#EUActNow (Short 🧵)
Respectfully, stop demanding that “both parties” end hostilities BEFORE a humanitarian pipeline into Tigray is secured. No one has the right to tell someone to starve to death peacefully./1
🚨#EndTigraySiege
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There is no moral equivalence between Tigrayan activists voicing pain, suffering of their people with genocidaires promoting fascism, regime ideology, gloating over mass killings.
To put two on the same pedestal and to pontificate about balance is hypocrisy. Worse, it is callous
#Tigray residents describe difficult life under siege after a year of war that has left the #Ethiopian city with rapidly shrinking stocks of food, fuel, medicine and cash https://t.co/AkFFZwKGOz
The concerning remarks made by @MaureenAAchieng regarding her desire to "want to stay out of" issues concerning the #Tigray crisis reveals that the @UNmigration must investigate the intentions of all the @UN officials who r currently operating in #Ethiopia. #UNStopFailingTigray
Adding to a growing body of evidence that rape is being used as a weapon of war in the northern region of Ethiopia, Amnesty’s research offers a snapshot of the extent of the crimes' @NataliePalmerUK @jmsroscoe @UN_Women#Justice4TigraysWomenAndGirls https://t.co/OfATnVs4NY
New 🇬🇧 funding will provide vital assistance to those affected by the tragic conflict in Tigray.
The conflict has led to an appalling rise in sexual violence and the UK is working with @Refugees to ensure we support survivors of these abhorrent crimes.
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There are growing reports that Ethiopian military & Amhara militias have been seen leaving Dessie town the capital city of Wollo, & z remaining of Ethiopian troops in Dessie, are likely to surrender to #Tigray]an Army so now Dessie looks like it will fall into the hands of #TDF
Breaking: The Tigrayan forces have controlled a significantly strategic area, Wuchale, after completely annihilating the Abiy army, the Amhara special forces and militias.
The latest info from the Afar front (14:00 hrs GMT, today) is that the #Tigray DF overwhelmed the #Afar special forces and are in full control of Chifra (Sifra), the Republican guards in the vicinity of the town, did not take part in the fighting between TDF and Afar forces
“Everything is overly priced—everything. Coffee beans, sugar, even salt has reached 70 birr. I, myself, came with 50 birr hoping to find some pepper but I couldn’t […] Now I’m going home with an empty bag empty handed b/c the item’s charge price, we can’t afford.” @EU_Commission