#TigrayMassArrests – November 10, 2021

#TigrayMassArrests Pt. 1

1. Ethiopian officials justify #TigrayMassArrests & publicly call for youth vigilante groups to report their Tigrayan neighbors. What happened to ‘never again’ after the Rwandan Genocide? @AuschwitzMuseum @HolocaustMuseum @PaulKagame @RwandaRemembershttps://twitter.com/NatyYifru/status/1457527056066043907?s=20

2. State-sanctioned terrorism against tens of thousands of Tigrayans as they’re harassed, then vanished. We cannot allow you to keep us in concentration camps. The world must know about #TigrayMassArrests. @antonioguterres @DicarloRosemary @mbachelet @hrwhttps://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/11/ethiopia-sweeping-emergency-powers-and-alarming-rise-in-online-hate-speech-as-tigray-conflict-escalates/

3. Civilians are being tortured & massacred in western Tigray by invading Amhara & Eritrean forces. Your inaction over the course of a year is complicity to #TigrayGenocide and #TigrayMassArrests. @antonioguterres @mbachelet @ASteiner @DicarloRosemaryhttps://apnews.com/article/middle-east-africa-sudan-kenya-ethiopia-ec3ca1600edd93e2b99ad05b29c07430

4. You must find a way to provide adequate support to those suffering throughout Tigray, especially women and children. People are dying due to #TigrayGenocide and #TigrayMassArrests. When will you take meaningful action? @unicefchief @unwomenchief @UNhttps://www.cnn.com/2021/11/08/africa/ethiopia-detentions-ethnicity-rights-commission-intl/index.html

5. You cannot claim that you didn’t know about 20,000 to 30,000 Tigrayans taken to concentration camps across Ethiopia, b/c we have been telling you for a year now. @antonioguterres @mbachelet @JosepBorrellF@SecBlinken #TigrayMassArrests #StopTigrayanHatehttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-they-just-vanished-tigrayans-disappear-for-months-in-secret-ethiopian/

6. “For the next 93 days, he said he was imprisoned – and often tortured – at the camp with hundreds of other Tigrayans..” Disappearances, ethnic profiling & #TigrayMassArrests are too common. What is the @IntlCrimCourt waiting for? @DenshoProject @UNHOPhttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-they-just-vanished-tigrayans-disappear-for-months-in-secret-ethiopian/

7. “a rat that strays far from its hole” – that is how @AbiyAhmedAli and his regime reference Tigrayans. The hate speech by Ethiopian & Eritrean nationalists on platforms such as @Meta @YouTube and @Twitter must stop. #StopTigrayanHate @Blklivesmatterhttps://apnews.com/article/africa-kenya-ethiopia-addis-ababa-abiy-ahmed-bcbd0980e5a1c9af4b55f5f489d83d36

8. “Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind…” The contempt is visible, where is your outrage & action? @JuttaUrpilainen @vonderleyen @JanezLenarcic? #StopTigrayanHatehttps://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-59154984

9. “drain the sea, catch the fish”, “weeds,” “cancer,” “wipe out the Tigrayans for 100 years,” such is the genocidal rhetoric that’s been normalized by Ethiopia’s @AbiyAhmedAli, his Govt & supporters. #StopTigrayanHate@EUCouncil @Europarl_EN @eu_echo @UN https://omnatigray.org/hate-speech-and-the-tigray-genocide/

10. 22 Ethiopian @UN staff members were arrested & detained during govt raids targeting ethnic Tigrayans in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.This is your legacy as leaders as well, @antonioguterres @mbachelet @UNHumanRights.#TigrayMassArrests #StopTigrayanHatehttps://www.dw.com/en/un-says-16-local-staff-detained-in-ethiopia/a-59770619

#TigrayMassArrests Pt. 2

1. After alternating b/n silence & empty warnings over #TigrayGenocide, Int’l leaders seem to be siding with the perpetrators instead of Tigrayan victims. The fascists are emboldened and ethnic cleansing is escalating. Stop #TigrayMassArrests @SecBlinkenhttps://omnatigray.org/hate-speech-and-the-tigray-genocide/

