@DrTedros@WorldPeaceFdtn@WHO@TuftsUniversity Additional information related to the @DrTedros Petition can be found in this PDF which details the case against him (prior to the current war) which was already compendious and which is based on his activities whilst serving as a TPLF leader in Ethiopia. ambapu.org/sites/default/…
Since the war began @DrTedros has used his influence, position and platform - contrary to the rules of the UN - to actively support the TPLF both behind the scenes and in public in pursuit of its efforts to depose the elected Govt. of Ethiopia.
This tweet was posted on June 28th, the day of the unilateral ceasefire declaration after the TPLF retook Mekelle through a miltary offensive timed to coincide with Ethiopia's first free, fair and widely contested elections on June 21st 2021.
Alex de Waal of @WorldPeaceFdtn has a long history in working on African conflict. He is a sophisticated propagandist whose work is particularly insidious because he claims to be working for peace while often doing the exact opposite.
This thread from @Qnie_Addis is part of a series of threads addressing the work of Westerners who have played an active role in information laundering for the TPLF during the war in Tigray. Alex de Waal is among the most influential of the TPLF's shills.
Ethiopia is continuing to get on with shaping its future.
There is a striking contrast between this meeting which talks through action about what the likely path forward for Ethiopia will be and yesterday's disgraceful proceedings at the @UN_HRC.
The presentation by the European Group spokesman is particularly worth watching. This is followed by a brief, clear, response from Ethiopia to the proceedings.
The Director General of @WHO is once again abusing his position as a high UN Official to promote the interests of his former TPLF comrades, turned insurgents in their efforts to resurrect an over used misinformation operation focussed on the Tekeze River, for military purposes.
Since the beginning of this war in November 2020 the TPLF has been seeking to open an arms supply route from Sudan through Humera to provide materiel and fresh troops for TPLF's armed forces.
Refugee camps in Sudan have also been used to treat injured TPLF fighters, who have subsequently been caught with IDs fighting in Amhara, and to provide refuge - at the beginning of the war - to perpetrators of the Mai Kadra massacre where est. 1500+ civilians were killed.
From @xotrinx's War Update news service:
15/12 - Tigray soldiers that were UN peacekeepers defect & train TPLF rebels in Sudan
16/12 - The Sudan military moves its soldier to Ethiopian border
@washingtonpost@maxbearak@xotrinx . @maxbearak, the latest U.S. reporter on the ground near these camps tonight, with a fresh new story, which appears to be based primarily on HRW and Amnesty phone interviews with refugees in these camps will need to check his sources stories carefully.
There is a very clear pattern here, a story playbook which has been used now at least five times, on one occasion even scooping up the @USAID administrator @SamanthaJPower / @SamanthaJPower
#TigrayGenocide is trending on the eve of tomorrow's @UN_HRC meeting, and the top tweet is a brand new report from the @washingtonpost which appears to back up the new @amnesty / @hrw report that dropped today.
Oddly the tweet from @maxbearak doesn't contain the hashtag.
The report has been retweeted 43 times since publication 2 hours ago. Ten of those postings contain the hashtag. It appears the @Twitter algorithm has picked up @maxbearak's tweet via association with the hashtag.
Its a fairly long and comprehensive article based on interviews with refugees in Sudan - and unlike the Amnesty / HRW report contains comment from an Amhara official.
A flow of water from the Amazon/Tropical Atlantic across North Africa is interacting with a stationary cut off low pressure system located over Turkey.
Here is a view of the cut off low - 24 hour satellite animation from @zoom_earth
@zoom_earth Here is a close up of the other component of the weather setup - a massive stream of airborn moisture crossing the Sahara.
It appears @Amnesty has learned nothing in the course of this war about the methodological issues related to the manner in which it is reporting on HR issues in Tigray/North Ethiopia. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…
In Nov and Dec, @Amnesty and @HRW conducted phone IVs with 31 people, including 25 witnesses and survivors as well as relatives of those detained and expelled, about abuses by Amhara security forces against Tigrayan civilians in the towns of Adebai, Humera, and Rawyan."
This report is clearly being released today - on the eve of an urgently requested @UN_HRC meeting tomorrow in Geneva for political and diplomatic purposes. It may have even triggered the meeting.