Fetsum Berhane

@fetsumberhane.bsky.social

#TigrayGenocide survivor, Columnist at HornAffairs, Exec. Dir. Advocacy for Justice and Democracy and most important of all, a girl dad 😎 https://linktr.ee/FetsumBerhane https://www.patreon.com/FetsumBerhane

Disinformation campaigns about the Tigray Genocide go beyond social media. A recent paper from Leiden University’s African Studies Centre uses bad research and a conspiracy theory to “debunk” genocide, mass rape, forced starvation, and massacres of Tigrayan civilians. 🧵/1

Zecharias Zelalem@zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 2y ago

THREAD: Weaponizing of Twitter in 2021 to spread denialism & manufacture consent for mass slaughter in Ethiopia, a mini case study. I bring up social media damage, both to urge @bsky.app to work on preventative mechanisms & to raise awareness of the horrors it has caused, far from western shores.

Al Jazeera story

Killings in Axum by Eritrea troops ‘may amount to war crimes’
Amnesty says in new report that hundreds of civilians were killed by Eritrean troops in Ethiopian town of Axum last November.

Press Release from Salsay Weyane Tigray The illegal authorities installed in occupied Western Tigray have renewed their threats of violence against Tigrayans. Despite the agreement, which stipulated the dismantling of this administration.

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Nov 4 24 marks the 4th anniversary of the war in #Tigray. The area had been the focus of decades' of community environmental restoration and in 2022 we and colleagues explored the impact of the war on this process ceobs.org/the-war-in-t...

Report: The war in Tigray is undermining its environmental recovery - CEOBS

The war threatens decades of landscape level environmental restoration, with long-term implications for food security in Tigray.

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