Press Statement
The Centre for Human Rights is gravely concerned by reports of harassment and arrests linked to Ethiopian artist Teddy Afro following the release of his album Etorika.
Artistic freedom must be protected. Read the full statement: https://t.co/rEwC70YLQW
🌌 Roscosmos has shared a new image of Earth captured by its hydrometeorological satellite Electro‑L.
#Russia operates about 1559 active satellites, including numerous classified military systems, and plans to expand its orbital constellation to around 2,600 over the next decade
💬 #Zakharova: March 1 marks 130 years of Ethiopia’s victory over Italy in the Battle of Adwa.
A milestone in world history.
✊ By defeating a colonial power, the Ethiopians not only showed the national spirit strength but also began Africa’s decolonisation.
#NOtoColonialism
5 years later, we remember….
MAI KADRA, ETHIOPIA - MARCH 05, 2021: Agere Getnet weeps in front of a tomb containing the remains of her husband, Tebekaw, 37, his little brother, Alie Abere, and his nephew, Aynew Mulat, located among the mass graves at Abune Aregawi Ethiopian Orthodox Church on March 5, 2021 in Mai Kadra, Ethiopia. All were killed during the attacks on ethnic Amhara in Mai Kadra that took place from November 6 through 10th, 2020. According to the mayor of Mai Kadra, Charu Hagos, and the head of the Kebele 01 administrative area, Abrihu Fantahun, the mass graves at Abune Aregawi contain over 1,300 (now over 1600) ethnic Amharas who were killed during a series of attacks by a TPLF (Tigray People’s Liberation Front) Youth Group known as the "Samri," TPLF militia and local Tigrayan police from November 6 to November 10, 2020. During that period, Samri youth from several towns in Tigray, in addition to TPLF militia and local police, killed farm workers on farms owned by TPLF-affiliated farmer/investors before moving onto Mai Kadra itself, conducting door-to-door searches for ethnic Amharas. Most victims were slashed or hacked; many victims who survived the initial attacks with bladed weapons were shot to death. The dead were found in the streets, in ditches, in holes dug by TPLF officials, and strewn throughout the farmlands where they worked. As of early March 2021, remains of those killed are still being discovered in and around the city of Mai Kadra. The violence occurred during a wider conflict between the Ethiopian government and the TPLF that ignited on November 4, 2020, when forces aligned with the TPLF attacked the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) Northern Command headquarters in Mekelle, the capital city of the Tigray region and 4 other ENDF military bases and numerous soft targets. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images)
"The regime wants you to freeze, it wants you to cower. You are being extorted, and the going price is your dignity and your conscience.
What will you give up? Or will you stand fast?"
My latest:
https://t.co/jVIZQ8AohS
To most in the Ethiopian Orthodox Faith today is a day of reverent celebration to pay respects to the devotion and faith of Saint Teklehaymanot. To others it is a memorial and recognition of an event marked by extreme violence and blood shed that has all but become the norm for adhearants of the Ethiopian Orthodox faith and ethnic Amharas in the Amhara region of Ethiopia. We pray for the days when freedom and liberty from oppression FOR ALL are “the norm” in Ethiopia.
CHENA, ETHIOPIA - OCTOBER 10, 2021: Kes (Priest) Tiftu Ejigu mourns his 40 year old wife and 3 year old daughter at their grave site on the 40th Day commemoration of their deaths at the massacre at Chena Teklehaymanot Church on October 10, 2021 in Chena, Ethiopia. Officials in this part of the Amhara region, which borders Tigray, said Chena was the site of a two-day attack by Tigrayan fighters that began during the Mass (Kidasse) on the annual observance of the day of Saint Teklehaymanot on August 31, that according to local government officials resulted in the deaths of at least 119 civilians even though villagers place the death toll at 207. Tigrayan forces denied responsibility and called the allegations fabricated. The almost yearlong conflict in the Tigray region has spread to neighboring Amhara after the TPLF recaptured most of its home state from government forces in June and then invaded the Amhara and Afar regions in July of 2021. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images)