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Omna Tigray was founded by a collective of Tegaru from all over the world who believe in educated advocacy and access to resources.
Our vision is to fight injustice, advocate for peace and economic development, and amplify the voices of the people in
#Tigray
.
#OmnaTigray
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Dear Women of Tigray,
Women around the world are watching in horror as Ethiopian and Eritrean forces take away everything you love. We are watching in horror, but also in awe. In awe of your strength, resilience, kindness and rebellion.
We will always stand with you.
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Tigrayan kids protest, amplifying the atrocities happening to children in Tigray.
2.3M+ children need immediate humanitarian assistance. Hundreds of children are unaccompanied at the refugee camps in Sudan.
Help us in stopping the
#TigrayGenocide
,
@SecBlinken
@POTUS
@USAmbUN
.
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"We are displaced from different corners of
#Tigray
. The situation is horrific. No banking and power services. The people of Tigray are under a complete siege. We need food and medical supplies. Pregnant mothers and children are dying..."
#ReconnectTigray
#TigrayGenocide
@UN
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“We have a lot of problems, especially in regards to nutrition...There is no water supply + electricity; all is due to the siege. There is lack of medication...We want to help our patients, but they are dying in front of our eyes."
#TigrayGenocide
#ReconnectTigray
#Tigray
@UN_HRC
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“We’re using our bare hands to treat the casualties here because we couldn't get medical equipment – including gloves. We’re desperate to save the lives of injured ones..., but it's beyond our control. It’s a pity to see people dying because of shortage...”
#AllowAccessToTigray
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"We are being starved by the siege...Every service in
#Tigray
has collapsed. They put us in a chokehold. There is hunger. There is also disease. The international community knows this, but they are not sending their helping hands to us."
#AllowAccessToTigray
@JosepBorrellF
@UN
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Today, hundreds of Tigrayans protested against the
#TigrayGenocide
in Denver, CO. 9 months into the genocidal war in Tigray, humanitarian aid continues to be blocked by the Ethiopian govt, amidst 900K+ Tigrayans in famine, with 100K+ children at risk of death from malnutrition.
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Ashenda (ኣሸንዳ) is a women’s festival celebrated during the month of August in Tigray.
Today, girls + women in Tigray will experience Ashenda amidst ~10 months of
#TigrayGenocide
. We ask that you advocate for them, that you believe their stories + that you never forget them.
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Child and maternal health in
#Tigray
continues to suffer due to the collapsed health system.
“I am here to deliver my child...all the beds are taken and the rest are broken...I gave birth here before and the delivery room was well equipped…You can’t compare the facility now.”
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ዓሚ ከምዛ ሎሚ ኣብ ልዕሊ ህዝቢ ትግራይ ዝተኣወጀ ዘርኢ ናይ ምፅናት ኲናት ንምቅላዕን መፍትሒ ንምንዳይን Omna Tigray ጀሚርና::
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It has been 500 days since
@AbiyAhmedAli
waged a war on
#Tigray
, which he initially called a “law enforcement operation.” It did not take long for
#Tigrayans
and the international community to learn this was far from a quick operation.
#500DaysOfTigrayGenocide
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The govt of
#Ethiopia
|n PM Abiy Ahmed lies. Since the
#TigrayGenocide
began in 2020, the inconsistent narratives, half-truths, denial & disinformation have grossly undermined the reality of Tigrayans. The following sheds light on just a few of
@AbiyAhmedAli
's biggest lies.👇🏾
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We are deeply alarmed at reports of
#Tigray
|an civilians being slaughtered in
#Afar
+ other parts of
#Ethiopia
by forces loyal to
@AbiyAhmedAli
.
With
#TigrayGenocide
extending to nearly all corners of the country, we call on the intl community to act immediately.
@UNHumanRights
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“The [Ethiopian] soldiers killed them all like goats. I went crying to my son first. I tried to pick him up but he was dead. I was shocked. I yelled to my God, ‘did I do something bad?’ … I started crying and kissing my son.”
@UN_HRC
@SecBlinken
@AsstSecStateAF
@Europarl_EN
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For 500+ days, Tigrayan women + girls have been bearing the brunt of the ongoing
#TigrayGenocide
. On the basis of their Tigrayan identity, they’ve been raped, starved + killed by the Ethiopian govt + its allies.
They’re pleading for the world’s help. Will you stand by them?
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The ruin of
#Tigray
’s health system increases the risk of outbreaks.
