We never intended to Liberate Mekelle, Says Ethiopian Prime Minister
In an address to the press, explaining why #Ethiopian forces had withdrawn from #Mekelle earlier this week, PM Abiy made startling & new claims about the #WarOnTigray.
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Holocaust was a product of Hitler’s inferiority complex.
#TigrayGenocide is the product of @AbiyAhmedAli’s inferiority complex.
The world must intervene to stop Abiy Ahmed Ali. Otherwise, millions in Tigray will be dying from weaponized famine used as a collective punishment.
An opponent who has routed your forces is not required to honor a unilaterally declared ceasefire that is intended only to buy time for further escalation. If ceasefire was for benefit of Tigray, govt would not be continuing to shut down communications and block aid delivery.
1. Removal of invading forces
2. Security and well-being of population including from famine
3. Guarantees against non repetition of genocidal wars
4. Respect to will of the people, right to self-determination
5. Hold criminals accountable
6. Effective remedies and satisfaction.
Those we’re speaking to in #Tigray say since yesterday there’s been an Ethiopian Gov comms blackout; phones across the region - other than Mekelle - are down. No internet. Roads into Tigray blocked, air travel halted. People are scared as to what could be coming next.
An airstrike hit a busy market in #Tigray village of #Togoga on Tuesday, according to health workers, soldiers blocked medical teams from traveling to the scene, dozens of people were killed @SecBlinken @SamanthaJPower @USAmbUN https://t.co/crs4KgcaRj
I am particularly close to the people of Tigray, Ethiopia, affected by a serious humanitarian crisis. Let us #PrayTogether so that the violence ceases, food and health assistance is guaranteed to all, and social harmony is restored as soon as possible.
UN Rep on Sexual Violence in Conflict @USGSRSGPatten said she wasn’t surprised by extent of sexual violence in #Tigray and it’s still stuck in my head - “We know wars are fought on the battlefield of women’s bodies��. How awful that violence against women is never a surprise.
My disappointment at the US-EU high level roundtable is Pramila Patten (@endrapeinwar) who gave endorsement of the mockery by the Ethiopian government vis-à-vis weaponized rape in Tigray. No the Ethiopian government has not acknowledged the massive scale of the weaponized rape.
In his closing remarks at US-EU Roundtable US Special Envoy for Horn of Africa Amb Jeffrey Feltman - Starvation is being used as a weapon of war [in #Tigray]...the G7 recognises it and it’s time the Security Council itself recognises it”