😲 Wow! BBC news studio windows being plastered with stickers, posters, and pictures of loved ones believed to be injured or killed by the Covid-19 vaccine.
💭 BBC & and its Somali reporters are conspiring against the cradle of Ethiopian Christianity – against Christians of Northern Ethiopia. (Amhara + Tigray + Eritrea). They never bring such ‘revelations’ about the atrocities that the fascist Oromo invaders of Southern Ethiopia — that are in power for the past 130 years – are committing since their arrival in Ethiopia in the 15th century. We never hear or see reports on the ongoing genocidal ethnic-cleansing campaign in the so-called Oromo region of Ethiopia. Over thousand Orthodox Christians are massacred daily in this region. But have you ever heard or seen any report about these tragedy? No! Even in this BBC video the reporter, by avoiding the ethnicity of the government forces, which is Oromo – he wishes to portray ‘Amharas’ as Perpetrators, and ‘Oromos’ as victims, inciting ethno-religious animosity between them.
As we currently observe it in Ethiopia, whether Europe, America, Russia or China, they all support the wrong side, providing support to the perpetrator, explicitly or implicitly Imagine the genocide that is taking place against Orthodox Christians of Ethiopia was a genocide against Muslims? NATO would have bombed the hell out of Christian Ethiopia. We saw that in 1999 when NATO blasted Orthodox Serbia on Orthodox Easter Sunday
I had previously believed that incompetence and concurrent Islamic ascendancy (secondary to social media and the fall of the prior bipolar world which kept modern Islam in check) was the reason that Islamic jihad continued to make steady advances, and the West acted out a nonstop Comedy of Errors and could make no progress impeding the advance of Jihad. It is far more Machiavellian than I had imagined.
There is simply no other explanation for the meteoric rise of Islamic jihad/caliphate except to accept the West supports these developments. I am now firmly convinced the West supports Jihad and the aspired Caliphate, but the reasons for the Civilization Treason could be multiple. Islamic jihad and its threats are not unusually ascendant because they are concurrent with the West’s unusual unraveling and self destruction (historical timing and synchronicity being the jihadist’s helper-nonsense). Its the contrary. The West believes a collective voice for disparate Muslims peoples would provide stability, a degree of multipolar security, and great economic opportunities. Very sad, but the West wants a Muslim caliphate at the deepest levels of power.
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on November 4, 2022
💭 The warring parties in Ethiopia’s Tigray region signed a peace deal on Wednesday, but two years of civil war has taken a terrible toll on the people who live there.
There has been a communications blackout meaning little has been seen or heard from the region during the conflict.
BBC World Service has obtained this exclusive footage, the first by an international broadcaster since fighting resumed in August.
👹 Satan the Devil is the source of persecution of those bearing and living the truth of God (verses 41, 44). At times he undoubtedly works through people whom he has duped and inflamed to unrelenting anger toward God’s people so that the persecution appears to be entirely of men. But the Bible reveals the reality of Satan as the source.
The church bears the brunt of Satan’s persecution because, as the body of Jesus Christ (Ephesians 1:22-23), it is the group of people in whom Christ is being formed (Galatians 4:19). Jesus warns us that this will occur:
If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, “A servant is not greater than his master.” If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also. But all these things they will do to you for My name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent Me. (John 15:18-21)
💭 Fighting in Ethiopia’s civil war has claimed tens of thousands of lives, while millions more face hunger and starvation. For almost two years, the Tigray region has been largely isolated and under a state of siege. Millions of Tigrayans are in need of food and lack of supplies have pushed health systems to the brink of collapse. “There is nowhere on earth”, says WHO chief Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, “where the health of millions of people is more under threat than in Tigray”.
The genocidal fascist Oromo regime of Ethiopia to this day continues deceiving the world by repeatedly denying blocking humanitarian aid to the region, instead blaming others constantly. The world knows about this deception and the tragedy — but it is allowing evil to triumph, because the perpetrators are Islamo-Protestants and the victims ancient Orthodox Christians.
💭 This investigation discovers, the human impact of the siege has been devastating.
👉 Selected Comments from the BBC Channel:
❖ My heart breaks for the children💔 These good people don’t deserve this.
❖ It’s so heart shattering to see such crimes against humanity committed by Ethiopia. The corrupt African Union, seated in Ethiopia, in many ways has exacerbated the problem by covering up for the Ethiopian govt and acting against any meaningful action from the international community.
❖ Every human government imaginable has failed humanity. Sad.
❖ It is horrific, heartbreaking. All is happening under the watch of the so-called IC
❖ I am a mother and the sounds the baby is making made me shatter..God give them food and plenty of water .restore peace on their lands. Amen
❖ This is so sad am crying watching this documentary. Oh Africa 😭
❖ I Hope the cruel regimes of Eritrea and Ethiopia will be in ICC for this drought..shame the international community for keeping quite while 100 billions of donations are flowing to the people of Ukraine. May The Almighty God be with the people of Tigray.
❖ The world has given a noble peace prize to evil Abiy Ahmed Ali who created this hell
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on September 9, 2022
“Bullets can kill in thousands – starvation in tens and hundreds of thousands!”
