Mukesh Kapila
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Writer, Professor Emeritus Global Health & Humanitarian UoM, Strategy Adv #AMR WHO, Sen Adv Pam_Int, Ex @FCDOGovUK @UN @WHO @IFRC
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I personally saw
#genocide
happening in
#Rwanda
,
#Darfur
,
#Srebrenica
: by the time recognised, it was too late. All we could do was count bodies & shed tears. Why I think happenings in
#Tigray
#Ethiopia
are also genocide in this piece:
@_Will_Brown
@Telegraph
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No one anywhere in the world voluntarily flees their homes and hearths unless there is existentialist threat: the refugees fleeing
#Tigray
and their desperate testimonies of brutality and loss are fundamental evidence of the overwhelming evil that has visited their land
#Ethiopia
“I am 70 years old and I have been displaced three times in my life’.
More than 60,000 people have fled Ethiopia’s
#Tigray
region to seek refuge in
#Sudan
. Via
@BBCAfrica
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No surprise as, with some honourable exceptions around the world,
@UN
staff often the first to leave and last to arrive in a conflict crisis as they have low pain threshold. Same is obviously true
@UNEthiopia
which is already broken & unfit for purpose.
#Tigray
#Ethiopia
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What a strange endorsement for a representative of the regime
#Ethiopia
that is responsible for using hunger as a weapon of war
#Tigray
. Such remarks just encourage the perps even further
Powerful remarks from Ethiopia’s UN Ambassador
@TayeAtske
at today’s
@UNOCHA
event on the hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa:
"There is no greater agony than begging for food."
"We are faced with the reality that we take food from the hungry and give it to the starving."
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These executions by
#Ethiopia
army in
#Tigray
show war crimes aren’t random tragic happenings in fog of war. They are planned pre-meditated & show strong intent to eliminate specific group on grounds of identity as young
#Tigray
people. Thus they appear genocidal
@nimaelbagir
CNN and Amnesty International investigate shocking video of executions by Ethiopian soldiers.
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Investigation
@BBCRealityCheck
indicates
#Tigray
forces aren’t misusing aid trucks as per
#Ethiopia
gov propaganda &
@UNEthiopia
admits that it’s fuel and cash blockade + harassment of Tigrayan drivers that’s preventing trucks to return for convoy duty
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A combination of famine and withdrawal of lifesaving medical care is a potent accelerator of the genocide in
#Tigray
#Ethiopia
. These end games always start - as with Hitler’s Nazis - by snuffing out most vulnerable first -logical as this requires least effort by killers
The daily horror for care providers!
Kibrom, a medical doctor at Ayder referral hospital
#Tigray
, shows painful regret for not being able to prevent the continuing deaths of his kidney dialysis patients due to lack of medicines & reagents from the siege by fascist
#AbiyAhmed
.
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Does sovereignty mean murdering your own people, raping your own wives, sisters, daughters, taking the milk out of the mouths of your own babies, inviting your neighbour in to burn your own fields and pillage your own homes? That is not soveriegnty. It is shame.
#Tigray
#Ethiopia
#Ethiopia
: Deputy PM Says “We`ll not Bow to External Pressures on our Sovereignty” “It’s a testament to the fact that we will never be submissive to the unjust external pressure,”
@DemekeHasen
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Thank you. I am indeed touched. You will never be alone
#Tigray
❗Dear
#Tegaru
In our weekly recognition of public figures, who have been raising their voice on behalf of
#Tigray
, against
#TigrayGenocide
&
#WarOnTigray
, please join me in recognizing and paying tribute to
@mukeshkapila
Thank you Mukesh Kapila
#Ethiopia
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The irony of this is stunning: UN chief Guterres asks
#Tigray
#Ethiopia
to observe Olympic Truce as the
#GenocideOlympics
in Beijing kick off...and China fuels the war with drones & other supplies.
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The world’s worst kept secret is officially out as
@UN
investigations confirm crimes against humanity by
#Ethiopia
and using starvation as weapon of war on
#Tigray
. To me it stinks of
#genocide
, but what’s in a name? We are still far from action even as world leaders meet
#UNGA
UN investigators say they believe the Ethiopian government is behind ongoing crimes against humanity in the northern Tigray region.
