thatsefarad 🇹🇲

Turkmenistan is my motherland. Brutal dictatorship turned 🇹🇲 into 🇰🇵 of Central Asia. I wish the 🌎 cared about plight of Turkmen nationals.

[thatsefarad 🇹🇲 @thatsefarad]

@RT_com At home Kremlin propaganda says Jews owe the world to Russians for saving them from Nazi Holocaust; however, abroad the Kremlin propaganda machine recycles old Soviet KGB antisemitic tactics and pays crime networks to attack Jewish communities.

[Bruce Pannier @BrucePannier]

Central Asia’s Water Crisis Is Reaching Its Breaking Point
https://t.co/7Oa5zgIewC

[thatsefarad 🇹🇲 @thatsefarad]

@tparsi @ggreenwald Doctors Without Borders ‘left’ Turkmenistan in 2009 with little to no protest after they were forced out. There were no media attention, no NGO attention and no UN protest to pressure the regime to allow humanitarian orgs to operate inside the country.

[Progres.online @OnlineProgres]

Turkmenistan’s Finance Minister Astanagulov meets with EU Commissioner for International Partnerships. Turkmenistan is the only country in Central Asia with which the EU does not have a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement. In 2024 the EU parliament passed resolution spotlighting dire situation with fundamental freedoms in Turkmenistan. In 2019, the European Parliament passed a resolution that set strict human rights benchmarks for Turkmenistan. The resolution stated that the European Parliament would not ratify a new Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) with Turkmenistan until significant, meaningful human rights improvements were made #Turkmenistan https://t.co/1jSbnZoRin

[thatsefarad 🇹🇲 @thatsefarad]

@TOLOnews Will the TAPI project be completed this century?

[thatsefarad 🇹🇲 @thatsefarad]

@BBCWorld What October 7 attacks? Is BBC referring to Palestine’s invasion of Israel? Why is the headline so vague?

[thatsefarad 🇹🇲 @thatsefarad]

The regime’s fake stats say that GDP per capita is $8,571 higher than Uzbekistan.

[Progres.online @OnlineProgres]

In Turkmenistan, older people are celebrated in official rhetoric but often live in poverty with little support. They receive the lowest pension in Central Asia, and men live just 2.7 years after retirement – the shortest in the region. Despite growing needs, one in four receives no pension, and access to essential public services remains limited due to discriminatory policies #Turkmenistan

[thatsefarad 🇹🇲 @thatsefarad]

@sharghzadeh Are forced sex changes on men
who don’t want it—to avoid being murdered by a government—something to be proud of? Khamenei regime is not some Western rainbow progressive. He uses forced sex changes as a religious loophole.

[thatsefarad 🇹🇲 @thatsefarad]

@BriannaWu Every Central Asian country (the stans) are carved out based on ethno-group majorities.

[thatsefarad 🇹🇲 @thatsefarad]

@AlexCrawfordSky Is there is a separate food supply to foreigners like him in Gaza as they watch civilians starve? How do foreigners and Hamas fighters have access to food but not the rest?

[turkmen.news @adalatseeker]

#Turkmenistan denies reports of torture of human rights activists in custody, instead blaming activists for their arrests or injuries

https://t.co/yNoWcjmHAy

[thatsefarad 🇹🇲 @thatsefarad]

This American is experiencing the life of Turkmen citizens where passport renewals have turned into a luxury difficult to obtain instead of being a right.

[Piyush Mittal 🇺🇸🇺🇦🟧🌊🌈 @piyushmittal]

American citizens abroad are being denied passport renewals

[RFE/RL Pressroom @RFERLPress]

Today, @RFERL was informed that the federal grant agreement funding our global operations has been terminated.

The cancellation of @RFERL's grant agreement would be a gift to America's enemies. Read our full release.
https://t.co/NIEu8Jgt4c

[thatsefarad 🇹🇲 @thatsefarad]

@elonmusk Why is she talking with a filter like an insecure high school teen would? But who’s shocked that this known Kremlin-Assad enthusiast would say this?

[thatsefarad 🇹🇲 @thatsefarad]

@GadSaad @ZelenskyyUa @POTUS Pentagon has been failing audits on Trillions of dollars in assets for years. You expect a country at war to have 100% accounting at all times?

