To all Tegaru that have lost family in this war, I must apologize for the absolute brutality that my mom is showing publicly to the place that she grew up. It is a complete embarrassment for everyone in the family except my sister Hermela, who has been brain-washed by mom.
Hello everyone. I am happy to be feeling much better. And I'd like to say a few things.
1) Thank to everyone who had my back in my most difficult moment. I can't express to you how much that means to me. But I'll try to find everyone and express that directly over time.
Thank you everyone for all the calls and pressure to the hospital!! And to all those that offered any and all their resources. Hermela is no longer my emergency contact so she can no longer hold me here. My cousin will be picking me up soon.
Fellow Tegaru and allies, I know I have been away for a bit but I am starting a new job and need some personal time. Have no doubt that my heart is always with you!
Selam, deki adey. I know a lot of families were affected by the baseless arrests of Tegaru all around Ethiopia. I was wondering if anyone had been keeping track of people still in this situation or who died & if not, I was wondering if anyone wants to help me collect them
Thanks
Finally respected international media are starting to recognize this explicitly as a genocide:
"CNN's investigations indicate that the ethnic profiling, detention and killing of Tigrayans bears the hallmarks of genocide as defined by international law."
Hello all! I still need more people to message me about STEM for themselves or someone they know. I just want to let people know that my style isn't to make meetings first and talk to everyone in one meeting. I like get to know each person and try to form small groups from that.
Say it with me:
#KarenBassHelpedWhitewashAGenocideInTigray
She should not become the next mayor of Los Angeles. That would be shameful for LA as the UN investigations reveal the level of depravity shown by the Ethiopian and Eritrean militaries.
Thank you again everyone! For the sake of my mental health, I am going to suspend my account in a few hours. Please don't message or call me about my mom sister through other routes. I need absolute separation from them to remain healthy. See you all in due time.
As Thanksgiving comes up during a brutal year I'd like to address anyone who is sitting with some tension with family caused by the current war: you don't have to sacrifice your heartfelt convictions in order to preserve your important familial & community relationships.
We should all know about Dr. Tony Magaña: a neurosurgeon/neuroscientist who was working at Mek'ele University when the genocide began and is now committed to advocating and getting recognition for what is happening in Tigray.
Please follow & join me in appreciating
@TonyMaganaNS
My new profile:
"Son of Tigray. Son of America. Engineer in love with math, minds, and machines. As of Nov 2020 my focus is on the Tigray Genocide."
I am the son of Tigray and the beautiful history of people that built the culture of humanity and intellect.
I signed because she not only demanded that I defend her to preserve our relationship. Worse: she showed absolutely no remorse for the most horrific event of this century that happened to her family.
Fire Hermela Aregawi - Sign the Petition! via
@Change
4) I'm going to retract a bit from advocacy & focus on teaching & training Tegaru. If you know Tigrayans that want to learn STEM topics please let me know. I want to start creating tutorials that would be useful. And if I don't know that topic I can always find someone who does.
I am curious to know what the world's reaction will be this summer. They saw half a million starved to death in Tigray & didn't respond at all. But if Tigray tries to break the siege my guess is that the IC will have a much stronger response than to Tigrayans dying in mass.
Ethiopia's civil war has redefined a few words:
"Pan-Africanism": a genocide occurs in Africa & you take the genocidaire's back to "own" the west.
"Anti-imperialism": put all your effort into blocking humanitarian aide to show that an African has the right to starve his people.
Imagine how many stories
@berhe_lucy
would have written about Tigray if she really believed in her phone method. Calls are hard to make to Tigray but they are not impossible and GoT is happy to assist for an international story.
She selectively uses that method for Abiy's gov't.
This is what I wrote to
@Channel4News
about
@JamalMOsman
:
To whom it may concern,
A Channel 4 News journalists, Jamal Osman, is openly spouting Ethiopian and Eritrean government propaganda used to justify the ongoing genocide in Tigray.
