Thread by @althecat

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.

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https://twitter.com/xotrinx/status/1466580675222462467

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.

https://twitter.com/xotrinx/status/1466580680008089603

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.

https://twitter.com/anteneh_asnake/status/1466442593059942405

Condemnations be the West for this 5 month terror campaign were extremely slow to come, with clear unambiguous statements from the US asking the TPLF to withdraw from Amhara and Afar only coming in the last few weeks.

The war in Ethiopia was not a just war of liberation of the Tigray people as consistently reported from the outset. It was a ruthless violent secessionist attack on Ethiopia by its former rulers the TPLF who could not accept their loss of power.

It was enabled and facilitated and resourced by Western nations, and cheered in by Western media drunk on predjudice and hubris with cloth for ears, blinded by their cognitive dissonance and historical friendships with the TPLF’s rulers and elites.

Many of these elite members of the TPLF cadre and leadership remain in positions of power and influence most notably the @WHO chief @DrTedros who has repeatedly used his power and influence to perpetuate the violence and mayhem in Ethiopia.

When this war ends, & it will end soon, there will be a grand reckoning and a price to pay for all those who were involved in this war which a) never needed to happen & b) could have been brought to an end so much sooner absent external , Western, encouragement of the rebellion.

The truth will out.

/ENDS

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