Disinformation in Tigray: Manufacturing Consent For a Secessionist War
May 2021 © New Africa Institute, 2021. Published on May 9, 2021.
From the report on rape:
In 2019, TPLF blocked an anti-rape rally in Mekelle. One of the leading activists Meaza Gidey, who has been described as “one of the leading faces of the #StopWarOnTigray, Ethiopia movement”, tweeted in 2019 that “rape culture is ubiquitous in Tigray oftentimes stigmatizing & shaming female rape survivors into marrying their rapist.” Today, Meaza seems to ignore the possibility of endogenous sources of rape in Tigray and instead exclusively points the finger at Eritrean and Ethiopian troops. Only a few months before the start of the Tigray conflict, BBC Tigrinya reported that 133 Tigrayan girls and women, aged between 3 and 25, reported being raped within the previous three months.105 Many of the perpetrators were fathers, brothers, uncles and neighbors. ......
.... February 11 that all prisoners from ten prisons had been released following TPLF’s retreat. All documentation of inmates was destroyed, which “made the task of tracking major offenders nearly impossible and that it is one of the causes for the substantial increase of looting, gender-based violence and other major crimes.” ......
....Tigrai Media House (TMH) was forced to admit, in a news broadcast that aired on February 18 and was later deleted from their YouTube page, that TPLF itself was responsible for the rise in crimes taking place in Tigray. "....At this time the most shocking thing and sad thing is that in Tigray, Tigrayans are stealing from their fellow Tigrayans, Tigrayans are being killed by their fellow Tigrayans. At the time when the entire world is against us, it is disheartening to see such things happen between us. ....."
...“‘ትግራይ፡ ኣብ ሰለስተ ወርሒ፡ ልዕሊ 133 ደቂ ኣንስትዮ ጾታዊ ዓመጽ ተፈጺሙወን’”, BBC Tigrinya, June 4, 2020.
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