Thread by @althecat

This account of the Tigray War origins is a self serving pathetic attempt by @martinplaut to pre-empt what he well knows has already been clearly established in numerous authoritative accounts of the war.

https://twitter.com/letbrehangebre1/status/1628704003973386242

The eyewitness accounts include two books by survivors of the shocking massacre in the night of Nov 3rd-4th 2020 when 1000s ENDF forces who had gathered in Mekelle for a handover of the Northern Command were killed. Many had their throats slit as they slept.

Six other outposts of the ENDF in Tigray Region were also scène to surprise late night murder and mayhem, including a base in Dansheha north of Gondar on the road to Humera.

People I spoke to in Alamata Raya on Nov 2O22 also provided accounts of TPLF forces deploying there.

Then there is the famous video broadcast of by the senior TPLF official on Tigrai TV (soon after found dead I his car) who described the attack plan as being modelled on Israel’s 1967 6-Day war.

There is even a credible if unconfirmed copy of a strategy document planning the attack written by the TPLF in Arpunf September 2020 that was found after the war in a car.

Also TPLF launched long range missile attacks launched on both Asmara and Gondar in the opening days of the war.

Two final data points that perhaps @martinplaut and Miriam van Reisen might like to try to explain are:
- why the war began on the night of US Elections
&
- how it is that a #tigraygenocide social media campaign was launched on the night of the attack….

… if as claimed the war was started by the ENDF. They might perhaps also explain trajectory and rapid growth of that @Twitter campaign not withstanding it coinciding with blanket coverage of the US presidential election.

All the evidence I have seen over the past 2 years points to a well organised pre-planned TPLF lighting attack - one which was only repelled thanks to the astonishing efforts of Amhara special forces FANO and residual ENDF forces.

In Mekelle on the day of the attack there was indeed a flight from Addis carrying new currency to pay the troops. Which was accompanied by an escort. But it was hijacked on arrival, the currency was taken and the escorting soldiers seized.

Later in the day a special officers dinner was held for the officers of the ENDF who had gathered to mark the handover. At midnight ENDF officers who were not loyal to the TPLF were then murdered in their beds.

I seriously hope that news media take @martinplaut’s account - that of long time consistently loyal TPLF cadre - who even publicly admitted to swearing an oath of loyalty to the TPLF - for what it is; misinformation.

/ends

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