#Justice4TigrayWomen

Monday March 8, 2021
1. “Some girls & I managed to leave the village, but on the road we were caught by Eritrean soldiers,” Saba, a displaced woman from Mai Kadra, told @AJEnglish. Stop the #TigrayGenocide. @TaranaBurke @rupikaur_ @melindagates @humansofny @Alyssa_Milano https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/1/we-are-dying-tigrayans-speak-of-abuse-by-eritrean-troops
2. “I was bleeding for hours. Then, I had my arm amputated,” she says, before breaking down in tears. What did the girls of Tigray to do to deserve this? #TigrayGenocide #MonaLisaAbraha @endrapeinwar @UN_Women @phumzileunwomen @salmahayek @PalomaUnicef https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/1/we-are-dying-tigrayans-speak-of-abuse-by-eritrean-troops
3. SBGV crimes should never go hidden especially in times of war. Tigray needs international intervention to help end #WeaponizedRape in Tigray. We must protect these women and girls. #TigrayGenocide @KaavyaAsoka @UNDP @MeTooMVMT @violadavis @endrapeinwar https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2021/01/22/UN-official-says-rape-sexual-violence-rising-in-Ethiopias-Tigray-conflict/8021611325219/
4. Hospitals in Tigray have been looted & attacked by military, leaving many rape victims at risk of not receiving the proper medical care. #UNSCActNow to end crimes against women and young girls. #TigrayGenocide @VP @AOC @ladygaga @rihanna @aliciakeys https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-conflict-health-idUSKBN2A80JZ
5. One woman was held captive for over 10 days, raped by 23 Eritrean soldiers, & left on the side of the road. Surgeons had to remove stones & nails that had been inserted inside her. This is a nightmare! #TigrayGenocide #MeToo @endrapeinwar @rihanna https://www.dw.com/en/anger-and-collective-trauma-scar-ethiopia-s-tigray-region/a-56794452
6. Sexual violence to brutalize women & girls in Tigray needs to be called out by the international community. Concrete steps must also be taken to end #WeaponizedRape in Tigray. #MeToo #TigrayGenocide @unwomenafrica @Atayeshe @IlhanMN @RepKarenBass https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2021/01/22/UN-official-says-rape-sexual-violence-rising-in-Ethiopias-Tigray-conflict/8021611325219/
7. They were sobbing silently, waiting for their turn; a dozen petrified women, seeking medical check-ups in Adigrat’s hospital after having been raped. None of them was willing to utter more than a few words. #MeToo #TigrayGenocide @aliciakeys @meenaharris https://www.dw.com/en/anger-and-collective-trauma-scar-ethiopia-s-tigray-region/a-56794452
8. The doctor said women are being gang-raped, drugged & gravely injured in the assaults. We must not turn away when learning about #WeaponizedRape in Tigray. We must stand up and be a voice. #MeToo #TigrayGenocide @tylerperry @Oprah @TamikaDMallory @hrw https://www.dw.com/en/anger-and-collective-trauma-scar-ethiopia-s-tigray-region/a-56794452
9. Survivors of these alleged attacks must not be seen as statistics. They are individual women & girls whose lives have been profoundly altered by the violations committed against them. #WeaponizedRape must end. #TigrayGenocide @unicefchief @UNFPA @UNDP https://apnews.com/article/international-news-violence-ethiopia-united-nations-kenya-166e4f47eaeeeeec6e424ba3b773c61e
10. #MonaLisaAbraha bravely resisted rape from invading troops, who then shot her in the hand & leg. She is now an amputee. The women and girls of Tigray must be protected & @AbiyAhmedAli must be held accountable. #TigrayGenocide #MeToo @UN_Women @heidiklum https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/1/we-are-dying-tigrayans-speak-of-abuse-by-eritrean-troops
11. #MonaLisaAbraha should have never been terrorized by troops in Tigray. Women’s bodies are not battlefields! We must speak up for women subjected to #WeaponizedRape around the world. #TigrayGenocide #MeToo @TamikaDMallory @warsan_shire @shaunking https://youtu.be/ajvOMr6bSBM
