1/ One of those #debunking threads @HelenClarkNZ former UNDP administrator and now a close colleague of @DrTedros is the latest #TPLFAgent screaming Genocide nonstop and finally came up with a most disingenuous article on the guardian yesterday. A closer look reveals who she is.
2/ The article aside, let’s look into the pattern of 40+ tweets since the start of the conflict which reveal that Amhara and Afar lives are of no concern to her as she doesn’t even mention them. Moreover, she keeps silent whenever she thinks her allies are winning
3/ Apart from 1 tweet expressing her sadness about the start of war in Ethiopia on Nov 10, 2020, she didn’t have any comments on Ethiopia until Jan 23rd which marker a start of her active involvement. What prompted it? Humanitarian Concern? Look at 3 of her 1st tweets on the war
4/ Whether it was her relationship with Tedros or other TPLF members during her years at the UNDP, the tweets since then are not only one sided but also followed the same pattern as that of CNN and other #TPLFTerroristGroup mouthpieces, selective ‘concern’ to suit her narrative
5/ 20 tweets till April 17, 19 were about famine, massacres, rape and humanitarian crisis in Tigray, 1 about the presence of Eritrean troops and not a word on Mai Kadra. Then suddenly, there was silence till June 19
6/ Out of her 5 tweets in June, 1 was about sexual violence, 1 recommendation of Alex Dewal’s blog (who she refers to often), 1 about killed aid workers, 1 about election (which couldn’t have been more negative) and the last one announcing the ceasefire as ‘dramatic development)
7/ It gets very interesting from here on. Deafening silence through July and August except 1 tweet that said ‘conflict is spreading to other regions’ on Aug 4th. Not a word on any of the massacres or displacements in Amhara or Afar, nor about amnesty’s or UN’s reports. 🙉🙈🙊
8/ 13 tweets from September to date: CNN’s #FakeHumeraMassacre , famine, humanitarian crisis and access (nothing on #MissingAidTrucks), air strikes on Mekelle and blah blah blah till she finally came up with this mediocre piece of an inaccurate article on the Guardian.
9/ In the meantime, one can’t help but notice how religiously she retweets @martinplaut@RAbdiAnalyst and @wdavison10 . Also on Eleni drama she retweeted this….
10/ but not this….
11/ @HelenClarkNZ get lost. Don’t try to hide behind humanitarian concerns, you are simply a TPLF agent. You’re #SoWoyane and it is time that you realize you are no longer relevant in Ethiopia and your words cannot be taken seriously.
And @guardian please stop CNNing! #NoMore
1/ Some things never change. If you are under any illusion about how the #TPLFTerroristGroup is using the humanitarian aid situation in Tigray and think TPLF is concerned for the people of Tigray, here’s a thread on TPLF playbook used 37 years ago and one that is being used now
2/ BBC article by @martinplaut in 2010
“Millions of $ in Western aid for victims of the Ethiopian famine of 1984-85 was siphoned off by rebels to buy weapons, a BBC investigation finds”. The article is based on witness accounts of ex TPLF leaders and the CIA assessment of 1985
3/ Gebremedhin Araya (TPLF former treasurer) and Dr. Aregawi Berhe (TPLF co-founder) gave a very detailed account of this & estimated $95m channeled into rebel fight. The CIA concluded that some funds for relief operations are almost certainly diverted for military purposes.
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’
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]
@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]
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
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