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[Ethiopian News @ethioNews]

@tklebrhanw "If your own dog starts barking at you, know that someone else is feeding it better"

[Meaza Gidey Gebremedhin @meazaG_]

I know lying has been a national sport in the country for some time now & individuals like you are at the forefront of it, but I will leave this here for those who care about the truth.

Our advocacy has been victim-centered from the start & we won't be shamed or bullied into abandoning our survivor community to please genocide apologists+deniers.
#TigrayGenocide

[Cameron Hudson @_hudsonc]

Ethiopian forces and backers ‘committed genocide in Tigray’ https://t.co/yfzGTW5jxA

[Mohamed Kheir Omer @mkheirom]

Strong evidence that #Ethiopia committed genocide in #Tigray war: #US-based New Lines Institute, 120-page report says Ethiopia and allies had ‘intent to destroy #Tigrayans as an ethnic group’ and calls for prosecution at the #ICJ. https://t.co/AQaRBvDJSi

[tewodros tsegaye @Tewodros_Tse]

ዛሬ፣ እንደነ@MogesTeshome10 ላሉ የዘር ፍጅት አስተባባዮች (genocide deniers) ጥሩ ቀን አይደለም።

[Tsedale Lemma @TsedaleLemma]

A few points on what’s at stake:

The main stakeholders who played key roles in delivering the Pretoria agreement for cessation of hostilities must take today’s meeting as opportunity to recognise that the absence of a transparent monitoring and verification mechanism has made the likelihood of deterioration and relapse into hostilities more than distant possibilities.

Key examples include, but not limited to, the following five points:

* There has been no publicly available progress report on the follow up of joint committee between members of the federal army and Tigrayan forces that was announced on November 12/2022 with the aim to “elaborate on the modalities for the implementation of comprehensive disarmament, demobilization and reintegration program.”

* Despite the report dated May 19/2023 by the African Union (AU) Monitoring, Verification and Compliance Mechanism (MVCM), delivered by Maj. Gen. Stephen Radina during the second joint meeting confirming that 85 to 90% of the heavy weapons disarmament of Tigrayan combatants was completed, there has been no progress to reciprocate the steps by ensuring the implementation of key aspects of the Pretoria agreement and the subsequent Nairobi Declaration of the Executive Plan, the later of which stated the “disarmament of heavy weapons to be done concurrently with the withdrawal of foreign and non-ENDF forces” from Tigray.

* Despite the establishment of the National Rehabilitation Commission (NRC) to oversea the monumental tasks of DDR, and despite having its first national consultation on demobilisation and reintegration a year ago on March 10/2023 in Tigray’s capital Mekelle, the actual process remained elusive, feeding into increasing lack of trust between the federal government and Tigrayan authorities.

* There has been zero attempt at kick starting the political dialogue to address the root causes of the crisis, leaving the core objectives of this genocidal war untouched, unchanged and completely unaddressed.

*There has been no publicly known consensus between the federal government and Tigray interim administration on the transitional justice policy document that is reportedly in the process of being sent to the Council of Ministers for review.

In the absence of all the above five key points, we are watching the keen attempts to reinterpret and misinterpret the CoHA, including by key stakeholders who appeared to be laser focused on DDR & return of IDPs as end game of the CoHA itself.

Whereas domestically, local media outlets associated/affiliated with the federal government are now citing unnamed officials as “credible sources” to broadcast serious allegations against Tigrayan officials, including the president of the interim administration, of plotting with Egypt & Eritrea from abroad, and Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) and Fano armed groups from inside to undermine the federal government in Finfinne (Addis Ababa).

It is particularly important to take note of this development, which can easily be exacerbated by the unmet commitments, and take the necessary preemptive measures.

The tone and frenzy with which these allegations are being broadcast have the potential to rile up the public into the return of a hostile rhetoric similar to the ones in the run up to the November 04/2020 outbreak of this devastating war and during the two years when it was ongoing, mostly hidden from the outside world.

