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Yonas Nigussie @yonigussie.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Genocide By Attrition: Death Toll Climbs In #Tigray’s IDP Camps Wolay Berhe, IDP coordinator in Shire, reported nearly 300 deaths in the Hintsats center in the past three months, with “at least one death recorded daily” due to hunger and lack of medical care. 1/ addisstandard.com/death-toll-c...
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Death toll climbs in Tigray’s IDP centers amid aid shortages, political strife - Addis Standard
Death toll climbs in Tigray’s IDP centers amid aid shortages, political strife Addis Standard Analysis -
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FAwot (ሃገረይ ትግራይ)💛❤️ @fawet.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Grave human rights violations that were met with impunity, leaving justice denied and victims abandoned. #TigrayGenocide #Justice4Tigray @hrw.org @amnestyuk.bsky.social @amnesty-de.bsky.social @ukparliament.parliament.uk x.com/hrw/status/1...
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Yonas Nigussie @yonigussie.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
“The International Community Failed In Its Duty to Protect Us” In the statement, the Commission of Inquiry on #Tigray Genocide expresses its dissatisfaction on the international community for their failure to meet up to the standards of their humanitarian obligations. tigraitv.com/en/we-affirm...
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“We affirm the international community failed in its duty to protect us.” says Commission of Inquiry on #Tigray Genocide - Tigrai Tv
MEKELLE, December 9, 2024 (Tigray Mass Media Agency) – Commission of Inquiry on Tigrai Genocide (CITG) issues a press release on the occasion of the
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Omna Tigray @omnatigray.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Governments have a duty to ensure their people's human rights. Since Nov. 2020, the Ethiopian govt has not only failed to protect Tigrayans' rights but has grossly violated them in the #TigrayGenocide. Tigrayans' right to life continues to be infringed. #HumanRightsDay.
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Yonas Nigussie @yonigussie.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
HIV Prevalence Doubles In Tigray Post-War A study by the #Tigray Health Research Institute shows that HIV prevalence in the region has increased from 1.4% before the war to 3% in its aftermath, with IDPs (5.5%) & sex workers (8.5%) being the most affected. 1/ amharic.voanews.com/a/tigray-gbv...
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በትግራይ ክልል የኤች አይ ቪ ስርጭት ከጦርነቱ በኋላ በእጥፍ መጨመሩ ተገለጸ
በትግራይ ክልል የኤችአይቪ ስርጭት ከጦርነቱ በኋላ በእጥፍ መጨመሩን፣ በክልሉ የተካሄደ ጥናት ጠቅሶ የክልሉ ጤና ቢሮ አስታወቀ። ለቫይረሱ ስርጭት መጨመር፡ የሴቶች መደፈር፣ በኢኮኖሚ ችግር ምክንያት በወሲብ ንግድ ላይ የተሰማሩ ሴቶች መበራከት እና የነዋሪዎች ከቀዬ መፈናቀል በምክንያትነት ተጠቅሰዋል። የቫይረሱ ስርጭት...
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Sara gidey @12sara.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Unexploded ordnance in #Tigray continues to pose a serious threat to children, who are often the most affected. #TigrayIsSuffering @unhcr.org aje.io/3tfdrb
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Photos: Weapon contamination in Ethiopia wrecks limbs and dreams
Unexploded ordnance in Tigray continues to pose a serious threat to children, who are often the most affected.
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FAwot (ሃገረይ ትግራይ)💛❤️ @fawet.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
#Justice4Tigray
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ytbarek.bsky.social @ytbarek.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Despite the peace agreement signed in November 2022 the campaign of ethnic cleansing has been flowing in western Tigray region. #UpholdThePretoriaAgreement #FreeWesternTigray omnatigray.org/the-tragedy-...
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The Tragedy of Western Tigray: A continuous cycle of crimes and the deliberate destruction of evidence
Western Tigray, located in Ethiopia’s northernmost region of Tigray, has been a scene of horrific crimes since the onset of the war on Tigray on November 4, 2020.
