RPhine

“Facts are stubborn things; & whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts & evidence”

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

📢📢📢My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders at https://t.co/vH5svG637N

I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣

[RPhine @R_Phi9]

@Eyob_Camelo @HeranTigray most developed nations have their curriculum in their native languages & most under developed nations have their curriculum in a foreign language. Trying to understand science in a language that’s foreign to the culture adds to the complexity of the subject,

[René Lefort @rene_renelefort]

For those who read French:
https://t.co/uTdHrdG8r7

[Getachew K Reda @reda_getachew]

Statement on the unfolding famine in Tigray

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

I’d like to remind ppl of this thread on erasure of the 1M+ people killed during #TigrayGenocide & the 100k+ women estimated to be raped. To add to that, a number of organizations have stopped food aid in the region.

Ask yourself why you don’t hear about this scale of horror.

[RPhine @R_Phi9]

@TsenatSaba Not books exactly, but here are some documents and videos:

1) https://t.co/2d04U7tywE

2) https://t.co/UtiFMj9aQi

3) https://t.co/veiIuiN48Q

4) https://t.co/CCdmLSvRcR

[Teklehaymanot G. Weldemichel @TeklehaymanotG]

#Tigray has been used as a testing ground for lethal weapons, and the violations of every rights laws, and breaches of all forms of norms and principles of humanitarianism.

[Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman @SenateForeign]

USAID is prepared to resume food assistance to #Ethiopia, but we must ensure it is efficient, effective, & transparent. The Ethiopian gov't must uphold its commitments & hold corrupt officials accountable for diverting aid for their own benefit. https://t.co/Jdv6TmFjKj

[VOA Tigrigna @VOATigrigna]

መቐለ፡ ሽግር ከባቢኡ ንምፍታሕ ኣብ ምህዞ ዝርከብ መንእሰይ https://t.co/s7LSSakLRH

[RPhine @R_Phi9]

Leaks and the media:

https://t.co/C4rgimHIAe.

[RPhine @R_Phi9]

@HeranTigray They have been doing these for the last 30+ yrs. We only paid attention now after that hate propaganda developed into a full fledged genocide. All while tigrayans were defending Eritrean independence & sovereignty. What scares me is we don’t seem to be learning from our mistakes.

[RPhine @R_Phi9]

Three yrs latter they’re still using the same images with twisted narratives of regime propaganda, unchallenged, to hide their crimes of ethnic cleansing of Tigrayans and blame the victims.

It’s more concerning that Tigray’s govt isn’t doing much to set the record straight./End

[RPhine @R_Phi9]

Here is the story of the
#Maikadra sign “የኣማራ ነው #TigrayGenocide:

“They [Fano] didn’t allow us to take any of our belongings, not even a pot. On the metal gate of the houses they wrote, ‘This is an Amhara house.’ They wrote this on many of the houses.” /1

[jemal countess @JemalCountess]

Three years ago today in the Welkait region of Ethiopia the slaughter began. As forces of the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front attacked 5 military bases of the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) Northern Command and over 100 soft targets as part of a coup attempt against the Ethiopian Government, a youth militia known as the Samri from the Tigray region began murdering ethnic Amhara day laborers on the farms on the outskirts of the town of Mai Kadra. The slaughter began in the early days of the week of the first week of November and continued until the 10th of November. It is crucial that the world not only be made aware and be educated about this but that justice is sought for the survivors and families of those murdered. Let us honor the memory of those who had their lives violently and brutally snuffed out solely because of the ethnicity they were born into.
MAI KADRA, ETHIOPIA - MARCH 05, 2021: A road sign at the entrance to town on March 5, 2021 in Mai Kadra, Ethiopia. According to interviews conducted in recent days with several dozen victims, witnesses and local officials, around 1,300 (at the time but the figure has since been updated to 1600) ethnic Amharas were killed during a series of attacks by the Samri TPLF (Tigray People’s Liberation Front) Youth Group, TPLF militia and local Tigrayan police from November 6 to November 10, 2020. Over the course of four days, 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 violence occurred during a wider conflict between the Ethiopian government and the TPLF that ignited on November 3, 2020, when forces of the TPLF attacked the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) Northern Command headquarters in Mekelle and 4 other bases in the region. (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images)

[RPhine @R_Phi9]

Tigrayan refugee in Sudan testified. Then Reuters went to #Maikadra for corroboration.

“Reuters reporters saw a number of houses marked ‘Amhara house’ or ‘Fano’ in Maikadra.”

One of the written signs [Reuters image] says “የኛ ነው" in Amharic meaning “This is ours”.
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[Woldegiorgis G.Hiwot @Wolde_Yabele]

Great initiative! A website is documenting a list of martyrs from Tigray. You can contribute names and short descriptions, following the guidelines. Adding an English section would make this perfect. Grateful to whoever started it - way to go!
https://t.co/eXYFQITrlm

[World Athletics @WorldAthletics]

Female Athlete of the Year nominee ✨

Retweet to vote for Gudaf Tsegay 🇪🇹 in the #AthleticsAwards.

[Amnesty Eastern Africa @AmnestyEARO]

We call on interim authorities in #Tigray to immediately release peaceful protestors detained since Tuesday and initiate investigations against security officials who abused demonstrators.

[RPhine @R_Phi9]

@HeranTigray @NatnaelMekonne7 A peaceful demonstration in Tigray or a democratic Tigray for that matter is a “bad” example for Addis. Rings a bell when Abiy said “ደብረፅዯንን ደግፉት" during the Tigray election. It’s a reverse psych that “if Tigrayans think it’s supported by PP, they’ll oppose it.”

[Bari Weiss @bariweiss]

23. In October 2021, Twitter allowed Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to call on citizens to take up arms against the Tigray region.

Twitter allowed the tweet to remain up, and did not ban the prime minister.

[RPhine @R_Phi9]

@IamFilmona There should be an option for both: ሻንቆ-ሻንቅላ-ቤንሻንቁል? ነዋሕትን ፀለምንትን?