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working on human rights, global security and emerging tech in an era of authoritarian alignment

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The Taliban, backed by Pakistan, is cutting off food to #Panshjir as they get ready to attack again. This is a war crime. #SanctionPakistan
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So is Pakistan #SanctionPakistan
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Reuters
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The Taliban are lying, France's foreign minister says
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BREAKING; @YouTube blocks RT, other Russian channels from generating revenue #UkraineUnderAttack #Ukraine
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Kyle Matthews
4 years
Call me crazy but shouldn’t @NATO members stop Turkey from attacking Armenia?
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Zohrab Mnatsakanyan
4 years
#Turkey has been unilaterally supporting #Azerbaijan ; transferring armaments; recruiting & transferring #terrorist fighters from parts of #Syria they control and #Libya . They are fighting our people today.
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No one in my household has tuned into the Beijing Winter @Olympics and we have no plans to.
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5 years
@JZarif Will you now apologize to Canadians for lying and spinning truth about this crime? #UkranianPlaneCrash #UkrainianAirlines
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6 years
#Srilanka terrorist attacks against churches and hotels fit a pattern seen across the globe.
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5 years
Iran in past few weeks: 1) used proxies to attack the US embassy in Baghdad. 2) killed 1500 of its own citizen who were protesting. 3) attacked Iraqi military bases. 4) shot down a passenger airliner in its capital
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Kyle Matthews
3 years
#sanctionpakistan and bring its military and political leaders to the International Court of Justice for enabling human rights abuses.
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2 years
One of the most under reported large scale human rights crisis in the plant right now #tigray #r2p
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
2 years
The pain & desperation of this mother in #Tigray is beyond heartbreaking. It makes me cry. Civilians must always be protected and provided the care, medicines & food they need. The siege must end & humanitarian aid allowed in, including fuel, banking & telecommunication services.
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3 years
Good reason to #SanctionPakistan
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Tarek Fatah
3 years
Former U.S. Defence Analyst ⁦ @Sarah_Chayes ⁩ reveals to @CNNi ’s Christiane @cAmanpour the truth of Pakistan’s ISI Intel Agency and how Islamabad trained the #Taliban inside Pakistan to overthrow the elected Afghan Govt in Kabul.
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Finland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs on atrocity crimes in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
2 years
No comment.
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4 years
Imagine for a moment if Germany in 2020 decided to attack Israel. This is the equivalent.
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ANCA
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Two wealthy nations - #Turkey and #Azerbaijan - home to nearly 100 million and led by angry, over-armed dictators ( #Erdogan + #Aliyev ) are targeting Armenia, home to less than 3 million - a landlocked, blockaded, partitioned #genocide -survivor state.
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2 years
Please retweet to raise awareness about #Tigray and atrocities in Ethiopia
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2 years
Atrocities on the rise in Ethiopia - The Mail & Guardian #tigray #r2p
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Afghanistan is going into the dark ages and we are about to see a gender apartheid in 2021 #SanctionPakistan
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Prime Minister's Office
3 years
"None of us can predict where Afghanistan goes from here. But Taliban would clearly want int'l acceptability for what they have said so far. We should incentivize them & push them in the right direction for sake of people of Afghanistan," PM @ImranKhanPTI , interview to @BeckyCNN
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2 years
The killing continues in Ethiopia.
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. @ImranKhanPTI “struck an optimistic tone about Taliban rule, saying their leaders had committed to human rights” #SanctionPakistan
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3 years
So is Pakistan…. and especially @ImranKhanPTI #SanctionPakistan
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Reuters
3 years
The Taliban are lying, France's foreign minister says
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Kyle Matthews
3 years
#SanctionPakistan is not anti-Pakistan, it is pro human rights and seeks to punish those in govt and military for facilitating Taliban atrocities. Majority of people in Pakistan amazing people not responsible for war crimes.
