💭 Before and during World War II, Germany’s Nazi Party condemned drug use. But the book, “Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich,” claims German soldiers were often high on methamphetamine issued by their commanders to enhance their endurance. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler himself was a substance abuser. Author Norman Ohler joins “CBS This Morning: Saturday” to discuss his book.
In 1944, World War II was dragging on and the Nazi forces seemed to be faltering. Yet, in military briefings, Adolf Hitler’s optimism did not wane. His generals wondered if he had a secret weapon up his sleeve, something that would change the war around in the last second.
Author Norman Ohler tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross that Hitler did have a secret, but it wasn’t a weapon. Instead, it was a mix of cocaine and opioids that he had become increasingly dependent upon. “Hitler needed those highs to substitute [for] his natural charisma, which … he had lost in the course of the war,” Ohler says.
Ohler’s new book, Blitzed, which is based in part on the papers of Hitler’s private physician, describes the role of drugs within the Third Reich. He cites three different phases of the Fuhrer’s drug use.
“The first one are the vitamins given in high doses intravenously. The second phase starts in the fall of 1941 with the first opiate, but especially with the first hormone injections,” Ohler says. “Then in ’43 the third phase starts, which is the heavy opiate phase.”
Hitler met a doctor called Theo Morell in 1936. Morell was famous for giving vitamin injections, and Hitler, with his healthy diet, immediately believed in this doctor and got daily vitamin injections.
But then as the war turned difficult for Germany in 1941 against Russia in the fall, Hitler got sick for the first time. He couldn’t go to the military briefing, which was unheard of before, and Morell gave him something different that day. He gave him an opiate that day, and he also gave him a hormone injection.
Hitler, who had suffered from high fever, immediately felt well again and was able to go to the meeting and tell the generals how the war should continue, how the daily operations should continue. And he was really struck by this immediate recovery from this opiate, which was called Dolantin. From that moment on, he asked Morell to give him stronger stuff than just vitamins. We can see from the fall of 1941 to the winter of 1944 Hitler’s drug abuse increases significantly.
👮 Police in Peru Seized Over 50 Bricks of Cocaine That Were Wrapped in Nazi Swastikas
🛑 Anti-drug police in Peru have seized packages of cocaine with a picture of the Nazi flag on the outside and the name Hitler printed in low relief. The discovery was made on Thursday in the port of Paita, on Peru’s northern Pacific coast close to its border with Ecuador. (May 25)
💭 Germany, the motherland of the protestant reformation movement, made a big favor to the Gala-Oromo tribes of East Africa. The reason? Between 1837 and 1843 AD, the Protestant German Johann Krapf was motivated to establish the state of Oromia, not to spread Christianity, but as a Protestant to fight against the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. For this reason, he was inspired to organize the tribes that were called “Gala” with the idea that they would agree with the Germans due to their aggressive nature. He traveled to East Africa/Ethiopia with a Bible in which the name of the nation of ‘Ethiopia’ was replaced by the word “Kush” . Thus he started the so-called Oromuma/ Oromization movement. We are witnessing today that the mission of this movement is anti-Ethiopian, anti-Orthodox-Christian and anti-Christ. Their main diabolical purpose; “We are the Kush mentioned in the Bible, we must build a New Nation – making a new religion – an old and a modern Paganism.” For that they must first destroy historical Ethiopia, and gradually snatch Ethiopia and Ethiopianism from Northern Ethiopia’s indigenous Amhara and Tigre Orthodox Christian folks.
“The thief comes for no other purpose than to steal and kill and destroy” [John’s Gospel Chapter 10:10]
But it may be a blessing in disguise for Chancellor Scholz not to be received by the criminal fascist Oromo Abiy Ahmed Ali at the airport. In the first place, Chancellor Scholz should not have visited Ethiopia, where the Fascist Oromo regime massacred more than one million Orthodox Christians and brutalized more than two hundred thousand Christian women and girls. I even sent an e-mail to the chancellor’s office to prevent Chancellor Scholz from traveling to Ethiopia.
