Katie Polglase
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Emmy award-winning investigative journalist @CNN . Interested in OSINT. IG: @katiepolglase Discord: katiepolglase #6855 Mastodon: @katiepolglase @0sint .social
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NEW INVESTIGATION: We looked into the tragedy on February 29 when over a hundred died while awaiting aid in northern Gaza. We found evidence that casts doubt on the IDF’s version of events. 1/5
@ZahidM_
@GianlucaMezzo
@elizamackintosh
Ibrahim Dahman
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So the Nigerian Federal Govt gave a press conference this morning to reply to our
#Lekkitollgate
investigation. It accuses us of "fake news" and so here is our response: "Our reporting was carefully and meticulously researched, and we stand by it," a CNN spokesperson said.
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Huge news out of
#Nigeria
: the judicial panel concluded
#Lekkitollgate
was indeed a massacre and that authorities covered up. It vindicates not only CNN's reporting on the massacre but more importantly, the young people of the
#EndSARS
movement.
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CNN EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATION: What really happened Nika Shahkarami? New witnesses and videos contradict Iran’s claims about the teen protestor’s death. Thread… 1/9
Our latest investigation with
@GianlucaMezzo
@ANPour
#Nika
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After our investigation into
#LekkiTollGate
went out, we made sure to monitor the judicial panel today. Turns out, the Nigerian army admitted *for the first time* to having live rounds at the peaceful protest on October 20, 2020.
Read our story here:
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Then, at 8:37pm, we found the last known video of Nika. She’s hiding behind cars to avoid detection from police standing on the pavement nearby. Shortly after this is filmed, she was seen being detained and bundled into a police van. 7/9
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But Iranian authorities have always denied her death was connected to the protests. With the help of
@1500tasvir
we analysed 50+ videos from that night and spoke to 6 key eyewitnesses which reveal a very different tale regarding her final hours. 3/9
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Nika went missing after protests on Sept 20 and was later pronounced dead. She has become one of the most known faces in Iran, and joins a growing list of young Iranian women who have tragically lost their lives in recent weeks. 2/9
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The video evidence shows that the 16 year old was at the frontline of the protests, throwing rocks directly at riot police, burning headscarves while standing on a bin. Eyewitnesses said she seemed fearless. 4/9
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LATEST INVESTIGATION:
New evidence suggests Shireen Abu Akleh was shot dead in targeted attack by Israeli forces
Brilliant team behind this:
@zeenasaifi
@celinealkhaldi
@elizamackintosh
@GianlucaMezzo
@LivvyDoherty
@o_featherstone
(Thread below)
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We're still waiting on a response from the Nigerian authorities to our investigation. We have examined hours of footage and spoken to dozens of eyewitnesses to uncover what really happened at Lekki toll gate on October 20, 2020.
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Videos we’ve geolocated to that time and area show security officers were to the north and south of Nika as well as next to her on the pavement. It means that shortly before she was seen being detained, she had become completely surrounded by police. 8/9
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As it gets dark, the police crackdown intensifies and NIka moves away from the protest area, towards Engelab gas station where eyewitnesses saw her making a phone call. 5/9
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We geolocated videos to nearby streets showing what appear to be non-uniformed police assaulting and detaining people. One eyewitness told CNN they saw police “hitting women” and putting them in “police vans” 6/9
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The Iranian authorities have offered multiple different explanations for her death: first she was thrown off a roof, then it was suicide. They have not responded to our repeated requests for comment and have not commented on whether Nika was ever detained. 9/9
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Our latest
#CNN
investigation: Ethiopia has been using its commercial airline -
@flyethiopian
- to transport weapons to and from Eritrea since the beginning of the war in
#Tigray
. (Thread)
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Our latest CNN
#Tigray
investigation: Bodies appearing in a river in Sudan that we traced back to prison camps in Humera, Ethiopia. With our terrific team
@nimaelbagir
@ArvanitidisCNN
@GianlucaMezzo
@LauraSSpark
@nickthompson
Mark Baron + Alex Platt
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NEW: We found evidence the Iranian government is accessing the social media accounts of activists, One woman we spoke to is now facing several years in jail and her Telegram chats were the evidence used against her. 1/7
@GianlucaMezzo
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Exclusive: a UN food truck was hit on Feb 5 but CNN has seen correspondence between UNRWA and COGAT confirming the route in advance. Despite this it was still struck by naval gunfire. Satellite imagery shows IDF boats visible after.
