[Update May 16/22] The ruling @prosperity2022 has intensified its widespread crackdown on Fano members across the Amhara region & have also used this opportunity for ethnic profiling, harassment & mass arrests against Amhara civilians elsewhere in the country. 1/N
🧵 May 16/22: Amhara professionals are being harassed by security forces:
📌 a professor, Dr. Yeshigeta Gelaw was arrested & his house was shot while his family was inside (📸 damaged door) &
📌 a lawyer, Asres Mare had his home unlawfully searched.

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Liberation Front (LF) Propaganda 101 [Thread]:

TPLF + OLF digital strategy is to engage in psychological warfare in a manner that keeps Amhara in a perpetual defensive position. While their militants carry out genocide missions, their PR people reverse actor roles to...

[1/8] ...upset adversaries & misinform the int'l community. They have influencers w/ artificially enhanced follower counts to convey authority & normalize extremist agendas through strategic wording, pseudo-logic & repetitive messaging. On the surface they argue for political...

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Self-determination or #Ethiopia's Decimation? [Thread]:

An Austrian Nazi named Baron Roman Prochazka wrote a book called "Abyssinia: The Powder Barrel" (1935) before Fascist Italy's invasion of Ethiopia.

[Available for Free via @JSTOR & @tsehai: jstor.org/stable/26586238]

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https://twitter.com/TheDejazmach/status/1327349556154134529

➡️ Prochazka frames Emperor Haile Selassie I & the Ethiopian empire as a threat to the colonial powers through collusion w/ Japan.

➡️ He proposes tribalization of #Ethiopia & pioneers the term "self-determination" in the Ethiopian context to weaken & fragment the country.

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For the Record:

Clip from @JCSteers & @VICENews on Tigrayan refugees who fled to Hamdayat refugee camp in Sudan.

➡️ Sudanese farmer describes soldiers (Tigrinya speakers) crossing to Sudan.

➡️ Tigrayan refugee (a TPLF conscript) describes how TPLF forced them to fight, gave... ...them arms training & told them they could not leave Tigray. He describes fighting in Humera but eventual being overwhelmed & fleeing into the jungle with special police.

It is noteworthy that Mai-Kadra (May Cadera), the site of the...

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Currently the biggest threat to Ethiopia's unity is Oromo extremism which vehemently rejects Ethiopia as a country & by extension mainstream Ethiopian history in lieu of a revisionist political narrative in which the Alpha & the Omega are Emperor Menelik II. This shortsighted... ...perspective uses an extremely superficial dichotomy to label any dissenting voice or political figure as "Amhara" including the current ruling party OPDO/OPP. It also seeks to monopolize oppression & reduces it to an ethnic phenomenon neglecting contextual factors & issues...

Do not be fooled by the page @EthiopianHRC which closely resembles the @EthioHRC twitter handle created shortly after the death of singer Haccalu. The page is run by #OLF supporters to run propaganda to smear the #Ethiopia|n gov't & scapegoat Amhara security forces w/o evidence. ➡️ Shared a tabloid piece from @smh & @_Will_Brown on Mai-Kadra alleging the victims of the gruesome massacre were ethnic Tigrayans killed by Amhara militias, citing the refugees that fled to camps in bordering Sudan.

➡️ Claimed the Al Nejashi Mosque in Tigray was damaged by...

An Unending Siege;

After annexing Amhara territories to Tigray, TPLF attempted to systematically change their heritage. It started with renaming them (e.g. Telemt ➡️ Tselemt, Tegede ➡️ Tsegede) but also involved demographic engineering which saw people indigenous to the...

https://twitter.com/ababegichew/status/1324376329379336192

...region killed, displaced, disappear w/o a trace so their hereditary land could be seized & redistributed to settlers from Tigray. Historically these regions were inclusive & because it bordered Eritrea & Sudan, the people were multilingual speaking Amharic, Tigrigina &...