Therefore, the fact that for the great country of Germany this visit of Chancellor Scholz was conducted in such a shameful way, is may be a conspiracy that both sides consulted with each other in advance. Even today, Germany is the guardian of the Jini Jawar Mohammad of the Gala-Oromos. It was not by chance that the unfairly called ‘Ethiopian Human Rights Commission’ – which is dependent of the ruling criminal party OLF/Prosperity – and which is led by the Gala-Oromo and its evil head Daniel Bekele won the German Africa Award.
We also remember that before the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, the fascist Oromo regime first received the ‘The Hessian Peace Prize’ from Frankfurt, the state of Hesse – but now this prestigious prize is withdrawn because of the grave human rights violations and mass atrocity crimes the fascist Oromo regime had committed / is still committing.
“Withdrawal of the Hessian Peace Award 2019The Board of Trustees of the Albert Osswald Foundation decided in December 2021 to withdraw the Hessian Peace Award presented to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in 2019. The Board of Trustees based its decision, which became public during the press conference on the 2022 Hessian Peace Award, on the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray province. It is the first time in the history of the prize that the Board of Trustees has made such a decision.„
Vielen Dank! Well done
☆ May 4, 2023, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz Arrives at Addis Ababa Airport
🥶 Why visit a genocider, Herr Bundeskanzler? Why? Why? Why?
☆ Chancellor Scholz was received, not by the genocider PM of Ethiopia Ahmed, rather by the Ambassador of Germany to Ethiopia and by an unknown fat Oromo lady in red.
☆ German medias were mocking the airport carpet.
Look at the carpet: Scholz was treated with a Green Carpet instead of Red Carpet. The pagan Galla-Oromo PM is actually mocking and ritualising the National Flower of Ethiopia which is the Adey Ababa (Calla/Arum Lily)
If this evil was an Ethiopian he would have brought fresh Adey Abeba flowers there.
Next, the Antichrist, Anti-Ethiopia evil PM will put green-colored ‘Pagan-Islamic Blasphemy Rugs’ with an inverted cross to match his Satanic agenda. Islam is Paganism in monotheistic wrapping paper – and reptilian ‘people’ are green and King Charles III’s reptilian eye sees.
☆ A month earlier: Italian PM Giorgia Meloni Arrives in Addis Ababa
☆ On the very same day disappointed German Chancellor Olaf Scholz left Addis, and flew to Nairobi, Kenya – Red Carpet Reception
☆ On February 25, 2023, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz arrived in Delhi
☆ A few months ago President Ruto of Kenya arrives in Addis – and the genocider was there at the airport to receive him.
“What is hardly known in Europe: Christianity was already widespread in this part of Africa when the Germanic tribes were still worshipping trees and hills.”
Priest Kiday thinks for a while and then says that God punishes not only individuals but also the community – especially when the collective has sinned. That was certainly the case in Tigray, the priest adds: the people lied and stole, the girls wore skirts that were far too short, the young men danced too exuberantly. However, he does not want to justify the barbaric actions of the Eritrean soldiers: He calls their commander-in-chief, head of state Isaias Afwerki, “the father of the devil.
Debre Dammo, the oldest Christian monastery south of the Sahara, was bombed by Eritrean military jets. Amharic militiamen set fire to the Feredashum St. Kirkos church – numerous artifacts were damaged. Ethiopian soldiers stole ancient manuscripts from the Abune Tadewos monastery, and when they captured the holy city of Axum in November 2020, their comrades from Eritrea inflicted a massacre with well over 400 dead, including several priests. Places of worship also looted in civil war.
Up to 400 churches and monasteries were at least partially damaged.
While international organizations are investigating the countless human rights crimes committed during the civil war, virtually no one is paying attention to the destruction and looting of places of worship, complains Tadesse Simie Metekia of the Institute for Security Studies in Addis Ababa: “These are also war crimes.”
The apostate Christians could never be completely safe, even in the bizarre mountain world of Gar’alta: First they were persecuted by their “orthodox” fellow Christians, and later they were confronted with a new sect, the followers of the Islamic prophet Mohammed.
For the priest, the province with the Holy City of Axum, the Ark of the Covenant of the Israelites supposedly kept there, the ancient rock churches with their manuscripts, is the center of the Orthodox faith: “If the truth doesn’t survive here, nowhere will.” When we finally make our way back, an eagle circles between the Almighty and us.
