@ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social
2026-09-25 01:38 UTC
A very bad sign because the last time a Tigray wide internet blackout was implemented, a genocide was carried out, killing hundreds of thousands. Internet outages are typically implemented by the state to hide atrocities in Ethiopia during war. As such, after war broke out on Tuesday, some Tigrayans were seen on TikTok, posting goodbye messages to friends and followers, expecting to be disconnected, as they were from 2020-2022.
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@ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social 2026-09-25 01:40
As I said, Tigrayan subscribers to the Kenyan Safaricom company's network remain online for now, but you've got to wonder how long that will last. For background context on the Tigray wide shutdown of 2020-2022 and how it enabled bloodshed, my Reuters reporting from 2022. Internet outages in conflict zones are always bad news. A truly worrying development. https://www.reuters.com/world/six-million-silenced-two-year-internet-outage-ethiopia--trfn-2022-09-29/