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Tigrayan athlete Teshome Mekonen who came third following Rhonex Kipruto and Edward Cheserek in the United Airlines New York City Half today chanting "stop
#TigrayGenocide
" at the end of the race.
#NYCHalf
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Tigrayans use the funeral ceremony of Major General Gebremedhin (Wedi Necho) at Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Abeba to air their protest. They called for the release of prisoners, and that Tigrayans are targeted on the basis of their identity. 1/n
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Tigrayan mothers's heartbreakingly breaking down, sobbing and asking for help on the side of the street after Eritrean troops rounded up and took their children, men and animals.The place is in Adi Dairo. Look at the woman unconsolably sobbing at the end.
#InternationalWomensDay
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A female TDF member finds time to show her dance moves. The TDF fighters are dancers, teachers, professors, medical doctors, business people and every other profession that have been forced to fight against a genocide waged upon them and their people.
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Meskel day for the people of Tigray wasn't a happy day. As if the blockade is not enough, Eritrean forces fired dozens of artilleries at Adigrat & Irob, & conducted air strikes in Shire and Adi Dairo killing civlians & destroying civilian infrastructure. Footage from Adi Dairo.1
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Tigray rallies
+ IDPs must return to their homes
+ The children of IDPs should also resume school
+ Amhara and Eritrean forces must withdraw from Tigray
+ Humanitarian orgs should fulfill their responsibilities
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An airstrike in Mekelle's Dom Bosco area by the Ethiopian Airs Force today has hit a residential area. Tigray TV shows footage of residents digging out dead bodies from one house. The number of dead bodies has not yet been fully counted.
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A cry for Help from Mekelle
Mekelle University community protested the inhumane blockade in front of UN agency offices in Mekelle:
"Please Help us, let act now"
"Hunger can't wait"
"Access to basic services now"
Women and children can't wait"
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A new video on the Mahbere Dego Massacre. Ethiopian soldiers taking one group of Tigrayans to the massacre site. The soldier filming uses swear words. There is a car with a mounted gun following. The videos have been posted by an Ethiopian soldier on his facebook page. 1/3
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According Medhin Gebreselassie (journalist), the woman below collapsed from hunger on a street in Mekelle today while walking carrying her child. She says only in Mekelle, 500,000 need emergency aid, but aid only enough for 51,000 has arrived.
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A BBC journalist who was based in Nairobi working for BBC Tigrinya, Desta Gebremedhin, abandons his job at
@BBCWorld
and joins Tigray Defence Forces. Asked by Assena TV, his wife Weyni Abraha said she is proud of him and added Desta was not in peace after the breakout of the war.
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Tsigereda Girmai, a 2nd-year student of Arba Minch University was found dead, according to the uni. Tisgereda is Tigrayan, and other sources say she was stabbed to death. The Uni is a notorious supporter of the
#waronTigray
. ( See )
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Amhara forces killing, burning and tying hands behind backs in Humera, Western Tigray. Victims with tied hands behind their backs have been found in Sudan. An Italian magazine presents videos obtained from dead Amhara soldiers.
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Mass grave of Tigrayans who died from hunger & disease in Semera (Afar) Concentration Camp. The more than 10,000 Tigrayans have been in the sweltering concentration camps without food & medication for more than 7 months now, after they were rounded up from Abala (aka Shekhet) 1/n
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A Tigrayan artist turns an award into a voice for his people.
"Normally, I would feel joy and honor when I get awarded in such a big stage. But I can't feel so when my mother is weeping bitterly, my brother is killed & thrown over a cliff, and when my sister is being raped"
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Videos of Ethiopian soldiers attacking civilians. Soldiers make two Tigrayan men kneel down and ask them where their children are. One is responding to the soldiers, when a gun-pointing soldier comes from behind and hits him hard on the back and throws him on the ground. 1/2
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This is Yohannes Mekeche (5). A bomb by the invading Eritrean and Ethiopian force entering Hawzen hit the family killing his mother and sister and wounding his younger brother Senay (3). The hospital in Hawzen is looted and destroyed. They reached Mekelle after 3 weeks.