Those who want to worship the Almighty in the embattled Ethiopian province climb daringly to 2600 meters above sea level to a spectacular church in the middle of the rock. Our correspondent has dared the climb – and looked into secular abysses
The Almighty doesn’t exactly make things easy for his guests. After an hour’s climb up one of the craggy sandstone formations that rise into the sky like gigantic teeth in the center of Ethiopia’s Tigray Province, we reach a rock face that is impossible to get past except by climbing. Kiday Yohannes has wisely brought a rope with him to secure his foreign guest – he himself climbs ahead unsecured. The Orthodox clergyman knows every crevice where his hands or feet can find a foothold; after all, he has walked the path thousands of times – up to three times a day during the peak tourist season. However, the Orthodox priest has not seen any tourists for more than two years. Instead, he has seen war, countless soldiers and death many times.
Whoever dares to climb up here must not be sick of heights.
For climbing we have to take off our shoes, because the ground we enter is sacred. Even after the rock face, we continue uphill over boulders and tumbling gullies. Only at an altitude of about 2600 meters do we reach a ridge between two rocky outcrops on which there is a small brick building: the baptismal and reception room of the “Abuna Yemata” church, explains priest Kiday. On both sides of the ridge, the descent is hundreds of meters: not a place for the faint-hearted or those who suffer from altitude sickness – but a place where the Orthodox believers of the region have been seeking their God for 1600 years. In the “most dangerous church in the world,” according to a travel website.
The last 20 meters to a hole in the rock face are the most frightening. On the right, the sandstone massif rises vertically into the air; on the left, the abyss yawns – more than 300 meters deep. A ledge that serves as a path is barely 50 centimeters wide at its narrowest point. Priest Kiday takes his despondent foreign flock by the hand. In the entire history of the place of worship, no person has ever fallen here, he reassures, “God looks out for his faithful.” Legend has it that pilgrims who actually fell to the depths were blown back up the path by a miraculous wind.
❖ You can hardly get any closer to God 😇
When you finally reach the hole in the rock face, you think you are ready for anything – and yet the sight leaves you speechless. In the semi-darkness, a small cathedral accurately hewn out of the rock emerges – with Romanesque vaulted arches, columns and two implied domes. The walls and ceilings of the roughly 30-square-meter room are painted with luminous frescoes, mainly portraits of biblical and ecclesiastical figures, and the floor is carpeted. A bent branch fork serves as a lectern for the priest; a stack of ancient books made of sheepskin lies beneath it. There is a smell of incense – and as Kiday Yohannes quietly intones a hymn, the heavens seem to open. This is as close as a mortal can get to the Almighty.
The (almost) intrepid author.
Like over 120 other churches in Tigray, Abuna Yemata was hewn out of the rock. Unesco wants to declare the monolithic houses of worship a World Heritage Site. They are spread over three “Sacred Landscapes,” of which the Gar’alta region is the most spectacular; this is also where the oldest of the rock churches are located. What is hardly known in Europe: Christianity was already widespread in this part of Africa when the Germanic tribes were still worshipping trees and hills. King Esana, who ruled in the holy city of Axum, located almost 200 kilometers northwest of Abuna Yemata, had already declared the Christian faith the state religion in the 4th century.
Christians were also persecuted in Tigray
Nevertheless, the young Christians in Tigray could not really feel safe. Besides the proximity to God, the security aspect was also responsible for the construction of their churches at dizzying heights – an advantage of which Priest Kiday can still sing a song today. When Eritrean and Ethiopian soldiers invaded Tigray a good two years ago, the people of the village of Guh, located at the foot of the rocky fangs, sought refuge in the mountains. Priest Kiday retreated to the Abune Yemeta place of worship with two dozen worshippers. His 26-year-old wife Berhan holed up in a nearby cave with their two children – just in case the invaders did not back down from an attack on the place of worship.
The clergyman Kiday Yohannes reads in old books made of sheepskin.
Soldiers did indeed fire on the rock church several times, Kiday says, but they never hit it. And the Eritrean invaders were reluctant to attack on foot in view of the adverse terrain.
