Campaigns

1. Tigrayans immediately raised concerns about @EthioHRC’s involvement in the joint investigation because of its record of partiality and demonstrated bias against Tigrayan victims of atrocities. @MSZ_RP @PresidenceGA @ForeignMalawi @jaarreaza #COIforTigray https://apnews.com/article/africa-united-nations-kenya-ethiopia-abiy-ahmed-ccf2665d453f6af0d08e3bdf8db81b96

2. “What you need when you go into an atrocity zone is a clean slate so outside investigators can look into it neutrally.”@EthioHRC is NOT a neutral investigator as it has worked to protect the genocidal Abiy regime. @UNReliefChief @hickspeggy #COIforTigrayhttps://apnews.com/article/africa-united-nations-kenya-ethiopia-abiy-ahmed-ccf2665d453f6af0d08e3bdf8db81b96

3. People close to the investigation have said that @DanielBekele, head of @EthioHRC, underplayed atrocities by govt and Amhara forces & pressed to highlight alleged abuses by Tigrayan forces. @PMOIndia @AOuattara_PRCI @MRE_Bolivia @OHCHRAsia #COIforTigrayhttps://apnews.com/article/africa-united-nations-kenya-ethiopia-abiy-ahmed-ccf2665d453f6af0d08e3bdf8db81b96

4. Although witnesses have said that the perpetrators of most abuses were Eritrean, Ethiopian and Amhara forces, Daniel Bekele pushed the investigation team to disregard this. This distorts the facts on the ground! @NadaNashif @yousufsyedkhan #COIforTigrayhttps://apnews.com/article/africa-united-nations-kenya-ethiopia-abiy-ahmed-ccf2665d453f6af0d08e3bdf8db81b96

5. The joint investigation team did not visit the scenes of #AxumMassacre, which was one of the most gruesome. @UNHumanRights has said this is because of Abiy’s siege on Tigray. Lift the siege & commence investigations.@USAID @StateDept @SRE_mx#COIforTigrayhttps://apnews.com/article/africa-united-nations-kenya-ethiopia-abiy-ahmed-ccf2665d453f6af0d08e3bdf8db81b96

6. “We informed the international community we wanted an investigation into human rights but not with the EHRC because we believe this is a tool of the govt.” All stakeholders urged an independent investigation. @mbachelet @PM_nepal_ @trussliz #COIforTigrayhttps://apnews.com/article/africa-united-nations-kenya-ethiopia-abiy-ahmed-ccf2665d453f6af0d08e3bdf8db81b96

7. Any investigation involving the state-affiliated @EthioHRC only serves to minimize and downplay the Abiy govt’s atrocities. The EHRC has supported and covered for the genocidal regime for a full year. @UN_SPExperts @OHCHR_MENA @Haavisto#COIforTigrayhttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/2/ethiopia-tried-to-limit-rare-un-probe-on-tigray-abuses-report

8. The involvement of the state-serving @EthioHRC means that victims in Tigray will be denied the justice and accountability they deserve. @UNHumanRights must not support this campaign that further harms victims. @NadaNashif @AnnLinde @SpainMFA#COIforTigray https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/2/ethiopia-tried-to-limit-rare-un-probe-on-tigray-abuses-report

9. If there’s overwhelming evidence showcasing a government guilty of genocidal war crimes, why would one make a decision to investigate said crimes alongside a state sponsored affiliate who has repeatedly covered up these crimes? @mbachelet #COIforTigrayhttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/2/ethiopia-tried-to-limit-rare-un-probe-on-tigray-abuses-report

10. .@UN_HRC Your mission statement states that u wish “to work for the protection of all human rights for all people” but u have dangerously failed Tigray. Instead of leading an independent investigation, u have collaborated w/ perpetrators. #COIforTigrayhttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/02/report-on-tigray-civil-war-to-be-released-amid-objectivity-concerns

1. Any investigation into war crimes by state-sponsored @EthioHRC is an injustice to those who have lost their lives in countless untold massacres throughout Tigray.This is the same govt that is guilty of Genocide. #COIforTigray @NajlaElmangoush @MEAIndiahttps://www.cnn.com/2021/02/26/africa/ethiopia-tigray-dengelat-massacre-intl/index.html

2. “The people who were hiding us who are very pro-Abiy said that Tigrayans were the ones who started the massacre. But we saw it with our own eyes. Tigrayans were being attacked. We saw Tigrayans being killed.”#COIforTIgray @JY_LeDrian @HeikoMaas @UN_HRChttps://tghat.com/2021/03/03/survivors-recount-the-mai-kadra-massacre/

3. “Four of my siblings died when the artillery hit our home. Welketut [collaborators] & Fano were saying that they don’t want to see any Tigrayans & we will slaughter you.” The whole truth about #TigrayGenocide must be told. #COIforTigray @simoncoveneyhttps://sayarainternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Humanitarian-Crisis-in-Ethiopia-E.-Sudan-Sayara-report-Dec-2020.pdf