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Tigrayan children trying to save their library and textbooks from their school, Selekleka Elmentary school, which Eritrean troops burned down. This happened on 5 January 2021. On that same day, they also burned down three other schools in the area.
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Update on "Humanitarian truce"
> No aid has reached Tigray nor is there any news of trucks moving.
> On the contrary, several credible reports that Ethiopia is moving buses of soldiers to the southern borders of Tigray.
> Ethiopia sent General Abebaw Tadesse to Asmara today
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Wounded TDF members conducted a rally in Mekelle today calling for food, medical care, clothes and attention. They say they have been neglected, are starving, have no clothes, get no medical care for their wounds.
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Humanitarian aid to Tigray has been suspended by order of the Abiy regime since August 24. Trucks that were past the the Serdo checkpoint were ordered to return. Note that there are no battles on the Afar front. Yet, neither
@UNOCHA
nor
@WFP_Ethiopia
have said anything on that.
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Eritrean forces keeps attacking Tigray on several fronts killing civilians and destroying houses. Firing heavy artilleries to Adigrat and the surrounding areas, the forces killed 5, injured 14 civilians, and destroyed houses and properties.
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Muluwork Kidanemariam is a historian, author of books, a successful businessman, an entrepreneur, a teacher, a philosopher, a community organizer, a leader, and a public figure. He joined TDF to fight against the genocidal invaders. He is seen in a photo in TDF held area.
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In a huge military display today, Ethiopia proudly announces its air forces destroyed Mesfin Industrial Engineering in Mekelle and Almeda Textile Factory in Adwa.
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Tigray Orthodox leaders take steps to establish Tigray synodos, independent from the Ethiopian Orthodox church based in Addis Abeba. This decision is based on the fact that the Ethiopian church and its leaders have supported the genocidal war on Tigray.
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Abel Guesh is an author of several books, a journalist, a TV personality, a writer, founder of several media initiatives, a host of TV programs, and a husband. Now he has joined the TDF to fight agains the genocidal war on Tigray. With his riffle on his side, he reads a book.
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Amhara Television regular expert, Assistant Professor Tingirtu Gebretsadik suggests the criminalization of even the name Tigray. He says it has to be divided into four zones making sure the region and its name Tigray are permanently erased. He calls Tigray a "criminal enterprise"
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Clinical psychologist Feven Teklehaimanot's message for
#IWD2022
from within blockaded Tigray, treating the multitudes of raped women. 1/n
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The interim head of the Tigray Orthodox Patriarchate, Abuna Merhakirstos, says the church of Tigray will be independent. He says "It will establish its own synod. the link with Addis is broken. We can't live with those who massacre us". 1/2
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A Tigrayan girl paints in memory of her cousin Nigisti who was killed in Hawzien last week. In her words:
"I dedicated this piece to my cousin Nigisti who was killed last week in Hawzen 💔🎨
Rest in peace 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
I promise we will look after your kids😢"
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In light of the HRW+AI report on Western Tigray, we remember EU’s envoy to Ethiopia, Pekka Haavisto's testimony in June 2021 about what Ethiopian leaders told him: "are going to destroy the Tigrayans” and “wipe out the Tigrayans for one hundred years”
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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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A footage showing when the Tigray leadership was "biting the dust" in the mountains. In the footage are Debretsion, Getachew Reda, General Tsadkan, General Tadesse Werede, Monjerino, and several others. This is a representation of the indomitable Tigrayan spirit.
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Many people make it look Abala is the only route into Tigray for humanitarian aid. They add that it is not being used due to conflict there. The truth is that there are at least 15 routes into Tigray. They are all closed on purpose, to starve Tigray.
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The Tigray Islamic Affairs Supreme Council announces its decision to severe any link with the Ethiopian Islamic Affairs Supreme Council (EIASC). It says EIASC' leaders have blessed the war & participated in the genocide with moral and financial support.1/2
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The Ethiopian medical blockade of Tigray has caused thousands of birth related deaths
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Deputy Chief of Staff of ENDF, Lieutenant General Abebaw Tadesse, says the destruction of Tigray's economy and infrastructure was the war's goal and it has been achieved with success.
