Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel Profile picture
Lecturer in Environment and Development at @GlobalDevInst (Pre) Ass. Prof. of Human Geography, @NTNU. Tigrayan, I write about #TigrayGenocide and more.

Oct 20, 2022, 9 tweets

History

1936: Fascist Italy drops 78 bombs on Adwa πŸ‘‡and kills 1700 Tigrayans

2020: Fascist's ex-colony Eritrea loots and ravages Adwa again.

Thousands from Adwa and its surroundings like everywhere across Tigray were massacred.

The scars are visible from satellite images.

What's not visible is what the lives of the people whose lives depended on working in these factories, the farmers, and the city's residents have become like. But that is not difficult to guess. It can't be any different than what we see here.

Not a coincidence, the Italian regime supports the war and genocidal campaign on Tigray. Italy is one of the few member states of the EU actively financing the Ethiopian and Eritrean regimes. aa.com.tr/en/africa/ethi…

What did the Tigrayans do in 1936?
They organized and fought back until fascist Italy collapsed.

Tigray will always be Tigray. You cannot subjugate people who love their freedom to death.

To come back to the worshipers of Haileselassie's Ethiopia. That coward was hiding in Southern Tigray and left the country when Italy was about to overrun Tigray and move south.

What that coward and his worshipers like @danielkibret learned from that history is the cruelty and the desire to bomb cities and crowded civilian spaces to force Tigrayans into submission.

And one thing remains constant. πŸ‘‡
β€œαŠ£α‹­αˆαˆ«αˆ αŒŽα‰ α‹ αŠ£α‹­αˆαˆ«αˆα‘ αŠ£α‹­αˆαˆ«αˆ αˆ™αˆ°αˆŽαŠ’ αŠ£α‹­αˆαˆ«αˆβ€. Only today, it is "αŠ£α‹­αˆαˆ«αˆ αˆ™αˆ°αˆŽαŠ’ αŠ£α‹­αˆαˆ«αˆ αŠ’αˆ³α‹«αˆ΅"ፒ

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