@muhammadakd
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You can read and watch our investigation here:
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Heartbreaking scenes from
#Tigray
. Hunger and starvation continues to ravish the region and due to the war, there is barely any electricity to tell the rest of the world about their plight.
Fighting in
#Ethiopia
’s civil war has claimed tens of thousands of lives, while the threat of hunger and starvation looms over millions.
From inside
#Tigray
,
#BBCAfricaEye
investigates the human impact of one of Africa’s deadliest conflicts.
Full film 📽️
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We obtained the CCTV footage for October 20, 2020 at
#LekkiTollGate
. It raises fresh questions about the investigation into what happened. Read our story here:
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It’s arrived! We won an Emmy for our investigations into the Ethiopian conflict. From investigating massacres to uncovering war crimes, it was a year that featured some of the stories I’m most proud of and it couldn’t have been done without the bravery of many, many Ethiopians.
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#NEW
: Anatomy of Mariupol maternity hospital attack. Our latest investigation, complete with 3D modelling. With a fantastic team of
@LivvyDoherty
@GianlucaMezzo
@FuninReno
@Henrikkp
and Tom James
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Days after our CNN investigation into the Maryam Dengelat massacre and Amnesty’s report on the Axum massacre, US Secretary of State
@SecBlinken
calls for the withdrawal of Eritrean & Ethiopian forces from Tigray.
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I fronted a short piece explaining how our team at
#CNN
is choosing which videos to verify and then how we do it. It’s played a big role in our (and all) news coverage of
#Ukraine
w/
@GianlucaMezzo
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You can find our original investigation here 👇🏻 - It led to the Nigerian government holding a press conference to attack our evidence, calling us "fake news" and "misinformation." Yet now, our reporting is mentioned 37 times in the judicial panel's report.
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The joint UN and EHRC report notably did not visit key locations where CNN and others reported on massacres of Tigrayans inc. Axum, Adigrat and Dengelat.
JUST IN: UN says crimes against humanity may have been committed in the Tigray conflict, a day after Ethiopia announced a state of emergency
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NEW INVESTIGATION: Fresh footage emerges from Mahibere Dego from the massacre and the bodies left behind. Our reporting with
@GianlucaMezzo
@nimaelbagir
@ArvanitidisCNN
#MahibereDego
#Tigray
#Ethiopia
(Thread)
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Indeed,
@1500tasvir
have been an incredible resource. None of this would be possible without the bravery of those that helped us gather footage and eyewitnesses. #مهسا_امینی
CNN's investigation on
#NikaShakrami
's final hours, based on eyewitness accounts and open-source images. A big shoutout to
@1500tasvir
for documenting these protests
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We gathered evidence from 22 eyewitnesses including exclusive videos that indicate the shooting started earlier than the IDF had claimed. Audio analysis shows it was machine gunfire at 600rpm. In a densely packed area, this risks a high death toll. 2/5
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This incident was one of the single biggest mass casualty events of this conflict but it not the only one. The UN has documented two dozen attacks on Palestinians awaiting aid in the last three months alone. 5/5
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The video for our Ethiopia investigation is now out:
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Our latest
#Ethiopia
investigation: Ethiopian Airlines employees are fleeing the country by stowing away inside the planes they work on. (1/5) w/
@GianlucaMezzo
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Once again, we could not have done this reporting without the bravery of so many people who risked their lives to speak to us. 🙏🏻
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The IDF’s night-vision drone footage is the only available video with a clear view of what happens - but they have denied CNN’s requests for the full unedited footage. Eyewitnesses filmed on phones in near total darkness, making visual analysis hard. 3/5
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Despite this, we found compelling evidence that focused on audio rather than visual analysis, plus the timestamps for when the footage was filmed. In all, it casts doubt on the IDF’s narrative on when and why the gunfire started. 4/5
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Beyond honoured we won an Emmy for research into the war in Ethiopia. It was a year long effort that could not have been done without bravery of many Tigrayans. The work continues.
