Imran Khan is not going quietly, rather he is raging against the dying of the light.
Thinking saturation media coverage of Ukraine could provide cover for other “foreign interests” political meddling initiatives is the worst idea the US @StateDept has had in sometime.
Whilst their “social media platform” initiatives have incurred some blunt force damage, e.g. to #NoMore, the strategists behind these efforts do not appear to understand that social media is a global media echo chamber.
Just because Europe and America is dominated by endless TV footage of the horrors of the war in Ukraine, that doesn’t mean the 90% of global population not in Europe and America are similarly focussed.
In fact to the extent that they are focused on and distracted by this war, their concerns are probably on the impacts on themselves, on the food, economic and energy crises that this avoidable war is causing.
News consumers of TV, Radio and social media who are not in the rich west, have their own local sources of media analysis. And this fear rich environment is a perfect environment for collective wisdom about what is important to flourish inside their own social networks.
Gallopin is now talking about the bodies in the Tekeze river. I.E. the Lucy Kassa Nima Elbagir "bodies in the river" stories.
& now talking about a 4th wave of violence against.
This introduction is entirely about crimes committed against Tegaru.
On its face this tweet confirms the authenticity of the meeting between Amnesty International and well known public apologists for the TPLF including @martinplaut and the @WorldPeaceFdtn's Alex de Waal.
He says the meeting was "held a year ago" - suggesting it did take place.
@martinplaut@WorldPeaceFdtn If it took place - "a year ago" = April 2021 - as he suggests, then it took place during the period that Amnesty and HRW was likely conducting field research for their report in Tigray - as it wasn't till around then that it was possible for NGOs to get access.
Initial research for the Amnesty report was conducted in Sudan refugee camps, of witnesses many of whom may well have been perpetrators of the #MaikadraMassacre
These witnesses had ample opportunity to align their stories with each other and intimidate other potential witnesses.
This is the single most egregious factual error in the deeply flawed @amnesty@hrw, but it is not the worst of it. Worst bits include:
- Their minimisation of #MaikadraMassacre based on TPLF witness stations
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@amnesty@hrw - Conclusions designed for headlines about ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity which are not supported by the evidence in the report.
- the failure to conduct any on the ground research inside Wolkait before releasing the report. There was no reason to release the report when they did - and in doing so they may well have poisoned the well for them to complete their own research.
So when is this @amnesty@hrw @twitterspace being held on their atrociously flawed report into Wolkayit being released.
I would like to listen and need the link.
Ok… here it is. I would encourage followers to submit questions asking them about their flawed methodology, poor background research, dodgy conclusions, absurd findings on #MaikadraMassacre and nonsense numbers wrt displaced Tegaru.
Thread on a MUST WATCH April 9 IV by ETV's Shiferaw Lakew with @JemalCountess & @PushStartMedia1 following their return from Wolkayit where they bore eye-witness to new research into historic mass graves and mass murder conducted in the region by the TPLF.
The interview begins with an account of their visit to IDP camps across the Amhara region. Then moves fairly quickly to discuss their experience in Wollkayit/Welkait. This section of the thread begins here.
The part of the interview/thread discussing Gehanem (Hell) the area where the worst of the massacres is thought to have taken place - and where large amounts of human remains were recovered last week - starts here.
The IV begins with an account of their trip to Northern Amhara, where they met with Tegaru IDPs in camps who have fled over the border.
He speaks of the tragedy of Amhara IDP camps in the areas which are under resourced - water, food, sanitation are all major problems.
. @JemalCountess relates his experience seeing IDPs in extremely brutal circumstances in Sekota, where temperatures are often in over 95 Farenheit (36+ Celsius.) Sheba and Jemal also talk about Lalibela which still has no electricity and running water.