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A small girl in Mekelle receiving a one-bread breakfast ration from a worker of a local NGO, Keradion, which is providing meager support to children affected by the war. The photo has broken the heart of Tigrayans who are sharing it in social media.
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Voices from blockaded Tigray.
They keep the Tigray TV afloat despite the unimaginable situation because "if you knew our story, you would care to act. ... We trust you care about humanity. But also because we never want to hear you say you didn't know"
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2 Eritreans PoWs tell how they killed Tigrayans. One says "in Sheraro I killed about 7, in Adigrat about 8, in Adwa about 7 or 8, and in Rama about 9". "I raped 6 women in Sheraro, 5 in Adwa, 6 in Adigrat & 6 in Rama. I took matresses, jerrycans, chairs, metals, necklaces" 1/n
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She raised an orphan to be a teacher and he was the only one providing her with a means of living. While he was coming to spend Christmas with her, Eritrean troops killed him. They also took her clothes, blanket and mattresses. She is left with a framed photo of his graduation.
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No person that is not bitterly grieving, no eyes that are not full with tears in Tigray. Accountability for the atrocity crimes committed in Tigray is mandatory.
“We were not allowed to bury the bodies of our relatives”: Survivors of the
#Maikinetal
of
#Massacre
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For More
#TigrayGenocide
#StopTigraiGenocide
#Tigrai
#StopTigraiSeige
#EndTigraySiege
#Tigrai
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Eritrean troops keep looting Tigray and transporting the loot to Eritrea. Even the donkeys and camels they use to transport are looted from Tigray. While Eritrean troops keep moving from one area to another, news of them leaving Tigray is false. 1/2
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"Why does the [Ethiopian] regime continue to give false promises that a convoy is on the way to Tigray or that it is playing a constructive role?" asks
@Teklai_Michael
in this look at the deceptive methods by which the govt maintains its ongoing blockade.
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Tigray Health Bureau & Mekelle University find that, only in the liberated areas of Tigray, more than 120,000 females aged between 15-49 have been raped by Ethiopian, Eritrean & Amhara forces. This doesn't include Western Tigray & Eritrea-occupied areas.
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The Tekeze dam power station that provided some partial electricity to Tigray was bombed yesterday by Ethiopia. There is a total blackout in Tigray now. Below is a footage from Dimtsi Weyane of the power station burning.
This is the aftermath of the
#TekezeDamAttack
carried out by the fascist
#Ethiopia
|n regime.
This dam was the only source of electricity for the entire region.
#TigrayGenocide
Video credit: DW
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Eritrean troops rounding up civilians in Tigray, most likely to kill them. Eritrean soldiers have told Tigrayans that they have been ordered to kill boys from the age of six.
@Mabl2K
has geolocated this to be 14.138343°, 38.952386° & estimated the time to be in August 2021.
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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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Ethiopia is conducting yet another airstrike in Mekelle right now. This is the fourth airstrike in four days. Two airstrikes on 18 October, one airstrike yesterday.
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A popular Tigrayan singer, Dawit Nega, dies in Addis Ababa at young age. He was previously detained for ~3 months as part of the general rounding up of Tigrayans. There is yet no clear information about how he died, but many suspect the regime is behind his death.
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.
@BradSherman
accused Eritrean & Ethiopian governments of blocking aid, and called for negotiations to end the war by allowing greater autonomy for Tigray. He also said Ethio authorities who called for wiping out Tigrayan should not be the guiding force.
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A video showing the scene of the kindergarten in Mekelle where the Abiy regime conducted an airstrike killing at least 7 including three children. The children playground tools and paintings are visible.
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Tigray war mortality: half a million people?
Ghent University researchers estimate half a million deaths of Tigrayans during this genocidal war.
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If Twitter does not want to give a “leader” who flirts with genocide a platform, it ought to suspend Abiy Ahmed. The stakes could not be higher. Twitter has a responsibility to act.
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A Tigrayan confronts Ethiopian leaders in
#EUAUSummit
"Ethiopia is guilty of genocide. They are genocidaires. They eat and the people of Tigray are starving to death. I have lost all my family. Tigray is starving and they are eating. They are enjoying. They are bloodsuckers."