Other places of worship were less fortunate. Debre Dammo, the oldest Christian monastery south of the Sahara, was bombed by Eritrean military jets. Amharic militiamen set fire to the Feredashum St. Kirkos church – numerous artifacts were damaged. Ethiopian soldiers stole ancient manuscripts from the Abune Tadewos monastery, and when they captured the holy city of Axum in November 2020, their comrades from Eritrea inflicted a massacre with well over 400 dead, including several priests.
Places of worship also looted in civil war.
Up to 400 churches and monasteries were at least partially damaged, according to a damage report by philologist Hagos Abrha Abay, a researcher at the University of Hamburg. On auction platforms such as Ebay, old manuscripts and cult objects from Tigray were suddenly offered for sale at ridiculous prices, reports the Ethiopian: handwritten and illustrated texts of inestimable value changed hands for a few hundred euros.
While international organizations are investigating the countless human rights crimes committed during the civil war, virtually no one is paying attention to the destruction and looting of places of worship, complains Tadesse Simie Metekia of the Institute for Security Studies in Addis Ababa: “These are also war crimes.”
On May 7, 2021, Eritrean soldiers entered the village of Guh at the foot of the Rock Teeth and shot at anything that moved. According to farmer Kasa Girmai, 19 people were killed in the massacre, including nine women and seven children, the youngest less than a week old. The 50-year-old managed to escape with his family into the mountains. However, they had to leave his 78-year-old mother behind: The soldiers would not harm the old woman, Kasa told himself. But the Eritrean fighters dragged the woman out of her house, dragged her to a nearby stream and shot her there.
Even today, human bones can be found in the middle of the landscape, says priest Kiday: “The hyenas have spread the bones all over the country.” The priest buried the victims of the massacre in Guh in the valley about 300 meters directly below the entrance to the rock church – as if they were the first ones that the miraculous wind did not blow back up again. One of the graves is barely half a meter long: there lies buried the seven-day-old child. How could the Almighty allow the innocent little creature to be torn from the world right away?
Priest Kiday thinks for a while and then says that God punishes not only individuals but also the community – especially when the collective has sinned. That was certainly the case in Tigray, the priest adds: the people lied and stole, the girls wore skirts that were far too short, the young men danced too exuberantly. However, he does not want to justify the barbaric actions of the Eritrean soldiers: He calls their commander-in-chief, head of state Isaias Afwerki, “the father of the devil.
One cannot accuse Priest Kisay of exuberant dancing. When he intones a mournful melody in the mini-cathedral of Abuna Yemata between heaven and earth, he stamps his feet softly in time and accompanies his singing with a rattle. This is how he did it for the whole of last night, when he celebrated the first Christmas mass after the war again in the rock church for six hours with a good 50 faithful.
The Ethiopian multi-ethnic state threatens to be completely divided
Looking down on the congregation from the ceiling was Abuna Yemata: one of the nine saints of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church who had fled to Tigray from the Middle East in the fifth century. They had been at odds with the rest of the church over the nature of Christ – only God or God and man in one person? – with the rest of the church. Father Yemata hewed the place of worship out of the rock with his own hands, and his nephew Binyam painted the images, Kisay says. These have never had to be restored in their 1400-year history.
The apostate Christians could never be completely safe, even in the bizarre mountain world of Gar’alta: First they were persecuted by their “orthodox” fellow Christians, and later they were confronted with a new sect, the followers of the Islamic prophet Mohammed. Even though Ethiopia was never truly colonized, the Ethiopian kingdom did not come to rest even in recent history. And today, the multi-ethnic Ethiopian state is in danger of being completely pulverized by ethnic and political tensions. Hundreds of thousands killed during the civil war
Several hundred thousand people are said to have fallen victim to the two-year civil war between the Tigray and the government army, and the province has been set back several decades. And already the next smoldering conflict is escalating-between the majority Oromo people and the government under “Nobel Peace Prize winner” Abiy Ahmed.
Ethiopia’s church seems powerless in the face of the turmoil. When Eritrea seceded from Ethiopia in 1993 and war broke out six years later between the two neighbors over the border demarcation in a useless piece of semi-desert, the community of Christians also split – into an Eritrean and an Ethiopian Orthodox Church. During the recent civil war, Orthodox believers outside Tigray did not lift a finger to stem the bloodshed or at least condemn it, laments philologist Hagos in Hamburg: Many parishes in Amhara Province, which is particularly hostile to Tigray, even donated money for the war.