4. “The soldiers went door to door, dragging people from their homes. Mothers were forced to tie up their sons. A pregnant woman was shot, her husband killed.” These are the stories of #TigrayGenocide that must be told. #COIforTigray @MOFABahamas @UN_HRC https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/26/africa/ethiopia-tigray-dengelat-massacre-intl/index.html

5. “The Ethiopian govt flipped the story. The people being slaughtered in Mai Kadra were Tigrayans. This isn’t what someone told me. I saw it.” How can we rely on @EthioHRC when Daniel Bekele previously left this out?@MofaSudan @hagegeingob #COIforTigray https://tghat.com/2021/03/03/survivors-recount-the-mai-kadra-massacre/

6. Refugees described militias & soldiers taking all their possessions, even doors from houses and the windows. Eritrean forces were looting Tigrayan factories, houses, & food stores. All atrocities must be reported. #COIforTigray @rochkaborepf @UN_HRC https://sayarainternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Humanitarian-Crisis-in-Ethiopia-E.-Sudan-Sayara-report-Dec-2020.pdf

7. “Witnesses tell of 182 civilians killed in cold blood as reports of human rights abuses in the region escalate.”The massacre of Abi Addi is one of the major sites of violations & must be thoroughly investigated.#COIforTigray @OHCHR_Pacific @PaulKagame https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/terror-and-security/bodies-torn-pieces-ethiopian-eritrean-troops-accused-massacre/

8. .@SecBlinken called it “acts of ‘ethnic cleansing,’ while @DanielBekele reported it as “Tigrayans live peacefully in the area; those residents who felt at risk were provided w/ transportation to their chosen destinations.” #COIforTigray @UNHumanRightshttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1X9iK4jPtdgREXCfS1UJ1MhrkuvWhwNjl/view

9. “Many of them were burnt alive in their homes,” said Adamu Gidey, who hails from Rama. Some 478 structures, mostly tukul homes, were set on fire. @UNHumanRights must ensure all atrocities in Tigray are brought to light. @CyrilRamaphosa @ICRC #COIforTigray https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vgex/they-started-burning-the-homes-ethiopians-say-their-towns-are-being-razed-in-ethnic-cleansing-campaign

10. “They shot at everyone. They even killed priests who were hiding in the church.” These are the stories that @EthioHRC cannot leave out of the investigation.Tigray needs justice. @SwissMFA @PolandMFA @jlprdeangola @PatriceTalonPR @MBuhari #COIforTigray https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7vgex/they-started-burning-the-homes-ethiopians-say-their-towns-are-being-razed-in-ethnic-cleansing-campaign

1. “The soldiers picked 12 young deacons between the ages of 15 and 20. They took them out & shot them down.” How can we rely on @DanielBekele to report on #TigrayGenocide when he leaves out critical information? #COIforTigray @AraratMirzoyan @NikosDendias https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/terror-and-security/least-78-priests-massacred-one-zone-tigray-leaked-letter-claims/

2. “Witnesses have said the perpetrators of most abuses were soldiers from Eritrea, Ethiopian forces & Amhara regional forces.” However, “Head of @EthioHRC, underplayed it…and pressed to highlight abuses by Tigray forces.” @LaurentMeillan#COIforTigray https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/2/ethiopia-tried-to-limit-rare-un-probe-on-tigray-abuses-report

3. Allowing a govt that’s accused of genocide to investigate itself will naturally make this investigation bias & lack truth. For a truly credible investigation, Ethiopia must not be involved! #COIforTigray @USAmbUN @TebbouneAmadjid @FEGnassingbe @UN_CAR https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/2/ethiopia-tried-to-limit-rare-un-probe-on-tigray-abuses-report

4. “You are going to die and we’re taking your property” – Tigrayans in western Tigray were told by Amhara militia.For a whole year Tigrayans have been targeted. We demand the whole truth. #COIforTigray@PR_Paul_BIYA @OfficialMasisi @AlsisiOfficialhttps://sayarainternational.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Humanitarian-Crisis-in-Ethiopia-E.-Sudan-Sayara-report-Dec-2020.pdf

5. Ethiopia’s continued denial of what witnesses, survivors & video evidence shows to be crimes against humanity committed by Ethiopian & Eritrean troops, makes @EthioHRC unfit to take part in investigations.#COIforTigray @ignaziocassis @BarrowPresidenthttps://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/ethiopia-limit-rare-report-tigray-war-abuses-80918805

6. .@EthioHRC led by @DanielBekele has zero credibility to investigate #TigrayGenocide. In the beginning of the year he stated “the operation didn’t result in as severe consequences as it was originally feared.” #COIforTigray @DeputySecState @USUN @EUatUNhttps://twitter.com/mfaethiopia/status/1346942309015846918?s=21

