It was a pleasure to be at The Hague Humanitarian Studies Centre @HSC_ISS earlier this month to speak about the failure (deliberate) of the UN's response to the catastrophe in Tigray.

‘Why did the UN response to the crisis in Tigray fail?’

humanitarianstudiescentre.nl/2024-conferenc… @HSC_ISS “The UN was born out of the horrors of World War [II]. Rather than upholding its mandate and recognizing the spirit (of Never Again) under which the UN was founded[, w]e have top UN officials succumbing to the seductions of the Ethiopian government and accepting invitations....

History

1936: Fascist Italy drops 78 bombs on Adwa 👇and kills 1700 Tigrayans 2020: Fascist's ex-colony Eritrea loots and ravages Adwa again.

Thousands from Adwa and its surroundings like everywhere across Tigray were massacred.

The scars are visible from satellite images.

The video clip here👇which's released by Walta TV (one of the Ethiopian regime's prop machines) shows a compilation of combat scenes by the Ethiopian genocidal troops during the #WarOnTigray.
From phone calls with our families and friends, and countless reports, we have heard that Ethiopian and Eritrean troops shelled villages and towns indiscriminately without any clear target and without any evidence of the presence of Tigray Defence Forces in the areas they shelled

Nazi horror didn't start with the Holocaust. It started with the systematic dehumanization of the jews.
In Ethiopia, a regime-led dehumanization campaign consisting the production of fake documentaries, language of @AbiyAhmedAli and other public "figures",

https://twitter.com/astroehlein/status/1411602870009466881

.and a fascistic art community led to the presentation of Tigrayans as existential threat to Ethiopia who should be 'wiped out' in order to save the country from disintegration or to Make Ethiopia Great Again (ኢትዮጵያን ወደ ነበረችበት ከፍታ እንድትመለስ as they say).

What caused the #WarOnTigray, according to @AbiyAhmedAli.

"If this force [TPLF & Tigrayan political elites] had quietly joined the Prosperity Party, it could've remained in power with all the wealth that it stole and everything. The decision to not join the Prosperity Party,...

https://twitter.com/TeklehaymanotG/status/1412005465937035269

..has immensely costed it."

"Even when it went to Tigray, it could've quietly remained in power as a regional government. We wouldn't at least have fought it. [...]. What did it lose [due to the war]?. Each and every single mother of Tigray knows the cost of the war."

"ይህ ሃይል ዝምብሎ ብልፅግና ውስጥ ቢቀመጥ ኖሮ ቢያንስ የያዘውን ይዞ መቆየት ይችል ነበር። ስልጣኑም የሰረቀውን ምናምን ይዞ መቆየት ይችል ነበር። ከብልፅግና የወጣበት የግምገማ ስህተት ክፍተኛ የሆነ ኪሳራ ኣድርሰዋል።" "ትግራይ ከተክሄደ በኋላ ዝምብሎ የክልል መንግስት ሆኖ መቀመጥም ይቻል ነበር። እኛ ቢያንስ ኣንዋጋም ነበር። ...ምንድነው ያደረሰው ኪሳራ? የያንዳንዱ የትግራይ እናት ትመዝነዋለች። የደረሰባቸውን ነገር ያውቁታል እነሱ[የትግራይ እናቶች]።

Collective trauma of the #WarOnTigray on Tigrayan children:
The #WarOnTigray is perhaps one of the most under-reported and the bloodiest events in Africa in recent decades. Over 52,000 civilians have reportedly been killed as of last week,
washingtonpost.com/world/africa/t… more than 60k crossed the border to Sudan for safety, over 4.5 million face starvation as their harvests are looted & destroyed by Ethiopian & Eritrean armies.

"Doctors at Mekele’s main hospital say rape survivors are turning up injured and in tears. More women are seeking counseling, testing for sexually transmitted infections, emergency contraception and abortions. Girls as young as 12 are among those attacked, researchers say." 💔

https://twitter.com/TeklehaymanotG/status/1359135225348050947

"...armed groups have looted and ransacked medical facilities across Tigray, making it difficult for survivors of rape and other crimes to access emergency care" Lucy Kassa
latimes.com/world-nation/s…

After 64 days, I finally managed to talk to someone who travelled on foot for 3 days to reach #Mekelle from Rubagered, a village in central #Tigray where I grew up and where my parents live. Hearing a familiar voice over the phone gave me goosebumps. What he told me about what's going on in our villages is heartbreaking. He told me that there's been at least 5 rounds of heavy fights & the invading #EritreanArmy still controlls the area.

It has been 60 days since @AbiyAhmedAli declared #WarOnTigray. 60 days on, the war still rages across Tigray & the region is still under almost full communication, banking and transport block out. From the limited info that comes out, millions of people are starving 1

https://twitter.com/TeklehaymanotG/status/1336740196893782017

due to lack of access to power, cash to buy supplies as banks are still closed and bank accounts every Tigrayan suspended, & absence of trade activities. UNICEF reports that more than 2m children in Tigray are completely cut off from humanitarian assist unicef.org/press-releases… 2

#Tigray
How many people do they need to die of indiscriminate bombing, regime induced collective starvation, luck of medical treatment and extra judicial killings by armies and ethnic militia supported by dictatorial regimes for the #UN and @antonioguterres to intervene? In #Tigray, it has been 46 days since @AbiyAhmedAli's regime declared a full-scale war consisting of indiscriminate shelling of all cities, drone attacks, massacres committed civilians by ethnic #Amhara militia and two national armies (#Ethiopian and #Eritrean).

In this long article, @GebrekirstosG provides one of the most comprehensive analysis of the @AbiyAhmedAli's #WarOnTigray. The article disintangles the genealogy of how Ethiopia morphed into interethnic war of no end in sight under Mr. Ali's watch. ethiopia-insight.com/2020/12/18/the… "Since the war began, heavy bombardment and shelling has rained down on Tigrayan cities. The region is being attacked on many fronts by the Ethiopian National Defense Force, the Eritrean military, Amhara security forces and militia, and special forces from Afar & other regions."