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

I am done holding back- let’s talk about Amnesty International (@amnesty @amnestyusa), and how they used and trashed me at the same time. Several months ago, Amnesty Israel (@AmnestyIsrael) wanted to host me to speak at a webinar on the topic of ending dehumanization and the continuous feedback loop that perpetuates the Israel and Palestine conflict. I wanted to talk about the urgent need to humanize the people of Gaza while also holding space for Israeli victims of October 7 and Hamas’s terrorism.

I later learned that Amnesty International officials contacted their Israel chapter and essentially demanded that they cancel the webinar with me, because they thought I was not “a real Palestinian.” Amnesty International thought that I somehow am guilty of “anti-Palestinian racism” and was “too controversial” because I spoke out against the horrendously unhelpful college activism that did nothing to promote real policies to actually change realities for Palestinians in Gaza.

Thankfully, Amnesty Israel did not back down and challenged their counterparts at HQ, deciding to hold the webinar and host me to speak about the need to break out of the cycle of dehumanization between Palestinians and Israelis. Who would’ve thought that an international “human rights” organization would find this so controversial?

Separately, Amnesty International used my slain family’s case, a mass number of whom were slaughtered by an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, Southern Gaza, on December 14, 2023, as part of their report to claim Israel is committing genocide in the coastal enclave. The organization spoke to family members in the Strip without ever engaging me, despite my public profile and the multiple reports done on this story by international media outlets.

The Shehada airstrike killing 29 people on that day was one of 30 cases that Amnesty used to prove that Israel was committing genocide. After this report was issued, Amnesty International suspended Amnesty Israel from their network due to accusations of “insubordination” because some in Israel’s human rights networks believed the report was flawed and didn’t leave any space for nuance.

Putting the accusations of genocide aside, Amnesty used my family’s tragedy to engage their constituency for fundraising and to rally their base with a pre-determined outcome of the report, all while trashing me for not toeing the line of what they believe is legitimate or appropriate “pro-Palestine” and “pro-human rights” advocacy and analysis.

Today, Amnesty couldn’t help itself but put out a tone-deaf statement that, while balanced, failed to capture the immensity of the tragedy that initiated the catastrophe in Gaza by Hamas and other terrorist organizations. Sometimes, it is ok to give space to the victims of terrorism without feeling the desperate urge to be “balanced” and, in so doing, render the entire message irrelevant. Amnesty International could have simply acknowledged the specific event of the day, which was the release of the bodies of two Israeli babies and an elderly peacemaker, neither of whom deserved to be killed or captured by a fascist terrorist organization.

It is time for a rejuvenated human rights advocacy that does not engage in the racism of low expectations and affords the Palestinians agency for their actions. It is time for a proper framework that actually promotes human rights and not rhetorical activist narratives to please one camp over the other. It’s time for @amnesty to either reshape its outlook or be rendered forever irrelevant in the dustbins of history, for it is choosing to be a narrow-minded activist outfit rather than a meaningful platform for human rights advocacy.

[Emma Reilly @EmmaReillyTweet]

I did.

I denounced @unhumanrights for handing names of #Uyghurs and dissidents to China so their family members could be arrested, tortured and die in concentration camps.

I denounced your repeated, public lies about that policy (even your hand-picked judge confirmed that you lied and that the policy continues).

I resisted your hate - from lying to diplomats to sending armed police to silence me.

You fired me and promoted everyone who hands over names.

@marcorubio

#Hypocrite

[thatsefarad 🇹🇲 @thatsefarad]

@pressfreedom

[turkmen.news @adalatseeker]

https://t.co/fdbQMKmqzu reporter Nurgeldi Halykov has been placed under a travel ban. On January 12, he was not allowed to board a flight to Dubai where he was travelling on a work visa. He was held for several hours at #Ashgabat airport and interrogated

https://t.co/ExOZrChQqI

[Habib Khan @HabibKhanT]

🧵I love cricket and grew up playing it. I supported Afghanistan’s rise from Division 5 to their first World Cup, back when we followed matches through scorecards. Unfortunately, the team has now become a Taliban propaganda tool and should be boycotted. Here’s why:

[thatsefarad 🇹🇲 @thatsefarad]

@Osint613 Are you going to stop selling weapons to Azerbaijan since they voted yes for the resolution also? What a dumb take