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Let's debunk the #FakeHumeraMassacre once & for all! @nimaelbagir @berhe_lucy

1/ On July 22 the GOE issued a statement warning, that the #TPLF is transporting dead bodies of its fighters from Afar towards Mekele to stage a fake massacre...

On the face of it this looks like quite a suspicious and rediculous allegation. To start with, how are the #TPLF going to get the body to Tekeze without decomp setting in?

We got the answer thanks to @nimaelbagir|s experts, "the bodies had all been exposed to some form of chemical agent after death, leading to a process which had effectively preserved them before entering the water."

This is fatal flaw in the Nima/Berhe narrative, why would the alleged perpetrators preserve the bodies? Why would you preserve the bodies if your intention is to throw them into a river or bury them in a 'mass grave'? ...

Why would you chemically preserve bodies and keep them in a 'storage facility'? Unless....unless the 'storage facilities' were trucks transporting hundreds of dead bodies across hundreds of kilometres!

2/ In the Nima/Berhe account witnesses "saw people marched down to the river in one of the facilities and heard gunshots" Where are the bodies of these people who were shot and dumped into the river?....

@nimaelbagir|s experts testify that all the bodies that have been recovered so far have been chemically preserved. So, Nima where are the 'fresh bodies'?

Is @nimaelbagir really expecting her audience to believe that the 'Amhara perpetrators' took people down to the river in broad daylight, shot them, took the bodies back, chemically treat the bodies, bring back the bodies to the river and dump them? #DoBetterNima

3/ @nimaelbagir|s source, Gerri, tells us that they are told "the exact number of bodies to expect" from Humera. After a few paragraphs Nima tells us that others spoke of "rare sightings of bodies being dumped into the river."....

If this sightings are rare how come Gerri's informants know the exact numbers?

This also invites another rhetorical question: Who knows how many bodies to expect better than the people who dispatched the bodies?!

4/ I also wonder if @nimaelbagir asked herself, why the bodies keep showing up, as if invited, just when people with ilk like her & @PowerUSAID are around? Why do these 'Amhara perpetrators' keep dumping bodies even after all the media coverage about bodies floating downstream?

5/ @nimaelbagir|s article tells us that the bodies "drift from Humera to Wad El Hilou in approximately 2-3 hours." I also tells us about the "stench" arising from the bodies. How long does it take for a body to stay in water for decomp to set in despite chemical preservation?....

Definitely far longer than 2-3 hrs! Which makes it likely that the bodies were actually dumped farther upstream. Tekeze is 608kms long and rises near Lalibela, and meanders between Tigray region and Eritrea before ending up in Sudan.

The banks of Tekeze must be very tempting for anyone who's read the accounts of corpses of Rwandans floating into Tanzania during the Rwandan genocide and wants to recreate them.
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