💭 “The #TigrayGenocide has not received the necessary attention. The number of deaths in Ethiopia far exceeds those in Ukraine. Ukraine poses issues of international borders and some other issues – but in terms of the deaths and destruction we haven’t seen anything in the wider world as severe as what is happening in Northern Ethiopia. Tigray needs more autonomy!” Brad Sherman
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on April 2, 2021
On an arid plateau somewhere in Ethiopia, a man in uniform pushes a dead body which goes tumbling head over heels off the edge of a cliff. More corpses are strewn around nearby rocks and boulders.
The scene comes from one of five graphic videos which started appearing from 9 March, 2021, on the EthiopiaMap Telegram channel. Viewed together, they show Amharic-speaking soldiers, one of whose uniforms bears the markings of the Ethiopian national flag on its sleeve, rounding up a group of around 25 to 30 people in civilian clothing. The captives file towards a precipice at gunpoint, where they are executed.
These videos were taken by the soldiers (mostly male and some female) themselves.
Since last November, a war has raged between Ethiopia’s federal government and rebel forces in the Tigray Region in the country’s North. Tens of thousands of civilians have fled across the border to neighbouring Sudan.
In recent months, credible reports of massacres, looting and rape have emerged from the region. As one UN official remarked to Britain’s Sky News this month “We don’t know what the situation is in rural parts of Tigray and what we don’t know really worries us”.
Bellingcat and colleagues from Newsy and BBC Africa Eye have located the execution videos from the EthiopiaMap Telegram channel to a cliff approximately 15 kilometres South of Aksum, a city in the wartorn Tigray Region. The closest town is Mahbere Dego, which may be the last place these men were seen alive.
Audible Clues
The language used by the soldiers can establish their likely origin. According to Gubae Gundarta Beyene, a translator and communications scholar at the University of Oregon who hails from Ethiopia, the soldiers in the videos are not speaking in Tigrinya or Arabic, the primary languages of Eritrea. Tigrinya is also the native language of the vast majority of the Tigray Region’s inhabitants and of TPLF supporters.
Instead, they are speaking Amharic — Ethiopia’s administrative language and the native tongue of the Amhara people. Gundarta, who produced a translation of the speech in the videos, stated that the soldiers’ accents indicate that they are mostly native Amharic speakers from the Amhara Region, though some may be second language speakers from the Oromia Region.
On several occasions in Video One and Video Two, the armed men describe their victims as “Woyane” (Amharic: ወያኔ, Tigrinya: ወያነ). This word is a particularly important indicator of the armed men’s allegiance.
The scene described at the beginning of this article comes from Video One. “We learned brutality from the Woyane. There isn’t much we can do about it. This is what you become in the end”, asks the man filming the corpses, who, according to Gundarta, speaks Amharic with an Amhara Region accent. A voice in the background recommends dousing the bodies with kerosene to burn them. The speaker regrets that he has none.
In Video Two, a man speaking in Amharic with an Amhara Region accent films three dead bodies by the cliff edge. “As you can see, these are Woyane corpses. We have put them all out here,” he explains. Gunshots ring out in the distance, leading him to turn around and cry “Attaboy! You’re a hero! Such a hero! This is the end for Woyane. We have no mercy left”. Another corpse can be seen on the ground as a group of uniformed men walk away.
Who are the “Woyane”?
This epithet, which roughly translates as “insurgent”, is used derisively for rebels or people believed to be affiliated with the TPLF. However, some Tigrayans use it as a term of pride, referring to the Woyane Rebellion of the 1940s, when their ancestors rose up against the rule of Ethiopia’s Emperor Haile Selassie.
“It was a rallying cry for the Tigrayan struggle, which was also along the lines of demanding autonomy or at least against marginalisation against the central state,” explained the International Crisis Group’s Davison.
“It looks very much like they are accusing those people in the video of being members of the TPLF. The fact that these people are suspected of being Woyane is almost seen as justification for the violence being exacted upon them,” Davison added.
Audible Clues
While the five videos do not contain enough information to determine when exactly they were recorded, other clues may offer further avenues of inquiry.
For example, a satellite image taken on 20 January 2021 shows approximately 16 vehicles just 150 metres from the cliff where the executions took place. The image also shows the presence of an artillery battery on the plateau by the trucks:
What can we say about the executions at the clifftop that day?
Our geolocation confirms that a massacre took place in Mahbere Dego.
There is some evidence to suggest the allegiance of the soldiers, from an Ethiopian flag on one soldier’s uniform to their use of the Amharic language and the word “Woyane” to describe their victims. These clues point towards the presence of the Ethiopian military or its allies at Mahbere Dego. Beyond these hints, however, the identities of the executioners cannot be conclusively established by open source methods alone at the time of publication.
The final clue may lie in on the ground reporting in Tigray, something which remains particularly dangerous.
Until that changes, open source material continues to be a key resource for documenting the ongoing humanitarian disaster in Tigray, some of which is being provided by perpetrators of the crimes themselves.
“Why don’t you get closer and record?” one armed man exclaims to the camera in Video Four. “How could we not record the way they die?”
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