2. Innocent Tigrayans are facing profiling, arrests, internments, disappearances & killings. Yet the Int’l community seems to be siding with the perpetrators instead of the victims fighting to end the siege. Stop #TigrayMassArrests @antonioguterres @EUatUNhttps://www.cnn.com/2021/11/08/africa/ethiopia-detentions-ethnicity-rights-commission-intl/index.html

3. Ethiopia’s Government is carrying out ethnic profiling and hate speech targeting ethnic Tigrayan civilians. As a result, unlawful imprisonments and extrajudicial killings are now rampant. Help stop #TigrayMassArrests.@POTUS @VP @jakejsullivan @UNOSAPGhttps://twitter.com/simon_te/status/1458123518458146816?s=21

4. Rather than condemning ethnic profiling, internments, disappearances & killing of Tigrayans, the Int’l community is trying to stop Tigrayans from ending the siege and bringing perpetrators to justice.#StopTigrayanHate & #TigrayMassArrests @StateDept @UNhttps://omnatigray.org/hate-speech-and-the-tigray-genocide/

5. Ethiopian Govt officials and social media users have called for the ethnic cleansing of Tigrayans, leading to profiling, mass arrests, internments, disappearances & killings of Tigrayans across Ethiopia. #StopTigrayanHate & #TigrayMassArrests! @GCR2P @UN https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/11/ethiopia-sweeping-emergency-powers-and-alarming-rise-in-online-hate-speech-as-tigray-conflict-escalates/

6. State-sponsored profiling, internment, disappearances and killings of Tigrayans is taking place in Ethiopia. The Govt is encouraging this vigilante justice and using security forces. Stop #TigrayMassArrests @VeraJourova @eucopresident @dreyndershttps://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/11/ethiopia-sweeping-emergency-powers-and-alarming-rise-in-online-hate-speech-as-tigray-conflict-escalates/

7. Extreme hate speech calling for the ethnic profiling, arrests and killings of Tigrayans is on the rise across Ethiopia. Social platforms are complicit with these injustices. #StopTigrayanHate and #TigrayMassArrests! @POTUS @VP @Clubhouse @Meta @Twitter https://twitter.com/omnatigray/status/1457738356914335747?s=21

8. The Int’l community has not taken meaningful action to stop the seige on Tigray. There is also nothing being done to stop profiling, mass detention, and massacres of Tigrayans. This is unfair. #TigrayGenocide #StopTigrayanHate @ABlinken @LindaT_G @Ilhan https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/11/ethiopia-sweeping-emergency-powers-and-alarming-rise-in-online-hate-speech-as-tigray-conflict-escalates/

9. Why is the Int’l community hellbent on stopping Tigrayans from breaking the cruel siege that is costing countless lives in Tigray? Do African lives not matter?#StopTigrayanHate #TigrayMassArrests @SecBlinken @mbachelet @antonioguterres @Blklivesmatter https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/11/ethiopia-sweeping-emergency-powers-and-alarming-rise-in-online-hate-speech-as-tigray-conflict-escalates/

10. Ethiopian Govt loyalist, politicians & social media activists call for ethnic cleansing of Tigrayans, as Ethiopia & Eritrea continue to block aid and starve the civilian population. The world has failed Tigray! @LindaT_G @USAmbUN #TigrayMassArrests https://omnatigray.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/November-2021-Situation-Report.pdf

11. “They (Amhara forces) circulated a paper saying, ‘If you don’t leave the area within two days, you will lose your lives’”. Amhara invaders are murdering Tigrayans while illegally occupying their land @SecBlinken @StateDept
https://www.reuters.com/article/ethiopia-conflict-displaced-insight-int/you-dont-belong-land-dispute-drives-new-exodus-in-ethiopias-tigray-idUSKBN2BL1C3