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Mahi Gal 70👸💚 @natsnettigray.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Initiatives that support women’s economic empowerment, such as skills training &livelihood programs, can help them rebuild their lives &contribute to their recovery. #Justice4TigrayanWomenAndGirls. @unwomen.bsky.social @profmulugeta.bsky.social addisstandard.com/the-unfinish...
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The Unfinished Peace: Why women’s inclusion is key to Tigray’s recovery - Addis Standard
The Unfinished Peace: Why women’s inclusion is key to Tigray’s recovery Addis Standard Op/Ed -
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FAwot (ሃገረይ ትግራይ)💛❤️ @fawet.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I am followed back, humbled and honored by @timnitgebru.bsky.social Hats off! 🙇🏽
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FAwot (ሃገረይ ትግራይ)💛❤️ @fawet.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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Sara gidey @12sara.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
It's been #4Years since the #AxumMassacre was committed. On November 28-29, 2020, the Eritrean troops supported by the Ethiopian Federal Army massacred more than 1000 civilians in Axum, Tigray. #NeverForget, #NeverAgain #AxumMassacre @bbcafrica1.bsky.social
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Naty @natyyifru.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
🏴🏴🏴 #AxumMassacre They did have names. These were their names. #Tigray #Ethiopia 🏴🏴🏴
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FAwot (ሃገረይ ትግራይ)💛❤️ @fawet.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
#Axummassacre #Justice4Tigray #TigrayGenocide @amnestyuk.bsky.social @ukparliament.bsky.social @hrw.org @cnn.com @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social “An alleged massacre in late November at the Church of St Mary of Zion in Axum by Eritrean troops” publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5801/cm...
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The humanitarian situation in Tigray - International Development Committee - House of Commons
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FAwot (ሃገረይ ትግራይ)💛❤️ @fawet.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
#Axummassacre #TigrayGenocide #Justice4Tigray
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FAwot (ሃገረይ ትግራይ)💛❤️ @fawet.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
#AxumMassacres #TigrayGenocide #Justice4Tigray
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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
My people, The Continent🙏🏾💜
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FAwot (ሃገረይ ትግራይ)💛❤️ @fawet.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The worst atrocity committed in Tigray amount to crime against humanity against the people of #Tigray #TigrayGenocide #Justice4Tigray @amnestyuk.bsky.social @ukparliament.bsky.social @irishtimes.bsky.social @cnn.com @kenroth.bsky.social t.co/NgadrGBv2V
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https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/02/ethiopia-eritrean-troops-massacre-of-hundreds-of-axum-civilians-may-amount-to-crime-against-humanity/
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FAwot (ሃገረይ ትግራይ)💛❤️ @fawet.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
#TigrayGenocide #Justice4Tigray @ukparliament.bsky.social @davidlammy-mp.bsky.social @cnn.com @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social @amnestyuk.bsky.social @hrw.org @kenroth.bsky.social @andrewstroehlein.bsky.social
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Omna Tigray @omnatigray.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
In her recent article, Batseba, amplifies the voices of Tigray’s #Irob minority, drawing attention to the failures of the Algiers Agreement & how those failures have an impact today, as #TigrayGenocide continues & peace is distant in occupied areas. omnatigray.org/amplifying-t...
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Amplifying the Voices of the Tigrayan Irob Community: The Failure of the Algiers Agreement
It is imperative that we center the voices and experiences of indigenous peoples like the Irob in our collective efforts to build a more peaceful and inclusive Horn of Africa.
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herantigray.bsky.social @herantigray.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Dear @tomfletcherun.bsky.social, women and girls of Tigray were the primary targets of conflict-related sexual violence by Ethiopia🇪🇹 and Eritrea🇪🇷. Many women remain with no services and the UN needs to provide attention to #TigrayGenocide www.arte.tv/fr/videos/12...
