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📰 Journalist @FT | Prev. @TheEconomist @newhumanitarian @Telegraph | #OSINT East Africa. Prev. @Cen4infoRes | Views are my own ✍️
Mar 22, 2023 10 tweets 8 min read
🇮🇱 🇵🇸 A week ago in #Jenin, undercover #Israeli forces killed four #Palestinians including a 14-year-old boy.

I conducted an #OSINT investigation into the targeted killings and geolocated some of the events that took place that day. ⤵️

matthckwilliams.medium.com/clues-to-a-tar… 🔍 Key resources included using a combination of @googlemaps, Google Earth Pro, and @suncalc_net. But the most important in determining the location was @mapillary. Sources from @Telegram and @Twitter accounts sharing content was also vital. #OSINT
Mar 11, 2022 25 tweets 15 min read
An atrocity in #Ethiopia.

Security forces from the SNNPR along with Fano militias and Amhara special forces were caught on video burning a man alive.

@Quen10Tarantino and I investigate with help from @wdavison10.

Warning: Contains upsetting images. On 11th March, a five-minute clip has been circulating on Facebook and Twitter, showing armed men throwing a man onto a fire in #Ethiopia.

Several other prisoners had already been burnt to death before the man’s murder by the Ethiopian soldiers and government-linked militias.
Dec 27, 2021 21 tweets 16 min read
Locating an atrocity in #Ethiopia.

As the Ethiopian army advances, upsetting images and videos have emerged of the alleged killing of prisoners outside Tinishu Rebi/Chefa Robit in Wello during December.

@Quen10Tarantino and I investigate ⬇️

#OSINT Image The images and videos available on social media accounts have shown bodies in a pit on a roadside in #Ethiopia varying states of decomposition in December.

@Quen10Tarantino and I will not be sharing some parts of the images and videos as they are too graphic for @Twitter Image
Nov 26, 2021 26 tweets 28 min read
This is a second video of the same shot of #Eritrea and #Ethiopia's forces. (shared by @mvreisen). Several Twitter accounts have alleged a 'handover' of weapons did not occur or that video was 'fake'.

As part of my #OSINT @bellingcat homework, I've set out to show why it isn't. This is the second video was also shared by @mvreisen.

The footage was captured at 07:08am on 5th November in #Eritrea, only days after fighting broke out in the #Tigray region.

The region, and #Ethiopia, have spiralled into a brutal civil war.