More here:
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Of course General
#AbiyAhmed
has every right to sacrifice himself in pursuit of his foolish objective but not to sacrifice the children of others
#Ethiopia
#Tigray
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I dont think world gets it - this is a
#genocidal
campaign by
#Ethiopia
against
#Tigray
. Thus bleating about humanitarian aid completely misses the point that only a forceful response will work because genocides are not stopped any other way
@PamelaFalk
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Humanitarian including medical supplies have been going into
#Amhara
#Afar
and other parts of
#Ethiopia
but tragically not
#Tigray
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More & more stories are emerging from
#Ethiopia
outside of
#Tigray
on a progrom targeting Tigrayans - arrests, disappearances, and worse. If true, this would constitute ethnic cleansing - alarming escalation of the intent that appears to be a driver in this genocidal civil war
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If
#Tigray
forces have taken control of strategically important
#Dessie
, this is a game changer. One hopes that it brings the
#Ethiopia
govt, especially PM
#AbiyAhmed
to his senses. If not, then we may see a considerable widening of this war, with Addis itself at risk
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Drones are precision instruments that can be precisely managed by their human controllers. Hence these deliberately targeted killings are crimes against humanity and war crimes on
#Tigray
perpetrated by
#Eritrea
and
#Ethiopia
#AbiyAhmed
&
#Isaias
’ air forces conducted a horrific drone attack in
#AdiDaero
today targeting
#IDPs
from
#WesternTigray
. Dozens of children and elderly killed &many more wounded. What makes this particularly outrageous is the victims had been in IDP shelters in Adiyabo before
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Good that a Select Committee of
@UKParliament
will hold a public hearing on
#Tigray
#Ethiopia
tomorrow afternoon.
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The once - venerated
#Ethiopia
Ministry of Foreign Affairs is now a peddlar of lies - in the same way as Hitler’s Propaganda Ministry was
Response to the
#Ethiopian
Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Ludicrous Allegations.
January 14, 2022.
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I dont condone violence anywhere but when a people face genocidal extinction, it is their fundamental right to resist in order to live: recognised under customary international law. Actually, it’s a moral duty to resist evil in every way you can
#Tigray
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A ceasefire is meanigless if one side’s boot is on the neck of the other. These
#Tigray
conditions for a mutually agreed ceasefire.
#Ethiopia
should accept as basis for negotiation if it wants the Federation to survive.
@UN
#UNSC
should support
BREAKING:
Government of Tigray releases a 7-point condition for ceasefire, among them withdrawal of Amhara from all land seized from Tigray, UN probe into war crimes, restoration of basic services; most importantly, the Ethiopian Constitution as basis for a negotiated settlement
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I thought
#AbiyAhmed
had already been leading his
#Ethiopia
troops for several months: his great leadership has been so successful in the camapign of rape and pillage in
#Tigray
. Doubtless as great a general as he has been as PM. Emperorship surely beckons
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It was back in June that people in
#Tigray
were said to be on brink of starvation. Since then, only nominal food aid has gone in, on haphazard basis. The situation must be far worse now even as
#Ethiopia
denies it and resumes its genocidal assaults with
#Eritrea
help.
🚨Our partners on the ground cont sounding the alarm telling the world so called humanitarian access to
#Tigray
is not enough, has never been enough.
@WFP
reports on trucks allowed into region but negligently fails to inform amount of aid actually reaching the ppl.