1/7
Interesting. Erdogan decides he'll try his best to kill off Tigray and Turkey's economy begins crashing like never before. Turkey's currency just lost 30% of its value in 3 weeks. Like any petty dictator Erdogan will destroy his country to stroke his ego.
I wanted to thank all Tegaru & allies who've been working tirelessly through devastating times & a horrific Humanitarian Blockade by Abiy to get their families aid. Your efforts haven't gone unseen. And nothing shall taint the immense commitment & heart you've shown.
Sorry for the pause from advocacy. I was focused on getting a position that would both help build my skills and help me help Tigray financially!
But I am always here in heart.
To all the Eritreans that supported us through the horror against Tigray, thank you very much. I will not lose attention as the aggression turns against you. But please remember Tigray is not attacking you & we have no basis to risk Tigrayan lives to protect Isaias's Eritrea.
Lol I think
@HermelaTV
is catching on to the fact she just worked on genocide denial against her own family. She is losing it. My mom on the other hand seems very comfortable killing off her family. It is all about the claps for that narcissist.
I'm going to temper my calls of racism with regards to how Ukraine vs Tigray are handled. There definitely is some racism. But the stark difference in how the AU reacts to an African disaster vs how the EU does to a European one is why
#TigrayGenocide
is unchecked.
In light of recent character attacks I wanted to thank
@OmnaTigray
for the amazing & hard work they've been doing.
It's been inspiring to see the diaspora get together & not only functionally coordinate but also endure during these horrific times. Omna is a great example of that.
Advice to fellow Tegaru: when you get notifications that a pro-Abiy/pro-Isaias account followed you, block them. All they're doing is tracking who is speaking up so that they can target their harassment and misinformation. We're not addressing them, we're addressing the IC.
Tigray Adey, may I ask you to help me with this petition to find Samson Teklemichael? I am going to be pressing this for the next week or so. Thank you for your help.
I took Dr.
@TonyMaganaNS
's open letter to Howard University and made a petition out of it. Please sign and share!
Don't let Howard University be a venue for Lia Tadesse to promote brazen lies about Tigray - Sign the Petition! via
@Change
For a long time it was assumed that China's investments into Africa did not have a corresponding political effect. Now the effect is clear. It wants to teach a Pan-Africanism that is not only open to genocide but considers it a key tool. A pan-Africanism that destroys minorities.
3) My extended family & Tegaru were amazing in that moment. I'd like to take this opportunity to extend my hand to anyone who needs to talk. Give me their number. The least I can do is to listen to them & express to them how I felt at my worst & maybe that can give them strength.
Because they want all of our history while blaming all of their messed up problems on us. Ethiopia has no deep written history without the Tigrayans and the Agaw.
There were many tweets by western leaders and the UN encouraging the peace offer. Will those same leaders even speak out against the drone strikes on dense urban areas far from the battlefield?
It is just insane to live in this time. An active genocide is occurring with UNSC support & the UN tries to celebrate genocide prevention. This is incredibly Orwellian. Where are the people who care about human rights & liberty?
@SenRubioPress
@SecBlinken
@USAmbUN
Lol. Me to my sister: "why is mom trying to hunt her most loyal brother down?"
My sister: "all you deserve this..you too"
My sister would actually get me killed to please her payers.
Thank you everyone for the support. But lets not get dragged into this any further. This doesn't help Tigray at all.
@Teklai_Michael
lets just agree to disagree and move on.
This is the same congresswomen that heard about mass starvation and rape in Tigray and decided to visit elsewhere in Ethiopia??
I don't think she can just say "When I see a crisis, I run towards it."
She heard of a genocide happening in silence and decided that was fine.
When I see a crisis, I run towards it.
Whether I was working in the emergency room, in the neighborhoods, in Sacramento or in DC, I take decisive action and I find solutions.
I've done that my entire life and I will do that as the next mayor of Los Angeles.