12. In August 2021, over 30 corpses washed up on the Sudanese river banks from neighboring Tigray. All were Tigrayans brutally tortured & murdered by Amhara forces. The reality the @IntlCrimCourt ignores.@KarimKhanQC @UNHumanRights @mbachelet @UN_HRC
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/least-30-bodies-float-down-river-between-ethiopias-tigray-sudan-2021-08-02/

#TigrayMassArrests Pt. 3

1. “Tigrayans living in the capital said police would not explain why they had arrested their family members and neighbors, including a young mother and an elderly priest.” #TigrayMassArrests #StopTigrayanHate @vestager @VDombrovskis @JosepBorrellF @UN_HRChttps://www.cnn.com/2021/11/08/africa/ethiopia-detentions-ethnicity-rights-commission-intl/index.html

2. “For the past year, a mass campaign of arbitrary arrests targeting Tigrayans from all walks of life has played out in the capital Addis Ababa & elsewhere in Ethiopia.”#TigrayMassArrests #StopTigrayanHate #TigrayGenocide @marcorubio @SenToddYoung @RepSires https://mg.co.za/africa/2021-11-07-mass-arrests-of-tigrayans-sow-fear-in-ethiopia/

3. The anti-Tigrayan hate speech emanating from officials in the Ethiopian govt echoes in state media, & militia groups leading to the mass arrests of Tigrayans throughout Ethiopia. #TigrayMassArrests #StopTigrayanHate @GCR2P @UNOSAPG@mbachelet @UNHOP https://tinyurl.com/59esjuaj

4. Disappearances and mass arrests of Tigrayans have reached alarming levels. The int’l community must pressure the Ethiopian Govt. to release all that have been wrongfully detained. #TigrayMassArrests #StopTigryanHate @eu_eeas @EUatUN @UNGeneva @StateDepthttps://www.cnn.com/2021/11/08/africa/ethiopia-detentions-ethnicity-rights-commission-intl/index.html

5. Using the newly proclaimed state of emergency, Ethiopian police are mass arresting Tigrayans throughout Ethiopia. Tens of thousands are at risk of being killed, starved, & harassed while detained. #TigrayMassArrests @KenyaMissionUN @Niger_ONU @PmTunisiahttps://www.reuters.com/world/africa/rally-back-militarys-campaign-ethiopians-denounce-us-2021-11-07/

6. As if #TigrayMassArrests and concentration camps weren’t bad enough, there is now a new wave of deadly attacks and forced conscription against ethnic Tigrayans in western Tigray. Ethiopia must be held accountable for this genocidal campaign. @StateDepthttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/people-fleeing-ethiopia-allege-attacks-forced-conscription/ar-AAQrKeJ

7. As Ethiopians spiel hate speech on social media, #TigrayGenocide thickens in western Tigray. Those that did not flee have had to change their identity, pay bribes or claim mixed heritage for a measure of protection. @Blklivesmatter #StopTigrayanHate https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/people-fleeing-ethiopia-allege-attacks-forced-conscription/ar-AAQrKeJ

8. The genocidal campaign targeting innocent civilians is rampant in Ethiopia. Tens of thousands are unlawfully detained in inhumane concentration camps. Many are deemed missing. #StopTigrayanHate #TigrayMassArrests @ChrisCoons @SenBooker @SenatorMenendez https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-they-just-vanished-tigrayans-disappear-for-months-in-secret-ethiopian/

9. ‘They just vanished’: Tigrayans are being held in secret Ethiopian concentration camps. How can we continue to let this happen? Ethiopia must release all Tigrayans unlawfully detained. #StopTigrayanHate #TigrayMassArrests @SecBlinken @LindaT_G @USUNhttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-they-just-vanished-tigrayans-disappear-for-months-in-secret-ethiopian/

