@herantigray.bsky.social

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.

I think that I have finished my first thread for BlueSky. I'll know when I look at it again tomorrow. The current draft is about disinformation and the Tigray Genocide and features an appearance from the world's cringiest genocide denier. Stay tuned.

This is a screen shot from a video produced by a disinformation website called GetFactET featuring a young white American male wearing, for whatever reason, a Malcolm X hat and a vest. He is defending the Ethiopian government from accusations of gross human rights violations against an American flag backdrop. He looks angry and the caption reads "I hope we are not taking our eye off the ball." 

I swear that's what the image actually shows.

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.
BBC article 

Ethiopia's Tigray crisis: How a massacre in the sacred city of Aksum unfolded
26 February 2021

Partial shot of the city of AxumHuman Rights Watch

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Ethiopia: Eritrean Forces Massacre Tigray Civilians
UN Should Urgently Investigate Atrocities by All PartiesFrance 24 

Eritrean troops killed hundreds of civilians in Ethiopia’s Tigray, Amnesty says
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Eritrean soldiers fighting across the border in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region killed hundreds of people in a massacre last year in a likely crime against humanity, Amnesty International said Friday.

Tigrayans are caught in a crisis marked by brutality & loss. As this report reveals, the trauma faced by these communities demands urgent global action to support recovery &ensure accountability. @SkyNews @StateDept @Vonderleyen #UpholdPretoriaAgreement apnews.com/article/midd...

'Leave no Tigrayan': In Ethiopia, an ethnicity is erased

HAMDAYET, Sudan (AP) — The atrocities have been seared into the skin and minds of Tigrayans, who shelter by the thousands within sight of the homeland they fled in northern Ethiopia.

apnews.com

🇪🇹’s civil war in the northern #Tigray region may be over, but the region is yet to eradicate the scourge of sexual violence the women continue to endure. Many survivors continue to face severe physical & psychological trauma, compounded by a lack of support & resources in the aftermath of the war

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#Tigray: More than 1.42 million school-age children in the #Tigray have no access to education, while no less than 387 schools in various parts of Tigray remain closed or operating at low capacity due to insecurity, lack of resources & shortages of staff.

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