@nimaelbagir
@GianlucaMezzo
@ArvanitidisCNN
@elizamackintosh
@bethlehemfel
Mark Baron + Alex Platt
The
#NewsEmmys
Award for Outstanding Research: News goes to Ethiopia: Exposing the Hallmarks of a Genocide (
@CNN
).
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@nimaelbagir
@StephanieBusari
@ArvanitidisCNN
@muhammadakd
@o_featherstone
*grim warning sorry* but if you want an idea of the lengths the authorities went to to cover this up, here's one section from the report:
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A young mother and an elderly priest among the sweeping arrests of Tigrayans across Addis Ababa. Our latest
#Ethiopia
reporting:
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The US turns its attention to
#Tigray
after multiple media reports about ongoing atrocities inc. Amnesty, NYT and our CNN investigation.
I discussed the United States’ concerns about the ongoing crisis in Ethiopia’s Tigray region with Prime Minister
@AbiyAhmedAli
today. Action to end hostilities and protect civilians is urgently required. The United States remains ready to assist in resolving the conflict.
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US warns of sanctions after our investigation into Ethiopian Airlines aired yesterday
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Our latest
#Ethiopia
reporting: “We’ll see if America will save you now” soldiers tell detained Tigrayans
@nimaelbagir
@ArvanitidisCNN
@GianlucaMezzo
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Our new report out tonight:
Heartbreaking accounts from victims reveal how rape is used as a weapon of war in the Tigray region of Ethiopia
@nimaelbagir
reports
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Images finally emerge from Dengelat after - like much of Tigray - months of blockade. We published at the weekend a three-month long investigation into the massacre of civilians at Maryam Dengelat at the hands of Eritrean soldiers. You can see the grief in these images.
People gather to mourn the victims of a massacre allegedly perpetrated by Eritrean Soldiers in the village of Dengolat, North of Mekele, the capital of Tigray.
📸
@edusoteras
#AFP
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UPDATE: Hundreds of Tigrayans released from detention facility after our reporting yesterday. With
@nimaelbagir
@GianlucaMezzo
@ArvanitidisCNN
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The US has agreed $281m funding to Ethiopian Airlines despite congressional opposition.
Sherman's letter below references our CNN investigation in which we found evidence Ethiopian Airlines transported weapons for the war in Tigray, an apparent violation of aviation law.
Until
#Ethiopia
implements the Pretoria peace deal,
@EximBankUS
shouldn't approve a loan to
#Ethiopa
#Tigray
should see unrestricted humanitarian assistance, banking, internet & medicine before
#Ethiopia
sees the $100 million.
The letter
@Ilhan
@RepMcGovern
& I sent to EXIM,⬇️
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UN blaming Amhara forces for the destruction of the Tekeze bridge, a key humanitarian supply route into Tigray.
The U.N. has updates pointing the finger at Amhara Special Forces for destroying a vital bridge connecting a supply route from Gondar with Shire in northern Tigray over the Tekeze River.
#Shire
has between 400-600k IDPs in vital need of supplies.
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Strong reporting from
@JamalMOsman
and
@Channel4News
on the mass arrests of Tigrayans in Addis Ababa. They follow a group of volunteers going street to street finding Tigrayans and reporting them to police.
#Ethiopia
#Tigray
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Really odd development here. No USAID investigation has been conducted despite claims by the Ethiopian Herald. Independent investigations ARE needed into these atrocities in
#Tigray
inc. Axum, Dengelat and others.
[1/2] Contrary to a recent report in the Ethiopian Herald about a USAID investigation in Axum, USAID has neither conducted an investigation nor sent a team to investigate the reported events that took place in Axum.
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Brave Ethiopian Airlines employees spoke to us about being told to load guns, ammunition - even tanks - onto planes. We are so grateful they trusted us with their stories.
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We have heard from countless sources about the ongoing mass arrests of Tigrayans across Ethiopia inc. children, women and the elderly. Extremely concerning.
🇪🇹
#Ethiopia
: We are concerned that at least 1000 individuals have been detained over the last couple of weeks as police invoke excessively wide provisions of the state of emergency to arrest, search and detain people:
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Ethiopian Govt has responded to our Mahibere Dego investigation by dismissing our geolocation of the video and saying "social media posts and claims cannot be taken as evidence" - think the OSINT community would say differently.