12. The collapse of health services in #Tigray due to hospitals & healthcare centers being looted & destroyed has made it nearly impossible for victims of #WeaponizedRape in to receive treatment. #TigrayGenocide #MeToo @endrapeinwar @warsan_shire @rupikaur_ https://www.voanews.com/africa/ethiopia-tigray/choose-i-kill-you-or-rape-you-abuse-accusations-surge-ethiopias-war
13. Innocent children, pregnant women & the elderly are at a high risk of sexual violence in the refugees camps in Sudan, as well as in Tigray where invading troops are terrorizing women. Please raise awareness. #TigrayGenocide @NaomiCampbell @violadavis https://www.sbs.com.au/news/disturbing-allegations-of-sexual-violence-emerge-in-ethiopia-s-conflict-hit-tigray-region
14. “They have bruises. Some are even gang-raped. One was constrained & raped for a week. She doesn’t even know herself. And there is no police, hence no justice at all,” the MD said.” Please be a voice for the voiceless. #MeToo #TigrayGenocide @aliciakeys https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55832711
3. The women of Tigray are raped, massacred, displaced & unable to give birth in hospitals. Children are dying of starvation & many killed. On March 8, we want the world to know about the atrocities committed against them. #MeToo #MonaLisaAbraha @VP @IlhanMNhttps://www.dw.com/en/anger-and-collective-trauma-scar-ethiopias-tigray-region/a-56794452
4. Women in Tigray are not fortunate enough to celebrate March 8. Adigrat Hospital has received over 174 rape survivors. Among them, one woman was raped by 23 Eritrean soldiers for 10 days. #TigrayGenocide #IWD #MeToo @hrw @UN_Women @mbachelet https://www.dw.com/en/anger-and-collective-trauma-scar-ethiopias-tigray-region/a-56794452
7. Though we are in 21 century, one woman was raped by 23 Eritrean soldiers, then left on the side of the road. Surgeons had to remove stones & nails that had been inserted inside her genitals. We must be voice for these victims. #TigrayGenocide #MeToo https://www.dw.com/en/anger-and-collective-trauma-scar-ethiopias-tigray-region/a-56794452
1. A #Tigray|an 18 year old MonaLisa, another @Malala, retained her dignity bravely resisting an armed soldier who tried to rape her on #TigrayGenocide. She deserves an honour on this IWD.@UN_Women @AnnLinde @VP @hrw @MichelleObama#MeToo #MonaLisaAbraha https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-africa-55832711
2. 23 Eritrean soldiers raped one #Tigray|an woman for over 10 days & inserted stones and nails to her genitals on #TigrayGenocide. Surgeons had to remove the stones & nails. This is beyond inhumanity ????Stop #WeaponizedRape #MeToo@AWID @UN_Women @VP @hrw https://www.dw.com/en/anger-and-collective-trauma-scar-ethiopias-tigray-region/a-56794452
3. The soldier, she says, took the old man outside and shot him in the shoulders and the thigh and then returned to her, saying that he had killed him.#TigrayGenocide #MonaLisaAbraha@awdf01 @AWID @UN_Women @Keah_Maria @kerrywashingtom @6Gems @Malala https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55832711
4. Because ‘it is war and things like that happen’ is a statement that justifies rape and sexual violence by #Ethiopia. Rape is a punishable war crime. #MeToo #MonaLisaAbraha @UN_Women @NationalNOW @woman_kind @aliciagarza @amandlastenberg @AmericaFerrera https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-ethiopia-conflict-idUSKBN2AC0WQ
11. Girls as young as 8 years old are raped by #Eritrea|n and #Ethiopia|n soldiers in #Tigray. When we celebrate #march8th, let’s remember those who are bearing the brunt of war. #MeToo @UNHumanRights @hrw @UN_Women @mbachelet @phumzileunwomen @SecBlinken @IlhanMN @VP @Oprah
12. According to #UN representative on sexual violence in conflict, there has been a high number of reported rapes in Tigray. #MeToo @TaranaBurke @UNHumanRights @hrw @UN_Women @mbachelet @phumzileunwomen @SecBlinken @IlhanMN @VP @Oprah https://www.un.org/sexualviolenceinconflict/press-release/united-nations-special-representative-of-the-secretary-general-on-sexual-violence-in-conflict-ms-pramila-patten-urges-all-parties-to-prohibit-the-use-of-sexual-violence-and-cease-hostilities-in-the/
