Do not be fooled by the page @EthiopianHRC which closely resembles the @EthioHRC twitter handle created shortly after the death of singer Haccalu. The page is run by #OLF supporters to run propaganda to smear the #Ethiopia|n gov't & scapegoat Amhara security forces w/o evidence.
➡️ Shared a tabloid piece from @smh & @_Will_Brown on Mai-Kadra alleging the victims of the gruesome massacre were ethnic Tigrayans killed by Amhara militias, citing the refugees that fled to camps in bordering Sudan.
➡️ Claimed the Al Nejashi Mosque in Tigray was damaged by...
...Ethiopian/Eritrean forces w/o no evidence. In fact the attack fits the TPLF MO.
➡️ Shares photos of dead people & claims they were murdered by the Amhara "Special Police Force" (citing tweets from Oromo extremists) which has never operated outside of the Amhara region.
Please be advised @DanielBekele in light of this campaign to discredit the HRC, it is necessary to get a verified blue checkmark on the page and to consider additional precautions to prevent misinformation from flourishing. @EthioHRC@BilleneSeyoum@SOEFactCheck
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Clip from @JCSteers & @VICENews on Tigrayan refugees who fled to Hamdayat refugee camp in Sudan.
➡️ Sudanese farmer describes soldiers (Tigrinya speakers) crossing to Sudan.
➡️ Tigrayan refugee (a TPLF conscript) describes how TPLF forced them to fight, gave...
...them arms training & told them they could not leave Tigray. He describes fighting in Humera but eventual being overwhelmed & fleeing into the jungle with special police.
It is noteworthy that Mai-Kadra (May Cadera), the site of the...
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...gruesome massacre of some 1100 noncombatant, non-Tigrayan (predominantly ethnic Amhara) civilians by forces loyal to TPLF (including Tigrayan militias, the "Samri" youth group) is located in the Humera area. This territory was part of a collection of subregions annexed to...
Currently the biggest threat to Ethiopia's unity is Oromo extremism which vehemently rejects Ethiopia as a country & by extension mainstream Ethiopian history in lieu of a revisionist political narrative in which the Alpha & the Omega are Emperor Menelik II. This shortsighted...
...perspective uses an extremely superficial dichotomy to label any dissenting voice or political figure as "Amhara" including the current ruling party OPDO/OPP. It also seeks to monopolize oppression & reduces it to an ethnic phenomenon neglecting contextual factors & issues...
...of class (both pre- & post-feudal). There is also a tendency to spread alternative facts & baseless propaganda which scapegoats "Amhara". It's a worldview which seeks to unite ethnic Oromo under a system of thinking that portrays them as victims that're justified in any &...
After annexing Amhara territories to Tigray, TPLF attempted to systematically change their heritage. It started with renaming them (e.g. Telemt ➡️ Tselemt, Tegede ➡️ Tsegede) but also involved demographic engineering which saw people indigenous to the...
...region killed, displaced, disappear w/o a trace so their hereditary land could be seized & redistributed to settlers from Tigray. Historically these regions were inclusive & because it bordered Eritrea & Sudan, the people were multilingual speaking Amharic, Tigrigina &...
...Arabic mainly for economic reasons (e.g. caravan trading). TPLF disrupted this harmony & criminalized speaking of Amharic & Amhara traditions to the extent that people could not openly practice their traditions. This included persecution of anyone who opposed them including...