Our friends and families are either on the forcefully conscripted side, victims of genocide, or genocide apologists. All of this horror happened while the world was watching without care. Not even a peep from the news about a genocidal war that killed more than 700K people. Nothing has taught me more about humans than this, especially those in the diaspora who act like they're all about "justice" in the western context but are the biggest fascists in this one.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/28/ethiopia-massacre-tigray-eritrea/
Hundreds massacred in Ethiopia even as peace deal was being reached
Soldiers from neighboring Eritrea went house to house killing villagers in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, witnesses say.
"Many of those left behind are glad for the November cease fire. But survivors are living surrounded by the dead....We want the world to hear what happened,” said a woman who reported losing seven close relatives in the massacre near Adwa."...In Kumro, between 35 and 40 villagers were killed, one woman said. “They were hiding, but the old ones stayed in their houses. They thought they would be safe,” she said. Her 11-year-old son found his grandfather’s body, she said."
"The soldiers had burned the thatch that covered the stone houses, the fodder for their livestock, even the beehives, she said...In Rahiya, Eritrean troops killed a teacher named Letemichael Fisseha Abebe with her 7-year-old son and another aged 20 months, a relative said...Her husband Dawit Weldu, also a teacher, was killed four days later in nearby Endabagerima along with his brother, a construction worker, the relative said."
Timnit Gebru (she/her).
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