A sacred place for the hope of peace
Kisay Yohannes closes his eyes and mumbles a prayer in Ge’ez: the sacred language of his church sounds like ancient Hebrew and is understood only by clergy. He prayed for Tigray’s independence, the priest says afterwards: and that an Orthodox Church for Tigray would soon emerge from the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. For the priest, the province with the Holy City of Axum, the Ark of the Covenant of the Israelites supposedly kept there, the ancient rock churches with their manuscripts, is the center of the Orthodox faith: “If the truth doesn’t survive here, nowhere will.” When we finally make our way back, an eagle circles between the Almighty and us.
💭 German Catholic bishops have voted to bless same-sex marriages as part of the German Church’s Synodal Assembly, with blessings set to be introduced in March of 2026. Some have called the move schismatic.
The Synodal Assembly on the Reform of the Catholic Church voted in Frankfurt, Germany, to bless same-sex couples on Friday, with 176 of the 202 assembly members voting for the proposal, including two-thirds of the bishops in attendance.
According to a report from the newspaper Donaukurier, same-sex blessings have already been going on in the German church — but were in a canonical grey area and took place in private, rather than openly in churches.
The move stands in direct contradiction to the Vatican, which has explicitly declared that “the Church does not have, and cannot have, the power to bless unions of persons of the same sex.”
The Vatican argued that while God and the Church can bless individuals, including homosexuals, it cannot bless sin, including sexual activity that takes place outside of a valid marriage.
The issue of same-sex couple blessings is one of the main demands from the German Synodal Path, a series of conferences of the Catholic Church in Germany since 2019 that have been looking to greatly transform the Church.
According to the Catholic news website The Pillar, bishops in the Flemish region of Belgium have also been blessing same-sex unions since last year in September.
Bishop Johan Bonny claimed that despite the Vatican’s stance against the blessings of same-sex couples, Pope Francis had not commented on the issue and indicated that it was up to local bishops to decide.
Other bishops, however, have slammed the Germans, including U.S. Bishop Joseph Strickland, who stated on Twitter: “This action is schism plain & simple. As the Vatican made clear months ago, ‘We cannot bless sin’. The 38 bishops who voted for this need to repent and return to the Catholic Church, the Bride of Christ.”
“The president of every Bishop’s Conference around the world should denounce the schismatic vote of the 38 German bishops who have voted to bless same sex unions. We must speak out and call them to return to Catholic teaching. They have hardened their hearts to the Truth,” he added.
Last month, members of the Synodal Way, four women, announced they were quitting the assembly due to fundamental disagreements regarding the direction of the assembly and claiming it was looking to fundamentally change the Church.
The women also noted that major concerns about the Synodal Way from Pope Francis and the Vatican had been kept from participants.
The controversial vote comes just weeks after the Church of England also voted to bless same-sex marriages, with many of the conservative branches of the Anglican Communion reacting highly negatively to the vote.
– Let’s face it: The very nature of our CULTURE is schismatic, whereby half the population is following a “New! Improved!” value system and the other half is sticking with tradition. Because all progressivism is based upon idealism and not fact, it is doomed to failure. The question is: how long?
– Any normal pope would have squashed this. The church is in deep trouble as long as Borgoglio is running things.
– These so called bishops can bless all they want to but it changes nothing. God will not bless sin. Never has and never will. One verse of scripture comes to mind. “Woe unto him that says bad is good and good is bad. Emphasis on the word WOE.
– Churches that bless homosexual marriage are apostate and false teachers. They have clearly chosen to respect people’s feelings more than God’s law.
– The end of The Roman Empire. Next it will be legalizing pedophilia. The church has fallen as a victim of liberal mental disorder.
– Seems like Lucifer is winning currently.
– He has been winning in all false religions since Nimrods time. He will continue to do so until, God uses the UN to destroy all of them just before the system ends.