After slaughtering the children of Adwa and forcing all citizens to fight for their lives the Ethiopian government, no members of which are from Adwa, has the audacity to say "we are the children of Adwa" in their encouragement to kill off civilians from Adwa.
I wish I had an better mother. My mother was a pure narcissist and noone outside our family could feel the brutal pain of that. I still get bugged "your mother must be forgiven" from my family. And I am upset with those family members for the lack of empathy.
Given the NYT article today stating that the war was planned by Abiy Ahmed & Isaias long before it began I think it's important to point to the below tweet. Most HOA analysts saw this war coming. It's hard to imagine the intel agencies of super powers didn't know the plan.
Afewerki & Abiy actively considering military action to settle dispute with Tigrai. They are deaf to calls for dialogue, de-escalation.
A war is coming.
Eritrean troops making provocative maneuvers on border.
International community indulged Abiy. It bears full responsibility.
The west is quiet when a million Tigrayans are killed but very loud when Tigray defends itself even the slightest bit.
Enough following for a cycle that has wiped out 15% of Tigrayans off of the earth. The writing is on the wall. The west is fine with extermination of Tigrayans.
There is a massive economic war happening in AI. I am starting my own company. I want Tigrayan engineers for this. Who wants to join me?
@asmelashteka
I will write most of the code. It is just querying PDFs using GPT.
Again, the UN is giving diplomatic cover to Abiy's strategy of providing less than 1% of aid. For a week the UN has celebrated aid insufficient for day after a year of starvation instead of increasing pressure. The UN isn't just ignoring this genocide, it's part of this genocide.
.
@antonioguterres
welcomes the news that trucks with food assistance & fuel have reached
#Tigray
and
#Afar
following the declaration of the humanitarian truce. He calls on all parties to follow through on their commitments to facilitate the provision of humanitarian assistance.
Let us stay calm, yet vigilant. TDF's defense has been tenacious & grinding to the incoming genociders. There is still much more to fight for & a very much intact & brilliant TDF. EDF & ENDF can't sustain this in addition to stretching themselves thin over the western B30 highway
Dear
@SenatorCantwell
I strongly urge you to
#SupportS3199
, the
#Ethiopia
Peace and Democracy Promotion Act of 2021 to ensure steps toward genuine national dialogue, and to allow unfettered humanitarian access into Tigray. Millions of lives are at stake
#EndTigraySiege
Please, my fellow Tegaru,
#StandWithUkraine
. We stand together against the injustices of bullies, liars and murderers. Putin is all 3 just like Abiy was. And Putin and his Wagner military group helped Abiy by equipping, training and in some cases (Russian pilots) attacking TDF.
Okay, we have to stop being so passive as Biden's administration is trying to get away with a genocide. Find your local politicians and tell them they are genocidaires in public, on Twitter, etc. Tell their supporters they are now genocidaires of our families. Say it sharply.
There is nothing questionable about Tigray defending itself during a genocide & blockade. You saying the word doesn't make it so.
You have no basis to ask conscience of Tegaru at this point. You're making vague accusations that match Ethio propaganda with no criticism of Ethiopia
(3/3) We’ve seen counts of # of civilians killed in Tigray, but how many young soldiers have been killed fighting this questionable war? Diasporans should have the conscience to ask these ?s before continuing to blindly support an ethnic-based war in the year of 2021.
#Ethiopia
After long silence & empty warning re: the
#TigrayGenocide
, the US is asking the victim, Tigray, to stop bringing perpetrators to justice. Emboldened, extremists are escalating the call of ethnic cleansing of Tigrians in Ethiopia.
#CallitaGenocide
#1YearOfTigrayGenocide
@UN
Sorry, I love my fellow Tegaru but please stop the "Pass it on" tweets. That is not how Twitter works. You pass it on by retweeting. A single tweet with appropriate hash tags & hundreds of likes & retweets activates Twitter's notification system. A chain of quote tweets does not.
