#axummassacre — Public Fediverse posts

@micahflee

Slow news: it took over a month for the first hints of the 28/29 November 2020 #AxumMassacre of 400 to 800 civilians by Eritrean security forces to reach the outside world [1], nearly another month for the Kroc Institute to comment, and a third month for Amnesty Int and HRW to provide their first reports. Witness testimonies [2][3].

Some massacres are more equal than others.

#TigrayGenocide

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axum_massacre#Slow_communication_and_early_reports

[2] https://archive.today/2021.02.13-223726/https://www.tghat.com/2021/02/13/what-happened-in-aksum-my-personal-account

[3] https://archive.today/2021.02.14-001722/https://www.tghat.com/2021/01/20/massacre-and-silenced-voices-in-axum-an-eyewitness-account

The ongoing #TigrayGenocide is vastly more destructive than the repression in #Belarus, but there are human rights institutions and media in #Ethiopia that are in a stronger position.

The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission[1] just released its #AksumMassacre #AxumMassacre report, attributing the main massacre to the Eritrean Defence Forces.[2]

Addis Standard is unafraid to publish the story.[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Human_Rights_Commission

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20210324223258/https://doc-0s-7s-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/securesc/ha0ro937gcuc7l7deffksulhg5h7mbp1/sno9aob0807gebh4ke5tf5klm942d8li/1616625150000/08662635407949370025/%2A/1i20a7K4BNnJsoSE89q1Q7xEW5oGhatGX%3Fe=download

[3] https://archive.ph/5bzrQ