The law which is applied in Germany wrt to these reports ought to be replicated in other countries. Perhaps starting with the U.S. and Ethiopia. At least if you are complained about in Germany there is a paper trail. #TwitterSafety#TwitterTransparency@jack@yoyoel
The #TwitterSafety advisory on Ethiopia is not consistent with what is being experienced. A major Nigerian account in good standing @sanusi90064 was suspended without notification, and no opportunity for appeal.
I understand other notable accounts such as @stesfa were also suspended without notification. & 100s possibly 1000s of other accounts have also been suspended.
My interpretation this clip from a zoom call inwhich several retired/serving European and two US ambassadors attended the court of the "Western Hemisphere representative of the TPLF to discuss the rebel groups intentions to overthrow the Govt. of Ethiopia.
I've started digging - lots of rabbit holes but top line conclusion here.
Ambassador Donald Yamamoto is the sitting ambassador to Somalia, with a distinguished career, he has contact with Abiy, and in the body of the meeting he says that Abiy does not listen, twice.
It is pretty odd that for a sitting Ambassador to Somalia is attending this meeting. He's the only one. And he wants a retired ambassador Vicky Huddleston (who worked with him briefly (Charge D'Affairs in Ethiopia during the time of the TPLF) to help him with something....
As the war in Ethiopia appears - based on a flurry of govt announcements yesterday - to be coming to a close, the TPLF misinformation machine has not finished with its efforts to distort its horror show.
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Reliably sourced information suggests CNN is about to publish a third edition of the Humera Massacre / bodies in the Tekeze river story, either later today or tomorrow.
The last story on this subject was subject to lots of criticism.
Concerns over media, political and diplomatic bias around the war in Ethiopia has now escalated into protests by Ethiopian Diaspora under the #NoMore banner outside both CNN’s Atlanta HQ in Georgia, and daily at the White House in Washington DC.
In the leaked 21st November PCDI call with Western Ambassadors TPLF spokesman Berhane Gebre Christos describes 100 bodies being dumped in the Tekeze River the previous night, 20th November, allegedly by the ENDF.
Why he mentions this is a bit of a mystery.
Here's a transcript of what he says.
“As we speak, yesterday evening actually, they took, ah, less than 100 I guess, people, for the river Tekeze. What they do is they kill them on Tekeze river, they kill them and throw their bodies into Tekeze river,....
.... this is classical genocidal acts. They have done that repeatedly. And yesterday evening they took them Tekeze. I didn’t hear whether they’ve been killed, but it looked like they were going to kill them near the river, this is from Western Tigray."
This is @reda_getachew's last tweet, 24 hours ago (yesterday morning). His silence in the face of the array of Govt. communications over the past day speaks volumes.
@reda_getachew The nutty professor is however still tweeting, about @berhe_lucy, he seems to be unhappy that she is trying to rehabilitate her journalism career by revealing the reality of TPLF sexual violence in Amhara.
The Govt. of Ethiopia is this morning revealing the full extent of recent victories against the TPLF forces. This thread begins the account. A GoE Spokesperson speaking on EBC (facebook.com/watch/live/?re… 18 mins in) has provided a similar account via TV.