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16 Dec, 13 tweets, 7 min read
#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.

washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/…
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.
The WaPo article one correction and may need a clarification.
From @WashingtonPost:
"Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International on Thursday reported further details on the unfolding abuses in western Tigray, with interviews with 31 recently arrived refugees."

Amnesty Report:
The difference in these statements is reconcilable if you take the two statements to read that all the interviews were conducted in the refugee camp in Sudan, but this was not disclosed in @Amnesty's report. And it is important.
This is the initial correction on the Washington Post article.
On Monday @maxbearak tweeted video taken from his hotel room in Khartoum.
It would appear from all this that @maxbearak had a heads up on the Amnesty report's release.
There is a less than proud history of U.S. Journalists conducting fly in interviews with atrocity witnesses in Sudanese refugee camps, these stories included similar accounts to those in the Amnesty report.
In particular the detail in the latest Amnesty report is similar to reports about Humera detention facilities reported by @berhe_lucy in the @Telegraph, also based on telephone interviews with refugees.
Earlier this month a new @CNNi report from @nimaelbagir had been expected to be broadcast about more bodies found in the Tekeze River.

Perhaps @maxbearak's next scoop will be about this.
If that is the case It would be good if any additional story about bodies in the Tekeze, this time for the Washington Post addressed the the issues raised in this video.
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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.
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The final vote included abstentions by numerous African nations, which would have tied the vote had they voted.
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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.
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The @WashingtonPost's @maxbearak has arrived in Sudan at an interesting time.

From @Xotrinx's War Update news service:
15/12 - Tigray soldiers that were UN peacekeepers defect & train TPLF rebels in Sudan
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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

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The pattern appeared in models a couple of weeks ago and appears to be strengthening.

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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.
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Petition update r.e. @DrTedros and @WorldPeaceFdtn's Alex de Waal.

Petition links:
1. @WHO Chief Tedros: change.org/p/united-natio… (currently at 32 598 Sigs)
2. @TuftsUniversity's Alex de Waal change.org/p/tufts-univer… (currently at 24 819 Sigs)

#NoMore
@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/…
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