10. Abiy Ahmed continues to unjustly imprison Tigrayans in concentration camps across Ethiopia, without access to counsel or their families. The @_AfricanUnion must take meaningful action to stop #TigrayMassArrests. @PaulKagame @CyrilRamaphosa @AUC_PAPShttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-they-just-vanished-tigrayans-disappear-for-months-in-secret-ethiopian/

11. Supporters of #TigrayGenocide use Facebook to spread hate speech. One genocidal post can easily be praised by hundreds of supporters in the comments & the message amplified/shared on additional accounts. #StopTigrayanHate @Meta @amnesty @nohate_speechhttps://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=3189277347958371&id=100006284118810

12. “It sickens me when I even hear the Tigringa language.”HaileEyesus Adamu of the Ethiopian govt, incites violence on the people of Tigray long before #TigrayGenocide actually began. This must be condemned. #StopTigrayanHate@Meta @SecBlinken @mbachelethttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVnkpsWphis

#TigrayMassArrests Pt. 4

1. “They are an infection. What can you do with an infected person?” Gen. Kassaye Chemeda showcases his hate for Tigrayans with genocidal speech. @walta_info has no place on @YouTube or @Twitter as it is only exacerbating #TigrayGenocide. #StopTigrayanHate https://twitter.com/TsenatSaba/status/1418223933094961155

2. Hate speech is rampant on Facebook. In this public message, Tahir Mohammed exclaims, “Living with these traitors is not going to work!” He encourages Ethiopians to target Tigrayans throughout the country. #StopTigrayanHate @Meta @amnesty @nohate_speechhttps://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=3189277347958371&id=100006284118810

3. “The bodies of the youth were even dragged with carts, they had no sin, done nothing wrong.” Survivors and families tell of their traumatic ordeal in #AxumMassacre. This story must be told. #StopTigrayaHate @SecBlinken @mbachelet @hrw @GCR2P @CPG_USHMM https://twitter.com/translateet/status/1445535896934096897?s=21

4. How can the @_AfricanUnion allow beings of their own race to be profiled, tortured, and detained in concentration camps? What is your ‘African solution’ for this problem? #TigrayMassArrests @rochkaborepf @jlprdeangola @PatriceTalonPR @OfficialMasisihttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-they-just-vanished-tigrayans-disappear-for-months-in-secret-ethiopian/

5. Tigrayans are unjustly being arrested based on their ethnicity. This is dangerous as hate speech continues to sweep the country. We ask that the Int’l community intervene to #StopTigrayanHate. #TigrayMassArrests @UNOSAPG @EU_Commission @IntlCrimCourt https://twitter.com/Yonigussie/status/1458176407675285505?s=20

6. Abiy Ahmed will go to great lengths to conceal & carry out #TigrayGenocide. Not only is he blocking food & aid to Tigrayans, but public services such as electricity, running water & telecom are still cut off. Now, #TigrayMassArrests continue. This is a genocide. @UNOSAPG @UN

7. “The sweeping nature of this state of emergency is a blueprint for escalating human rights violations, including arbitrary detention.” When will world leaders intervene? You have a responsibility to protect. #TigrayMassArrests @irishmissionun @NorwayUNhttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-they-just-vanished-tigrayans-disappear-for-months-in-secret-ethiopian/

8. An estimated 20,000 to 30,000 Tigrayans are being held at concentration camps in Ethiopia. How can appointed leaders let such horrific events unfold in the course of 1 year? #TigrayMassArrests #StopTigrayanHate@mbachelet @antonioguterres @JosepBorrellFhttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-they-just-vanished-tigrayans-disappear-for-months-in-secret-ethiopian/

9. Amhara elites in Ethiopia continue to spread dangerous hate speech, claiming that there are no such things as civilians in Tigray; that all inhabitants are actually fighters. This is an incitement of violence. #StopTigrayanHate @amnestyusa @SecBlinken https://twitter.com/translateet/status/1450969551538098176?s=21

