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1 Dec, 7 tweets, 3 min read
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.
These tweets follow with details (google maps will show you were these towns are):

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We also have this interview this morning from @NeaminZeleke which talks more broadly about the victories in the battlefield. He appears very calm and confident.

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3 Dec
A fortnight after Ethiopian Govt. announced unilateral ceasefire, TPLF commenced “revenge” offensive on Amhara and Afar which has led to 10s possibly 100s of thousands of deaths. After defeats they routinely killed civilians in retaliation.

Thread…. #NoMore
This continued for 5 months with gang rape, killings, kidnappings of children as young as 12 to use as human shields on their attacks, reckless use of human wave attacks with Tigray children and looting and destruction everywhere they went.
Here we see fresh pictures of destruction and looting in the recently liberated town of Shewa Robit.

Looted materials and food - they also stole crops and emptied aid warehouses - were transported back to Tigray on stolen UN Aid trucks.
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2 Dec
This needs to be blocked in the House. Coons is setting his political career and his house, the Democratic Party, on fire.
In the midterms November 2022, the HoR is the Republicans to lose at the moment (received wisdom of the elites - based on history). And with a big #BLM #NoMore convergence in coming months, can become the @DNC’s worst nightmare IMO.
The Ethiopian domestic U.S. diaspora Black Congressional Caucus reach out is strong already. The Virginia Governors race has given the @DNC a taste of the nightmare already.

The progressive caucus is also a natural ally.
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2 Dec
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.

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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....
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2 Dec
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. ImageImageImageImage
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2 Dec
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."
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2 Dec
This is a great and very timely interview on ESAT Ethiopia.

Ethiopia - ESAT Insight US Policy on Ethiopia with @JoeBiden's Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa Amb. Jeffrey D. Feltman
@JoeBiden Not sure how others felt about this, but Feltman's answers did not seem to me to be consistent with his objective, namely peace.

I would have liked to see him asked what pressure the U.S. Govt has applied to the TPLF to withdraw to Tigray. ImageImage
See a partial transcript above:

Envoy Feltman's answers to Gizaw Legesse's questions about constitutional deliberations seemed particularly obtuse.

Particularly his use of the qualifier "mostly" twice wrt whether these questions are questions for "Ethiopians to decide."
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