How Russia and China helped Ethiopia to starve Tigray.
"The Ethiopians basically wanted to starve the Tigrayans into submission or out of existence.” - Mark Lowcock
https://t.co/hC9KylXmFu
Civilians Oromo is hunted and killed by Abiy soldiers in Gambella region. This is lynching in modern day 💔 that we will not forget.
We must not forget those who paid the highest price for our freedom. May we focus always on Oromia and honor them. #justicefororomo💔💔💔
For more than a year and a half, a largely invisible campaign of ethnic cleansing has played out in Ethiopia’s northern region of #Tigray. https://t.co/IkvXX8Y64Z
As prospect of peace negotiations b/n Ethiopia & #Tigray gains tractions, we urge the Int’l Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia, mandated by @UN_HRC to urgently begin documenting right violations & bring to justice those responsible for atrocities
@StateDept@eu_eeas
Non-negotiable ones as far as the people & govt of Tigray are concerned:
1) All territories of Tigray
2) Referendum
3) Army of Tigray
4) Accountability for #TigrayGenocide
5) Compensation for #TigrayGenocide
US @UnderSecStateP will be/is already in Djibouti as part of her visit to #Africa. As per @Laurent_Le_Bloa there was US Air Force plane flight from Djibouti to #Tigray’s capital #Mekelle. Few days ago @lemondefr reported possible peace talk between Ethiopia & Tigray
Coincidence?
An article by a French newspaper #LeMonde apparently claims, quoting unnamed Addis-based diplomats, that discreet talks will be held b/n Tigray and Ethiopian authorities and the former has “abandoned their claims to Western Tigray”. These are mendacious claims,of course. While
"it was clear to me that there was famine in Tigray, & the only reason it wasn’t declared was because the Ethiopian authorities were quite effective in slowing down the whole declaration system...starvation was being “used as a weapon of war” Mark Lowcock
https://t.co/m34UmRUAta
Ethiopia blocked famine declaration in #Tigray
The international system for declaring famine is broken, former UN humanitarian chief warned.
He said that Ethiopia had managed to block a declaration of famine in the Tigray region in 2021.
#TigrayFamine
https://t.co/UoftfhqLnS
You are funding the Ethiopian government that’s denying millions access to lifesaving aid @WorldBank. Instead of calling for an #EndTigraySiege where hundreds including children are dying daily of basic needs, you are empowering the war crimes committed #StopFundingTigrayGenocide
Unpacking in the new place I find this: A cross that I bought in #Ethiopia’s #Tigray region about 15 years ago. Never thought this formerly peaceful part of the world would be living through the days that it is living through today. 😢
Farmer training centers, plant protection & irrigation facilities, agri investments, agri input supply chains, & extension systems were intentionally dismantled. .@AbiyAhmedAli appears to be withholding seeds, fertilizer, and more as part of his wartime strategy #TigrayGenocide
drag the region into an interminable conflict and sabotage in real or perceived effort at peace. It behooves the International community to exert pressure on the regime to reverse course while reiterating our unwillingness to let the regime prolong the suffering of our people!
than 300 soldiers were killed and wounded. Many weapons and materiel was also captured. As part of their desperate attempt to escalate the tension and drag us into more action, they shelled Sheraro in the 28th and 29th of May. It is clear that the regime will stop at nothing to