It's 5:15pm on the west coast. Let's list out some of the ways that
@KarenBassLA
helped whitewash the horror in Tigray & tried to defend the Ethiopian government from the consequences.
Before
@KarenBassLA
attempts mayorship in LA let's make sure potential voters know her history
Is it just me or does "Deeply concerned" feel like a trolling statement at this point. Almost like it is telegraphing "once again we see this and once again it will change nothing". It is a year later and there is no shortage of recorded and reported war crimes.
#TigrayGenocide
The
@UN
received reports of aerial attacks in residential areas of Tigray’s capital.
@antonioguterres
is “deeply concerned” over the escalation in northern Ethiopia, where at least 400,000 people are facing famine-like conditions.
Don't give my "sister" credit for
#NoMore
. It was a collection of lobbyists that used her Tigrayan ethnicity & her supposed journalism (she was a local reporter that turned into a propagandists for fascists aimed at genocide against her family) to fulfill their lobbying contract.
2) I am very sorry if anything I said disgraced the honor that TDF has fought hard to preserve. I was very emotional & spiraling a bit. The frustration where those emotions came from is honest. But most of what I said is not something I can earnestly stand behind as a christian.
I deleted my retweet of the HIGHLY disturbing video that just came in out of fear that the video was too traumatizing. If any one can handle watching that video & also has the video editing skills to blur out the most disturbing portions it'd help spread it safely
#TigrayGenocide
Who are you referring to so vaguely? Who had control over humanitarian access more than the Ethio government?
In terms of the money raised in the diaspora, why not ask kindly? Why not join the other Tegaru working to make sure it's used well?
Why make vague accusations instead?
(2/3)If you’re going to label this a genocide from Day 2 then you can’t also try to control efforts to send life-saving basics to the poor ppl in it. Likely millions$ raised in diaspora but little to no accountability about where it’s going. To fund a civil war?
#Tigray
#Ethiopia
@BurukAregawi
@HermelaTV
In case you have not noticed,
@HermelaTV
has become a national hero. When history books are written, many of us will be forgotten but I guarantee you your sister’s name will live forever. What can be more fulfilling than that? Be happy 4 your sister and always live for truth.
THREAD
1/ I interviewed
#TigrayGenocide
eyewitnesses in 4 refugee camps in Sudan. My
@Salon
piece breaks 2 big pieces of news:
a) Ethiopian genocidaires created concentration camps; and
b) They locked up, starved & abused Tigrayan children
#UNGA
#genocide
Things are deteriorating again for civilians so I guess it is time for another round of "I am deeply concerned and refuse to act" by governments who supposedly commit themselves to human rights.
I've heard objections so I want to openly say that I am in favor of TDF taking prisoners. Not only is it the right thing to do but we have 17,000+ Tegaru soldiers held captive by ENDF. Their families want them home. Getting them home via POW trades is a priority over revenge.
The White House: “The U.S. Government condemns in the strongest possible terms the Government of Ethiopia’s unprecedented action to expel the leadership of all of the United Nations organizations involved in ongoing humanitarian operations.” 1/3
Dessie is making Abiy's regime & its supporters very nervous. On top of the terror bombing, they're turning up the misinformation & character attacks. Don't fall prey to or mimic their childish games & whimsical attitudes towards truth. They are goading us into being like them.
Have some respect for those who have common sense, empathy & do their research. Your dissolution into apathetic career climbing (you think, but it's destroying your career) during a genocide is disgusting. Please stop talking & give yourself a way for redemption in the future.
How is it that some who are screaming genocide & famine are downplaying the 100s of aid vehicles that are missing - even asking for air drops? These trucks are not use & throw. If the 400+ returned - they could make the 8963 trips you have calculated are needed.
#Tigray
#Ethiopia
Tigray should never trust
#ETH
again lest it sets up its children for another genocide.
#ETH
is a fascist nation that wants every child of Tigray dead.