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_t__Khan_
3 years
@kylecmatthews This tweet makes absolutely no sense! But continue using the inhumane #SanctionPakistan hashtag, feeding the Anti-Pakistan morons.. whether theyre ignorant Kabulites, the corrupt #Kabul ELITE, or their Fascist Hindutva Nazi friends! #Afghanistan #Pakistan #PANJSHIR #Panjshir
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2 years
Ethiopia: Crimes Against Humanity in Western Tigray Zone
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4 years
More Arab countries join Saudi Arabia In boycotting Turkish goods
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7 years
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3 years
Reminder that Ethiopia’s leader is a @NobelPrize “peace” laureate. #Tigray
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FRANCE 24
3 years
Ethiopia to expel senior UN staff following criticism of Tigray aid blockade
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Kyle Matthews
2 years
@MFA_China Under international law, it legally and morally justified to support a country defending itself and territory from military aggression. You have been supporting Russia in breaking international law.
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2 years
LOL , Ethiopians living predominantly in Western countries want Western diplomats to stop talking about the humanitarian crisis in Tigray.
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2 years
“Six million silenced” #tigray
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Ashok Swain
2 years
No internet, no phone in Tigray for the last 2 years - With almost half of Tigray’s six million people in severe need of food, the shutdown and road blockades by Ethiopia have hampered humanitarian aid deliveries.
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3 years
Wow…..Pakistan really is coming out as the Taliban’s best buddy as atrocities are carried out in Afghanistan. #SanctionPakistan
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Geeta Mohan گیتا موہن गीता मोहन
3 years
#Breaking #SAARC foreign ministers meet stands cancelled. Sources - Pakistan insisted that the Taliban govt should be allowed to attend the SAARC FMs meet. Many countries refused. Pak then insisted that previous Afghan govt rep not be allowed at any cost. Lack of consensus.
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Kyle Matthews
5 years
That sure ain’t what many Iranians think.
@khamenei_ir
Khamenei.ir
5 years
The reason for the current turbulent situation in our region is the corruptive presence of the U.S. and its cohorts. The only way to confront this is to depend on cooperation within the region.
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3 years
The Taliban are more extremist than ever. Never forget which country directly worked to bring them back to power. #SanctionPakistan
@CBSNews
CBS News
3 years
Afghan women at a pro-Taliban protest on 9/11 wore full burkas and shouted “death to America” as they marched with Taliban fighters standing guard.
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Ethiopia’s Invisible Ethnic Cleansing | Foreign Affairs
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Kyle Matthews
4 years
Dear Thomas, it isn’t complicated. Turkey committed a genocide against the Armenians, still denies it, and is now helping attack them. This isn’t rocket science.
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Kyle Matthews
3 years
RT if you think Canada should reject @huawei #cdnpoli
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CTV News
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China envoy says Kovrig, Spavor confessed to crimes, warns against rejecting Huawei
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2 years
Not a new hire. I offer my services for free to expose human rights abuses. #tigray #TigraySiege
@Dearpeace251
Dear Peace
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@kylecmatthews New hire disinformation agent is on orientation by recycling old propaganda. You're culprit along TPLF to create continual chaos in HOA! #NoMore
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Kyle Matthews
3 years
Report by @hrw and @amnesty “We Will Erase You from This Land”: Crimes Against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing in Ethiopia’s Western Tigray Zone
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Kyle Matthews
6 years
Absolutely amazing and appalling at same time: @ken4london cannot name any US sanctions, goes on to say he believes the Venezuelan ambassador who told him so. Stellar work by @afneil
@bbcthisweek
BBC This Week
6 years
"If all that's true, it would be appalling, but I have watched America impose sanctions… an appalling impact on their country" @ken4london on how Alan Johnson & Esther McVey reacted to his #bbctw film "As we speak tonight, children in #Venezuela are starving to death" @afneil
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5 years
Wow. China threatens to cut off sale of medical supplies to countries who don’t want Huawei’s 5G and it now thinks those countries should just accept it. Delusional.
