The video clip here👇which's released by Walta TV (one of the Ethiopian regime's prop machines) shows a compilation of combat scenes by the Ethiopian genocidal troops during the #WarOnTigray.
From phone calls with our families and friends, and countless reports, we have heard that Ethiopian and Eritrean troops shelled villages and towns indiscriminately without any clear target and without any evidence of the presence of Tigray Defence Forces in the areas they shelled
The video here confirms these reports and rumors. Throughout the video, there is not a single sight of an "enemy" weapon or a soldier. The only things visible in the areas they targeted are few farmhouses. In central Tigray, where I come from,
countless farmers including children and the elderly were killed. One example is Gebretsadkan Teklu Gebreyesus, a neighbor of my parents, who along with his two young children and a cousin was hiding in a small river on a mountainside when
Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers started shelling our village. When the shooting subsided Gebretsdkan stood up to check around & soldiers shot him on his back severing his spine. They also shot his cousin on his shoulder. When the soldiers arrived at the scene, Gebretsdkan was
still alive with his two young kids holding him and crying. The soldiers ordered his kids to lift him up and move him, but they were too small to carry him and he was immobile as his backbone was completely broken. The soldiers then shot him on his head and killed him on the spot
Kibrom, his cousin, had run away down a valley after being shot and before the soldiers arrived. He luckily survived without any medical help. My mother who had limited nursing experience from the 17-year war against the Derg helped to stop his bleeding and nursed him.
What was sad watching this video for me was to see the most peaceful places that I know turned into battlegrounds, & some of the most scenic roads & landscapes turned into ugly military junkyards with the ugliest faces one can only imagine. This spot here is located outside Adwa.
The same spot was featured on the @TopGear_BBCA in 2019👇. One of the commentators says that he felt like there's some unique sense of calm in this place & that he can't believe that there was a famine in1984. Little did he know that the same evil was coming only a year later.
There were some copyrights issues with the video. Here it is.👇 fb.watch/v/89HqTgNt1/
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Nazi horror didn't start with the Holocaust. It started with the systematic dehumanization of the jews.
In Ethiopia, a regime-led dehumanization campaign consisting the production of fake documentaries, language of @AbiyAhmedAli and other public "figures",
.and a fascistic art community led to the presentation of Tigrayans as existential threat to Ethiopia who should be 'wiped out' in order to save the country from disintegration or to Make Ethiopia Great Again (ኢትዮጵያን ወደ ነበረችበት ከፍታ እንድትመለስ as they say).
This is not a hiden conspiracy or somrthing. Ethiopian regime authorities as well as ordinary supporters on social media actively argue for it. Everything that's happening in #Tigray should seen in this context. The indiscriminate killings, #TigrayGenocide newsweek.com/ethiopia-vowed…
"If this force [TPLF & Tigrayan political elites] had quietly joined the Prosperity Party, it could've remained in power with all the wealth that it stole and everything. The decision to not join the Prosperity Party,...
"Even when it went to Tigray, it could've quietly remained in power as a regional government. We wouldn't at least have fought it. [...]. What did it lose [due to the war]?. Each and every single mother of Tigray knows the cost of the war."
Collective trauma of the #WarOnTigray on Tigrayan children:
The #WarOnTigray is perhaps one of the most under-reported and the bloodiest events in Africa in recent decades. Over 52,000 civilians have reportedly been killed as of last week, washingtonpost.com/world/africa/t…
more than 60k crossed the border to Sudan for safety, over 4.5 million face starvation as their harvests are looted & destroyed by Ethiopian & Eritrean armies.
But, what is most distressing is the trauma that the war is leaving Tigrayan children with. As towns and villages across Tigray have constantly been bombed for the last 3 months, children have seen so much that will remain with them forever.
"Doctors at Mekele’s main hospital say rape survivors are turning up injured and in tears. More women are seeking counseling, testing for sexually transmitted infections, emergency contraception and abortions. Girls as young as 12 are among those attacked, researchers say." 💔
"...armed groups have looted and ransacked medical facilities across Tigray, making it difficult for survivors of rape and other crimes to access emergency care" Lucy Kassa latimes.com/world-nation/s…
Lucy Kassa was targeted by the Ethiopian regime's security agents for writing the harrowing story of rape victims of the #WarOnTigray. #TigrayGenocide is being carried out in the dark.
After 64 days, I finally managed to talk to someone who travelled on foot for 3 days to reach #Mekelle from Rubagered, a village in central #Tigray where I grew up and where my parents live. Hearing a familiar voice over the phone gave me goosebumps.
What he told me about what's going on in our villages is heartbreaking. He told me that there's been at least 5 rounds of heavy fights & the invading #EritreanArmy still controlls the area.
In Rubagered, my home village, he confirmed that the #EritreanArmy killed 3 civilians; Birhane Gebru Weldemichel (my 60 year old farmer cousin), Teweldebirhan Weldekidan and Jemal Abdelkadir (a shopkeeper).