Thread by @wyattreed13

Dr. Berhanu Taye sets the record straight about Ethiopia at #NoMore panel in DC this weekend

“First, there was no genocide in Tigray”

In reality, the “ethnic-based constitution imposed by the TPLF in 1991… is the source of most of the troubles” in Ethiopia & the Horn of Africa

Dr. Taye explains how, by “looting trucks, blocking convoys, and using food aid for military purposes only,” TPLF terrorists are actually responsible for humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia

#NoMore

#EthiopiaPrevails

#NoMoreTPLF

Dr. Berhanu Taye explains how the “concerted propaganda campaign” against Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, & broader Horn of Africa works

1) TPLF fabricates lies

2) Corporate media airs them

3) US & UN use them to demand more sanctions on democratically-elected governments

#NoMore

Dr. Taye says it’s Ethiopia today but can be anyone else tomorrow

“I urge everyone to stand together to say #NoMore to intervention… and coordinate our anti-colonial struggle, b/c our foes are united”

“It is possible to defeat colonialism. It is possible to defeat imperialism”

National Union of Eritrean Women vice chair Seble Tsehaye lays bare the plot—TPLF:

- Planned to “consolidate power into Addis & then… invade Eritrea”

- Ambushed Ethiopian forces, launched 22 missiles at populated Eritrean cities

- “All supported by the US & western powers”

Tsehaye: African diaspora & @answercoalition @codepink @Blacks4Peace @palmcollective_ urge #NoMore solidarity, condemn “policy makers who say they care for the nations they sanction” but really seek “a change in the regime… so that they could have control over their interests.”

Tsehaye: Eritrea’s struggle & referendum for independence shows self-determination “is at the root of Eritrea’s pathing” & is “the core intention of the West’s hostile policies against Eritrea” & “any nation that fights neocolonization or fights the imperialist agenda of the US”

“Profound US hostilities against Eritrea” ongoing since ‘50s, but Tsehaye links recent TPLF attacks with independent 2018 Ethiopia-Eritrea-Somalia peace & cooperation treaty, says the West “did their best to undermine” this “decision made by African nations, for African nations”

Abdirahiman Warsame—whose multi-million follower account @SomalianFacts was just banned after using #NoMore hashtag—warns Democrats of serious midterm consequences if they keep backing TPLF terrorists whose 27-year genocide killed 100,000 Somalis, including his family members

Former US Amb “let it slide” as TPLF lied that 3,000 Somali soldiers joined w Eritreans in recent zoom meeting where western diplomats blessed coup. Warsame condemns these diplomats & high profile opposition like WHO Chief @DrTedros who “use their power to spread misinformation”

Wonder why US has to “lie about its intentions” in Ethiopia & Twitter has to “silence voices like @HermelaTV #SimonTesfamariam @hornofafricahub?”

“If they were honest… they would never get the support of the American people” for regime change
-@SeanBlackmon9 of @answercoalition

.@SeanBlackmon9: Biden claiming sanctions “are not directed at people of Ethiopia or Eritrea”—while threatening 1m Ethiopian jobs—shows “profound hypocrisy & cruelty” of US imperialism

Says US pushes “slow motion genocide” against those w/ “audacity” to pursue self-determination

“This American gov’t wants to divide the Horn—because a United Horn, & a United Africa, would make it very difficult for imperialism to succeed.”

@SeanBlackmon9 calls for organized front against imperialism & replacing Washington’s ‘rules-based order’ with a “people-based order”

.@pslweb’s Lucas Rodriguez: Ethiopia-Eritrea peace, which laid ground for united/independent Horn, was possible only after TPLF ouster

US responded w “sanctions, false promises & cynicism” of “capitalist system that will stop at nothing to extract profit from the African people”

“I know I’ll never get the truth” about Ethiopia from CNN or MSNBC as “they tell the same lies about my country,” Venezuela

“They manufacture these narratives about supposed mass human rights abuses” to fool people, “because that’s how propaganda works”

-@LeonardoEFA, @codepink

.@LeonardoEFA explains logic of US sanctions that killed 100000 Venezuelans & will imperil a million Afghan kids this winter—“We’re going to starve the Afghan people, for the Afghan people. We’re going to harm Venezuelans, for Venezuelans. We’re going to harm Ethiopians, for you”

.@LeonardoEFA says he was “so impressed” by Horn of Africa diaspora’s turnout at recent DC #NoMore march and “so glad” to see how Ethiopians are leveraging their “incredible strength” to stop sanctions

Interested viewers urged to check out Dec 12 webinar: Bit.ly/NoEthiopiaSanc…

.@Blacks4Peace says US “needs to get out of Africa… All 54 of the US embassies. We want the US to take its bloody hands off our continent. We do not need you there, we do not want you there, & we are going to do everything we can to get you out of there.”
-@AAPRP’s Rafiki Morris

Morris explains why location—Eritrean Cultural Center—matters: “you’re sitting in Eritrea right now. You’re sitting in the base of one of our strongest liberation movements” in history

Eritrea now united w/ Ethiopia after “1st independently negotiated peace” among African states

Morris—“this is a war… a high-intensity protracted war and it’s been going on damn near 500 years…#NoMore imperialism. #NoMore capitalism. #NoMore colonialism.”

47 years active & he’d never seen organizers “mobilize humanity around a cause they didn’t understand” in just 6 wks

Morris’ final, fiery message—“Africa must unite”

“In order to achieve victory we must go together”

“We will dig a grave for imperialism in Africa. We will cremate the body of imperialism in Africa. We will bury the ashes & put people on guard to make sure it never rises again.”