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Tigré : viols, l’arme silencieuse - ARTE Reportage - Regarder le documentaire complet | ARTE
En Ethiopie, dans la région du Tigré, deux femmes se battent pour faire entendre les souffrances de leurs sœurs, victimes de viols de guerre.
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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
On this International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, please consider making a donation to support @hpn4tigray.bsky.social's programs to deliver medical care and services to GBV survivors and their children in #Tigray. givebutter.com/GiveHealth
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Giving Tuesday For Tigray 2024
Give the gift of health to Tigray with HPN4Tigray!
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Omna Tigray @omnatigray.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
In this research article, foreign involvement in the mining industry in #Tigray is explored. Amid the #TigrayGenocide, the region is susceptible to the ‘resource curse’. Read about the implications of mining in Tigray at the link below 👇🏾 omnatigray.org/mining-in-ti...
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Mining in Tigray: A Resource Curse Amid Genocide
While protecting Canada’s mining interests in Ethiopia, and specifically, Tigray, the gross human rights violations taking place as part of a genocidal campaign in Tigray were ignored.
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Yonas Nigussie @yonigussie.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Ethiopia Bans Two Pro-Amhara Rights Organizations Ethiopia has banned two pro-Amhara rights groups—CARD and AHRE. During the #Tigray war, these organizations covered up & downplayed rights abuses, but they're now rightly speaking out against atrocities in #Amhara. www.thereporterethiopia.com/42692/
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Authority Suspends Licenses For Two Rights Organizations
Federal officials have suspended licenses of two right-focused groups, the Center for Advancement of Rights and Democracy (CARD) and the Association for Human
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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Disinformation campaigns about the Tigray Genocide go beyond social media. A recent paper from Leiden University’s African Studies Centre uses bad research and a conspiracy theory to “debunk” genocide, mass rape, forced starvation, and massacres of Tigrayan civilians. 🧵/1
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FAwot (ሃገረይ ትግራይ)💛❤️ @fawet.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
True & applies to our current situation in Tigray but many of us [elites] avoid it. Keeping our heads in the sand in face of crises, worsening Tigray’s suffering unabated. It’s inevitable; we should burn the bridges & taking a stand to what is important to our people. @profmulugeta.bsky.social
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Justice Seeker @justice4tigray7.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Dear #IC #HumanRights #UN The int'l community should take immediate action to restore Tigray's territories and facilitate the return of IDPs to their homes. We seek urgent #ReturnTegaruIDPs #UpholdThePretoriaAgreement #BringBackTigrayanRefugees #EritreanTroopsOutOfTigray
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FAwot (ሃገረይ ትግራይ)💛❤️ @fawet.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
✊🏽 T I G R A Y ✊🏽 youtu.be/c4kws1edopY
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Habu G "Gedim Do Ethiopiawi" ሓቡ ጂ "ገዲም ዶ ኢትዮጵያዊ" New Tigrigan Official video Music 2022
YouTube video by Suzan Multimedia
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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Then #AmnestyusedTPLFsources emerged. Video of a Boston man, a Tigrayan activist re-enacting Axum massacre testimony, was coopted by government media, who claimed the man masqueraded as an Axum based priest and duped Amnesty Intl. Below: Ethiopia's Ambassador to the US tweeting the disinformation.
