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Oct 27 • 6 tweets • 5 min read
For many months, international rights groups like @HRW and @Amnesty have been reporting on crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing in #Ethiopia’s #Tigray region.

Along with others, we’ve been trying to increase international attention on the atrocities there.
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Estimates of civilian deaths from all causes – direct killing, starvation, lack of health care – since the start of hostilities in November 2020, are in the hundreds of thousands:
martinplaut.com/2022/10/19/new…

Millions have been forced to flee their homes:
unrefugees.org/news/ethiopia-…
While some media outlets internationally are recognizing the scale of the horrors in #Ethiopia and drawing attention to them, much of the world seems in the dark about it.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/…
Unfortunately, the situation has only gotten worse in recent weeks, with an escalating joint offensive by #Ethiopia and #Eritrea forces against #Tigrayan rebels that has put the local populations at further risk.
hrw.org/news/2022/10/1…
The @HolocaustMuseum's @CPG_USHMM is now, “deeply concerned about further crimes against humanity and a heightened risk of genocide in #Ethiopia’s #Tigray region.”
ushmm.org/information/pr…
📰 This thread is based on a story in my daily email newsletter today.

👉👉 Read the whole issue and SUBSCRIBE here:
hrw.org/the-day-in-hum…

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Oct 27
It’s been a terrible year for people in northeast #Mali.

Since March, Islamist armed groups aligned with the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara (ISGS) have killed hundreds of people and forced tens of thousands to flee their homes. Image
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First, heavily armed men on motorcycles and in other vehicles surround a village and shoot indiscriminately.

Then, they summarily execute villagers, primarily men.

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I've been on Twitter for 14 years, and I can say it's got slowly better over the years in combatting threats & hate. It still needs to get much better, of course.

But if Twitter now reverses course and reopens the gates fully to the hatemongers, I'll leave. I think many will.
People on Twitter have become used to a better place.

Again, it's very far from ideal, but reports of death threats and extreme hate get dealt with - unevenly, yes, but it is far better than the ISIS years, for example. Nazi hate-flinging has also been dampened down a bit.
More serious journalists will leave the platform, too, I think. No one wants to hang out in a cesspool of hate.

That will damage the influence - and thus the value - of the platform hugely.
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Oct 26
🗳 US Voting Under Threat

Election campaigns anywhere always bring heightened tensions, but the US vote on November 8 seems to be particularly fraught.

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Many officials responsible for administering free and fair elections in the US have faced harassment and even death threats since the 2020 election.
pbs.org/newshour/polit…
In some US states, armed individuals stood outside ballot counting centers in the days after the 2020 vote.

⚠️ If you’ve got a gun, you’re not trying to protest or monitor anything. You’re trying to intimidate people.

apnews.com/article/protes…
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Oct 26
“Impunity” is not a very common word, I’m afraid, which is a bit of a shame, because it really captures so much of what’s wrong with the world today.
The dictionary definition – “exemption from punishment or freedom from the injurious consequences of an action” – won’t help popularize the word either.

It’s an explanation that sounds as legalistic as the word itself.
But if you translate that definition of “impunity” into human English, things get more interesting…

“Impunity” basically means GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER.

Or some other crime.
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Oct 25
I was on a study trip in #Greece last week, learning among other things about a human rights success story: how the violent, neo-Nazi Golden Dawn group was toppled.

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I’d read about Golden Dawn before, so I was aware of how they’d emerged to capitalize on rising hatred in Greece, exacerbated by intolerant political rhetoric and hostile government policies scapegoating unpopular and powerless groups, like migrants.
hrw.org/news/2014/06/0…
And I knew about their winning seats in parliament and the trial that sunk them in a historic decision in 2020.
hrw.org/news/2020/10/0…
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Oct 25
Authorities held 2 brothers for months in basement cells and tortured them...

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They forced them to film an “apology” video, which was posted online...
Then, they released them without charge...

...only to kidnap them later and force them into another confession.
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