Thread by @BurbridgeDuke

Dear #Tegaru friends,
I wanted to say how inspiring you are in the face of untold horrors. Every day, I see the depair and the tragedy; but more visceral than that is your strength and your courage. I am humbled to stand with you and for all of the kindness you have shown me./1

I don’t know your pain firsthand. From Tegaru friends online and off, I have heard so many stories without endings.

That’s what gets me in the throat. Right now, almost every story about Tigray with an ending is tragic. Hope seems to only live alongside fear in the unknown./2

I’m not Tegaru. I’m not married to a Tegaru. I’m not a secret TPLF agent. I’m not being paid by anyone to speak out against #TigrayGenocide.

I'm just a researcher, who happened to be focused on Ethiopia in 2020. As a researcher, I can't be silent./3

In the past year, I have seen the most painfully stupid, hateful, and bigoted – not to mention verifiably counterfactual arguments against the basic human rights of Tigrayans.

This has not only come from Ethiopian diaspora, it also comes from outsiders seeking.../4

…to exploit the #TigrayGenocide to advance theories and narratives against neo-imperialism and the US. Imperialism is a serious threat and the US has much to answer for, but don’t you DARE ask Tigrayans to make a blood sacrifice for your cause./5

Whether you are Ethiopian or not, let me encourage you to express your outrage and criticism against me and the US, we can take it. Just don’t ignore starving Tigrayan civilians while you do it. People have to eat, they need medicine./6

Anyone who can’t respect the right of Tigrayan children to get the vitamins to develop health bodies, of a new mother to get enough food to nurse her baby, of a human to get the nutrition to survive, to get life-saving medicine; they don’t have a point, they have a problem./7

Fuck those people. Twitter will always be a place to find hateful sentiment and absurd logic, where people mock suffering and type things that they should be telling a therapist. I hope they find their sanity and maybe they will. But I don't have any time for them now./8

I see you Tigrayans. While I am not Tigrayan, in these sad days, our hearts are beating to the same rhythm. I cry at the same pictures. Your trauma is real, survivor guilt is real, support each other, please eat, please reach out if you need to talk. My heart is with you./9

As a last thought, please follow groups and accounts that support Tigrayans like I did in my last thread.

You are never alone, you will find some ally from this list on twitter 24/7.

Hopefully some people will reply to this message with other accounts that I missed./10

This is a partial list, It's been a long night. I missed some good people/orgs, but its a start🙏❤️/11
@Nati_Mann
@AfricanGual
@Axumite_1
@AksumHager
@FitwiDesta
@womenoftigray
@Tseday
@tigistAA
@GebremeskelGeb
@makeinjera
@Betania_Jackson
@EdenBFKN
@emnet_negash
@TigraiHub

Allies (II)
@MedhanieG
@BurukAregawi
@hodgesjoanne
@Fthawi_Hurui
@Meron_Geb
@TsenatSaba
@OmnaTigray
@GualJeganu
@tvbempt
@TsegaWol
@TeklehaymanotG
@AnescoSami
@Yohannes_v
@GualGidey
@Elelta5
@AdeyWith
@helenabay00
@senaitgideyy
@ScienceZemen
@TigrayPrevail21