13. ‘Choose – I kill you or rape you’: abuse accusations surge in #Ethiopia’s war #MeToo @TaranaBurke @UNHumanRights @hrw @UN_Women @mbachelet @phumzileunwomen @SecBlinken @antonioguterres @IlhanMN @VP @Oprah https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-ethiopia-conflict-rape/choose-i-kill-you-or-rape-you-abuse-accusations-surge-in-ethiopias-war-idUSKBN29S0BG
14. Women shouldn’t be forced to choose between their life and dignity. They are entitled to both. #MeToo @TaranaBurke @UNHumanRights @hrw @UN_Women @mbachelet @phumzileunwomen @SecBlinken @antonioguterres @IlhanMN @VP @Oprah https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-ethiopia-conflict-rape/choose-i-kill-you-or-rape-you-abuse-accusations-surge-in-ethiopias-war-idUSKBN29S0BG
15. Countless women had been sexually abused and raped individually or in acts of gang rape. Some are brutally shot or mutilated with knives.#TigrayGenocide #Metoo #MonaLisaAbraha #EritreaOutOfTigray@Malala @monaeltahawy @EmmaWatsonhttps://www.eepa.be//wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Situation-Report-EEPA-Horn-No.-45-4-January-2021.pdf
Monday March 8, 2021
1. Una mujer violada por 23 soldados eritreos y abandonada en la carretera. Los cirujanos tuvieron que extraerle piedras y clavos que los agresores habían mentido adentro. #TigrayGenocide #MeToo Eva Longoria@CatherineForNV @AOC @RepEscobar @HaleIndyhttps://www.dw.com/en/anger-and-collective-trauma-scar-ethiopia-s-tigray-region/a-56794452
2. El colapso de los servicios sanitarios en #Tigray por el saqueo y destrucción de centros de salud ha hecho casi imposible que las víctimas de violacion sexual reciban tratamiento #TigrayGenocide #MeToo @CatherineForNV @AOC @RepEscobar @HaleIndyhttps://www.voanews.com/africa/ethiopia-tigray/choose-i-kill-you-or-rape-you-abuse-accusations-surge-ethiopias-war
3. El médico dijo que las mujeres son violadas en grupo, drogadas y gravemente heridas en los asaltos. #TigrayGenocide #MeToo @un, @josepBorrellF, @mbachelet @asuntosex @MAECgob, @USAenEspanol @Pontifex_it @CatherineForNV @AOC @RepEscobar @HaleIndy https://www.dw.com/en/anger-and-collective-trauma-scar-ethiopia-s-tigray-region/a-56794452
5. 52 casos de violación en Mekele, 22 en Adigrat, 7 en Wukro y 27 en Ayder se han reportado en los últimos dos meses”, señala el informe. La mayoria de casos no se reportan #TigrayGenocide #MeToo @CatherineForNV @AOC @RepEscobar @HaleIndyhttps://www.swissinfo.ch/spa/etiop%C3%ADa-conflicto_m%C3%A1s-de-cien-mujeres-fueron-violadas-en-dos-meses-en-la-guerra-de-tigray/46364478
7. #Tigray necesita la intervención internacional. Debemos proteger a estas mujeres y niñas de violacion sexual. #TigrayGenocide #TigrayGenocide #MeToo @un, @mbachelet @CatherineForNV @AOC @RepEscobar @HaleIndy https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2021/01/22/UN-official-says-rape-sexual-violence-rising-in-Ethiopias-Tigray-conflict/8021611325219/
Monday March 8, 2021
5. Överlevare berättar hur eritreanska soldater plundrade deras hem, dödade pojkar och män och sexuellt utnyttjade kvinnorna. #WeaponizedRape #TigrayGenocide #MonaLisaAbraha https://www.democracynow.org/2021/1/26/headlines/eritrean_soldiers_in_ethiopias_tigray_region_accused_of_murder_looting_and_sexual_assault
1. FN påstod möjliga brott mot mänskligheten i Etiopiens #Tigray-region, inklusive #Eritrean-trupper, eftersom de uppmanades till ett tillbakadragande av grannlandet, som förnekar inblandning. #UNSCActNow #MonaLisaAbraha @IntlCrimCourtAnnLinde @SwedishPMhttps://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2021/3/5/un-alleges-war-crimes-in-ethiopias-tigray-urges-eritrea-pullout
2. Han sa: ”Välj, antingen jag dödar dig eller våldtar dig”, sa 25-åringen till Reuters vid Hamdayets flyktingläger i Sudan dit hon hade flytt från konflikten i Etiopiens Tigray-region. #MonaLisaAbraha #TigrayGenocide @IntlCrimCourt @AnnLine https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-ethiopia-conflict-rape-idUSKBN29S0BG