#EndTigraySiege
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Once embarked on a genocidal route- usually seen as a ‘final solution’ (as Hitler said + Al Bashir’s official told me on
#Darfur
), logic is to complete it as half-a-genocide is militarily risky for perps. So
#hatespeech
ramps up as tactic to drive mass killings
#Tigray
#Ethiopia
Genocidal Statements
Amhara Pres,
@AgegnehuT
, on Tv today
"This people (Tigrayans) are an enemy to all Ethiopian people. This people are the enemy of the Oromo people, this people are the enemy of Afar people, they are the enemy of Gambela, they are the enemy of Somali" 1/n
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It seems
#Ethiopia
promises of
#humanitarian
access to
#Tigray
still not in effect, according to reports. Why the delay? With so many already at threshold of death, every hour that passes with no relief means scores more actually perish. Raising & dashing hope is form of torture
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Today’s genocides as in
#Tigray
aren’t done Nazi or Rwanda style. Those who think genocide is typified by mass graves have seriously outdated understanding. They shd refresh their knowledge of Genocide Convention which doesn’t talk of piles of bodies but of types of acts & intent
@AddisAb84501717
@mukeshkapila
Yes, i think, there would've been mass graves found after the unilateral ceasefire
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An urgent arms embargo on
#Ethiopia
is a minimum. Any country or company selling weaponry there or to
#Eritrea
is effectively murdering the people of
#Tigray
themselves
The situation in Tigray province,
#Ethiopia
is worsening every day. Reports of sexual violence, mass killings and the use of child soldiers mean we cannot look away - especially when two million are also facing starvation.
#YesterdayInParliament
I called for an arms embargo.
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The pattern of
#Ethiopia
behaviour since beginning of the
#Tigray
war indicates very high degree of pre-meditation, advance planning & orchestration. It also indicates its intention to win regardless of human costs on all sides and, as such, does not bode well for peace-seeking
👇🏾the timing is key. This was as Ethiopian officials were arguing that it was wrong to revoke AGOA trade access, of which Ethiopian Airlines was a key - supposedly civilian - beneficiary.
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… with thousands more being killed indirectly through denial of food and medical care. In the past, the world would have acted to stop such gross inhumanities. But now it seems that the world has lost the will to act
#Tigray
#Ethiopia
Over 200 civilians reported to be killed in recent Ethiopian airstrikes in the
#tigray
conflict
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Indeed, the
#NobelPeacePrize
for
#AbiyAhmed
was a distraction that blinded the world allowing immense crimes against humanity being committed when we were not looking. Never again to be fooled that way
#Tigray
#Ethiopia
“A lot of [Abiy Ahmed’s] rhetoric around the law and order operation in Tigray was very racialised and veering towards hate speech. We were very slow to pick up on that because this was a Nobel Peace prize winner.”
–
@nimaelbagir
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However it is an open secret that the staffing of UN
#Ethiopia
Country Team is either heavily penetrated by host government agents or/and incompetently led. Either way, a betrayal of the United Nations principles and values and not to be trusted
#Tigray
We apologize for an earlier tweet which was unauthorized and has been removed. It does not reflect the views of OCHA Ethiopia.
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When trolls say that I only speak on
#Tigray
they must understand that
#genocide
is only being committed against them - not
#Amhara
nor
#Afar
or any other in
#Ethiopia
even as they & all also suffer pain & suffering . My stand is clear: fight if you must but NO NEVER to genocide
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Modern genocides aren’t done Nazis style. Cheap, stealthy, smart way to do it is by starving, pillaging, raping, displacing. World then automatically demands humanitarian aid which will come but always little & late-allowing ethnic cleansers to finish job first
#Ethiopia
#Tigray
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At least five fold increase in continued mortality in
#Tigray
due to direct & indirect impacts of civil war on top of immediate deaths running into thousands extra. Consequence of way
#Ethiopia
waged war & assistance withheld. Longer term demographic impact considerable
No access to any preventive, curative, palliative healthcare now in
#Tigray
. Mental dysfunction compounds the physical problems and
#COVID19
testing and masks are just a theoretical concept
@HPN4Tigray
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Gang rape, Repeated rape, Rape of pregnant women, Rape of grandmothers... in some places hardly any woman left untouched - military elements in
#Tigray
#Ethiopia
& from
#Eritrea
continue to descend to most evil depths - as
@UN
Security Council &
@_AfricanUnion
remain paralysed
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Even when civil war in
#Ethiopia
#Tigray
ends - a dream at present - its physical and mental legacy will be permanent. At least, it will continue to extract severe human costs - for a long time. In that sense a genocide, even when over, has a huge lengthy tail of impacts. Prepare
The health impact [of the ongoing war] is going to last much longer than the succession of hostilities - many as
@mukeshkapila
puts it, will "drift into death" even if full access to healthcare is granted tomorrow.
