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Apr 7 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Some pictures from @AnnGarrison of a press conference held at Gondar University research by @mfaethiopia at the event held to reveal results of the #WolkaiteMassGraves research today.

Thank you for sharing Ann!

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Apr 9
The English Language translation of #TearsOfWolkayit was introduced to me on Thursday in a Twitter Space holding what felt a lot like a digital vigil in the lead up the release of the University of Gondar research.

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Tears Part-1 via @YouTube
The documentary which runs to a little over an hour in its two parts is a MUST WATCH for anyone who has embraced the false #TigrayGenocide narrative which TPLF has used as cover for its insurgency in Ethiopia.

Tears Part-2
There have been extensive war crimes and ethnic cleansing committed in the territory which is wrongly called #WesternTigray in western media, a lengthy one, of the people and the culture of Amhara people of Wolkayit.
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Apr 9
Speaking as ferengi (perhaps a disqualification) IMO this is observably false.

@AbiyAhmedAli may not be perfect but he has played an extremely effective role in the liberation of Ethiopia in extremely difficult circumstances.
Politics is an inherently difficult art. Especially within a genuine democratic framework. Because it requires collective decision making it is an “art of compromise” and it is often also said that it is the “art of the possible”.
This very famous and very old quote encapsulates the dilemma.

“You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”.
- John Lydgate Image
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Apr 6
Today Sheba (@PushStartMedia1) and Getty Photographer @JemalCountess went on field trip with the team from Gondar University who have been researching prison facilities in Welkaite operated by the TPLF starting, we think, in the 1980s during the Derg War.
Tomorrow afternoon the research team from the University of Gondar with whom Sheba and Jemal are travelling will be holding a press conference to discuss the findings their research which began in Jan. 2021.
The day began with some trepidation.
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Apr 6
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Three videos sent this evening from Welkaite where @PushStartMedia1 and @JemalCountess are being shown a former prison complex by a former inmate of the TPLF facility who was held here in 1990.
@PushStartMedia1 @JemalCountess The video above shows a torture chamber in Dejena, where victim (survivor) Chery Gebremariam 57 years old was locked up back in 1990

He was imprisoned for not accepting the TPLF or Tigrayan identity, 74 others locked up here that he knew. 32 survived, 42 dead.
The gentleman talking is Cheru who identified this location. He’s saying: "We used to say 'we are Amhara, we from Gondar not Tigray' and that is why we were targeted and arrested and tortured."
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Apr 5
The EC President Ursula @vonderleyen held a very impressive wide ranging Q&A today with The European Parliament, focussed more on the #EuropeanGreenDeal and long term issues than #Ukraine. It is the first such Q&A with the President in 12 years.
The session demonstrates the unique qualities of the European Union and its Parliament as a deliberative multi-nation decision making body with very real powers in relation its sovereign members which are bound by mutual benefit rather than sanction.
@vonderleyen was asked and answered some very tough questions about the “rule of law” issues related to Poland and Hungary, two countries which are on the front line of the Ukraine refugee crisis.

Notably absent from the proceedings; rancor and grandstanding.
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Apr 4
Dear @twittersafety I don’t know whether this is real or not, but I do know it is suddenly being shared by a known TPLF disinformation account as news is breaking about mass graves being found in Welkaite (aka Western Tigray).
One of the replies says this is a video of military training which seems possible, but the video cold literally he from anywhere, and when it comes to misusing images and videos of atrocities, starving children and dead bodies TPLF’s disinformation army are the experts.
I appreciate @twittersafety that you are currently focussed Ukraine but it’s worth noting that the death toll in the Ethiopian war started by the TPLF on U.S. election night last year - civilian and military - is much higher than that yet experienced in Ukraine.
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