An image circulated by Ethiopian government suppporters, claiming that the man in the footage is a Boston native who misled Amnesty researchers by pretending he was a priest in Axum and sharing eyewitness testimony Ambassador Fitsum Arega, the then Ethiopian Ambassador to the US, currently Ambassador to Canada tweeting disinformation about a fake priest that he claimed duped Amnesty researchers
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FAwot (ሃገረይ ትግራይ)💛❤️ @fawet.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
#ትግራይመንዋሕስኪ?💔
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zewdi Abtaha @zewdiabraha.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
#Ethiopia: #Tigray launches DDR program for 75,000 ex-combatants, #Mekelle to receive 320 in first week @HRW The Tigray region has commenced its disarmament, demobilization& reintegration (#DDR) program, targeting 75,000 former combatants. #UpholdPretoriaAgreement @marcorubio
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FAwot (ሃገረይ ትግራይ)💛❤️ @fawet.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
When #ICC investigate #Tigray war crimes, focusing on atrocities, human right violations, and accountability for all involved parties? @ukparliament.bsky.social reported & corroborated the findings 👇🏽 publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5801/cm... @amnestyuk.bsky.social @hrw.org on.ft.com/40Yr2OC
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ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu
Warrant also issued for former defence minister Yoav Gallant over allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity
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My love❤️🔐 @selamtigray.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A humanitarian crisis is escalating in northern Ethiopia due to drought, crop failure, and ongoing insecurity from war. We urge aid organizations to respond adequately. #Aid4Tigray @worldfoodpolicy.bsky.socia @amnestyuk.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com @hrw.org www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Two million at risk of starvation in Tigray, aid official warns
Crisis is unfolding in northern Ethiopia - driven by drought, crop failure and insecurity following war.
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FAwot (ሃገረይ ትግራይ)💛❤️ @fawet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A comrade who voice in another language and tirelessly. ✊🏽 🫡 Follow him please. #Justice4Tigray
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FAwot (ሃገረይ ትግራይ)💛❤️ @fawet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Blue sky seems free from PP stooges, Fano sheeplies and Eritrean trolls. Sigh! #Justice4Tigray
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FAwot (ሃገረይ ትግራይ)💛❤️ @fawet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Brrr… 🥶 Yes #Justice4Tigray in summer, winter..all seasons. #Tigray you don’t deserve this. “Justice too long delayed is justice denied” Martin Luther King Jr.
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FAwot (ሃገረይ ትግራይ)💛❤️ @fawet.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Kenya is unsafe & working with dictators under the administration of #WilliamRuto. There’s a similar case happened to a Tigrayan, father, businessman Samson T/Mariam has been kidnapped in a broad daylight & still unknown his whereabouts. This hinted that may be he’s either in Ethiopia or Eritrea.1/2
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FAwot (ሃገረይ ትግራይ)💛❤️ @fawet.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Follow Kate.
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Kate Hixon @kahixo.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This is a really great thread. Amnesty documented some issues with hate speech during the conflict although on Meta rather than twitter. As more people join Bluesky so important to have conversations about how to combat disinformation and hate speech that can further fuel conflict.
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FAwot (ሃገረይ ትግራይ)💛❤️ @fawet.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The snow falls softly, the sound of footsteps cracks the stillness, each steps a fleeting echo in the quiet, frozen world. Whispers of the snowflakes drifting from the sky while Tigray is in my mind. Let this winter brings justice to my people #Justice4Tigray ❄️ ⛄️
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FAwot (ሃገረይ ትግራይ)💛❤️ @fawet.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Great to see a big man @tsegaye-40.bsky.social here and be followed by him. Please follow him. #Tigray appreciate him for every single voice he made since the war broke out till now. Hats off Dr. Tsegaye.
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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A lot of the tweets were the same, copy pasta, prepared content uploaded to the pro government unityforethiopia dot net website (now down). A lot of it was vile and misogynist harassment of journalists such as CNN's Nima Elbagir who did so much critical coverage of Tigray. It's all we saw for weeks
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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
In response to Amnesty International’s earth-shattering report, and the scores of media reports that came shortly after, the Ethiopian government and its supporters mobilized to depict the reports as complete fabrications. One of the primary tools used for pushing Axum massacre denial, was Twitter.
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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The hashtags trended widely in Ethiopian circles. People in Tigray generally had no idea what was going on online, with their internet access completely severed. But elsewhere in Ethiopia, the campaign pushed the idea that all news coverage was fake and meant to defame Ethiopia.
