Tigrayan woman on #HumanRightsDay: "These are not acts of war, these are acts of genocide. Old people are taken from their beds, my nieces raped, my nephews taken. This is not political. These are human rights. The world must act now.” #Justice4Tigray
A Tigrayan advocate on what he wants @POTUS to understand about #Tigray#Ethiopia: "The war waged against the people of Tigray is a war of extermination. It is a repeat of the Armenian genocide of 1915."
Executions of children have been documented in #Oromia#Ethiopia. @hrw: “The Ethiopian authorities’ summary execution of a teenage boy shows astounding disregard for human life.” More here: https://t.co/ojwZnMOmhE. #HumanRightsDay
In #Tigray nurses are detained, medical students raped, health care workers murdered. Learn more about the attack on healthcare as a weapon of war in #Ethiopia: https://t.co/9L5bHjZvkc. #HumanRightsDay#Justice4Tigray
A #Catholic priest reports from #Tigray#Ethiopia: "You see lactating mothers with no milk. We see babies dying. I saw myself people eating leaves like goats.” More here: https://t.co/ONO2tVyj1D. #HumanRightsDay#Justice4Tigray
@MSF: Healthcare facilities are targeted in #Tigray, with "barely one in 10 functioning" as of last March. Learn more about weaponization of healthcare in #Ethiopia here: https://t.co/EoKCvyxE3q. #HumanRightsDay#Justice4Tigray
Starvation deaths have been reported in #Ethiopia since at least Sept. The number of children hospitalized for severe acute malnutrition has surged. More here: https://t.co/ONO2tVyj1D.
#HumanRightsDay#Justice4Tigray
@amnesty: "The human rights crisis which began one year ago in #Tigray has been spilling into other areas of the country." The crisis is spurred by social media posts, calling for ethnic violence. More https://t.co/8gGwRNFwnk. #HumanRightsDay
@HRW: "Ethiopian authorities since late June 2021 have arbitrarily detained, forcibly disappeared, and committed other abuses against ethnic Tigrayans in Ethiopia’s capital." Learn more here: https://t.co/qkRrTmRM42. #HumanRightsDay#Justice4Tigray
Sexual violence is used as a weapon of war & ethnic cleansing in #Ethiopia. Human rights experts: "although the exact prevalence of gender-based violence is unknown, estimates are shocking." More: https://t.co/qW0lSEyb8P. #HumanRightsDay#Justice4Tigray
Aid workers are under fire trying to bring life saving humanitarian supplies into Northern #Ethiopia. More here: https://t.co/2jABCdQqwX. #HumanRightsDay#Justice4Tigray
In #Tigray#Ethiopia ethnically-motivated disappearances and mass detentions are ongoing. The elderly, disabled, those with medical needs are not spared. More here: https://t.co/xwjdc8tisN. #HumanRightsDay#Justice4Tigray
2.1 million internally displaced people in #Tigray... 250,000 internally displaced people in #Amhara region and 112,000 in #Afar region according to the local authorities and @UN." More: https://t.co/mEb5EP4kQ7. #HumanRightsDay
@WHO on #Tigray#Ethiopia blockade: "People are dying because of lack of supplies..no medicine...No food. People are starving. No telecommunication. They are isolated from the rest of the world." More: https://t.co/Fg9Go5Cdf6. #HumanRightsDay#Justice4Tigray
The humanitarian and rights crisis in #Tigray#Ethiopia has involved government communications blackouts, targeting of journalists, and weaponization of social media. More here: https://t.co/3gBhAn8Fzn. Retweet to call for #Justice4Tigray!