#StopWarOnTigray

[#StopWarOnTigray @Freezyo10]

In June last year. @JosepBorrellF said

" To the people of Tigray we say: You are not alone " but silent ever since

"Today, #Tigray feels very much alone & helpless"

The world failed #Tigray

#EndTigraySiege #EndTigrayFamine

[Leul Alula (ተዓዋታይ) @Leul_alula]

In June last year. @JosepBorrellF said " To the people of Tigray we say: You are not alone " but silent ever since

Today, #Tigray feels very much alone & helpless

#EndTigraySiege #EndTigrayFamine

[Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @TeklehaymanotG]

Little do the people at @AfricanChildFrm know that Daniel Bekele oversaw the mass murder, starvation and rape of hundreds of thousands of children of Tigray. Little do they know that he tirelessly worked to prevent any investigation into, justice and accountability for

[Tghat ትግሃት @TghatMedia]

Ethiopia to host UN COP32 climate summit in 2027

https://t.co/bk6kDNaIeo

This comes after Ethiopia destroyed USD 46.58 billion worth of forest, environment & natural resources in parts ofTigray. 1/2

[Mukesh Kapila @mukeshkapila]

Not a surprise: the evil self-serving alliance between #Ethiopia and #Eritrea to eliminate #Tigray was bound to end in the two regimes eventually falling on each other.

[René Lefort @rene_renelefort]

Of the nearly 500,000 Tigrayan women and girls surveyed, a third had been raped. Never before, anywhere, has rape as a weapon of war been so systematic.

[Rashid Abdi @RAbdiAnalyst]

"Tigray needs peace. The minimum responsibility of the TDF generals is to keep that peace. Anything else is a betrayal for which they will forever be judged."

Alex De Waal & Mulugeta Gebrehiwot

https://t.co/8x48o1wXj0

[Sarah CS @CassidySeyoum]

This article is long and heavy but what an effort to document the crimes against Tigrayans. Some heart wrenching quotes are highlighted in the thread below. Let’s all be voice for the people of #Tigray. #TigrayGenocide #MedTwitter #Healthworkers

https://t.co/H9Zk76WemP

[Omna Tigray @OmnaTigray]

This #InternationalDayOfEducation, we focus our attention on Tigray’s debilitated education system. Schools were initially shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the closures persisted because of the #TigrayGenocide that started in November 2020. @UNICEF @UNOCHA
A thread👇🏾

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Billionaires should not own social media platforms.

Billionaires should not run our newspapers.

Billionaires should not control our politics.

A free media is a democratic media - a public good that is owned and run by us all.

[Faisal Roble @faisalroble19]

We are in an era when the point of a pen is more powerful than the bayonet of PP.

The recently released book by Jawer Mohamed has became a political earthquake to PM Abiy. The PP regime got so scared of this former political prisoner’s [largely] memoir that it pressured neighboring governments to reject book launch. It also unleashed its entire media power to disparage the author. Using the giggling and often incoherently inarticulate host of the Betty Show, the PP regime comes out in its reaction scared, weak, and autocratic. How else can one explain such a level of fear by a government from a mere memoir of a former prisoner?

[Tsegaye Ararssa @RArarssa]

At least three (revolutionary) attempts were made to save Ethiopia from itself. In all the three cases, the pressure came from the economic and social (ethno-national) underclasses aspiring for inclusion. All three attempts failed, and did so spectacularly.

Anyone who aspires to engage in this archaic business of saving the state may be suffering from some kind of Messianic complex. And the Ethiopian empire has never lacked in “leaders” with Messianic ambitions except that they all ended up in brutal dictatorship, repressive authoritarianism, and fascistic wars of genocide.

Jawar Mohammed’s quest “to save Ethiopia”, if genuine, is not going to be any different. It will only make him another dictatorial, or authoritarian or genocidal ruler to grace the annals of the empire’s history.

Both his efforts of “saving” and “reforming” an Ethiopian State that is constitutively violent and genocidal is only perpetuating (or even perfecting) the very mechanism of perpetrating violence and genocide.

Saving or reforming an empire has never yielded, and will never yield, a better (ie, a more free, a more just, or a more democratic) system.

Jawar’s (attempts to save and reform a genocidal empire) will not be an exception.

[Tsegaye Ararssa @RArarssa]

If one says that “armed struggle is futile” (because, according to Jawar, the people have rejected it), then, what other options (strategies) of resistance is he going to adopt to challenge Abiy?

In other words, if peaceful struggle is impossible and if armed struggle is futile, what then is Jawar suggesting for us to do?

What is left for us to do if both tactics are not employed?

If there is no other option, then isn’t Jawar basically suggesting that we should do nothing except praying for peace?

And isn’t this tantamount to calling for surrender? Isn’t it another way of demobilising the public and perpetuating Abiy’s monstrous rule?

This is why we ask: is Jawar making another error of judgement or is he deliberately persisting in demobilising the public once more?

Whichever it is that he is doing, it will be neither excusable nor tolerable this time around!!

(We will say more about the book after we get hold of it and read it.)
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[Joanne M Hodges @hodgesjoanne]

“Tewelde prepares to make the crossing for the 2nd time. During his first journey in 2021, he passed rotting corpses & human skeletons at the Yemeni-Saudi border. This time his group was attacked by armed men in the desert…” @MichaelChongMP @melaniejoly

https://t.co/KMdztzqCCs