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.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axum_massacre#Slow_communication_and_early_reports
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
Liam O'Mara IV, PhD
Boud