪🇹🇪🇷with the help of 🇹🇷🇦🇪🇮🇷🇸🇦.
1/n
THREAD: This is Ethiopia!
*************************************
I have been exposed to 10,000s, if not 100,000s, of horrendous images over the past 15 months. But, this image is the most perfect representation of what Ethiopia means to
#Tigray
!
This little
#Tigrayan
girl has been suffering due to the absence of shelter, food, & medical help at a concentration camp in Semera, Afar region, where 14k+ ethnic
#Tigrayan
civilians have been thrown & languishing to death. End the
#TigrayMassArrests
!
@BradSherman
@LindaT_G
1/n
THREAD: the brutal murder of an ethnic
#Tigrayan
university student!
A resident of
#Arbaminch
contacted me privately & shared his testimony about the brutal murder of a young
#Tigrayan
lady inside the compound of Arbaminch University on Jan 31, 2022.
Not in favour of sharing personal stories. But, I just want to highlight the agonies of
#Tigrayans
who live abroad by telling a case shared by all of us.
My only sibling, wife, & only child used to live in 2 of the most shelled towns of
#Tigray
. Alive or dead, not known!
Yesterday, I was interviewed by SVT, Sweden's national TV, about my personal feelings about the situation in
#Tigray
.
"I have no confidence in the joint investigation."
<<He wants to see an independent international inquiry>>
#TigrayGenocide
Today, I watched an extremely devastating video on social media. In the video, many unarmed men and women are seen being tortured and beaten with sticks on top of a truck before they are dropped off from the vehicle & brutally massacred by a group of armed people.
"Birds flying out there in the sky, tell people across the world about what has been committed in
#Humera
"
An expression on a pic which I received from one of the
#Tigrayan
youths who escaped from the deadliest concentration camp in
#WesternTigray
!
#TigrayGenocide
@BradSherman
1/n
🔴🔴🔴
THREAD: who murdered
#Maria
of
@MSF
in
#Tigray
?
Today, I reveal a story that I have kept private to myself for several months about what were the events that finally led to the murder of Maria, Yohannes, & Tedros.
I interviewed my friend who escaped ...
👇🏾Maria
"Right now, I'm on a desert near to the Sudanese border & hiding myself in a bush. I've sustained a wound but couldn't get a medical treatment. As we're trying to flee to Sudan, the Ethiopian troops kept firing at us & am the only survivor out of 12 persons,"
#TigrayGenocide
I've received a very disturbing information from Hollholl refugee camp in Djibouti. Ethnic
#Tigrayans
are being demonised & tortured by the Djibouti security forces. I'm very much amazed why
@Refugees
&
@UN
don't take serious actions to protect refugees.
@hrw
#TigrayGenocide
Received extremely graphic testimony from a young [early 20's]
#Tigrayan
mother of three, who was gang raped by three Ethiopian military commanders in
#Tigray
in Nov 2020.
Truly speaking, I felt useless & helpless💔
Justice for the
#TigrayanWeaponizedRapeVictims
!
@LaetitiaBader
Dears,
When someone among us is in a state of emotional distress & breakdown, let's automatically step forward to comfort & protect them from anyone who would love to push them off a cliff. We are each other's shield.
#Tigray
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THREAD: a painful testimony from a medical doctor!
Today another heart touching testimony from an eyewitness of the
#TigrayGenocide
. He is a
#Tigrayan
& a medical doctor by profession & was a colleague of
#Maria
Hernandez of
@MSF
. There was a Colombian colleague.
I've a wife & a kid in
#Tigray
. I just learned via a one-minute voice message that she has been severely sick for over 6 months now. Unfortunately, I cannot send her money due to the siege.
My personal agony - an agony shared by every
#Tigrayan
in the diaspora.
#TigrayGenocide
When I share this info about Henok Gebretsadik, a
#TDF
fighter, I am thinking of several heroes & heroines who're in the same situation. I hope a well-organised movement will be launched to provide medical care for all wounded fighters.
Photo credit:
@genet_brhanu
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Today, I have been in a phone conversation with a medical doctor who was working at a hospital in
#Tigray
. His testimony tells that hell has been nowhere but in
#Tigray
.
I will try to regain myself from the shock & will share everything.
#TigrayGenocide
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THREAD: "We are almost dead bodies!"