3. Som en #Tigray|an har mina mödrar, systrar och vänner våldtagits, de har mördats, de har svältas ihjäl, deras egendom har plundrats – de har inget kvar. #TigrayGenocide #MonaLisaAbraha #MeToo #WomensHistoryMonth #UNSCActNow @POTUS “VP @AnnLinde @SwedishPMhttps://www.tghat.com/2021/02/17/a-woman-speaking-truth-to-lethal-power-in-mekelle-an-audio-transcript/?fbclid=IwAR0vTDQhYoQ7QMkXuvYCDq73RH7Cdjd-FWeNJ1w1ZgBbk9NT0os4DfPvCrY
4. Brutala sexuella övergrepp av Eritreiska soldater i Etiopiens Tigray-region konflikt. #TigrayGenocide #MonaLisaAbraha #MeToo #WomensHistoryMonth #UNSCActNow@AnnLinde @SwedishPM @awdf01 @AWID @UN_Women @NationalNOW @woman_kind @womankindmaghttps://www.democracynow.org/2021/1/26/headlines/eritrean_soldiers_in_ethiopias_tigray_region_accused_of_murder_looting_and_sexual_assault
5. 13-year-old Nahom was struck by shrapnel in #Tigray in Nov, losing his right foot and vision in his right eye. “The gov’t is doing nothing while people are affected by the war,” his father Halefom Gebremariam said.” #UNSCActNow #TigrayGenocide @MexOnuhttps://www.yahoo.com/now/blanket-sadness-covers-conflict-hit-091706070.html
6. US govt report about the situation in western #Tigray “documents in vivid terms what it describes as an apparent campaign to force out the ethnic Tigrayan population under the cover of war.” #UNSCActNow @RussiaUN @NorwayUN @USUN @LindaT_G #TigrayGenocide https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/world/middleeast/ethiopia-tigray-ethnic-cleansing.html
7. Tigray’s population is being starved. “At least 4.5 million people in the region urgently need food aid.” #UNSCActNow #TigrayGenocide @VietNam_UN @irishmissionun @UKUN_NewYork@franceonu @IntlCrimCourt @KarimKhanQC @UNReliefChief @UNOCHA @SecBlinkenhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/world/middleeast/ethiopia-tigray-ethnic-cleansing.html
8. Saba, a displaced woman from Mai Kadra, told @AJENews “More than 10 soldiers took turns raping us.” Tigray needs @UN led investigations into the war crimes! #TigrayGenocide #UNSCActNow @IntlCrimCourt @EstoniaUN @MexOnu @LindaT_G @RepAnnWagner @Niger_ONUhttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/1/we-are-dying-tigrayans-speak-of-abuse-by-eritrean-troops
9. .@how reported that Ethiopian forces carried out indiscriminate shelling of urban areas in Tigray targeting homes, hospitals, schools, & markets in violation of the laws of war. #UNSCActNow & take @AbiyAhmedAli & Isaias to @IntlCrimCourt @irishmissionun https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/02/11/ethiopia-unlawful-shelling-tigray-urban-areas
10. Eritrean troops and Amhara militias are engaged in a campaign of ethnic cleansing in the Tigray region of Ethiopia through the use of rape, plunder and massacres. #UNSCActNow to end the war crimes and #TigrayGenocide @USUN @KarimKhanQC @MexOnu https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/26/world/middleeast/ethiopia-tigray-ethnic-cleansing.html
11. Eritrean soldiers opened fire on churchgoers in Tigray while celebrating mass & as people tried to flee, troops followed “spraying the mountainside with bullets”. #UNSCActNow & force these troops out & end #TigrayGenocide @KenyaMissionUN @RussiaUN @GCR2P https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/26/africa/ethiopia-tigray-dengelat-massacre-intl/index.html
12. All human rights are suspended in Tigray. Journalists reporting on #TigrayGenocide & war crimes by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces have been illegally detained by the @AbiyAhmedAli’s regime. #UNSCActNow @ChrisCoonsCMUNC @USUN @IntlCrimCourt @SenBooker https://cpj.org/2021/03/ethiopian-military-detains-bbc-reporter-translators-for-afp-and-ft/
1. “80% of the Tigray is unreachable at this particular time.” It is about time @AbiyAhmedAli end #WeaponizedStarvation and #AllowAccessToTigray in its entirety. Starving a population in order to control & kill them is inhumane.@KenyaMissionUN @shaunkinghttps://ph.news.yahoo.com/ethiopian-red-cross-says-80-154843483.html
