Warning!! Gruesome report from Abreha Atsbeha, Tigray
========================================= 1/6 Eritrean soldiers suffered heavy causalities in the two rounds of fight in the Abreha Atsbeha front. Bodies were scattered all over the place.
2/6 Once the guns went silent, Eritrean soldiers started scouting the villages and found 24 men in their homes. They rounded them up and took them to the fields and ordered them to bury the dead.
3/6 Once these men finished burying the dead the whole day, the Eritrean soldiers kill them all on the spot so that they don't report what they had seen.
The soldiers then went back to the villages and started a house-to-house search to look for people who may have seen
4/6 ... what had happened. In one house they found one Mekelle University graduate who used to work in Agula'e but went to Abreha Atsbeha to visit his family. The soldiers found him cuddling his one-year old baby. They told him to give the baby to his mom and come out.
5/6 He told them they could take whatever they want and leave him alone. They insisted he comes out of the house. When he came out, they shot him in front of his family.
They then took everything they could find from the villagers.
6/6 They killed their cattle and ate what they could and left the remaining dead and scattered in the fields.
Anyone who shows and resemblance of dismay is being shot on the spot.
2/4 They are giving him the diplomatic shield he needs while he is committing despicable atrocities on the people of #Tigray hoping he will be able to eliminate the TPLF. Saving Abiy for them is about saving the little liberal democracy project they have implanted in the Horn.
3/4 They are using the remaining one month they will stay in power to salvage what is left of what is otherwise a crumbling @AbiyAhmedAli's administration. Little do they know TPLF and the #Tigray people will survive this one way or another.
1/3 After so much effort, #Tigray|an engineers have restored mobile communication within the region. @AbiyAhmedAli has blocked all means of communication to the region to commit genocide-like war crimes in the dark. Though Tigray is still cut off from the rest of the world,
2/3 the regional level mobile communication will at least help families within the region find out about the safety of their loved ones in #Tigray.
Let the world be put on notice. This is a crucial lifeline for people who have not heard from their family members for 18 days now.
3/3 Let the world know that .@AbiyAhmedAli may use the #UAE drones to bomb the mobile communication in Tigray infrastructure just like he did the Tekeze Dam and the Wolkait sugar factory.
1/5 It has been a week since I talked to my parents and siblings who live in #Tigray. Every morning I wake up, the first thing i do is pickup my phone and check the news on twitter, facebook and other outlets to know which cities in Tigray .@AbiyAhmedAli has cluster-bombed using
2/5 his warplanes. The #Ethiopia|n government has shutdown phone, internet services to the #Tigray region. But I still hopelessly call my mom's number. Imagine how difficult it is to not be able to check on your elderly parents while COVID-19 is ravaging the nation.
3/5 The #Ethiopian government has already closed all banks, cut all food-aid programs and blocked all transport mechanisms to the region. The suffering of those who need immediate medical attention and food-aid is unimaginable.
1. Dangerous developments of massive ethnic-profiling in Addis and beyond against Tigreans. Very disturbing reports are coming in confirming unprecedented, massive state sponsored ethnic profiling against Tigreans happening in many towns and cities.
Indiscriminate and blanket arrests are being made by Abiy’s security men in thousands.
The current mayor of Addis, Adanech Ababie, was on record officially stating that she was grateful receiving actionable reports of suspicion on 2000 Tigreans in a single day.
Residents and ordinary people are being mobilized against their neighbors and colleagues, and encouraged to suspect and report on any Tigrean.
The on-going propaganda of social-militarization has eroded standard values of decency and sanity in our societies,