Oh @nimaelbagir, for the love of God, you’re killing me with your stupidity! Here’s how I read your latest on ET arms shipments. And @cnni , if this is just a few reporters, I think it’s time to let them go. They’re costing you. [1/15]
Story: “Cargo documents and manifests seen by CNN, as well as eyewitness accounts and photographic evidence, confirm that arms were transported between AA airport and airports in the Eritrean cities.” Let’s look at them, shall we? [2/15]
…[lengthy BS about the war and ET]… “As planes went back and forth between the two countries, massacres of Tigrayans in the city of Axum and the village of Dengelat by Eritrean troops took place on November 19 and November 30 respectively. [3/15]
So, Ethiopia sent the rifles to Asmara and the Eritrean troops carried out your fictional massacres? Was it also 🇪🇹 that sent the 3 rockets to #TPLFTerroristGroup to fire at Asmara on Nov 12 inviting Eritrea into the war? Sherlock would want to die right about now! [4/15]
Let’s move on to witnesses “ET workers described witnessing other employees loading and unloading arms and military vehicles on flights directed to Asmara. A few even claimed they helped load .... All spoke of being ethnically profiled for being Tigrayan.” [5/15]
ALL spoke of being ethnically profiled! How is it THEN that they were invited to the watch party and some even got to be a part of the action? Are you saying they all wanted to load but were profiled & excluded? But some were lucky enough?[6/15]
“CNN has seen the Ethiopian Airlines' ID cards of these employees and confirmed their identities.” So what? Now the standard for fact checking is looking at company IDs? And it goes on… “One former employee told CNN [7/15]
“‘He [the commander] said we are going to war & we need the fuel to be loaded,’
Days later, he said they were temporarily suspended from work. They believe they were suspended for being Tigrayan but also for the incident with the soldiers. The employee fled 🇪🇹 in March.” [8/15]
He said HE warned soldiers that the vehicles were carrying more gas than allowed before HE was called by the commander “who told him that they need this for war!” What other confessions did the commander give to the soldier? CNN please find out, I’m curious! [9/15]
And wait! He said HE warned the soldiers, so who’s ‘THEY’ who got suspended for being Tigrayan but also FOR THE INCIDENT with the soldiers? Also, I guess they handpicked a lot of Tigrayans for this operation…. That makes a lot of sense. [10/15]
“ET told CNN in its statement that no employees had been suspended or terminated due to their ethnic background.” Yes, many Tigayans have still not been suspended, just the ones suspected of TPLF affiliations. Maybe there’s your answer about who your witnesses are! [11/15]
Moving on to the pics
“addisabab”? “Ministry of Asmara?” and what’s with the signatures? And yeah, there will be records of this lying around for thousands of employees to access. And as to the images of the cargo, what exactly did your visual analysis techniques reveal? [12/15]
Here’s a funny one… “All the employees said they were instructed by the airline to delete photos of the weapons from their phones. Not all of them did. In June, photos circulated on social media platforms showing….” [13/15]
ET - “Kids, don’t forget to delete the photos on your phone, OK?”
Employees – “OK”
But some didn’t, naughty, naughty kids! Then CNN found it on social media and hurray! We got proof!
CNN please stop, I’m starting to confuse you with the show “ridiculousness” [14/15]
Finally, @nimaelbagir I have a story here for you if you are interested in facts.
What do you know? If nothing else, I can land a job at @cnni doing what Nima does… And Better! [15/15] 🤣👇🏾 ImageImage
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5 Oct
@sparkomat In case my letter is not readable in picture format, here it is in a thread. My take on a story you produced from Amhara Region for Sky News and why I am in complete opposition to it. [1/17]
This is your first reporting out of the Amhara region and I find it interesting that you failed to mention any of what is on the ground. I say this as a person who knows that there is no way you cannot not see the damage and destruction in the region [2/17]
(and if you have talked to people, what they have witnessed) not to mention the IDPs and their situations and focus on the troops. Your description of the region makes your audience believe that there are only people ready for a bloodbath and not victims, [3/17]
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21 Sep
1/ Can somebody explain this to me? Is the 🇺🇸 trying to justify sanction on 🇪🇹 while giving its blessing for #TPLFTerroristGroup to continue attack on Amhara & Afar regions regions during special briefing via telephone Bryan Hunt and Erik Woodhouse on Sept 20?
2/ The question was on details of restriction of aid by the Ethiopian government and it ends with “Can you talk about the extent of the aid that they are stopping, and do you believe the TPLF is also in any way hindering aid from arriving in Tigray?” And the response was
3/ Mr. Hunt: “….the TPLF military offensives in Amhara and Afar make the delivery of humanitarian assistance in those regions more difficult. Certainly anytime there is ongoing conflict, it adds a degree of complexity to humanitarian assistance operations, but we believe that
Read 8 tweets
20 Sep
1/ CNN on Ethiopia
Season 2 – CNN on why and how the war started
CNN in its articles since Nov 5th made 37 references to how, when and why the war broke out in Ethiopia. Let’s take a look at them but @cnn please look at no. 9 in this thread for the when why and how.
2/ In 8 of the articles CNN wrote between Nov 5th and Nov 13th about Ethiopia, the war was reported as having started when Abiy declared war on TPLF in response to an ‘alleged attack.’
3/ On Nov 13th, Sekoture Getachew, a senior TPLF member confessed on TV to the attack with graphic expression of the event and on Nov 14th the Ministry of Foreign Affairs released the English transcript as well as the video which went unmentioned by CNN
Read 10 tweets
19 Sep
And yet, I saw neither @BBCAfrica nor @wdavison10 saying anything about Amnesty. How is it that some individual accounts using fake photos to draw attention to the humanitarian situation bigger coverage than @amnesty using fake photos to accuse GoE of arrests?
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Not only did @BBCNews have some 3 pages long coverage for photos on individual accounts, leading up to these photos is a section ‘How serious are food shortages in Amhara?’ Which is followed by some rant that would sounds like the answer to that question is ‘not that serious’
Read 4 tweets
18 Sep
1/ CNN on Ethiopia
Season 1 - The CNN TPLF Marriage
CNN published around 60 articles on the Tigray Conflict from Nov 3 to date. We all know about their biased reporting and clear support for #TPLFTerroristGroup but check these facts out
2/ CNN actively developed 9 editorials between Nov 5 & Nov 13 and 0 for the rest of the month with the exception of 2 on Mai Kadra they couldn’t ignore on the 22nd and the 26th. Coincidentally, @reda_getachew went offline since Nov 15th
3/ He stayed offline for 3½ months till end of Feb except two tweets on 4th and 22nd of Dec. During 3½ months CNN made ONLY 4 articles related to the war. Coincidentally, both the resumption of CNN’s active reporting & @reda_getachew|s twitter comeback happened March 1.
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