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Grateful to our stellar team as always
@GianlucaMezzo
@nimaelbagir
@StephanieBusari
@ArvanitidisCNN
@muhammadakd
@o_featherstone
and many more.
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We have a response. Admits the waybills are real yet they somehow didn’t read the ‘military’ bit before ‘refill’. Oh, and they’re billed to the ministry of defence…
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Cargo manifests and air waybills show Ethiopian Airlines billed the Ethiopian government hundreds of thousands of dollars to transport military equipment including guns and ammunition on its planes.
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See a step-by-step of how we did the investigation below 👇🏻
CNN has investigated a gruesome video appearing to show Ethiopian soldiers carrying out extrajudicial executions of unarmed men in Tigray, Ethiopia. This is what we found:
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Absolutely heartbreaking scenes: young Afghan girls - as young as 9 - being sold into marriage so their families can eat. Extraordinary access and reporting by
@amcoren
and team.
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Great to be nominated for the Drum Awards for 2 stories I covered - the Beirut explosion and our investigation into a massacre in Dengelat, Ethiopia - brilliant team as always
@tamaraqiblawi
@maryilyushina
@elizamackintosh
@GianlucaMezzo
@bethlehemfel
@nimaelbagir
@ArvanitidisCNN
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Such an impressive and powerful voice for Nigeria - see DJ Switch's interview with
#CNN
below. It's off the back of our new investigation out today into what happened at
#Lekkitollgate
on October 20, 2020.
“Nigeria is a dictatorship with a democratic face.”
Nigerian activist
@dj_switchaholic
speaks to
@BeckyCNN
from hiding, telling her about the horrors she witnessed at an
#endSARS
protest, and why she says she can’t trust the Nigerian government.
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“This is not just about closure, this is fresh evidence of a January massacre.”
Our video report on
#MahibereDego
is now out.
#Tigray
#Ethiopia
@nimaelbagir
@ArvanitidisCNN
@GianlucaMezzo
@o_featherstone
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US State Dept's Robert Godec cited our reporting on
#MahibereDego
today in his remarks to the House Foreign Affairs Committee while stating that the US would "watch closely" to see if the unilateral ceasefire in Tigray holds.
See our full report below:
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No evidence has been found of Russian claims that the hospital had been cleared and a Ukrainian battalion moved into the building and yet still after the attack the disinformation continued.
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NEW INVESTIGATION: We studied a brutal video of a massacre in
#Tigray
. The results raise serious questions for the Ethiopian Army.
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We’ve spent the last three months investigating a massacre in the village of Dengelat in Ethiopia’s Tigray region between November 30 - December 2, 2020.
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Our new investigation into a massacre in Tigray.
They thought a holy festival would bring respite from weeks of conflict. But it was the start of a three-day killing spree.
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NEW VISUAL INVESTIGATION: How
#Gaza
’s
#hospitals
became battlegrounds:
#CNN
found 20 out of 22 hospitals were damaged or destroyed in northern Gaza in the first two months of war. Over half were directly attacked. 1/6
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"The aid workers had their hands over their heads when they were shot."
This story is horrifying.
While the world focuses on Ukraine, war continues to be waged on the people of Tigray and aid workers are being killed for simply doing their jobs.
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Well that’s a development… after we published our Ethiopian Airlines investigation this morning.
The Biden administration is calling a news report that Ethiopian Air ferried arms to Eritrea a grave allegation, and noted that Ethiopia could be hit with U.S. sanctions if conflict in the Tigray region persists
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Exclusive modelling by CNN supported by eyewitness testimony suggests that it would have been obvious and visible to the naked eye that the Mariupol Maternity Hospital was in use by civilians including pregnant mothers before it was hit.
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Our investigation featuring on
@TheLeadCNN
tonight 👇🏻
CNN and Amnesty International investigate shocking video of executions by Ethiopian soldiers.
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It was a shockingly bad type of disinfo.