✞At least 7 people have been killed, 8 injured in a mass shooting at a church in Hamburg, Germany. According to the German news agency dpa, at least one gunman opened fire on parishioners during a church service at a meeting hall regularly used by Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on February 15, 2023
💭 ‘Radio War Nerd’ talk to legendary Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Seymour Hersh about his latest bombshell scoop: the United States, on President Biden’s orders, blew up the Nord Stream pipelines that were foundational to Germany’s export economy until last year.
💭 I’d make it easier. The people involved in the operation saw that the president wanted Germany to freeze for its short-term political goals, and that appalled them. I am talking here about Americans who are very loyal to the United States. At the CIA it is the case that, as I put it in my article, people work for power and not for the Constitution.
The political advantage of the CIA is that a president who does not get through his plans in Congress can walk with the CIA director in the Rose Garden of the White House to plan something secret that can meet many people on the other side of the Atlantic – or wherever in the world. That was always the unique selling point of the CIA – with which I have my problems. But even this community is appalled that Biden decided to expose Europe to the cold to support a war he will not win. This is nefarious to me.
What is brave about telling the truth? Our job as reporters is not to be afraid. And sometimes it gets ugly. There were times in my life when… – You know, I’m not talking about it. But threats are not made to people like me, but to the children of people like me. There were terrible things. But you don’t worry about it, you can’t. You just have to do what you do.
💭 Nord Stream Bombshell: United States Sabotaged The Pipeline, According to Pulitzer Prize Winner
🔥 Did Biden give the order to destroy Putin’s Nord Stream pipeline after Ukraine invasion? Bombshell report claims Navy divers carried out mission to kill Russia’s gas stranglehold on Europe in audacious mission overseen by president
U.S. Navy divers planted C4 explosives that caused $500 million damage to Nord Stream pipelines between Russia and Germany, sensational report claims
Report by Pulitzer Prize-winner Seymour Hersh details plot in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Europe’s dependence on gas from Moscow
The White House and the CIA have denied claims the attack was carried out after nine months of secret planning overseen by President Joe Biden
Journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Seymour Hersh has accused the U.S. Navy on Wednesday of being behind the explosions recorded in the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines in September 2022.
Hersh has explained on his website that those responsible for the alleged sabotage are U.S. Navy divers, who would have placed explosives during NATO’s’ Baltops 22 ‘maneuvers.
Specialized U.S. Navy diving teams carried out the bombing attack against the underwater Nord Stream pipelines which supply Russian gas to western Europe during a top secret mission overseen by President Joe Biden, a bombshell report claims.
Divers planted C4 explosives on three Nord Stream pipelines in June 2022 which were detonated three months later using a sonar buoy which broadcast a signal that triggered the bombs, according to the report.
The attack was carried out in response to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and designed to force Germany and other European nations to end their reliance on Russian gas, it is claimed. The move would also disrupt Moscow’s income from gas sales – which have contributed billions of dollars to its war effort.
The sensational report by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, published to his Substack, cites a source ‘with direct knowledge of the operational planning’ behind the alleged plot. The White House and the CIA flatly rejected the report on Wednesday, branding it ‘complete fiction’.
Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines were sabotaged by bomb blasts on September 26 2022 in an attack that, ostensibly, continues to baffle investigators. While analysts say the immediate impact of the attack was ‘limited’ – because the pipelines were not fully operational – the geopolitical consequences were huge.
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on January 27, 2023
In a recent interview with a German publication, former Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the 2014 ceasefire agreement under the Minsk Protocol was meant to give Ukraine time to build up its military. She admitted that Russia could easily have overrun Ukrainian troops in 2015 and doubted if NATO countries could have done as much then as they do. Russia has reacted to Merkel’s interview as a confirmation of Germany’s ‘duplicity’ regarding the war in Ukraine. Moscow said that Merkel, through her statement, has exposed that the West never planned to follow the peace accord.
💭 Germany’s National Public Television. ‘ZDF’ Africa correspondent, Timm Kröger, reports directly from Mekelle, Axum, and Shire. Clips from @ZDFheute news report shows a portion of mass graves from the Axum massacre and IDPs who are living in cramped and terrible conditions in Shire. He randomly interviews people in Axum who confirmed the massacre as as reported by Amnesty International.