Thread by @TeklehaymanotG

It has been 60 days since @AbiyAhmedAli declared #WarOnTigray. 60 days on, the war still rages across Tigray & the region is still under almost full communication, banking and transport block out. From the limited info that comes out, millions of people are starving 1

https://twitter.com/TeklehaymanotG/status/1336740196893782017

due to lack of access to power, cash to buy supplies as banks are still closed and bank accounts every Tigrayan suspended, & absence of trade activities. UNICEF reports that more than 2m children in Tigray are completely cut off from humanitarian assist unicef.org/press-releases… 2

Civilians killed and displaced: According to UN-OCHA, there are reportedly over a million internally displaced people with no humanitarian assistance. Families in their hundreds of 1000s are separated. We also hear that supplies of humanitarian assistance are deliberately

curtailed by the regime. Despite Eth-UN agreements to allow unfettered humanitarian access, areas outside Mekelle are inaccessible for humanitarian actors.

Ethnic profiling: travel restrictions have been placed on #Tigrayans across #Ethiopia.

Tigrayans across Ethiopia face #ethnicprofiling in their workplaces (many have been laid off or told to stay at home, mostly without pay), their homes are arbitrarily searched, are constantly harassed & arrested by security forces.

Impoverishing Tigray:

Factories and other vital civilian infrastructures have either been looted or destroyed by the Ethiopian army, #Amhara ethnic militia & the Eritrean army who've been invited by the Ethiopian regime to fight along. #Almeda Textile in Adwa (the biggest textile industry in Eth), 5

Almeda Factory in Adwa

https://twitter.com/tigistAA/status/1342782103226884096

Zenith Oil factory in Shire:

https://twitter.com/alula_solomon/status/1336148615811772417

Addis Pharmaceutical Factory in Adigrat (reportedly completely looted and destroyed) developmentaid.org/#!/organizatio…

Addis Pharmactual factory in Adigrat, Adigrat & Axum Universities (lab and office equipment looted), Wolqait Sugar factory, Zenith oil factory in #Shire, #Saba Stones in Adwa, Semayata Stones in Wukro, Goda bottle factory in EdagaHamus, & many others are among the most notable 6

of the civilian properties looted and destroyed. Harvests in farms & homes of farmers across villages have been torched by soldiers & ethnic militias loyal to Abiy Ahmed. Homes across towns particularly in areas bordering Eritrea & #Amhara region are also emptied or destroyed. 7

Extrajudicial killings: Civilians and army personnel are executed without due process for allegedly supporting the Tigray regional government in its fight against @AbiyAhmedAli's regime and #Eritrea's invading army.

https://twitter.com/gidenamesfin/status/1345225782659063810?s=20

Every day, we hear of the killings of children, women & people with disabilities who could not flee their villages which are now occupied by the invading forces.

Historical heritages targeted and looted: The #WarOnTigray also targets #Tigray’s historical heritage sites such as the Negash Mesjid near Wukro, which is believed to have been built on the 7th C AD. eritreahub.org/historic-al-ne… 9

Mr. Faki of the @_AfricanUnion in particularly believes the bombing, looting, & starving millions of Tigrayans is worth doing in order to maintain the "territorial integrity" of the country, a typical tyrant's mindset.

Tigray: Hundreds of civilians reported killed in artillery strikes
news.un.org/en/story/2020/…
ethiopia-insight.com/2020/12/18/the…

While all this's happening, leaders of multilateral organ's such as @antonioguterres & @AUC_MoussaFaki have largely been silent or supported @AbiyAhmedAli’s #TigrayGenocide project. No tangible works by Mr. Guterres to stop this madness, other than expressing his "concerns". 10

Mr. @AUC_MoussaFaki told us that wiping out the approx 10mln #Tigrayans is a commendable act by the Ethiopian government. startribune.com/african-union-… 12

What is going on in #Tigray and on Tigrayans across #Ethiopia is an #EthnicCleansing #TigrayGenocied. The scary part is that our global leaders are silent about it. Speak up and act now. @antonioguterres @SudanPMHamdok, @igadsecretariat @_AfricanUnion