Thread by @GebremeskelGeb

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#Tigrayan refugees massacred by @AbiyAhmedAli's agents!

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#Tigrayan refugees, who returned on their own via boats or repatriated by Saudi Arabia sponsored flights to Ethiopia, are being abducted & #massacred by @AbiyAhmedAli's forces in the Afar regional state.

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Ethiopian government's media broadcasted as if the government of Tigray recruited #ChildSoldiers and sent them to battlefields. ETV claimed that 👇bodies are of the #Tigrayan #ChildSoldiers in Afar region. But they're abducted & #massacred by the Ethiopian troops.

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The Ethiopian Press Agency posted on its @Facebook the photos of some of the #Tigrayan youths whom @AbiyAhmedAli's regime claims them to be #ChildSoldiers. But, these youths returned from Saudi Arabia a week or two ago & the Ethiopian troops abducted & #massacred them in Afar.

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A medical doctor who lives in Ethiopia was angered when he closely looked at 👇 photo & observed the body of this #Tigrayan whom @AbiyAhmedAli's agents are claiming him to belong to #ChildSoldiers. He sent me a private message & the photo of this #Tigrayan.
@UNmigration @hrw

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His msg: "This kid whom they presented as a #ChildSoldiers POW, can you see his face he has multiple skin lesions which most of the time appears when u stay in hot & confide space. I am a doctor & treated a lot of migrants who arrived from Saudi Arabia with similar problems."

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Someone sent me a message: "These youths had endured unspeakable agonies in the detention centres of Saudi Arabia. They just arrived in Ethiopia. But they were abducted from Addis Ababa & the country they thought to be their home is blaming them as #ChildSoldiers & POW." @hrw

As we all know, a prisoner of war does not cry in front of a camera. But, this #Tigrayan girl, whose image was released by @AbiyAhmedAli's mouthpiece media a couple of days ago, is crying. She is among the #Tigrayan migrants who got repatriated few days ago from Saudi Arabia.@hrw

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👇girl is one of the 10s of 1000s of #Tigrayans who were repatriated from Saudi Arabia a week/two ago. @AbiyAhmedAli commanded his agents to abduct these #Tigrayans & transport them to a concentration camp in Afar region. Now, @AbiyAhmedAli claims they're #ChildSoldiers. @hrw

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She said her sister & brother were detained in Yemen for months. Once freed, she told them to go back to Tigray. She covered their expenses for a boat transportation across the Red Sea.

@IOMRONairobi @IOMatEU @IOMatUN @ICRC @amnesty @hrw @AnnLinde

https://twitter.com/GebremeskelGeb/status/1418582946315972614

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Once they crossed the sea, armed groups on the Djibouti coast detained them and asked for a ransom. Then the #Tigrayan youths phoned their sister who lives in Saudi Arabia to pay for their release. She did & they got released.

@Europarl_EN @eucopresident @JanezLenarcic

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Then they left Djibouti and journeyed to Logia, Afar region of Ethiopia. Then, when they were heading to Ab'ala, another town located in Afar, Ethiopian troops abducted them. The #Tigrayan youths were hopeful of arriving at Mekelle.

@SecBlinken @SFRCdems @SenateForeign @hrw

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Immediately after the Ethiopian troops abducted them, they took away everyone's mobile phones. Then, they packed them together and started driving them to an unknown place inside Afar.

@JosepBorrellF @HedyFry @hrw @UN_HRC @USAmbUN @annikabendavid @AnnLinde

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When the #Tigrayan youths asked the Ethiopian troops where they were being driven to, the troops replied, "we are taking you to a centre where you will be photographed and then handed over to @ICRC."

@mukeshkapila @wdavison10 @RAbdiAnalyst @KjetilTronvoll @martinplaut

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She said, very broken and weeping, "The one whom the Ethiopian media are busy disseminating her photo and claiming that she is a "#ChildSoldiers #POW captured in Afar" is my own sister. Please help me rescue my sister. Please help me!"

@nimaelbagir @amnesty @ICRC @hrw

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The biggest state media in Ethiopia posted these photos claiming they're "prisoners of war from the #Tigrayan #ChildSoldiers." Whereas, the reality is they're abducted by the Ethiopian troops, threatened & tortured to admit & speak as if they're captives of war.
@amnesty @hrw