The most absurd thing about the demonization of
#TPLF
is that
#TPLF
was the only political entity to peacefully step down in Axumite/Ethiopian history. But as the rest of
#EPRDF
stayed to scapegoat TPLF, a war was created and an invitation for genocide was sent to Isaias.
A weakened & distracted Russia & China are good for Tigray. They're the forces that co-opted the UN on behalf of Abiy & Isaias. As for the AU they've much to explain. Why did Kenya immediately defend
#Ukraine
's borders at the UNSC but ignore ethnic cleansing in Tigray's borders?
This is by far the most serious & concrete suggestion I have heard from a US congressman. I'm thankful & I'm really hoping congressman Sherman continues to take this as seriously.
#TigrayGenocide
@BradSherman
I've thought that the United Nations is useless during genocides in Africa for some time now. But outright helping the perpetrators cover it up and giving them legitimacy to continue is beyond comprehension.
#TigrayGenocide
This is actually depressing but a bit freeing. I am dead serious. I am about to go through and just block every Tegaru who spoke for Tigray but challenges speaking for Ukraine.
To all our Tegaru on Twitter, we'd like to invite you to sign up for reddit and join r/Tigray. We see two advantages in Reddit.
The first is that Reddit now has a larger audience than Twitter but with more engagement. 1/4
It's incredibly disappointing to see any Tegaru retweeting Ethiopian propaganda that's been used to justify the terror, massacre, rape, & humanitarian blockade upon our families. I hope any such person will come to their senses when they're able to speak to family in Tigray.
Appreciation tweet for Professor Mulugeta Gebreziabher,
@ProfMulugeta
. Thank you for everything you have done & most recently thank you for describing a wonderful strategy to contact the Clooney Foundation for Justice.
Please join me in following and appreciating
@ProfMulugeta
I never thought I would see the US government outright covering up a war crime that has killed more than 500 thousand people & continues to kill more. Hundreds of thousands have been intentionally starved to death. Nothing has changed on the ground except a handful of aid for PR.
Encouraging that deliveries of much needed food aid continue to flow to communities throughout northern Ethiopia. We urge the parties to ensure sustained and unimpeded humanitarian access to all in need.
I never thought I would be asking "Who is more committed to killing off every Tigrayan mother and child: Molly Mcphee or Isaias Afwerki?" They both have their strategies tied to a genocide. Molly is probably more disconnected than Isaias....lord have mercy to Tigray.
Let us remember those who helped dehumanize Tigrayans and build up hate for a genocide. Remember those who blamed everything on Tigrayans and made it sound like getting rid of them would solve everything.
I 100% understand the concerns with the peace deal. But what annoys me is when people act like signing that piece of paper and attempting to get some humanitarian relief and steps towards peace is somehow catastrophic or any more consequential than the status quo. 1/4
Does someone have a Youtube video of my mom's most genocidal statements? It is hard to convince people she went there but she has no right to escape that responsibility.
This is a genocidaire that encouraged two militaries to rape women and girls as part of a genocide. And now
@UNICEFEthiopia
is putting this man on to talk about educating girls??
Never let the
@UN
disrespect the victims of
#TigrayGenocide
like this!
2,400 tweets in 24 hours. We are still at the 100 per hour rate! Let's please keep this up or speed it up. If we keep it up we will have about 10k in 4 days and 20k in 8 days. If we pick up the pace we have a lot more.
Please help spread it!
@reda_getachew
Thank you, Getachew for keeping us updated. Can we understand this as a strategy change? In particular is this an awareness that a battle for something is coming? I know specific information can jeopardize Tigray's security but whatever you can provide safely would be appreciated
TPLF-loyalists hoping the return of the group must realise - those days are long gone - TPLF is dead.
But their victims, millions of them, are alive and scarred for life. I've interviewed them.
Focus on advocating for the rights of innocent people in Tigray raped and massacred.