Hi @MarksSimon, @Bloomberg, we have known this for literally seven months but you personally and the publications you have worked for @nytimes and @bloomberg consistently ignored these facts. Even @ap started reporting on the atrocities in Sept.
You now need to explain why?
You now need to explain why?
https://twitter.com/markssimon/status/1493765327309705216
Why were reporters in Kenya like yourself and @declanwalsh, and your editors in NY, DC and London so unwilling to dig deeper and ask the question why is it that there is a 2nd completely different narrative to this conflict?
Why did so many Western publications - because nearly every notable publication and Agency in the US UK and EU did this - suspend your critical thinking and take a course of action which almost certainly prolonged this war and the killing and the horror?
Even in this report @MarksSimon you “forces affiliated with…” language appears intended to provide an out for the TPLF leadership who ordered this wholesale campaign of looting, mass rape, arbitrary killing and destruction of education, health and industry infrastructure.
Back in July when this offensive into Amhara and Afar started @reda_getachew tweeted in Amharic saying that Tigray forces would take “revenge” against the Amhara.
What happened in Northern Ethiopia between August and now - it continues in Afar now - was ordered by TPLF.
What happened in Northern Ethiopia between August and now - it continues in Afar now - was ordered by TPLF.
The pain and suffering caused in Amhara was deliberate, and it was facilitated with the use of UN Trucks and UN food, and UN fuel, a story which a real journalist might have wanted to get to the bottom of.
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