Zecharias quotes a number of articles in an attempt to refute the Bekele-Bachelete report. Let's take a look at this remarkable pieces of long distance journalism. Shall we?!
1. The @latimes article by @berhe_lucy and @nabihbulos. Berhe is based in NAIROBI and Bulos is based in BEIRUT. They spoke to people who claim to have witnessed a massacre in Bora over the PHONE.
They also drew from two videos. One from a video they got from an 'NGO' called Seb Hidri, which advocatesfor independent Tigray and another from video from TGHAT!
2. @ZekuZelalem's article for @VICE claims that two refugee camps in Tigray were burned to the ground. His evidence for the allegation that ENDF/EDF were responsible for the destruction? The presence of military vehicles at the sites in satellite pictures taken AFTER the fires.
According to @zekuzelalem and his impeccable logic, fire departments all over the world are behind all the fire accidents in the world! Now, that is one hell of investigative journalism. 👏
3. The third article quoted by @zekuzelalem was an article by @geoffreyyork for @globeandmail which quotes figures from @MSF saying that 70% of health facilities were looted between Nov & March which Zecharias takes it to mean all affected health facilities were dysfunctional.
However, large amount of money was allocated to Tigray after the initial military campaign and most of these infrastructures were rehabilitated. Apparently, for @ZekuZelalem facilities once damaged will stay dysfunctional forever!
4. @zekuzelalem also refer to the articles by Nima and Berhe which we debunked once and for all as soon as they appeared, necessitating @CNN to silent edit the @nimaelbagir story a zillion times!
@ZekuZelalem is that rare breed of a 'journalist' who combines mendacity, greed and pretentiousness! I see big things in his future. @CNN should keep an eye on him.
1/ Twenty seven years of tyranny and subjugation. We wept and prayed and fought!
When we got a shot at freedom and democracy, we grabbed it with two hands!
We went to the streets and we marched to the voting booth!
2/ Yet, even in this day and age, the will of the people counts for nothing! Especially if you are poor and black and African!
The liberals, who preach racial equality at home are no different from their white predecessors who came to enslave us or to 'save' us.
3/ And now the Democrats are fuelling genocide in #Ethiopia!
If you need any reason to vote Red and punish Blinken and co, I give you........Maikadra.....Galicoma......Chifra.....Agamsa...Kobo....Wuchale......and Kombolcha.....
.@timnitGebru Rebuttal
[re-purposing my arguments form the Rand-Corp thread]
1/ @timnitGebru, the fatal flaw at the very heart of your reasoning is your decision to equate information from MSM with truth with regard to the conflict in N. Ethiopia, which begs the question:
How does one know the news articles and reports from HR groups are not disinformation?
If your arbiters of absolute truth are these media outlets and this was at the time of the Iraqi war, you would have concluded that Iraq possessed WMDs!
If it was during the war on Libya, you would have endorsed the claim by Amnesty that soldiers of Gaddafi were being given free Viagra to encourage mass rape.
1/ On Nov 2 Virginians will vote in the Gubernatorial Election. On Nov 4 #Ethiopians all over the world will hold a day of remembrance for the hundreds of Ethiopian soldiers massacred by the TPLF in the dead of night on Nov 4, 2020.
2/ Belatedly, both sides are scrambling to appeal to Ethiopians. #Ethiopians will not be swayed by vacous video messages or bland statements. Ethiopians demand change in US FP towards Ethiopia! Ethiopians demand action! So far the Biden admin has been found wanting!
3/ The current adminstartion's support for #TPLF and demonization of GOE is clear as daylight. The liberal political-media complex is working day and night against Ethiopia.
This article written by a certainMoriah Assefa & published by @EthiopiaInsight aka @wdavison10 is an attempt at analysis that falls even below the abysmal standard set by many pseudo intellectuals in the pro-#TPLF camp.
1/ The writer dismisses every claim ever made about the geopolitical nature of the USGs stance regarding Ethiopia by branding them as conspiratorial, pseudo intellectual and propaganda.
Yet he doesn't put forward any credible reason why any of them aren't plausible explanstions except his conviction that they 'just are.' He just wants us to take his words for it!
1/ The attempt by Professor Moriarty to portray a couple of haystacks as targets of air bombardment was laughable and cringeworthy. However, I think it is a prequel to a more sinister #TPLF plan!
2/ We #Ethiopians know two things about TPLF. They are very predictable and very dogged! As the air bomanradement continues and the capacity of the #TPLF keeps getting degraded, I suspect they will resort to Plan C, which is committing unspeakable atrocities in #Tigray.
3/ The #TPLF might blow up residential areas or even shoot down a UN flight as @stesfa has predicted and lay the blame on #Ethiopia.
1. For the past eleven months, the pro-#Ethiopia camp has been screaming bloody murder regarding the virtually complete media blackout of Pro-#Ethiopian voices.
The media blackout and the negative coverage of #Ethiopia by the MSM has resulted in a cascading effect, leading astray not only ordinary citizens but also academicians who you think would know better.
For this thread, demonstrating the the media blackout, I have collaborated with another exceptionally talented Ethiopian, @Samriethio!