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 02

...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.

THE EDUCATION OF PATRICK WIGHT

(A thread of 13 tweets)

Why is @PatrickWight1, Exec. Editor of Ethiopia Insight, obsessed with scholars Ann Fitz-Gerald (@afitz3105) and @BronwynBruton? He has even accused of “lobbying for Eritrea” (see below), which is clearly defamatory.
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It has been rumored that he has a problem with women, but this cannot be proved, so I will suggest an alternative theory, namely that his problem is with EXCEPTIONALLY SMART SCHOLARS who get their predictions right and disprove his claims and assumptions.
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There is little sign of the media-hyped "genocide" in Tigray, as Ethiopian troops are entering cities without much resistance, delivering relief aid and starting to repair infrastructure. A massive and destabilising disinformation war is still raging.
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There is also the risk of a renewed insurgency, though public opinion inside Tigray seems to have less appetite for this than two years ago when the war began.

It feels good to have been right all along, having done what I never imagined myself doing, namely contesting...