@MFA_China
Spokesperson发言人办公室
5 years
Trying to move medical supply chains back to the US from China is unrealistic and unhelpful. A wrong remedy for #COVID19 pandemic.
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2 years
I see my truth bomb angered some of the Ethiopian diaspora who wilfully want to shut down the application of international humanitarian law and the protection of civilians. Very bad look.
@EA_DevCouncil
Ethio-American Development Council (EADC)
2 years
@kylecmatthews WRONG! All Ethiopians denounce the uninvited western intrusion. Why is it hard to see that YOU are the problem & not the solution? The world would be a much safer & just place if it wasn't for western imperialism and addiction to war & supremacy. #NoMore
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Ethiopia's 5.1 million internal displacements in 2021 is a new world record.
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Kyle Matthews
5 years
This sure didn’t age well #UkrainianPlaneCrash
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5 years
The lying, rambling US govt – whose words are worthless – tried to introduce this great Mujahid & Commander in the fight against terrorism as a terrorist. The Iranian nation slapped them in the face with their turn out in the millions for the funeral of General Soleimani.
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2 years
After the Rwanda genocide, the international community came together and endorsed the Responsibility to Protect doctrine to stop atrocities. Terrible it is not invoked regarding Ethiopia. #r2p
@gabbystern
Gabby Stern
2 years
Tonight @DrTedros calls for peace to protect millions of innocent ppl in #Tigray from bombs & get them urgent health & humanitarian help. He notes the atrocities which have happened since late 2020 & which MUST be stopped. 1/2
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One of the leader’s of the Taliban penned this oped in the @nytimes last year. Too bad the killing and maiming has not stopped.
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Pakistan's neighbours, lobbies behind US bill seeking sanctions against our country, says Shah Mahmood Qureshi
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3 years
More transnational digital repression by Pakistan authorities.
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Aditya Raj Kaul
3 years
Pakistan has complained to Twitter against my tweets exposing Pakistani terror nexus in the region. 😂 That’s okay. Not the first time that Pakistan ISI/Rawalpindi are jittery. Surprising is that Pakistan has some “Law enforcement”. Only to abduct journalists & kill minorities?
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Under siege and out of sight: atrocities in Tigray #Ethiopia @MIGSinstitute ⁩ event in 1 Jun 2022
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6 million silenced in Tigray
@accessnow
Access Now
2 years
The digital blackout in #Tigray , including phone lines, remains despite the latest peace agreement. The shutdown is being used as a tool to cover up human rights violations and has devastating impacts on people: #KeepItOn #ConnectTigray
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2 years
Amazing the amount of trolls we get whenever we share an article about Ethiopia. Concerted effort to shut down all discussion.
@MIGSinstitute
MIGS
2 years
There’s Genocide in Tigray, but Nobody’s Talking About it
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Kyle Matthews
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Starvation as a tool of war and submission #TigrayCantWait
@TheEconomist
The Economist
3 years
Ethiopia's Tigray region is getting only a fraction of the food needed to keep its 6m inhabitants alive, hardly any fuel and no medical supplies at all
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Kyle Matthews
3 years
Stand with @HabibKhanT against Pakistan’s digital authoritarianism. Tweet #SanctionPakistan to show your support.
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Habib Khan
3 years
My badge of honor. #SanctionPakistan
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2 years
Oh my. I shared an article that was ten months old regarding an ongoing conflict where civilians are dying today. Just shameful of me.
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Chinese tech giant ⁦ @Huawei ⁩ ‘helps to persecute Uighurs’ #humanrights #techforbad
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Kyle Matthews
3 years
Important and worth supporting #FreeAfghanistan
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Habib Khan
3 years
#SanctionPakistan and #FreeAfghanistan is trending, continuously. Keep it trending until the world hear us.
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4 years
Wrote this a few years back. Very relevant today given Turkey's military actions against Armenia.
