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10 Aug, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Washington Post Report

Ethiopia’s prime minister calls for mass enlistment amid battlefield losses to Tigray rebels washingtonpost.com/world/2021/08/…
Reuters: "NAIROBI, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Ethiopia's government on Tuesday urged citizens to join the fight against resurgent Tigrayan forces now pushing beyond their own region in a nine-month-old war that has sparked a major refugee crisis."

reuters.com/world/africa/e…
AFP Timeline report: "Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed urged people to join the armed forces as fighting rages in and around the restive northern region of Tigray.
Here is a timeline of the conflict in Africa's second most populous country."

english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/2/…
Full AFP Report:

"The Ethiopian prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, has issued a call for all eligible civilians to join the armed forces as fighting rages in multiple regions of Africa’s second-most populous nation."

theguardian.com/world/2021/aug…
UK Daily Telegraph

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

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12 Aug
It is time for a change of subject, a reset in the Tigray war narrative, which has been manufactured from day one.

It is apparent this will not come via the Media nor the international community who have decided to make their bed with the TPLF.
So we will have to do this ourselves. And I have a plan.
But I will not be able to do this alone and am calling on the Ethiopian twitter community, especially those of you who are journalists to assist.
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12 Aug
This @EthioHRC statement tells us that the #Galicoma #GaleKoma #Galikoma #AfarMassacre - in which 250 civilians including 107 children are thought to have been killed by TPLF fighters - occurred a day earlier than I previously thought, on August 5th.
This was on the day of @PowerUSAID's brief visit to Ethiopia.
@PowerUSAID None of the U.S. big Foreign Policy big hitters, @PowerUSAID, @StateDeptSpox, @SecBlinken nor @jakesullivan have even acknowledged that this event, which became public knowledge on August 6th-7th has occurred. Among international media only @AJArabic has reported in any depth.
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11 Aug
Sorry I missed this before jumping to @amnesty's defence, which doesn't mean I am completely resiling from it as its a bit complicated.

First though @jeffpropulsion's piece is amazing, and says what needs to be said. 50 Claps. Magnificent.

link.medium.com/9Ekbx3hwDib
Jeff Pearce knows this subject. Knows Ethiopia. Knows the TPLF far better than I ever will. His post is impassioned and clear, and echoes many of the things I am thinking but do not have the confidence to say.

Particularly about the information war.
While it is of course easy to conclude from this that @amnesty knows they have been hoodwinked, and have proceeded to lie because they are being paid.

@jeffpropulsion isn't saying this as far as I can tell. And it may well not be the case.
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11 Aug
We should not be blaming @hrw and @amnesty for fresh massacre mis/dis-information issues.
They have investigative processes and systems to inquire into these things. Absent their independent inquiries we would be left entirely with information provided by parties to conflict.
They need to do a better job of proving their bona-fides perhaps. But just as when a murder investigation is opened by the police, they of course cannot make any conclusions about whether claims about events are true or not until they have been investigated.
Government's don't like these institutions, in part because they think they are biased, but also in part because they don't like criticism. But absent criticism there is no incentive not to commit massacres and infringe on human rights. This is how accountability works.
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10 Aug
On Friday. 6th Aug as the Galicoma Medical Center #AfarMassacre was reported TPLF propaganda account @Galaxy2Galaxy5 reflexively denied the medical center even existed & claimed that the ENDF was responsible. Now @reda_getachew is claiming the same thing. Image
@Galaxy2Galaxy5 @reda_getachew Here is the thread @Galaxy2Galaxy5 thread got involved in. He has deleted his final tweets in which he was claiming a Google search for Galicoma Medical Center showed only one result which he claimed proved it didn't exist.
A archive of the thread featuring takedown from @miskeenwa, @aseb2aden and @QafarMedia the last of which which posted the initial reports of the massacre.

@Galaxy2Galaxy5 initially leans on US news reports (@nytimes) and statements from @PowerUSAID to dismiss the incident. ImageImageImageImage
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9 Aug
WTAF….

Brookings is a conservative DC based think tank. But clearly they haven’t yet learned how to read let alone think.

Dangerous trends in Ethiopia: Time for Washington’s tough love brook.gs/3Cu3PVD via @BrookingsInst
“Although reductions of U.S. aid to Ethiopia seemed to have been on the table during USAID Administrator Samantha Power’s trip last week to Addis Ababa, Washington has limited levers to roll back the ongoing dangerous dynamics.”

????? Completely clueless.
This is the author @VFelbabBrown.
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