#AllowHumanitarianAccess
#TigrayIsSuffering
@RepRaulRuizMD
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Will
#Tigray
get its needs-related share of generous
@USAID
aid even as all
#Ethiopia
suffering need help. What happened to hundreds millions by US and EU donors? Who ate & drank it? Any accountability?
@SamanthaJPower
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This language being used. Y the
#Ethiopia
PM about rooting out the weed of
#Tigray
is similar to the genocide incitement language of the Hutus against the Tutsi - cockroaches and insecrs - in
#Rwanda
. Perhaps He has made aclose study of that and the
#Darfur
genocide
Ethiopian PM uses genocidal language to describe TPLF. He calls them "invasive weed" that must be destroyed and not allowed to "bud again".
The reality is that war no longer targeted at TPLF, it aims at annihilating Tigrayans
Remember Hutu radio ref to Tutsis as "cockroaches"?
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The recent release of a few political prisoners by
#Ethiopia
is simply smoke to cover such ongoing atrocities in
#Tigray
.
An air strike in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray killed 56 people and wounded at least 30 in a camp for the internally displaced, two aid workers told Reuters on Saturday, citing local authorities and eyewitness accounts
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#Tigray
’s mothers, grandmothers, wives, daughters, sisters are the real heroes. Their bodies are the battlefield of the worst inhumanities devised, their suffering is beyond what others can imagine and yet it is in them that, literally, the future is vested. We cant let them down
These are the mothers of Tigray. They have been torn from their homes. They have watched their children killed and brutalized. They are hungry. They are cold. They are traumatized. They are forgotten.
#TigrayMothers
#TigrayCantWait
@PowerUSAID
@19thnews
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Not much sign of any humanitarian aid coming into
#Tigray
as
#Ethiopian
Troops Seen Moving Toward Area After Truce Declared - Bloomberg
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#Ethiopia
govt can bluster & bluff but its extreme brutal policies on
#Tigray
violate every human convention. Obviously it's also bullying & threatening international duty bearers who have the responsibility to speak up. It wont work.
@TheNationalNews
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"When international journalists are expelled while local members of the press face the threat of arrest, the message is clear:
#Ethiopia
authorities will not tolerate critical journalism or dissenting opinions
#Tigray
@TheEconomist
via
@news24
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Pity
@UN
chief
@antonioguterres
didn't speak up publicly weeks before as
#Ethiopia
#Tigray
crisis went from bad to worse to catastrophe. Perhaps coz of his re-election interest. Protesting now to return few staff pointless without any new meaningful action
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IMPORTANT: Are we moving towards recognising
#genocide
in
#Tigray
#Ethiopia
? Latest
@UKParliament
@CommonsIDC
report asks
#UK
Govt to..”take action in line with the UN Genocide Convention should the Ethiopian Government fails.. to protect its people”
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"500 cases of rape recorded from just 5 health centres" Likely number much greater. Puzzling why the PM of
#Ethiopia
contracted out the worst of the human rights abuses to inflict on his
#Tigray
citizens to his
#Eritrea
military allies.
@France24_en
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With
#Tigray
under a blockade that is killing thousands, and various groups excluded, how can a so-called "national dialogue" work? This is an exercise in monstrous cynicism by the
#Ethiopia
government (
@newhumanitarian
)
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Turning citizen upon citizen is what Gestapo did in Nazi Germany, KGB did in Soviet Union,
#CCP
does in China, and not surprised if an increasingly police state in
#Ethiopia
is doing also in relation to ethnic
#Tigray
people. After that they will do to other ethnic groups
Kiya Negash, was one of the attendees at today's meeting at the
#Ethiopia
|n Embassy in
#Italy
.
She said “The government should organize
#AddisAbeba
residents to spy, and provide advice on what should be done against ethnic Tigrayan business communities in a Kebelle level.’
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Not even the
#RedCross
to help them? Shame on all humanitarians. Is basic humanitarianism now dead in
#Ethiopia
#Tigray
?
@ifrc
@icrc
@EthioRedCross
Tigrayans at the outside of Gotera temporary concentration camp for Tigrayans. They bring food, water and other necessities for their detained families. They said access is a matter of lottery. You can spend a whole day there and go back home with your food.
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