10. Ethiopians & Eritreans desperate to protect the image of their countries, deny massacres like that in Axum. This is an injustice to all lives lost and their grieving families. #StopTigrayanHate #TigrayGenocide @UNOSAPG @PaulKagame @_AfricanUnion https://twitter.com/translateet/status/1445535896934096897?s=21

11. Under the guise of a state of emergency, Tigrayans across Ethiopia are being isolated & demonized. Tigrayans are being rounded up into concentration camps & some never heard from again. #TigrayMassArrests #StopTigrayanHate @HarvardLawHRP @humanrights1st https://t.co/sOpuwUAGYL

12. “They tortured me until I lost consciousness.” Thousands of innocent Tigrayans are rounded up in house-to-house searches & tortured in detention camps for months. #TigrayMassArrests #StopTigrayanHate @CHR_HumanRights @Trial @PhilipGrant40 @OSFJustice https://t.co/sOpuwUAGYL

#TigrayMassArrests Pt. 5

1. The fascist regime of Abiy Ahmed has given a carte blanche to it’s cadres to arrest, harass and harm Tigrayans living in the capital by invoking a “state of emergency. The @IntlCrimCourt is failing Tigray #TigrayMassArrests @DicarloRosemary @KarimKhanQC
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/11/ethiopia-sweeping-emergency-powers-and-alarming-rise-in-online-hate-speech-as-tigray-conflict-escalates/

2. Our Tigrayan families are being rounded-up from their homes and workplaces in the capital Addis Ababa. Some of them are being asked to pay large sums of money for their release. #TigrayMassArrests @SecBlinken @DicarloRosemary @UNHumanRights @UNDPPA @UNDP
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/08/africa/ethiopia-detentions-ethnicity-rights-commission-intl/index.html

3. The crumbling regime in Addis Ababa is openly rallying Ethiopians against ethnic Tigrayans in a genocidal campaign. The @IntlCrimCourt must take action! #TigrayMassArrests #StopTigrayanHate @RepGregoryMeeks @RepKarenBass @RepJimCosta @RepJuanVargas https://omnatigray.org/hate-speech-and-the-tigray-genocide/

4. The world is witnessing a genocide unfold in Tigray but are doing very little to stop it. The silence and inaction isn’t going unnoticed. #TigrayMassArrests #StopTigrayanHate@mbachelet @SecBlinken @StateDeptSpox @SenSchumer @RepGregoryMeeks @RepKarenBass
https://omnatigray.org/situation-report-november-2021/

5. My ethnicity shouldn’t be a crime. Yet, in Ethiopia, it is a crime to be ethnic Tigrayan. Tigrayans continue to be subjected to indiscriminate harassments, arrests, disappearances, torture, and extrajudicial killings. #StopTigrayanHate @RepAlGreen @UN
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-they-just-vanished-tigrayans-disappear-for-months-in-secret-ethiopian/

6. What happened to “never again?” Well “never again” is happening again under your watch and has been for over a year. #TigrayMassArrests #StopTigrayanHate @antonioguterres @mbachelet @JosepBorrellF @UNHumanRights @_AfricanUnion
https://omnatigray.org/situation-report-november-2021/

7. Detainees estimated over 3,000 prisoners in Mai Kadra concentration camp, others estimated the number closer to 8,000. At least 400 being children of all ages. #TigrayMassArrests is taking place all over Ethiopia. @Complex @BritishVogue @GenPrev @hrw
https://www.salon.com/2021/09/25/eyewitness-accounts-video-confirm-reports-of-tigrayan-children-held-in-concentration-camp/

8. Hate speech in Ethiopia against ethnic Tigrayans is only escalating the #TigrayGenocide. Social media platforms must be aware of the type of violent rhetoric they play a role in spreading. @YouTube @Meta @Clubhouse #StopTigrayanHate #TigrayMassArrests
https://twitter.com/melhabtu/status/1456901103401021440?s=21

