Bisrat Lemessa Kabeta Profile picture
US based independent researcher on Ethiopian politics | PhD in social & political studies from the University of Aberdeen

Apr 4, 2021, 9 tweets

Evidence👇 — @cnni lied

@jaketapper, withdraw the report!
@nimaelbagir, resign!

Did TMH pay a whistleblower for the videos? NO🙄 04:35👇

CEO of TMH stated in a March 9 interview that they found the footage on diff't phones of dead & captured soldiers🤣

Did @cnni or @amnesty geolocate the place?👇

➡️ "..CNN was able to geolocate the video to a rugged clifftop three miles south of Mahibere Dego"

➡️ Oh, No! Alula already said in his March 9 interview that it happened at Mahibere Dego. (Check video @ 01:45)

➡️ How did he know?🤔

Alula hinted on March 9 that global media was behind him🤔

➡️ 00:05 — the media reported on Debre Abay & what the armed men were wearing & the language they spoke was important for the incrimination

➡️ 00:20 — the media were going to pick up the footage for global circulation

@cnni claimed that a whistleblower was paid for the footage & all the 5 clips could've been recorded on the same device👇

➡️ Check👇 — Alula says the footage was accessed from the phones of dead & captured soldiers

➡️ NO whistleblower, NO payment, Dead soldier, multiple phones

@cnni & @amnesty's @samdubberley pretended to have made a critical reflection on how the armed men behaved👇

"The fact that it is a perpetrator that's done this... shows a feeling of impunity, that they can get away with it."

➡️ 01:15 — Alula emphasized the same point🤔

Wow🤣

No doubt Alula was talking about the same event as @cnni & @BBCWorld👇

➡️ 01:45 — confirmed it happened at Mahbere Dego, some KM east of Axum

➡️ This is way before @amnesty geolocated the videos😂 & @cnni discovered afternoon shadows🤣

➡️ 05:41 — he talks about the 5 videos

Remember how @cnni presents uniform & Amharic as evidence to incriminate the ENDF?🤔

"The uniforms appear to match those worn by the ENDF... The soldiers can also be heard speaking Amharic..."

➡️ 02:00 — Alula keeps emphasizing the uniform & that the armed men were Amhara🤣

Unlike the sense of urgency that @cnni & @BBCWorld wanted to create & the lie about the investigation, Alula stressed that he was producing these videos for media consumption😝

➡️ 00:01 — says he will collate more evidence from dead & captured soldiers & hands it to the media🤣

These stupid liars are wasting my time😠

TPLF is a pathological liar. I understand where Alula Solomon, Stalin Gebreselassie & their TMH come from. they have no hope!

What can we do about these so-called journalists? They're classic examples of how not to be a real journalist!

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