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3 years
Georgians gather in Tbilisi to stand in solidarity with #Ukraine . #UkraineUnderAttack #UkraineWar
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4 years
Yet absolute silence on persecution of Uyghur muslims in China. Why @ImranKhanPTI ? #r2p
@ImranKhanPTI
Imran Khan
7 years
My open letter to UN SG asking him to act on Rohingya Muslims' plight.
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Kyle Matthews
6 years
While @Jack is vacationing in genocide ground zero (Myanmar), @twitter is enforcing blasphemy laws against @miss9afi and @Imamofpeace . Talk about misguided priorities.
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Kyle Matthews
2 years
As a Canadian, I am deeply concerned about Azerbaijan breaking International Humanitarian Law and making life extremely difficult for Armenians on the eve of the 108th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide #r2p
@NikaJabi
Nika Jabiyeva
2 years
As a Canadian, I’m deeply concerned about the US checkpoint on the Lewiston bridge at Niagara Falls. I expected to just walk through to the United States without a passport. I am outraged.
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Kyle Matthews
3 years
Twitter must take a stand against digital authoritarianism. #BanKhamenei is the perfect place to start.
@AlinejadMasih
Masih Alinejad 🏳️
3 years
Twitter suspended one account of Islamic Republic leader after he shared animated video depicting assassination of Donald Trump. But Yet his many accounts in multiple languages still exist and he is using them to incite hate, violence and disinformation. Twitter must #BanKhamenei
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5 years
Important article by @nixmalik that should be read by policy makers and politicians #CVE
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Kyle Matthews
3 years
Important oped by @calxandr on holding Pakistan to account for the Taliban take over of Afghanistan
@OpenCanada
Open Canada
3 years
The #Taliban have always been a creature of #Pakistan , argues @calxandr , Canada’s first ambassador to #Afghanistan . Now that the Taliban have conquered most of Afghanistan, Pakistan must be sanctioned for its aggression.
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Kyle Matthews
10 years
Wow. King Hussain of Jordan, who was trained as a pilot, says he will lead an air squadron against #ISIS . #kickass http://t.co/p7GgYDEdcT
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Kyle Matthews
2 years
Good to see @Harvard students taking action to protect civilians in Ethiopia.
@HarvardDems
Harvard College Democrats
2 years
We’re alarmed by the ongoing war in the #Ethiopia ’s #Tigray region and call on Congress to quickly pass the Ethiopia peace bills. Ethiopia is committing crimes against humanity in Tigray. Please take one minute and email your Members of Congress today:
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2 years
This week the AU Peace and Security Council convened to discuss the prevention of hate, genocide and hate crimes ideology in Africa. Only problem? They ignored Ethiopia. #tigray
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9 years
New photos of Pluto taken by Nasa are a bit troubling http://t.co/nJw8lVbjWB
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2 years
Mark your calendars for an important discussion on the human rights crisis in #tigray Ethiopia
@MIGSinstitute
MIGS
2 years
On 1 June, join our high-level online discussion on the ongoing conflict in #Ethiopia . Featuring @Alduceppe @HMcPhersonMP Gebremeskel Kassa @WegihuF @LaetitiaBader @hrw and @EwelinaUO #Tigray #TigraySiege
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Kyle Matthews
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The President of the Republic of Azerbaijan in 2015.
@presidentaz
Ilham Aliyev
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Armenia is not even a colony, it is not even worthy of being a servant.
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Kyle Matthews
3 years
Good to see the @Raptors and Masai Ujiri use their star power to get us focused on the crisis in #Tigray Ethiopia #TigrayCantWait #R2P
@Raptors
Toronto Raptors
3 years
Where is the outrage for Ethiopia? By Masai Ujiri Read here:
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2 years
@SpokespersonCHN Pretty sure “the Europeans” know they are in a trap. Your government is backing a genocidal invasion of Ukraine by Russia and they don’t trust you.
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