“We have completely stopped giving vaccinations to children. That includes those that have to be taken in their first 45 days. This is all due to the siege. This is against basic principles of human rights…”
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Since the start of the war on Tigray in November 2020, the
#AbiyAhmed
administration has targeted Tigrayan members of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) solely based on their ethnicity.
#TigrayMassArrests
#TigrayGenocide
#TigrayanENDFmembers
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Nearly 600 days into
#TigrayGenocide
and
#Irob
remains under violent occupation of
#Eritrea
|n forces, preventing access to much-needed aid.
The remote, vulnerable Irob population in
#Tigray
reportedly continues to face forced displacement + abduction and forced to get 🇪🇷 IDs.
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We are highly alarmed at reports of Tigrayans in Humera being rounded up by Amhara Special Forces and Fano Militia and taken towards the Tekeze River, where mutilated Tigrayans were previously found.
Tigrayans in Western Tigray continue to be ethnically cleansed.
#TigrayGenocide
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The
#Ethiopia
|n government’s systematic blocking of humanitarian aid, use of drone warfare, and restriction of medical supplies into
#Tigray
has created a dire humanitarian crisis and fueled the man-made famine.
#TigrayFamine
#EndTigraySiege
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Airstrikes against civilians in
#Tigray
are a common occurrence.
"There were children inside the house. Luckily, they got out of it right before the strike. I'm a civilian and this is my house. I've worked so hard to build it, but now the drone has destroyed it."
#TigrayGenocide
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Tigray's Irob district remains largely cut off from the world. 507 days into
#TigrayGenocide
, the
#Irob
continue to face an existential threat at the hands of
#Eritrea
|n forces & the
#Ethiopia
|n govt. They face brutal 🇪🇷 occupation, massacres, weaponized rape & a man-made famine.
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Lekatit 11 refers to the day—February 18, 1975–when a group of
#Tigray
|an youth partook in a popular uprising to fight oppression by
#Ethiopia
’s centralized government.
#Lekatit11
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How long could you live without access to food, medication, and money?
This has been the unfortunate reality for millions in
#Tigray
due to
#Ethiopia
's nearly seven-month-long siege of the region, a deliberate attempt to starve and subjugate the Tigrayan people.
#TigrayGenocide
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The collapse of
#Tigray
's health system has caused an interruption of childhood vaccination.
“We used to give vax services 3 times a week...The vaccination is no longer available translating to none of those children getting vaccinated…[They] may never grow up to be healthy.”
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“As it relates to
#Ethiopia
, some of your colleagues have an aspiration but it is not an aspiration being realized. In the interim, 500,000 people have been killed.
How long do you wait before the aspiration is realized until you use one of your tools of peaceful diplomacy?”
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“We are hungry. Everybody is trying to survive by drinking water because there is nothing else.”
#StopTigrayFamine
@USAID
@USAIDSavesLives
@eu_eeas
@Europarl_EN
@JosepBorrellF
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#Ethiopia
's ongoing siege of
#Tigray
continues to be a death sentence.
“Simple medications given at emergency centers for emergency cases are non-existent. There is no oxygen + no electricity. Hence, patients – including babies – die on a daily basis.”
@SecBlinken
@JosepBorrellF
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It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved sister Zuher Ibrahim (
@zuheri28
). She was a fierce advocate for Tigray and one of our best community organizers.
Our deepest condolences to Zuher’s family, friends, and NY Tegaru community.
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Implications from the systematic destruction of
#Tigray
's healthcare system are multifaceted. The medical crisis in Tigray is not only leading to preventable deaths today, but will impact generations to come.
Read our new article to learn more. 👇🏾
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In conducting their genocidal war on
#Tigray
since November 2020,
#Ethiopian
,
#Eritrean
, and Amhara forces have used food as a weapon of war, creating a made-made famine.
Learn more about
#TigrayFamine
👇🏽
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“Today, I didn’t eat my breakfast or lunch. I have nothing to eat for dinner either. I’m running on an empty stomach...It's impossible to think about education now. I am not even sure if I’ll live long. It's all about survival now.”
#TigrayGenocide
#EndTigraySiege
@WFP
@UNOCHA
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One year ago, we started Omna Tigray to raise awareness of the unique sufferings of Tigrayans due to the ongoing
#TigrayGenocide
.
It has been a difficult year, but today we celebrate the resilience of our people and global community efforts to restore peace.
