Last two weeks in a nutshell – a typical example of #RegimeChange
 
Till around mid-October the media had been covering majorly humanitarian crisis in Tigray, so much has been said so I will leave that alone. Let’s dive into events since then.
MSM follow the narratives of and quote @reda_getachew & @ProfKindeya to a point that I think they are 🇪🇹‘s correspondents for all of them, they all created stories based on their cries about Ethiopian attack on TPLF and ignored almost completely his claims their attack on Amhara.
Oct 18 – 29 the MSM headlines:
About Airstrikes in Mekelle – Reuters 7 stories, CNN 4, France24 9, Aljazeera 5, BBC 14 while about attack in Amhara – Reuters 1 story,   CNN 0, France24 0, Aljazeera 0, BBC 1 and an interview with @reda_getachew confirming ‘carnage on Amhara front’
Despite the interview & their claims about Dessie since the Oct 20th, USG only emphasized concern over the airstrikes and not about Dessie and Kombolcha till after TPLF claimed the 2 cities on Oct 30th, even then it sounded more like an affirmation than a warning of any sort.
I can’t waste precious time on their nonsense so here are the events of Oct 30th & 31st in pictures. We’ll then move to the rest of the story - the punchline.
Till this point, all we heard was a cheering to the TPLF advancement from MSM was ‘concern’ from the ‘IC’ and USG. But since the government’s call for eligible citizens to join the army, Abiy’s promise to bury TPLF, the people’s enthusiasm to the call and cause everything changed
US warns TPLF not to move towards Addis, MSM report on how close they are to Addis (CNN said ‘on the outskirts of Addis’), TPLF-OLA venture fanned as if it’s new, US advices its citizens to leave Ethiopia, nine anti-government groups forming an alliance (live on Reuters) and
several pro-Ethiopia twitter accounts suspended are all but different faces of one big agenda. Create panic, chaos & division amongst the Ethiopian people, officials and groups, dishearten the army, thereby rendering the Democratically elected government powerless.
If this isn’t a coordinated effort for regime change, I don’t know what is. But what they are missing is that as much a chance this is for the West to avenge Adwa, it is equally a chance for us to not erase the legacy of ADWA by falling into neo-colonialism
The one thing that can’t be taken away from Africans and all black people is Adwa! Each and every Ethiopian and Eritrean along with African brothers and sisters, will defend our sovereignty, independence and our elected government and leader. And we are all ready to die for it
Might I add we the children of Africa are set on benefiting from our resources & will not export it in exchange for imported peace which we had till hate was imported!

#NoMore #RegimeChange
Don’t be on the wrong side of history, AGAIN coz #EthiopiaWillPrevail #DigitalAdwa
Respect this! Our ancestors died for our freedom! #ADWA (❤️Gigi)
And this! #DigitalAdwa (❤️Rophnan)
Zeraf!

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6 Oct
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]
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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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