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Ethiopia’s Ambassador to the Netherlands abandons Abiy Ahmed and seeks asylum in the USA.
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A Woman Confronts Cardinal Berhaneyesus on His Involvement in Tigray Genocide
"There is a genocide in Tigray. This is not something to minimize. we have a picture of you and other religious leaders standing with the Ethiopian military."
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Ethiopian soldiers attacking a young man in Mekelle. The soldiers are saying "beat him, kill him" as they attack him. The driver says "look at the knife". It seems the one with a knife is finally holding the knife against the victim's neck.
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Ethiopian & allied forces looted 3000+ vellum books and 300+ crosses from Waldebba Monastery of Tigray. They also destroyed the monastery, killed monks and poisoned foods with the intent of killing those who fled. Many books appeared on
@eBay
last month.
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Drone strikes continue. A drone strike on January 25 around Milazat, not far from Mekelle and another one on 27 January on the Tigray-Afar boarder killed civilians and destroyed property.
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Two weeks (half a month) since this announcement. Are millions of Tigrayans perishing in silence, without being heard and seen due to the blockade and blackout?
The Bureau of Social Affairs says half of the population in
#Tigrai
may perish in just over a month if
#siege
continues
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#StopTigraiGenocide
#Tigrai
#StopTigraiSeige
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We have reached 30k followers. Thank you. We value your support very much. Together, we will tell the Tigrayan story. Please help us grow by sharing, promoting and retweeting. Also support us:
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In this retrospective, we look at how political cartoonist,
@artssiyad
has chronicled
#1YearOfTigrayGenocide
through his striking drawings. We are deeply grateful to the artist for allowing us to publish his drawings & for the moving story that they tell.
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Ethiopia and Eritrea are conducting air/drone strikes in Shire today. We remember the two recent strikes in Adi Dairo where one targeted a school housing IDPs killing more than 50 and injuring more than 80. The regimes are emboldened by the total lack of condemnation/attention.
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Using close to 30 airstrikes and their civilian targets,
@Alemlem4
argues "the Ethiopian and Eritrean governments are at war with the lay Tigrayan, plain and simple."
"A diplomacy that bypasses state-sponsored genocide is not realpolitik"
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Ayder Hospital Doctors appeal to the world to help save diabetic patients from dying.
"100 years after the discovery insulin, please let us not deliberately sentence our type 1 diabetes population to inevitable and agonising death through collective inaction."
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Aba Samuel Concentration Camp for Tigrayans, Kality Addis Ababa. Many Tigrayan lives are wasting here. Some have been released recently, and many are brought here for a week or so from Mizan Tepi and other camps for them to recover before they are released.
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The Abiy and Isaias regimes have launched attacks against Tigray. The ENDF in Southern and Sekota fronts, ENDF and EDF in Adiabo front.
@flyethiopian
fully involved in transporting soldiers, weapons and munitions. Another repeat of the genocidal invasion of Tigray of 2020.
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Today, Amhara head of state
"finishing the war...some of it can't be told here, but the plan to finish the war has been planned and the ENDF is woking on it. Pre-war Preparation must be high. EDNF is in training, reorganizing and strengthening...Amhara is building a huge army."
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Fascism in Amhara, The story of Birhanie Mekuria, an Amhara married to A Tigrayans.
She is a native of Mersa town. Married for 16 yrs & with two children. When they learned a decision was made to kill their 'junta children', they all fled to Alamata, Tigray. 1/3
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Tigray Orthodox Church orders church services to use Tigrinya and not Amharic. The church says it will work to rebuild churches that have been destroyed by the war on Tigray. The church has ordered fasting from 14-20 February.
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The Abiy Regime has conducted air strikes in several areas in Tigray including in Mai chew and Adigrat. This is happening after the signing of Cessation of Hostilities Agreement in South Africa yesterday.
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Tghat has crossed its 200th published items. We spend considerable time, effort and resources for almost each article. We are therefore proud to have published 200+ since November 17. Help us reach 6000 followers. We appreciate and value your support and engagement.