@MikeHammerUSA @RedwanHussien @reda_getachew @Bankole_Adeoye @EUSR_Weber

[Ethiopian News @ethioNews]

@US_AU @MikeHammerUSA @_AfricanUnion Not talking about the elephant in the room is dangerous. How can the IDP return to their villages while Eritrean and Amhara forces still occupied their land and is still displacing more? @MikeHammerUSA

[Meaza Gidey Gebremedhin @meazaG_]

As discussions proceed on the Pretoria COHA, it's crucial to recognize that the agreement cannot be effectively upheld or fully realized as long as Eritrean & Amhara forces, backed by the Ethiopian regime, continue their illegal occupation of Tigray.

[Getachew K Reda @reda_getachew]

The African Union is hosting a strategic review of the implementation of the Pretoria Cessation of Hostilities Agreement between the Government of Ethiopia and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). This is going to be a forum where the two parties, members of the AU panel

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

🧵 Today, we @amnesty have released a new report that once again exposes how @Meta’s failure to curb the spread of content advocating hatred and inciting violence has led to devastating human rights abuses, this time against Tigrayans, during armed conflict in northern Ethiopia.

[Amnesty International @amnesty]

On 3 November 2021, Tigrayan university chemistry professor Meareg Amare was killed by a group of men after false allegations targeting him were posted on Facebook.

@Meta must provide reparations and stop its algorithms from spreading hate and incitement to violence on Facebook.

[Geoffrey York @geoffreyyork]

More than 10,000 victims of sexual violence in Tigray since 2020, and large-scale killings by Eritrean and other forces that continued AFTER the peace agreement -- but UN council has bowed to Ethiopia's pressure to shut down its investigation. My report:
https://t.co/tDXug7jsee

[Laetitia Bader @LaetitiaBader]

Today the EU, @EUinEthiopia & all its member states failed Ethiopia's victims. Instead of acting to ensure ongoing @UN_HRC scrutiny on the devastating rights situation in #Ethiopia, they opted for silence. New @hrw @TiranaHassan https://t.co/NY6MkJ0gJn

[Geoffrey York @geoffreyyork]

Just a day after posting this, the UN Human Rights Council allowed the investigation to die. Its mandate will expire next week and is not being renewed -- effectively killing it.

[Michael Rubin @mrubin1971]

Wow, I struck a nerve with #Eritrea's snowflake dictator #IsaiasAfwerki w/my latest policy argument: Designating Eritrea a state-sponsor of terror could dry up remittances upon which his dictatorship depends (https://t.co/khf67iNoWl). @SecBlinken, it's a win-win solution: @AEIfdp

[Amnesty Eastern Africa @AmnestyEARO]

Tomorrow, we are publishing a new report on how Eritrean soldiers continued to commit grave human rights abuses in #Tigray for nearly three months after the signing of the CoHA in November 2022.

The survivors we spoke to are demanding justice.

[Laetitia Bader @LaetitiaBader]

🚨#Amhara security forces & officials in #Ethiopia’s Western #Tigray Zone have continued to forcibly expel Tigrayans as part of an ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign in the area since the November 2022 cessation of hostilities agreement. New @hrw report https://t.co/0hSyO31cYn

[Getachew K Reda @reda_getachew]

A woman without a home, a husband, kids & without her sight: all because of a senseless violence no fault of hers. The whole world, myself included, call her an IDP, an acronym that conveniently hides the multiple sufferings she has & continues to endure. This must stop & soon!

[Yonas Nigussie @Yonigussie]

#Tigray Calls for Independent Int'l Investigation

@Reda_Getachew: "The enormity of challenges we have faced, the magnitude and nature of the crimes committed, simply requires other mechanisms than national transitional justice processes be instituted." 1

[Temesgen🙏 @temie123]

03/04 /2023
- @reda_getachew On Justice & Accountability

❝With Regards to #Tigray, the enormity of challenges we've faced, the magnitude and the nature of the crimes that have been committed, simply requires other mechanisms to stand national Transitional Justice processes. The role of the international community in this regard, the role of independent investigation in this regard cannot be downplayed, cannot be overemphasized. At the very least, the very involvement of the #Eritrean forces simply makes even the most robust transitional justice process extremely wanting.❞

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#Ethiopia & #Eritrea are guilty of #TigrayGenocide
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