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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👇🏾
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“My children don’t have anything to eat. They sleep on an empty stomach. A person I know gave me the house that I’m currently sheltered in… I've sent two of my daughters to someone else with the hope they can find something to eat there.”
#EndTigraySiege
@HouseForeign
@POTUS
@UN
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We are encouraged that
@SFRCdems
and
@SenateForeign
passed S.3199 in today's business meeting, a result of the hard work and determination of
@SenatorMenendez
,
@SenatorRisch
,
@ChrisCoons
, other members in Congress, allies, and
#Tigray
|an/other diaspora advocates.
#Ethiopia
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“What is actually abhorring is that the international community, despite the tangible evidence that they have—that famine is indeed taking place in Tigray, that 5.2M people are indeed facing a manmade famine—they’re not doing anything apart from expressing concerns.” -
@meazaG_
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As the
#TigrayGenocide
continues unabated, so do the
@AbiyAhmedAli
's administration’s lies & blatant disregard for the truth. On this
#500DaysOfTigrayGenocide
, we look back at a few of the many easily refutable lies the
#Ethiopia
|n govt has told from Nov. 2021 to Jan. 2022.👇🏾
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“It is presumed that PM Abiy Ahmed asked Turkish support to obtain military technology, especially drones… the Ethiopian PM would more specifically be interested in obtaining Turkish Bayraktar-TB2 + ANKA-S drones.”
@RTErdogan
@SecBlinken
@StateDeptSpox
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“We were living comfortably at the time. I used to do hairdressing and generate income from my family. But now there are no paying jobs. There is nothing I can do but beg for food on the streets because we have nothing to eat.”
#AllowAccessToTigray
#Tigray
@EU_Commission
@USAID
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Fiyore Fantahun, Mai Kadra teenage survivor: “I saw so much cruelty. I saw people being killed + thrown into the river, especially Tekeze + Sheraro. People would be murdered + left on the streets. This is all because of the Eritrean soldiers + Amhara fano.”
@UN_HRC
#COIforTigray
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Over 250 Tigrayans have been killed + hundreds displaced from the district of
#Abala
, Afar.
"Ethiopian forces and their allies are looting, harassing, + killing Tigrayans. Those lucky are escaping, but those who are not are being killed. They said all Tigrayans must be vacated."
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"To bombard civilians is a clear sign of genocide"
"This is not new in
#Tigray
- The bombardments and atrocities that were happening all around the region are happening in Alamata too. Many civilians have lost their lives."
#TigrayGenocide
@SenateForeign
@JosepBorrellF
@UN_HRC
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5 months later, the people of Tigray are still waiting for decisive action by the int’l community to end the
#TigrayGenocide
. When will it come? Diplomacy isn’t enough to stop the rape, torture, & killing of innocent civilians. Tigray can’t wait any longer.
@USAmbUN
@mbachelet
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Tigray is now facing the world’s worst hunger crisis—the
#TigrayFamine
being a tool of the
#TigrayGenocide
.
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#EndertaMassacre
on June 28th, 2021:
"The soldier came in right away and started to strangle my husband and said 'are you the junta?' he then replied, 'no, we're farmers.' ... [The soldier] shot him in the back as he was coming inside our home."
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The
#Ethiopia
|n Prime Minister
#AbiyAhmed
’s administration has made every effort to deny and cover-up the atrocities taking place in
#Tigray
as part of the
#TigrayGenocide
.
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On Nov. 4, 2020,
#Ethiopia
’s PM
#AbiyAhmed
started a “law enforcement operation” in
#Tigray
. Yet, what has ensued is a coordinated attack on
#Tigray
and its people. This genocidal war, which the 🇪🇹 govt. brands a domestic issue, was internationalized from its onset.
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Our work has been fueled and supported by the advocacy of all of you — of an incredibly hard working and powerful Tigrayan community + our allies.
We love to see
@reda_getachew
now verified too ✊🏾💪🏾
Let’s continue the fight to bring an end to the
#TigrayGenocide
.
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Since the start of the genocidal war on Tigray in Nov 2020, the Ethiopian govt has heavily restricted access to the region. Since July 2021, a siege has been imposed on the region, killing 1000s.
Join us in our call for action to
#EndTigraySiege
Tweets👇🏾
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It is the duty of the international community to pursue justice for war crimes, crimes against humanity and Genocide.