9. Hate speech is fueling #TigrayGenocide and #TigrayMassArrests across Ethiopia, putting many lives at risk of torture & death. Here, @Twitter user Dr. Solomon Bogale from @VCUHealth calls for the detention of Tigrayan children. @nohate_speech@USAmbUN https://twitter.com/GebremeskelGeb/status/1454400012721459203?s=20

10. Tigrayans of all ages are forced into uninhabitable concentration camps and denied food & meds.Some held by their captors until a ransom is paid.The world is allowing Ethiopia to get away with genocide. #TigrayMassArrests @UNHumanRights @UNOSAPG @USUN https://www.salon.com/2021/09/25/eyewitness-accounts-video-confirm-reports-of-tigrayan-children-held-in-concentration-camp/

11. Hallmarks of genocide are repeating in Ethiopia as Tigrayans are subjected to massacres, torture and detainment in concentration camps. Please be a voice for those silenced. #TigrayMassArrests @HolocaustMuseum @AuschwitzMuseum @NMNH @Blklivesmatter
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-they-just-vanished-tigrayans-disappear-for-months-in-secret-ethiopian/

12. Dr. Mebrahtom recalls treating child prisoners in a concentration camp in Tigray. They included 4 boys, ages 2, 9, 13 & 15. The 2 year-old was imprisoned with his mother in the Mai Kadra camp. Where is @KarimKhanQC from @IntlCrimCourt? #TigrayMassArrests
https://www.salon.com/2021/09/25/eyewitness-accounts-video-confirm-reports-of-tigrayan-children-held-in-concentration-camp/

#TigrayMassArrests Pt. 6

1. “‘Their heads were shaved,’ he said. ‘I could see the officers brutally beating them outdoors. They were bleeding. Then the officers took them to a dark room. At night I heard shootings coming from that dark room.'” #TigrayMassArrests @SenatorRisch @UN https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-they-just-vanished-tigrayans-disappear-for-months-in-secret-ethiopian/

2. “In my 30 years of experience in complex emergency settings, this is one of the most vicious conflicts that I have come across.” Tigray needs justice. #TigrayMassArrests #StopTigrayanHate @dreynders @trussliz @EamonGilmore @BelgiumUNGeneva @AraratMirzoyan https://theconversation.com/tigray-the-devastating-toll-of-ethiopias-vicious-year-of-war-podcast-171138?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=bylinetwitterbutton

3. These are innocent children who were imprisoned and abused in concentration camps. The Int’l. community is not only failing Tigray, but humanity as a whole. #TigrayMassArrests @unicefchief @unwomenchief @JuttaUrpilainen @PaulKagame @CyrilRamaphosa
https://www.salon.com/2021/09/25/eyewitness-accounts-video-confirm-reports-of-tigrayan-children-held-in-concentration-camp/

4. “They forced us to squat barefoot in a very hot pavement inside the camp. As we squatted barefoot, they were whipping us in the back. There were teens as young as 12 between us, screaming in pain.” ???? #TigrayMassArrests @AraratMirzoyan @Sophie_Wilmes
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-they-just-vanished-tigrayans-disappear-for-months-in-secret-ethiopian/

5. “They harass and threaten to execute us. It is so difficult, I have no words to describe the suffering. We are all low-profile Tigrayans with no military or political background or social media engagement.” #TigrayMassArrests @SenBooker @Ilhan @ChrisCoons https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-they-just-vanished-tigrayans-disappear-for-months-in-secret-ethiopian/

6. Under the guidance of @AbiyAhmedAli, Tigrayans are being persecuted because of their ethnicity. @AbiyAhmedAli is promoting ethnic discrimination through hate speech and is fanning the flames of genocide. @UNHumanRights @POTUS @SecBlinken #TigrayMassArrests #StopTigrayanHate

7. “Several Tigrayans living in the capital said police would not explain why they had arrested their family members and neighbors, including a young mother and an elderly priest.” #TigrayMassArrests #StopTigrayanHate@PaulKagame @CyrilRamaphosa @AUC_PAPS
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/08/africa/ethiopia-detentions-ethnicity-rights-commission-intl/index.html

