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.
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,....
“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."
Why the ENDF would be dumping bodies in the Tekeze River in a "Classical Genocidal" manner is a bit of a mystery. Especially given that the ENDF has previously been accused of doing so by @AP & @CNN.
@AP @CNN I have questions:
Why did the TPLF's Berhane drop this story into his briefing for retired Western ambassadors?
Ought we now be expecting these bodies to turn up in Humera, and a 3rd TPLF misinformation operation to be run in Western media based on this premise?
Why did the TPLF's Berhane drop this story into his briefing for retired Western ambassadors?
Ought we now be expecting these bodies to turn up in Humera, and a 3rd TPLF misinformation operation to be run in Western media based on this premise?
The initial story about bodies in the Tekeze River was published Aug 2nd by the @AP in a story bylined to Samy Magdy & Cara Anna.
@PowerUSAID - who happened to be in Sudan - visited the scene, and tweeted about the story.
@PowerUSAID - who happened to be in Sudan - visited the scene, and tweeted about the story.
https://twitter.com/powerusaid/status/1422340300807213057?lang=en
A known TPLF connected misinformation ops participant posted a Wikipedia Entry on the Humera Massacre about the AP report early in the morning on the day of publication. The same Wikipedia author drafted the Wikipedia Entry for General Tsadkan.
Several weeks before the incident the @ETFactCheck twitter account had posted a warning about such an operation taking place after TPLF trucks in Afar region were observed recovering the bodies of a large number of soldiers, many children, killed in an attack.
The second Humera Tekeze Bodies Story was published first by the Telegraph, bylined to Lucy Kassa (@berhe_lucy) telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
... and shortly after appeared on @CNN as an investigative report from @nimaelbagir
https://twitter.com/nimaelbagir/status/1434498834550382595
The @CNNs @NimaElbagir's version of the story included observations that the bodies had been chemically preserved before being dumped in the river, which immediately raised lots of red-flags, not the least because it was a repeat of a questionable story published a month earlier.
The irreplacable @Qnie_Addis posted several threads debunking the second iteration of this story. This one is a good place to begin if you are not already familiar with the controversy.
https://twitter.com/Qnie_Addis/status/1434526643255750656
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