UN members must
#VoteNo
to 🇪🇹’s proposal & instead fund the investigative mechanism for Tigray + get it operational quickly.
@USAmbUN
@USUN
@GermanyUNGeneva
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Yesterday, the Ethiopian govt targeted civilians via air strikes in Mekelle, Tigray.
Planet Hotel, housing civilians + NGO workers, was hit by one of the airstrikes, resulting in significant damage + shattered glass.
@JosepBorrellF
@eu_eeas
@SecBlinken
#MekelleUnderAttack
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Protest today in DC, calling on the US to directly intervene + stop the
#TigrayGenocide
. We also ask the US to push for UN-led + UN-only investigations, ending the agreement to involve
@EthioHRC
, to drive true justice + credibility.
@StateDept
@SecBlinken
@USAmbUN
@StateDeptSpox
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“There are women with newborns here and we don’t know what we can do for them. There are also people with chronic illnesses like cancer who are suffering from lack of food + medicine... We call for the int'l community to share our pain + do something practical to save our lives."
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A Tigrayan mother was killed in the Ethiopian govt’s drone attack in Hewane,
#Tigray
. Most of her children don’t know about her death due to the communications blackout & lack of fuel for transportation.
“Our mother is buried in our absence, as if she was childless.”
@PowerUSAID
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Hiluf Michael Mehari, a
@Refugees
staff member in Mekelle, was killed in transport alongside his daughter by drone attacks by the Ethiopian govt. The deaths, arrests + expulsions of your staff + other aid workers are happening on your watch + your inaction
@antonioguterres
@UN
.
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An elder from Tsigereda: “They have no sympathy. Not even for a blind woman like me. They took everything I earned when I was healthy...
There is hunger here, but I have nowhere to go… There is nobody that can help me because everyone is in need of assistance for themselves.”
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There are concerning reports from sources on the ground that there has been a power outage in various parts of Tigray, incl. Mekelle, for the last week.
Imposed by the federal govt, this power outage is yet another example of the systematic violations of Tigrayans’ human rights.
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We strongly reject the flawed joint OHCHR-EHRC investigation, and are calling on members of the UN Human Rights Council to pursue establishing a commission of inquiry (COI) to investigate the atrocities in Tigray.
#COIforTigray
@UN_HRC
Join our campaign:
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“Children are the ones being affected the most [by
#TigrayFamine
].”
“If mothers didn’t get a balanced diet during pregnancy or if babies are not properly fed during the first year after birth, their growth, especially their mental growth, could be affected badly."
@WFP
@UN
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“We didn’t expect that an airstrike would hit us, but it did. We can barely handle the hunger. Now our home is destroyed. This is Genocide.”
#NoFlyZoneInTigray
@NATODepSpox
@USNATO
@NATO
@NATOpress
@UKNATO
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The siege on
#Tigray
is causing many deaths due to lack of food, meds + other basic services.
For the IC to call for a cessation of hostilities without effectively using its tools + political will to break the siege is to support the
#TigrayGenocide
+ destabilization of the HoA.
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As
@reda_getachew
said “It should be left for the people of Tigray to determine whether they should have their own state.. Statehood is about aspirations of people & if the people of Tigray aspire to become an independent state, nothing could stand in the way of that aspiration.”
Is independence from Ethiopia the TPLF’s endgame in Tigray?
@AJUpFront
speaks to a senior TPLF member about the Tigray conflict.
Watch here ➡️
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Millions of Tigrayans are facing a genocidal war that includes the cultural cleansing of
#Tigray
’s heritage and history.
In collaboration with
@TigrayHeritage
, join us as we raise the alarm for
#WorldHeritageDay
.
#TigrayHeritageCleansing
@UNESCO
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Until we hear about the withdrawal of Eritrean troops from Tigrayans in region, we cannot put trust in the word of the Ethiopian gov't, which underscores the need for a UN-led & UN-only investigation.
#UNOnlyForTigray
@mbachelet
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It’s now been
#1YearOfTigrayGenocide
. 365 days filled with massacres, rape, famine, mass arbitrary arrests, hate speech, and harassment against Tigrayans. 365 days of Tigray Genocide.
And, this nightmare is still not over. It’s time the world takes action, and
#CallItAGenocide
.
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Pregnant women and lactating mothers in
#Tigray
lack access to proper medical care.
“The services we can provide for the mothers that can make it to the facility are quite limited. The laboratory is barely functional…Due to these problems, mothers have stopped coming to us.”