What a heart-wrenching💔 expression from one of my contacts in
#WesternTigray
!
I saw the following picture going viral on Facebook. I was curious to know more & contacted the very person who posted it.
#Tigrayan
civilians, who have been brutally abducted by the Afar militiamen, have been thrown to a concentration camp in Semera, which is extremely unhygienic. Consequently, about 80 civilians have died due to sickness & denial of medical help.
@WHO
@DrTedros
@ICRC
@BradSherman
Dears,
It's with pleasure that I introduce you to Tsilalna Tigray
@TigrayTsilalna
, a newly established non-profit organisation which aims to advocate for & play its role in the rehabilitation of the 100,000s of
#Tigrayan
genocidal rape victims!
Please welcome ፅላልና ትግራይ!
"I wish God comes & takes me very soon. I'm saying so. I wanted the earth to open its mouth & swallow me but it won't."
Fitsum, a visually impaired & elderly
#Tigrayan
father whose sons were brutally murdered by the Eritrean troops.
#TigrayGenocide
@SamanthaJPower
@hrw
@amnesty
1/n
The
#AwashArbaMassacre
THREAD: The Massacre of
#Tigrayans
in the Afar region!
An English translation of the horrific testimony:
<< Hi, how are you, my brother, Gerie:
#Tigrayans
who live across Ethiopia have been tortured & extrajudicially executed...>>
Not a single time have I ever belittled the pain of any Amhara. However, many Amharas come to my tweets to drop their poisonous comments against my people only b/se I voiced for the voiceless people of
#Tigray
. I don't really understand what they gain by doing so!
#TigrayGenocide
Days ago, 👇🏾 man posted a clear genocidal message against the entire
#Tigrayan
ethnicity. Then, I've been searching for his details:
Name: Misgan Dessie
Affiliation: Eastern Amhara Fano
Position: Head
Criminal record: genocidal message on video camera
@LaetitiaBader
@amnesty
Today, I was so devastated💔 sitting next to a young
#Tigrayan
lady who couldn't stop crying when she was informed that one of her cousins [alongside 20 more ladies] was held in sexual slavery by pro-AbiyAhmed soldiers & consequently gave birth to a fatherless baby.
@BradSherman
1/n
THREAD: Heart-wrenching💔
#TigrayEthnicCleansing
at Bahir Dar, Amhara region!
Today, a mob of Amharas attacked ethnic
#Tigrayans
who were being held at a concentration camp located in the outskirts of Bahir Dar, the capital city of the Amhara region in Ethiopia.
Time & again, I'm bombarded with a non-stop question - a question whose answer I don't really know: how did we choose to be part of a country that has always betrayed us & invited or allied with foreign enemies to exterminate us for generations?
How?
How?
How?
#TigrayGenocide
Let it be clear that
#WesternTigray
, especially the
#Welkait
area, has been the scene of bloody fighting among the Derg, EDU, EPRP, TPLF and others in the 70s & 80s. Now, exhuming bodies from across
#WesternTigray
& claiming it belongs to Amharas is a short-sighted attempt.
@hrw
Lia Tadesse seems shocked by the scale of destruction which Ethiopia & Eritrea have jointly committed on the
#Tigrayan
health system.
Tragically, she has been part of the crime by concealing the amount of destruction inflicted on the health sector of
#Tigray
.
#TigrayGenocide
1/4
The twin lethal drone attacks on IDPs!
In a joint report with
@hrw
in April 2022,
@amnesty
found that Amhara forces controlling
#WesternTigray
Zone, with the support & complicity of Ethiopian & Eritrean troops, conducted a sustained campaign of extermination on
#Tigrayans
.
1/n
Danger 🛑🛑🛑
THREAD: Humera Concentration Camp!
Today in the afternoon, the Amhara govt removed all of its Special Forces who were guarding the largest concentration camp in
#Humera
town. But, the deadly Amhara Fano ...
In the name of the women & girls of
#Tigray
, I politely beg everyone who happens to read this tweet visit at least once per day!
It isn't fair to find this web on the 3rd page of Google upon searching it. No mystery; it's due to less # of visitors.
Currently,
If Meaza Mohammed [an Amhara] were to walk on the streets of Axum, I don't think she'd have been stoned to death. On the other hand, if Meaza Gidey [a Tigrayan] were to walk on the streets of Gondar, she'd have been stoned to death in broad daylight.