8. “Family members have travelled hundreds of kilometres in search of detained relatives. Others went round police stations in Addis searching for relatives,” he told AFP. #StopTigrayanHate #TigrayMassArrests @EU_Commission @Haavisto @simoncoveney
https://mg.co.za/africa/2021-11-07-mass-arrests-of-tigrayans-sow-fear-in-ethiopia/

9. “Human Rights Watch previously reported on the increase in ethnic profiling, arbitrary arrests, and enforced disappearances of scores of Tigrayans in Addis Ababa.” #StopTigrayanHate #TigrayMassArrests@Meta @amnesty @Meta @YouTube @Twitter
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/11/08/ethiopia-international-action-needed-prevent-atrocities

10. “Tigrayans told AFP they were increasingly worried about their safety and the possibility that friends and neighbours might denounce them to security forces merely because of their ethnicity.” #TigrayMassArrests @PaulKagame @CyrilRamaphosa @AUC_PAPS
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20211105-ethiopia-s-wartime-emergency-decree-sets-capital-on-edge

11. According to dozens of escapees from the camps and estimates, there are up to nine locations where it is thought thousands of Tigrayans are being detained.#TigrayMassArrests #StopTigrayanHate@JanezLenarcic @VeraJourova @JuttaUrpilainen@TimmermansEU
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/05/africa/ethiopia-tigray-humera-sudan-bodies-cmd-intl/index.html

12. “West Tigray residents described roundups that continued into this year, in which Amhara gunmen searched for people with Tigrayan IDs and imprisoned unknown numbers of them.” #TigrayMassArrests #StopTigrayanHate@RepSteveChabot @BradSherman @IlhanMN
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ethiopia-conflict-tigrayans/

13. A man who fled to Sudan from the city of Humera said last week Amhara authorities “started collecting people. Young men and boys are being forced to join the fighting.”#TigrayMassArrests #StopTigrayanHate@RepGregoryMeeks @RepCicilline @RepMcCaul
https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-africa-sudan-kenya-ethiopia-ec3ca1600edd93e2b99ad05b29c07430

14. Daniel Kibret, a close advisor to Abiy Ahmed, compared the Tigrayans to Satan & called for their extermination. Hate speech must be condemned.#TigrayMassArrests #StopTigrayanHate @CharlesMichel @JanezLenarcic @vonderleyen @GermanyDiplo @HeikoMaas
https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/ethiopia-s-chosen-one-a-brutal-war-waged-by-a-nobel-peace-prize-laureate-a-d2f4d03e-90e4-49a4-918b-96d4543f722b

#TigrayMassArrests Pt. 7

1. A senior Ethiopian military official said of Tigrayans, “We had to clean out our insides…even if there may be good people among them, we can’t differentiate the good from the bad.” @BelgiumUN @BelgiumMFA @paytonknopf #TigrayMassArrests #StopTigrayanHate https://apnews.com/article/africa-ethiopia-race-and-ethnicity-health-coronavirus-5f22a5aea128cbd659fbf4f810aac973

2. .@SecBlinken, ethnic cleansing & genocide against ethnic Tigrayans is taking place across Ethiopia.Finland’s @Haavisto confirmed that officials vowed “they’re going to wipe out the Tigrayans.” What does ‘never again’ mean to you? #StopTigrayanHate
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/18/ethiopian-leaders-said-they-would-wipe-out-tigrayans-eu-envoy

3. Tigrayans living throughout Ethiopia are being persecuted. Their bank accounts closed, property confiscated, fired from work, barred from international travel & put into concentration camps. Children & elderly are not spared. #TigrayMassArrests @USAmbUN
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-they-just-vanished-tigrayans-disappear-for-months-in-secret-ethiopian/