7. A joint investigation with @EthioHRC is fraudulent as it failed to include widely reported #AxumMassacre and #DengelatMassacre. Tigrayan refugees in Sudan were also left out. #COIforTigray @Sophie_Wilmes @ItalyMFA @MFASerbia @KellyTClements @FilippoGrandi https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-09-13/un-probe-in-ethiopias-tigray-didnt-reach-axum-massacre

8. .@EthioHRC has downplayed war crimes committed in Tigray including the dire humanitarian crisis, by selectively highlighting cases that purely serve the Ethiopian govt’s narrative. #COIforTigray @MAERomania @AnzeLog @DmytroKuleba @RauZbigniew @MFABulgaria https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/02/report-on-tigray-civil-war-to-be-released-amid-objectivity-concerns

9. .@EthioHRC is used as a tool to protect @PMEthiopia from Int’l pressure after reports of his war crimes surface. EHRC also fails to conduct timely investigations, usually waiting until after the world finds out. We need #COIforTigray! @PaulKagame @UN_HRChttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/02/report-on-tigray-civil-war-to-be-released-amid-objectivity-concerns

10. .@EthioHRC is one of the state-funded Ethiopian institutions weaponized against Tigrayans during this year of #TigrayGenocide. So-called “joint investigation” with this entity is not credible. #COIforTigray@MFA_MNE @ministerBZ @Bujar_O @eliimets @UNOCHA https://apnews.com/article/africa-united-nations-kenya-ethiopia-abiy-ahmed-ccf2665d453f6af0d08e3bdf8db81b96?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP_Africa&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

1. Excluding major massacres committed by Amhara militias + Ethiopian and Eritrean troops undermines the truth of the systematic effort by the Ethiopian regime to erase the ethnicities of Tigray. #COIforTigray @GLandsbergis @MFA_Lu @EvaristBartolo @EUatUNhttps://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-09-13/un-probe-in-ethiopias-tigray-didnt-reach-axum-massacre

2. The truth about #TigrayGenocide must be revealed and it cannot be done by state-funded @EthioHRC. Tigray deserves justice, not ongoing coverups by Abiy Ahmed & his regime. #COIforTigray @NorwayMFA @mfa_russia@RauZbigniew @nestrangeiro_pt @nicupopescuhttps://twitter.com/Tigrayact/status/1436361821796159503/video/1

3. Speaking to the govt accused of genocide, @DanielBekele said “It is comforting to learn that the operation didn’t result in as severe consequences as it was originally feared.” EHRC covered-up since the start. #COIforTigray @ebphilipp @ItalyMFA @AnzeLog https://twitter.com/mfaethiopia/status/1346942309015846918?s=20

4. The ultimate mockery of the plight of the millions of victims in #TigrayGenocide would be to ignore that the same govt that has looted, burned, raided, maimed, & killed would now like to conduct a thorough + unbiased probe of their own crimes. #COIforTigray @UN_HRC @mbachelet

5. “They took an ax to my head. They hit me 3 times, and I fell. Look at my ear. They cut it with a knife.” @EthioHRC’s Daniel Bekele did an injustice to Tigrayans by hiding the truth at start of #TigrayGenocide. We need #COIforTigray. @SecBlinken @USUN https://tghat.com/2021/03/03/survivors-recount-the-mai-kadra-massacre/

6. Funded & appointed by the Ethiopian govt, @EthioHRC can never be impartial in investigating Ethiopia’s war crimes & crimes against humanity. Tigray needs a @UN-only led investigation. @JY_LeDrian @grlicradman @GeneralNeva @PaulKagame #COIforTigrayhttps://tinyurl.com/ytbamnb8

7. Possible war crimes & crimes against humanity were committed during the Axum & Dengelat massacres. But the joint @UNHumanRights & @EthioHRC probe didn’t cover these and many other massacre sites. @LAZARUSCHAKWERA @GoitaAssimi@HHichilema #COIforTigrayhttps://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/press-release/2021/02/ethiopia-eritrean-troops-massacre-of-hundreds-of-axum-civilians-may-amount-to-crime-against-humanity/

8. After losing loved ones to senseless systematic massacres, rape & famine, we Tigrayans demand @mbachelet to give us one good reason why she felt the need to include govt sponsored @EthioHRC in investigating their own crimes. #COIforTigray@UNReliefChief https://tinyurl.com/ytbamnb8

9. .@EthioHRC’s @DanielBekele of Amhara origin, hand picked by @AbiyAhmedAli, notoriously known for his hate against Tigrayan leaders & known for downplaying crimes by Ethiopian leaders is neither independent nor unbiased to investigate #TigrayGenocide. #COIforTigray @StateDept

10. It’s unheard of for a perpetrator to be involved in the investigation of their own crimes. Ethiopia is guilty of Genocide. The govt should’ve never been considered for a joint investigation with @UNHumanRights.@RaoufMazou @GillianTriggs #COIforTigrayhttps://www.cnn.com/2021/03/04/europe/ethiopia-tigray-un-independent-probe-war-crimes-intl/index.html