#TigrayGenocide
3/3
In return, I didn't want to say anything bad to him but reminded him of Ethiopia's betrayal of the people of
#Tigray
.
Frankly speaking, I would rather be left alone than have friendships with anyone who denies the agonies of my people.
Ultra Urgent!
The following two youths [Welday Seyoum & Martha Zemenfes] are among dozens of
#Tigrayan
residents of Shire who have selflessly been serving the IDPs. Unfortunately, men disguised in civilian clothes have abducted and taken them to an unknown place.
@SecBlinken
Surafel is one of the 1000s of
#Tigrayan
children who perished due to a systematic starvation & de-facto blockade which the Ethiopian regime has imposed on
#Tigray
.
The intention to destroy an ethnic group in part or in whole is called GENOCIDE!
@RepMcCaul
@BradSherman
@USAmbUN
"The doctor also said that Surafeal Mearig, the three-month-old baby the BBC wrote about earlier this month has since died. He was sent home from hospital as he had been gaining weight but then there was not enough food at home and he died on 13 January."
Mel'ake Hiwet Aba Araya, 75, had served at St. Virgin Mary Orthodox Church in Humera,
#WesternTigray
, for 60+ years starting from his early teenage yrs.
Belay Ayele Meshesha, a Neo-Nazi Amhara man, abducted him from the church & tortured him publicly.
Rest in peace Aba!
@hrw
I managed to talk to Abrha Kinfe - a father who lost his wife during a delivery to twins in
#Maikadra
. He told me they used to live in
#Metema
[Amhara] before they got persecuted & displaced because of their ethnicity in 2016. They resettled in
#Maikadra
till the war begun. [1/5]
In the latest
@hrw
report about the abduction & detainment of ethnic
#Tigrayans
, who were repatriated from Saudi Arabia, the heart-wrenching stories of those who have been executed by mercenary Eritrean soldiers are not included.
I've a witness.
@BradSherman
@RepMcCaul
@amnesty
Ethiopia has betrayed the
#Tigrayans
, especially ethnic
#Irob
, at the hands of the genocidal Eritrean forces for 18+ months. Any evil you might think of that exists in the dictionary has already been committed by Eritrea on the Irobs.
#Justice4Tigray
@RepMcCaul
@hrw
@amnesty
He lost his wife due to the absence of medical help during the
#MaikadraMassacre
.
“I prayed and prayed,” Abraha said. “God didn’t help me.”
“Look after my babies,” she said. “I’m going to die. I don’t have hope. I’m very sorry.”
Photo:
@AP
#SS33
#TigrayGenocide
1/3
I had a very nice friend who is an ethnic Amhara. We used to be colleagues working in an 🇪🇹n public university, him & I being the heads of the departments of Computer Science & Electrical and Computer Engineering, respectively.
This is the most bitter & ugliest truth every
#Tigrayan
must know! The Amhara Fano are inside
#Tigray
for a clear genocidal mission:
> gang rape, impregnate, infect
#Tigrayan
women+girls with HIV.
> kidnap, kill youths + public figures
> ransack door-to-door
> pillage artefacts
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Ethiopia exterminated IDPs for the 2nd time in months!
****************************************************************************
So-called international humanitarian law is just useless!
What is it for if it CAN NEVER be applied before innocent lives are exterminated ...
Several months ago, I got a message about a
#Tigrayan
lady who got gang-raped by 5 pro-
@AbiyAhmedAli
soldiers in front of her mom & dad. Today, I got a new message that devastated me so much - the lady committed suicide a few months ago.
#Justice4TigraysWomenAndGirls
Painful💔
2/5
Shockingly, 🇪🇹 publicly claims
#Tigrayan
religious sites, health centres, schools, social services centres & civilian residential areas are potential military targets b/se "military equipments & munitions have been hidden there."
@BradSherman
@JosepBorrellF
@LaetitiaBader
1/
#Tigrayan
refugees massacred by
@AbiyAhmedAli
's agents!
THREAD
#Tigrayan
refugees, who returned on their own via boats or repatriated by Saudi Arabia sponsored flights to Ethiopia, are being abducted &
#massacred
by
@AbiyAhmedAli
's forces in the Afar regional state.