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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
It whipped up a fascist frenzy. Axum massacre denial was mainstream. It was popular and ubiquitous. Everyone, including this University professor in New York who went on state media to do it, had no problem openly peddling it, because there were no consequences anywhere. No one knew enough or cared.
Ethiopian Press Agency article

"Amnesty should issue retraction for false Axum allegation: scholar"

In it, Iona University Professor Derese Kassa, an Ethiopian national, peddles baseless denialism
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Duke Burbridge @burbridgeduke.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I was about to go to bed, when I saw this thread. I beg you all to read it. I will be contributing my own mini case study on systematic SBV tomorrow, I hope. And then one on weaponized starvation. They will not be as good as this one though, the guy is a genius.
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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The newspapers were no slouches either. The biggest English language state newspaper, Ethiopian Herald put out an editorial in their paper and all their online platforms, calling on people to tweet 45 prepared tweets pushing Axum massacre denialism. (Only sharing English content for this thread)
Ethiopian Press Agency/The Ethiopian Herald
February 28, 2021  · 
6th Global twitter campaign commences today
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(E P A) 
Fellow Ethiopians and Friends of Ethiopia have commenced 6th global twitter campaign to expose #TPLFMisinformationCampaign and to defend Ethiopia.
The today’s campaign is targeting to expose #Amnesty’s unfair Investigation Report on
#Axum and hashtag the post #FakeAxumMassacre. Some 45 tweet slogans are prepared regarding Amnesty’s Investigation Report that louds the report’s unfairness and lack credibility.
Today’s Worldwide #TwitterCampaign organized by Unity For Ethiopia.
It is to be recalled that members of the Ethiopian community living in USA said the volume of tweets in the fifth edition of the counter disinformation spirals to 132.7K and 96.3K in six hours under #UnityforEthiopia and #JusticeforMaikadra, respectively.
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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Then, on Feb 26th 2021, Amnesty Intl published a blockbuster report using OSINT methods. Having located scores of displaced survivors in refugee camps and amassing satellite imagery which depicted the sudden emergence of huge mass graves in the city, they confirmed a horrible massacre took place.
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Eritrean troops massacre hundreds of civilians in Axum, Ethiopia
#Axum massacre: Eritrean troops massacre hundreds in possible crime against humanity - new @amnesty report
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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
But as survivors displaced from Axum fled to Sudan & regained internet access, testimony of what they had seen began to make the rounds. Still, a conflict data entity which describes itself as the "highest quality real time data source" was confident enough to tweet this (later retracted & deleted)
Tweet by Armed Conflict Location and Event Data
@ACLEDINFO

"There is no credible evidence that an attack in Axum has led to 750 deaths #Ethiopia This conflict, like all conflicts, as awful. Pushing false information about events does not help, and is a hindrance to understanding who can be helped and what can be done."
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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
THREAD: Weaponizing of Twitter in 2021 to spread denialism & manufacture consent for mass slaughter in Ethiopia, a mini case study. I bring up social media damage, both to urge @bsky.app to work on preventative mechanisms & to raise awareness of the horrors it has caused, far from western shores.
Al Jazeera story

Killings in Axum by Eritrea troops ‘may amount to war crimes’
Amnesty says in new report that hundreds of civilians were killed by Eritrean troops in Ethiopian town of Axum last November.
BBC article 

Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: How a massacre in the sacred city of Aksum unfolded
26 February 2021

Partial shot of the city of AxumHuman Rights Watch

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Ethiopia: Eritrean Forces Massacre Tigray Civilians
UN Should Urgently Investigate Atrocities by All PartiesFrance 24 

Eritrean troops killed hundreds of civilians in Ethiopia’s Tigray, Amnesty says
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Eritrean soldiers fighting across the border in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region killed hundreds of people in a massacre last year in a likely crime against humanity, Amnesty International said Friday.
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