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During the genocidal war on Tigray,
#Ethiopian
,
#Eritrean
&
#Amhara
forces targeted Tigray’s agricultural production to weaken
#Tigray
’s social, political & economic structure.
Learn more about agricultural destruction as part of
#TigrayGenocide
& leading to
#TigrayFamine
👇🏾
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Forced starvation as a tool of the
#TigrayGenocide
. Facing famine, 6.8MM Tigrayans need emergency aid as the 🇪🇹 gov. blocks access to Tigray. We call on the Int'l Com. to end the siege &
#StopTigrayFamine
. Join us by signing the global petition below!
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“We have no food, clothes, medical supplies, or even shelter. We are in distress and the world should see our suffering...There are many children here suffering from malnutrition and unable to move. If [they] do not get help in the next 2-3 days, I don’t think they can survive.”
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Today, Tigrayans and allies protested against the
#TigrayGenocide
and called on the
@UN
to take action to protect the people of Tigray—many of whom are starving to death in the current famine.
This protest comes amidst the UN General Assembly taking place in New York.
#UNGA
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The conditions for
#Tigrayans
across
#Ethiopia
continue to be perilous as waves of mass arrests have intensified in Addis Ababa since July 2022.
Read more on Omna Tigray’s August 2022 Situation Report👇🏾
#TigrayGenocide
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Our hearts are shattered. Drone strikes in
#Tigray
have become a regular occurrence—so much so that civilians are often looking at the skies checking for drones. A 4-year-old boy, who had remitted epilepsy, had a breakthrough seizure when Mekelle was bombarded in Nov.
@PowerUSAID
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Ethnicity should not be used as a criterion to imprison people. 17K+ Tigrayan military personnel in ENDF were imprisoned right after Abiy declared
#WarOnTigray
. Urgent action is needed to investigate and protect them.
@PMaurerICRC
@USAmbUN
#WhereAreTigrayanENDFs
#TigrayGenocide
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Let’s talk about the Irob ethnic group in Tigray.
Having yet recovered from the Ethiopian-Eritrean border war, the Irob are once again being subjugated to violent occupying Eritrean forces during the war on Tigray.
We need to amplify their voices.
#IrobMassacre
#TigrayGenocide
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"As if the lack of food wasn't enough, now our people are dying due to a lack of medicine. There has to be some sort of solution sometime this month. People are dying in droves. The situation here is very difficult to explain. The things I see here are very bad.”
#EndTigraySiege
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“I am a resident of Addis Ababa. Addis Ababa is now in a very bad condition. We are distressed and terrified. My husband and brothers were taken three days ago and I have no idea where they are now.”
#TigrayMassArrests
@KenyaMissionUN
@citizentvkenya
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“On the one hand people are starving to death, and on the other, people are dying because they are not getting medical care. This also has to do with the fact that health professionals are also going hungry.”
#EndTigraySiege
#TigrayGenocide
@who
@JosepBorrellF
@PowerUSAID
#Tigray
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The situation in
#Tigray
is dire.
Omna Tigray’s May 2022 Situation Report provides updates on Western Tigray and the active man-made
#TigrayFamine
despite the
#Ethiopia
|n Govt. declaring what it claimed to be a ‘humanitarian truce.’
Read more 👇🏽
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#Tigrayans
throughout
#Ethiopia
have had to flee their homes to survive, and are faced with an immense amount of trauma that can be carried on across generations. The int’l community must take action to protect
#Tigray
|an IDPs and refugees.
Read more 👇🏾
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The communications blackout in
#Tigray
is a tool used by the Ethiopian government to suppress the victims of this conflict. We call on Int'l actors to demand that communications be restored in Tigray.
@SenateForeign
@CPJAfrica
@ICIJorg
@CFR_org
#ReconnectTigray
#TigrayGenocide
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On September 8th, cities across the globe held protests to urge the international community to help stop the
#TurkeyDroneSale
to Ethiopia.
Drones have been used to kill civilians, and through the new deal, Turkey, a
@NATO
member, will only further escalate the
#TigrayGenocide
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Today the Ethiopian govt announced it will not advance on Tigray.
This comes, however, as:
- Eritrean troops, supporting the Ethiopian govt, are increasingly amassing near the border
- ENDF, EDF + Amhara forces are still occupying western Tigray + ethnically cleansing Tigrayans
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