I sometimes listen to the Ethio-360 guys. The Habtamu guy has only one boring theme: I told you so. The thing is he never told it. Today, they were talking about the design to destroy Amhara and Tigray, and they blame Tigray for that. What do these people smoke, really? 1/n
Tigrayans, including myself, have warned before the war that there was a work to antagonize Amhara and Tigray, among other things. And yet, no one supported the war more than Amharas. They also invaded and seized Tigrayan lands and engaged in ethnic cleansing and genocide. 2/n
Tigrayans understood the Abiy-Isaias plan to create a permanent Amhara-Tigray enmity and warned Amharas about that, but Amharas failed to see. Tigrayans were not only left without partners, but became a victim of the Amharas. That is the sad reality. 3/n
If Ethio-360 believes there is such a design, the right thing to do is then to advise Amharas to fight, alongside Tigraya, the Abiy regime that is creating the enmity and destruction. Why support Amhara war against Tigray who is pursuing the very enemy then? 4/n
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I watched 'Taking Stock of U.S. Policy on Ethiopia: A Conversation with Ambassador Jeffrey Feltman' #USPolicyEthiopia
I put my reactions to the ambassador's points here as a Tigrayan. My thread will focus both on the spirit of his messages and on particular points 1/n
1) I understood that the US still sees Abiy as salvageable and as having the mandate to rule Ethiopia. The ambassador said the US wants to revitalize Abiy's "economic and job creation agenda". This is deeply disturbing to me and tells me Us interests override even genocide . 2/n
The spirit of the ambassador's message is that the atrocities committed on Tigray are not problems of themselves, but only to the extent they jeopardize US business and geopolitical interests in the Horn. 3/n
Thread: Can an Amhara be impartial?
The intercept article has shown the ugly highjacking of an American institution. @VOAAmharic, for the service of an ugly fascistic, racist & backward Amhara nationalism. But is it an isolated case? No, it is not. 1) theintercept.com/2021/05/21/voi…
Any institution headed/staffed by Amhara will always end up being an Amhara propaganda tool. And I am not talking about Ethiopian institutions which have always been Amhara political tools, but foreign and international institutions. 2
There is no foreign institution that has hired an Amhara, and remained impartial in Ethiopian matters. If you hire an Amhara, be sure that your institution will be hijacked for Amhara supremacist, racist and fascistic purpose. Let's see a few examples.
Thank yo all for your messages of condolences on the passing of my grandmother, Abrehet Gidey. In a time of chance for contact with grieving family members, your messages are comforting. 1/2
My grandmother was old, and I was hoping to have a last chance to sit down with her and hear her story, and her blessings. When I was about to go about a year ago, Covid-19 came followed by the genocidal war. That she passed away like this makes me sad.
She started feeling sick when the invading forces shelled the area and family members had to carry her and flee. After that, there was no chance to take her to a hospital for a check since all health facilities were looted and destroyed. Traveling was also not possible ... 3
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The International community (IC) has the ground to invoke its residual responsibility to protect (R2P) #Tigrayans. According to the R2P commitment, state sovereignty is a responsibility for people's welfare. 1
R2P is states' and IC's responsibility to protect populations from the worst forms of violence: genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity. 2 un.org/en/genocidepre…
Welfare and protection from these crimes is primarily the state's responsibility. But the IC has a residual responsibility, especially when "national authorities manifestly fail to protect their populations". 3
The genocidal and traitorous man, @AbiyAhmedAli, has told the world it is his right to commit war crimes and violate IHL using Amhara, Eritrean and Ethiopian armies in Tigray. He rebuffed calls for Eritrean and Amhara armies to leave Tigray. 1/2
He blamed Tigrayans for anything and engaged in the usual lies and deception. He mocked the pain of "their women"[Tigrayan women] that are being raped by #Eritrean, #Ethiopian and marauding #Amhara militias by arguing it is nothing compared to the damage on his army. 2/2
He accused @CNN, @amnesty, @hrw and many others that reported on the Tigray crimes of being paid by TPLF.
I wrote on the genocidal undercurrents leading to the war on Tigray. Time has made it more relevant. In 1984/5
The Derg launched “to kill all the fish, it was necessary to drain the sea”—the sea being the Tigrayans the fish the fighters. 2/15 bit.ly/37HWkN9
The Isaias Afewerki-led EPLF collaborated with the Derg's Tigray extermination efforts by blocking a path to Tigrayans fleeing from the 1984/5 famine to Sudan. 3/15