4. Tigrayans are being put into concentration camps! The elderly, children as young as 3, priests & nuns have been taken. Even Tigrayans that work at the @UN aren’t spared. When will the world intervene? #TigrayMassArrests #StopTigrayanHate @RepCicilline@RepMcCaul @RepSpanberger

5. Mass arrests of Tigrayans in Addis Ababa and elsewhere in Ethiopia has continued. Tigrayan civilians are being rounded up and taken to concentration camps. #TigrayMassArrests #StopTigrayanHate @franceonu @UKUN_NewYork @franceonu @ItalyMFA @SpainMFA
https://apnews.com/article/africa-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-b1a97f2569592f499565bfb6e673dc3d

6. The consistent dehumanization of Tigrayans has followed by a new wave of arbitrary arrests with dozens of Tigrayans being held without due process. #TigrayMassArrests #StopTigrayanHate @FilippoGrandi @HouseofCommons @MarosSefcovic@dreynders @Europarl_EN
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/08/africa/ethiopia-detentions-ethnicity-rights-commission-intl/index.html

7. “They just vanished”- The increasing reports of intense harassment, arrests of Tigrayans should concern the int‘l community. Their whereabouts are still unaccounted for. #TigrayMassArrests #StopTigrayanHate @UNWatch @JuttaUrpilainen @MBuhari @KarimKhanQC
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-they-just-vanished-tigrayans-disappear-for-months-in-secret-ethiopian/

8. It is estimated that 20,000 to 30,000 Tigrayans have been held in detention centers throughout Ethiopia. When will the international community step up to end the #TigrayGenocide? #TigrayMassArrests #StopTigrayanHate @UNHumanRights @POTUS @SecBlinken @hrw
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-they-just-vanished-tigrayans-disappear-for-months-in-secret-ethiopian/

9. A young mother and elderly priest were among those arrested in Addis Ababa. What was their crime? Being Tigrayan. The harassment, torture, & #TigrayMassArrests must end! #TigrayGenocide #StopTigrayanHate @HouseForeign @SenateForeign @USUN @PrevGenocide
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/08/africa/ethiopia-detentions-ethnicity-rights-commission-intl/index.html

10. “They arrested me from the street because I spoke Tigrinya”- When will the international community take action to stop the arbitrary arrests of Tigrayans?! #TigrayGenocide. #TigrayMassArrests #StopTigrayanHate @UNHumanRights @POTUS @SecBlinken
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ethiopia-conflict-tigrayans/special-report-ethiopias-crackdown-on-ethnic-tigrayans-snares-thousands-idUSKBN2CO0VF

11. Rahel, a young mom, arrested while at work solely based on her ethnicity. “Relatives were allowed to bring her child, who is still breast-feeding, into the station once, but were denied access after that.”#TigrayMassArrests @4GenderJustice @USAIDGender https://t.co/GGnHSdaxBJ

12. Where is genuine outrage from the @UN on #TigrayGenocide, the executions of dozens of aid workers & now unlawfully detained @UN staff? You’ve played a pivotal role in the escalation of #TigrayGenocide and #TigrayMassArrests. @antonioguterres @mbachelet
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/11/9/un-staff-detained-in-ethiopias-capital-world-body-says

13. Why didn’t your team report on #TigrayMassArrests & #TigrayGenocide in Humera @mbachelet @UNHumanRights? Ethnic cleansing is confirmed & bodies are washing up in Sudan, yet you remain quiet. Why?
https://cnn.it/3wzvuSw

14. “outlines of limbs emerge through the mist along the Setit River…The marks of torture are easily visible…Evidence indicates the dead are Tigrayans”. How are you hopeful when crimes against humanity continue in western Tigray @SecBlinken?
https://cnn.it/3wzvuSw

13. Ethiopian leaders have referred to Tigrayans as “cancers” and “weeds”. The hate speech in Ethiopia is actively dehumanizing Tigrayans and has encouraged the #TigrayGenocide. When will the @UN protect Tigrayans from this genocidal rhetoric? #TigrayMassArrests #StopTigrayanHate

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