Selam

➡️Only humanity📚 #AllowAccessToTigray #TigrayCantWait

[Selam @TigrayFull]

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[🔜Samri @Samrawitkalayu7]

While in a warehouse, he twice woke up to discover the person sleeping next to him had died. “I saw many bodies,” he says.
#TigrayGenocide
@AmyEPope
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[🔜Samri @Samrawitkalayu7]

“There was no space, we were suffocated,” Selassie says. “People were falling ill, everyone had lice. People were covered in scabs.”
#TigrayGenocide
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[🔜Samri @Samrawitkalayu7]

Selassie says his tormentors covered him in water & subjected him to electric shocks. When others were taken outside, he could hear their screams.
@AmyEPope #TigrayGenocide
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[🔜Samri @Samrawitkalayu7]

Traffickers demanding payment whip their victims on the feet & buttocks with cables & plastic water pipes, say several refugees.
Some were burned with cigarettes. #TigrayGenocide @AmyEPope @UN
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[🔜Samri @Samrawitkalayu7]

Tigrayan refugees abducted before Sudan’s current conflict & they were taken to warehouses in Tazirbu, Bani Walid, Al Kufra & Brak al-Shati, towns in the 🇱🇾n desert, where they were held with 1000s of others.
#TigrayGenocide
@Refugees @UNmigration @UN https://t.co/NzYMNvEOFE

[🔜Samri @Samrawitkalayu7]

Dear @AmyEPope
Aid has dried up, & Tigrayan refugees have started leaving the camps looking for food & shelter, exposing themselves to further predation as Sudan collapses into lawlessness.
#TigrayGenocide
@Refugees @UNmigration @RESCUEorg @eu_echo @UN https://t.co/NzYMNvEOFE

[🔜Samri @Samrawitkalayu7]

Selassie abducted from Tunaydbah, war has also erupted in Sudan as the national army and the rival Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group fight for control.
@AmyEPope #TigrayGenocide
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[🔜Samri @Samrawitkalayu7]

Selassie originally fled from massacred in Mai Kadra, Tigray where he worked as a tractor driver in Nov 2020. Stabbed in the chest & leg, he packed his wounds with leaves & torn-up bits of clothing.
#TigrayGenocide
@Refugees @UNmigration
@RESCUEorg @UN https://t.co/NzYMNvEOFE

[🔜Samri @Samrawitkalayu7]

Some of the Tigrayans were kidnapped by traffickers, like Selassie. Others sold on by Sudanese policemen, who had caught them traveling outside the camps without permission.
@AmyEPope #TigrayGenocide
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[🔜Samri @Samrawitkalayu7]

The refugees are the latest victims of the Sahara’s vast & brutal people-trafficking industry, believed to be worth 100s of millions of $$$ a year, stretching across Africa & trapping those fleeing wars
#TigrayGenocide
@Refugees @UNmigration
@RESCUEorg https://t.co/NzYMNvEOFE

[🔜Samri @Samrawitkalayu7]

“I didn’t think I would get out alive,” Selassie says, who had forced to fled to Sudan.
Those who can not pay the ransoms demanded by the gangs have no prospect of release.
#TigrayGenocide
@Refugees @UNmigration
@RESCUEorg @eu_echo @AmyEPope @hrw https://t.co/NzYMNvEOFE

[🔜Samri @Samrawitkalayu7]

After that was paid, instead of releasing him, the gang simply sold him to others, who demanded a further $2k again & passed to another group of kidnappers, who demanded the same sum.
@AmyEPope #TigrayGenocide
@Refugees @UNmigration
@RESCUEorg @eu_echo https://t.co/NzYMNvEOFE

[🔜Samri @Samrawitkalayu7]

The traffickers refused to release 'Selassie' until his family paid a ransom of $6k (£4,800).
#TigrayGenocide
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@RESCUEorg @LaetitiaBader
@eu_echo @RefugeesinLibya
@AmyEPope @EU_Commission @UNHumanRights @UN
@UNGeneva @Refugees_EU https://t.co/NzYMNvEOFE

[🔜Samri @Samrawitkalayu7]

The refugees were trafficked to Libyan border, & sold on to another gang.
Selassie was held with other refugees from 🇸🇴, 🇪🇷,& 🇪🇹, tortured almost daily & transferred b/n a series of cramped, airless warehouses in z desert.
#TigrayGenocide @Refugees @UN https://t.co/NzYMNvEOFE

[🔜Samri @Samrawitkalayu7]

After Selassie with other refugees boarded the truck, & driven deep into the desert, where the "farmers" met accomplices armed with AK-47s & “we realised we had been abducted”,.
#TigrayGenocide
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[🔜Samri @Samrawitkalayu7]

He had done several such casual jobs, harvesting sorghum & digging irrigation ditches for farmers near Tunaydbah, a refugee camp in s.eastern Sudan.
@AmyEPope #TigrayGenocide
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[🔜Samri @Samrawitkalayu7]

Selassie’s managing to leave behind the genocidal war in Tigray🇪🇹, in Nov 2020.
BUT, the Nightmare began when farmers picked him up & promised him agricultural work.
@AmyEPope #TigrayGenocide
@Refugees @UNmigration @RESCUEorg @LaetitiaBader @eu_echo @UN https://t.co/NzYMNvEOFE

[🔜Samri @Samrawitkalayu7]

🚨
saw many bodies’: having escaped one conflict, Tigray refugees face new terrors!
Urgent!
If Tigrayan stay in Sudan, they are going to vanish & die! #TigrayGenocide
@UNmigration @Refugees @UN
@RefugeesinLibya
@AmyEPope @EU_Commission @LaetitiaBader @UNHumanRights
@UNGeneva

[🔜Samri @Samrawitkalayu7]

We call @Refugees to #ResettleTigrayanRefugees out of #Sudan now. They are in a very precarious situation & they deserve a similar attention as the other refugee populations being prioritized. @UNmigration
@AmyEPope @ICRC @RESCUEorg @RefugeesinLibya @UN
https://t.co/ZYup4o5AZF…

[🔜Samri @Samrawitkalayu7]

Tigrayan refugees in 🇸🇩,
-isolated from the world & dying in the dark,
-being killed, raped & displaced
-facing indiscriminate roundups & detention
-facing violence, detention, torture, raped..
We call on @Refugees to protect & #ResettleTigrayanRefugees!
https://t.co/ezNyeLWtpc