Thread by @BisratLKabeta

⛔️SORRY, @cnni is deceiving the world once again!

➡️ Despite its sensational presentation, the report itself admits 9 times that its claims could not be verified🙄

➡️ The video comes from several unrelated clips circulating on SM about a month ago😏

➡️ TPLF TV as its source?🤔

https://twitter.com/cnni/status/1377959489782026247

Did ENDF commit the mass killings? @cnni says that it cannot confirm👇

➡️ "videos... are difficult to authenticate"

➡️ "CNN does not have the original, raw footage to examine"

➡️ "If the soldiers in the... video are indeed Ethiopian National Defense Forces"

@cnni admits that it used at least 2 unrelated clips & the people are NOT the same🤔

➡️ "In one video, soldiers can be seen rounding up dozens of men & in another clip, the bodies of at least 11 men are piled... CNN has not been able to identify whether they are the same men."🙄

Alula is the center of the story but @cnni does NOT know whether Alula is real & was among those fired at🙄

➡️ "CNN is not able to independently verify that Alula is pictured in the footage"

➡️ "the man that Dawit identifies as his brother is not identifiable among the dead"🤔

@cnni could NOT verify the authenticity of the self-incriminating video & whether the-said whistleblower existed at all😏

➡️ “CNN was unsuccessful in its attempts to reach the soldier directly, and does not know the extent of the soldier's involvement in the atrocities.”🤭

Despite mentioning that 18 men went missing, @cnni confirmed that they are NOT related to the video & it does NOT know if they are dead🤭

➡️ "CNN has verified the identities of several of the 18 but has not established if they are the same men in the grainy video footage."😌

Again, despite speaking of mass graves, @cnni admits that such claims have not been verified even by the locals, let alone CNN🤔

➡️ “Due to a blockade of the area, relatives and residents have not been able to visit the site to identify a mass grave.”🙄

@cnni admitted that it stitched several unrelated videos.

➡️ One has been circulating on SM since March 9 & tells place & number of captives👇

➡️ Unlike CNN's claims, the officers were gently asking the young men, "Why have you left the town & are lurking in the wilderness?"

This report is a collaborative work between TPLF & CNN🤔

➡️ TMH is a propaganda TV of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), not a pro-Tigray entity.

➡️ Almost everything @cnni has presented in its report comes straight from TMH, which CNN is too lazy to scrutinize🙄

Does @amnesty's new trick of adding some satellite images make this credible?🤔

➡️ Geolocating the places or saying it happened in the afternoon does NOT tell who the people are & whose side they are.

➡️ If they were to be shot on camera, why were the captives taken 1.7km away?

If @cnni is serious, instead of producing this trashy piece based on nothing it can verify, including its ghost sources & victims, it should try to identify the officers/soldiers/militiamen shown in the first separate video.

➡️ Give us names, affiliations, ranks, etc.

Does @cnni know presenting uniform & Amharic as evidence to incriminate anyone is stupid?🤔

➡️ Almost everyone in northern Ethiopia speaks Amharic.

➡️ In Nov, TPLF members defected from ENDF with their uniforms.

➡️ It was reported that TPLF made ENDF & EDF uniforms at Almada.

Tesfamariam Ar'aya exposed👇 on March 13 (3 weeks before @cnni) that

➡️ TPLF forces stripped captured Ethiopian soldiers of their uniforms & shot them when the soldiers tried to escape.

@cnni says, 'DON'T take me seriously'🤣

➡️ Videos — unrelated, unverified, outdated
➡️ Alula — unknown, unidentified
➡️ ENDF — unverified, unidentified
➡️ Whistleblower — never contacted
➡️ Mass graves — never seen
➡️ Missing men — unrelated, not sure if dead

If there was indeed a whistleblower who was in the ENDF (given that he is now out of Ethiopia) how come he couldn’t give names of those in the video?🤔

➡️ Wasn’t @cnni supposed to ask for names?

➡️ Doesn’t the world deserve to know the name of the-said whistleblower?🤔