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Tghat has obtained credible reports that Tigrayan generals and prisoners, selected from Awash Arba and other concentration camps for Tigrayans, have been transported to Eritrea (Assab) in containers via the Bure-Assab road. A source told Tghat many have been executed in Assab.
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The Catholic Eparchy of Adigrat announces that it is severing its links with the Catholic Church in Addis on grounds of the conduct of the later's leaders during the genocidal war on Tigray. 1/3
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.
@semienkhiyana
making an impassioned speech for action to end the deadly blockade on Tigray in front of the EU. This is a moving appeal to humanity to act and save Tigray and lives. Calling out
@antonioguterres
for his inaction
See her full speech here:
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A drone strike early morning (before people get up from bed) around Desta Hotel of Mekelle targeted a residential area killing so far one, injuring many and destroying residential houses, properties and electric lines.
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The Eritrean forces & their Ethiopian allies have shut down the electricity and the small number of VSAT networks in Shire. Reports say they have looted WFP food, started killing young people, and looting the city. The Eritrean-Ethiopian air-forces are also carpet-bombing Aksum.
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Drone attacks on an IDP center in Dedebit for Tigrayans displaced from Western Tigray in the early hours of Saturday, at night while the people were sleeping has killed at least 55 including an entire family and injured more than 126 others. 1/n
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Eritrea shelled Adigrat, Irob and other areas on the even and Meskel day (27 September). The shelling hit Adigrat University campus destroying buildings & classrooms. The university was damaged and looted by Eritrean forces in the first round of invasion.
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The massacre of 12/13 Tigrayans occurred on 3 March near Aysid (on the way to GERD). It took place one day after a convoy heading to the GERD was attacked by OLA+ Gumuz forces. Amhara and SNNP security forces are seen burning the Tigrayans.
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Abiy has made many promises & headlines by promising humanitarian access & sometimes allowing 1 or 2 trucks as a PR stunt. But his regime goes on to fully reassert the blocakde until yet another round of promises & token trucks, writes
@GebrekirstosG
. ⤵️
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A powerful reflection by Alem Berhe on the unspeakable suffering of Tigrayans and the lack of action from those who should act.
"We have to pretend as if the first thing we thought about in the morning wasn’t suicide."
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"I feel this is an opportunity for friends & colleagues in the US & my congressional representatives to stop the ongoing genocidal war on Tigray," writes
@ProfMulugeta
in his New Year's appeal for a
#WeAretheWorld
type campaign to stop
#TigrayGenocide
.
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Tigrayans of Addis ordered to line up early in the morning in specific areas to be transported by public transport to demonstration areas to show support for the Abiy govn't. This is a letter from Bole Wereda 4 Admin handed to Tigrayans of the Wereda telling them to do so. 1/n
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Tigray's president, Debretsion Gebremichael's letter to
@antonioguterres
. The letter says he has ordered Tigrayan forces to withdraw to the Tigray border to offer peace a chance. He mentions the failure of the IC and calls for imposing no-fly zone & arms embargo on Ethio-Eritrea.
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Ariam is a small girl, victim of the airstrike. She says "I was playing in the playground. Then when we saw the warplane, we tried to flee & hide. But then it dropped [bomb] on us. After that, my uncle Berhane found me. I want to learn and be a doctor"
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A heartbreaking speech of the father of one of the
#Mahberedego
victims.
"We came to the place six months later. We found it filled with bones, blood and bullets. Our children've been eaten by hyenas & dogs. We collected the leftovers and divided them among us, and buried them".
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Ayder Doctors and Health professionals in a document containing a position statement, case stories, challenges they face, mass starvation and sample images depict the grim reality of Tigray that they and their patients live in and witness everyday.
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Tigrayans at Alamata (southern Tigray) area trying to connect to the outside world using an almost non-existent cell network. They pay 700 Birr from Mekelle to Alamata, book a room for 5 days & pay expensive price to make a call. Usury rampant. 50% payment for money transfer. 1/2
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About 10,000 Tigrayans in an unimaginable suffering in sweltering Semera (Afar) Concentration Camps. They have been rounded up from Abala/Sheket area & placed in camps in Semera for more than 7 months. Some have died and been buried in a dumping ground, others have gone mad. 1/n
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