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Heiyab Tessema retweeted
Ethiopia faces a “high risk” of further atrocities because of instability in several regions and the failure to fully implement a peace deal, according to a United Nations panel trib.al/Plim2ZY
Heiyab Tessema retweeted
#ETHIOPIA faces an overwhelming risk of atrocity crimes, and it's vital that independent investigations into the country’s dire #humanrights situation continue, the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia warned in a new report👉bit.ly/46fDE3m
Heiyab Tessema retweeted
The State Department hid what was in plain sight, gaslighting our families to literal death #FreeTigray #TigrayGenocide
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"The State Department drafted a declaration in 2021 that the Ethiopian govt’s atrocities in Tigray constituted a genocide, according to 3 U.S. officials."
Heiyab Tessema retweeted
Despite the “peace deal” platitudes, the harsh realities of war & siege remain. The blockade of #Tigray must end! If people in Mekelle, the capital & largest city, are struggling, just imagine the rest of the state. Hell on earth. #TigrayGenocide #Ethiopia addisstandard.com/news-tigra…
Heiyab Tessema retweeted
#Tigray has been set back by several decades. Infrastructure, schools, hospitals, farms, & historical sites are destroyed. People have been injured, displaced, traumatized, & killed. Truth, justice, accountability, peace, & rebuilding are a task for us all. So, get focused. (3/3)
Heiyab Tessema retweeted
Until #Ethiopia implements the Pretoria peace deal, @EximBankUS shouldn't approve a loan to #Ethiopa
#Tigray should see unrestricted humanitarian assistance, banking, internet & medicine before #Ethiopia sees the $100 million.
The letter @Ilhan @RepMcGovern & I sent to EXIM,⬇️
Heiyab Tessema retweeted
Could it be that hosting a UN conference on internet freedom in #Ethiopia was a tad premature? This decision, predicated on the specious idea that we can incentivize good behavior by strongmen, continues to show our own naïveté. aje.io/z1ec06
Heiyab Tessema retweeted
Heiyab Tessema retweeted
.@UN hosting a conference on access to the internet in #Ethiopia is wrong. The gov't has imposed an internet blackout on #Tigray for 2yrs. The @intgovforum should hold #IGF2022 in a country that respects #freespeech and doesn't regularly block its citizens from internet access.
Heiyab Tessema retweeted
Today is Tuesday, November 15: the 13th day since the cessation of hostilities went into effect. There is still no unfettered humanitarian aid to the #Tigray region of #Ethiopia (and none since August 23). #Africa #HumanRights
Heiyab Tessema retweeted
Last Thursday, I had an extensive discussion on #Tigray and #Ethiopia with National Security Advisor @JakeSullivan46, who clearly has an extensive knowledge of this tragic conflict. [A Thread]
Heiyab Tessema retweeted
Those who've survived the bullets were displaced.
Those who've survived the displacement were sieged and starved.
Those who've survived the starvation were deprived of health care.
While Ethiopia is rewriting IHLs, 10% of Tigray's population perished.
Let that sink in!!!
Heiyab Tessema retweeted
#Tigray advocates must be ruthlessly disciplined in the coming years to ensure truth, justice, accountability, & reconciliation are central to any lasting peace. You can’t have a credible, inclusive, & permanent peace in Tigray or #Ethiopia without these pillars. #TigrayGenocide
Heiyab Tessema retweeted
I wish that I had something nice to say about the international mediators, but I don't. The AU, US, and UN all put humanitarian aid to innocent civilians on the negotiating table in #Tigray and kept it there all the way until the end.
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Heiyab Tessema retweeted
Usually pretty good at keeping intrusive thoughts out but today has been overwhelming.
I just keep thinking: Will I have a mother to go back to in Tigray? Siblings to go back to? What more could I have done to save him? How much longer are we expected to “live” like this?
Heiyab Tessema retweeted
“A humanitarian crises.” Those are the words being used to describe what’s happening in Tigray.
#Tigray #Ethiopia #WorldHouse
Heiyab Tessema retweeted
“Ilham Nour, the WHO’s head of emergency operations in Ethiopia, described the malnutrition levels in Tigray as “staggering” with nearly 1 in 3 children under five acutely malnourished.
Cases of malaria have increased by 80% compared with one year ago.”
aljazeera.com/amp/news/2022/…
Heiyab Tessema retweeted
"The Ethiopian prime minister @AbiyAhmedAli thought he had definitively seen off the #Ethiopia Stabilization, Peace, and Democracy Act." But #US Congress members have resurrected the punitive bills aimed at the Ethiopian government. africaintelligence.com/easte…
