@ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social
2026-02-04 02:28 UTC
There's a lot that should be said about the numerous prominent Ethiopian scholars, like this one, based out of EU and US academic institutions, who used their expertise to amplify Axum massacre denialism and attack researchers who documented the atrocity. It was a fascist frenzy unlike any I had ever seen. There were still people until recently who would swear nothing happened in November 2020. Institutions took no action, because nobody knew enough or cared enough to find out.
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@ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social 2026-02-04 02:32
For now, I'll keep the focus on the people who count: victims. This is my good friend Britawit Arefayne, a Canadian citizen & native of Axum. In 2022, two years after the Axum massacre, she appeared on a Canadian parliamentary hearing on human rights abuses in Tigray, where she bravely testified about the murders of her brother, cousin & uncle at the hands of Eritrean soldiers in the massacre. In addition to this heartache, she has spent years hearing Ethiopians belittle & mock her suffering