3. “People are dying of starvation. In Adwa, people are dying while they are sleeping. It’s also the same in other zones in the region”Starvation is being used as a method of warfare.#TigrayGenocide #WeaponizedStarvation @UN @KenyaMissionUN https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/19/ethiopia-hesitant-to-allow-aid-agencies-into-tigray
4. “The troops have reportedly looted & torched two of the camps, abducting many of the refugees & forcing them back to Eritrea. Relief agencies have been barred from entering the two camps.” #TigrayGenocide @UNReliefChief @LindaT_G #WeaponizedStarvation https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-refugee-camps-are-torched-and-hospitals-looted-as-starvation-looms-in/
5. The Int’l community must understand hunger is deliberately being weaponized by @AbiyAhmedAli. After 4 months, aid is still not reaching ALL civilians. You should at least stand against #WeaponizedStarvation! @IndiaUNNewYork @Chinamission2un @RussiaUN https://www.nrc.no/news/2021/february/statement-on-tigray/
7. Destroying grain stores, burning crops, slaughtering livestocks. This is a manufactured famine by @AbiyAhmedAli to #WeaponizeStarvation in Tigray. Your silence is violence. #UNSCActNow @IndiaUNNewYork @Chinamission2un @RussiaUN #TigrayGenocide https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/01/23/ethiopias-government-appears-to-be-wielding-hunger-as-a-weapon
8. Currently, 4.5 million of Tigray’s roughly 6 million people need food assistance, with much of the area inaccessible. This is weaponized starvation. #UNSCActNow #TigrayGenocide @SecBlinken @jakejsullivan @IndiaUNNewYork @Chinamission2un @RussiaUN https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ethiopia-tigray-eritrea-united-nations-security-council-united-states-atrocities/
9. With harvests & markets disrupted by the conflict, he said “food insecurity is rising,” citing “anecdotal reports of starvation” but saying “the worst is still avoidable.” Please understand that ppl should NEVER be starved. Time for #UNSCActNow @USAmbUN https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ethiopia-tigray-eritrea-united-nations-security-council-united-states-atrocities/
10. In addition to #WeaponizedStarvation, the population of Tigray is at a risk of diseases due to lack of access to water, hygiene & sanitation services across the region. How many meetings before #UNSC understands Tigray needs intervention?! @LindaT_G @VP https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-04/un-security-council-warned-of-dire-crisis-in-ethiopia-s-tigray
11. The #Irob community, a minority in #Tigray, is deliberately massacred by #Ethiopia|n + #Eritrea|n forces. A community that makes less than 1%, is at highest risk of extinction. #IrobMassacre #WeaponizedStarvation #TigrayGenocide #UNSCActNow @JosepBorrellF @simoncoveney @LindaT_G
12. The #Irob minority in #Tigray is particularly vulnerable+ face an existential threat as their livestocks are taken away, crops are burnt to the ground by #Eritrea|n troops. #WeaponizedStarvation #TigrayGenocide #UNSCActNow @shaunking @LindaT_G @RussiaUN https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/01/23/ethiopias-government-appears-to-be-wielding-hunger-as-a-weapon
13. #IrobMassacre is one of the most affected and most ignored part of the conflict in #Tigray. Barely recovered from ’98-00 war, they face extinction under brutal invading #Eritrea|n forces. #WeaponizedStarvation #TigrayGenocide @LindaT_G @JosepBorrellFhttps://foreignpolicy.com/2021/03/03/eritrea-afwerki-tigray-authoritarian-lessons/
14. #Irob was the first location to be systematically killed+starved to death by #Eritrea|n forces. They are paying a heavy price as they face extermination as a minority in #Tigray. #WeaponizedStarvation #TigrayGenocide @ABlinken @LindaT_G @JosepBorrellFhttps://atalayar.com/en/content/ethiopian-government-uses-hunger-weapon-war
15. Weaponized starvation is deliberately used on #Tigray|ans. #Eritrea|n + #Ethiopia|n forces reportedly burnt down fields, looted+destroyed food+livestocks. How can you ignore people starving? #TigrayGenocide #WeaponizedStarvation @RussiaUN @IndiaUNNewYork https://apnews.com/article/ethiopia-united-nations-kenya-ef0b6b2db2994d4c3042cf19f3d92a2a