Thread by @RSonderriis

Thread: part 01

The ICHREE’s second report on human-rights violations during the conflict in northern Ethiopia came out today. No fairness was expected. Last year, for instance, the report came out after the Ethiopian state had not been in charge of security or anything else

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...in Tigray for 15 months, yet it held Ethiopia responsible for not providing schooling in Tigray, while schoolchildren were being conscripted to the rebel army.

This year’s report also uses anonymous witnesses “documenting” the most diabolical acts.

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And it sticks to the starvation-used-as-a-weapon accusation, despite the WFP’s declaration on July 15, 2022 that it had averted a famine, and ignoring the former WFP country director Steven Were Omamo’s detailed testimony about full Ethiopian cooperation with relief aid

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operations, with nothing about how emergency food and fuel were repurposed for war by the TPLF. However, I shall focus on one detail in the report. It will probably be overlooked in all the noise, though it reveals how little its authors care for critical investigation of

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...what they are told by their preferred sources.

It is a minor claim in Paragraph 33, aimed at backing up the big-media-inspired context analysis foregrounding primitive tribal rage. It originates from an article by Martin Plaut published on January 21, 2022,

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and subsequently copied by other media, namely that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s social affairs adviser, Daniel Kibret, delivered a speech calling for genocide of Tigrayans. This conclusion was arrived at by Martin Plaut simply by mistranslating “weyane” into “Tigray”, and the

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ICHREE clearly accepts that, having just established, in the preceding Paragraph 32, that “woyane” is a pejorative term used against Tigrayan civilians, even though it is actually a part of TPLF’s name in Tigrinya, ህዝባዊ ወያነ ሓርነት ትግራይ.

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The ICHREE also copy-pastes Martin Plaut’s interpretation of Daniel Kibret mentioning the genocide of the Tasmanians at the hand of the British as a call for doing the same to Tigrayans. But if the ICHREE had bothered to check the speech by Daniel Kibret, he actually likens

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the British brutality in Tasmania to the marauding TPLF army’s conduct in Shewa Robit. One may learn this simply by reading the full Google-translated speech on Martin Plaut’s page, see here:

.martinplaut.com/2022/01/24/eth…

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Thus, after one more year of well-funded work, this UN-sponsored human-rights entity submits what once again resembles a rough-patching of the most sensationalist pop journalism and partisan fabrications.

The question is: what will happen now?

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Will the West try to have the ICHREE’s mandate extended? This would ensure that, in one more year, there will be yet another report stating “reasonable grounds to believe” (the standard applied, which really only persuades fellow believers) that Ethiopians are Eritreans are

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essentially subhuman beasts, thus souring relations and pushing indignant Ethiopians more into the anti-Western camp. Or does the West finally have the sense to accept the end of the ICHREE? It may not even have the votes to extend its mandate, but given that there is indeed

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a lot to investigate, Ethiopia, perhaps under the aegis of the EHRC, could instead be offered true forensics and other useful expertise with the aim of proving “guilt beyond reasonable doubt” (a standard that everyone could accept).

We will find out in the coming days.

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PS:
This is how Martin Plaut did it. He simply re-arranged the order of the sentences in the speech without inserting a "(...)". And despite reproducing the full speech below, neither big media's highly paid journalists nor the ICHREE team bothered to check that.