NEW: Twitter has removed content from Russian Embassy UK claiming the bombing of a maternity hospital had been staged
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We geolocated photos of burnt skeletal remains, clothing, ID cards and bullet casings to the same site as the massacre. The bulk of the evidence is too graphic to share but you can see here this is the same ridge.
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The shuttling back and forth of these weapons took place primarily in November 2020, when multiple massacres in Tigray also occurred, including Axum and Dengelat, which we previously reported on:
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We compared these documents and testimonies with Flightradar24 and saw several flights appeared but the routes disappeared when they approached the Ethiopian border.
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@SecBlinken
calls the situation in
#Tigray
'ethnic cleansing' for the first time.
@jmhansler
reports:
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More strong Ethiopia reporting from AP: widespread detentions of Tigrayans in military centers inc. even priests and office workers
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Our wonderful team were nominated for
@PeabodyAwards
for our investigations into atrocities in Tigray, Ethiopia. Many investigations used a combination of OSINT tools and interviews. None of it would have been possible without some extraordinarily brave Tigrayans.
This a team nomination and we are incredibly grateful that in a conflict in which victims - and the journalists reporting on them - have been gaslit and harassed
@PeabodyAwards
saw the value and importance of these stories from
#Tigray
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We separately examined visual evidence of the bullet markings on the tree where Abu Akleh was killed. The multiple strike marks showed that the shooting was targeted and not the produce of random gunfire spray.
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Great thread below on the ENDF’s dubious response to our investigations into a massacre in Mahbere Dego 👇🏻
The Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) responded with wild claims devoid of any substantial evidence to the forensic investigations done by
#BBCAfricaEye
,
@bellingcat
,
@Newsy
,
@CNN
&
@amnesty
on the Mahbere Dego massacre in
#Tigray
.
A thread factchecking their response.
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Our new story on
#Tigray
: rape as a tool of war. -
@GianlucaMezzo
@bethlehemfel
@nimaelbagir
@ArvanitidisCNN
@elizamackintosh
+ Alex Platt
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#Ethiopia
: “Eritrean troops aren't just working hand in glove with the Ethiopian government [...] in some pockets they're fully in control and waging a reign of terror.” - new powerful reporting from
@nimaelbagir
@ArvanitidisCNN
@elizamackintosh
Alex Platt
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Thread on our
#Tigray
investigation and the aftermath below 👇🏻
.
@nimaelbagir
reports:
@amnesty
today said the UN must immediately launch an investigation into ongoing allegations of grave violations in the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, citing an investigation by CNN as well as one of its own.
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Worth noting this is the main *deconflicted* route permitted by the IDF. Like with the February 5th attack on a UN food convoy that I investigated, the IDF had designated this route to be safe for aid trucks.
Quick map with most recent
@planet
imagery of the area showing where the
@WCKitchen
vehicles were hit in multiple IDF airstrikes south of Deir al-Balah.
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Good forensic dig on one of many awful atrocities still being reported against Tigrayans in Ethiopia, while world focuses on Ukraine.
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Thanks as always to the wonderful and dedicated team that worked on this.
@GianlucaMezzo
@nimaelbagir
@ArvanitidisCNN
Mark Baron,
@nickthompson
@FuninReno
@RamCNN
@natalie_croker
and many more.
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The shocking state of the remains, the denial of the right to a proper burial and the fresh footage emerging from the massacre must only be adding to the pain of loved ones in Mahibere Dego. Yet still the Ethiopian Government dismisses this event.
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We investigated a video showing a massacre in
#Tigray
. We geolocated it to a hillside outside of Mahibere Dego, near Axum. And spoke to families who believe their relatives are featured in the video.
A massacre in Tigray was captured on video. It raises new and difficult questions for the Ethiopian government
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Using the extended clip of the Al Jazeera footage, we sent the gunfire audio for analysis by Rob Maher. He concluded the gap between the crack and blast sounds indicated the gunmen were between 177-197 meters from where Abu Akleh was shot.
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Eyewitnesses told us not only that the attack felt targeted and there were continued shoots as they tried to retrieve Abu Akleh’s body. In the words of eyewitness Shatha Hanaysha: “they wanted to kill us”
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Phenomenal investigation from
@alhaq_org
and
@ForensicArchi
in which they modelled out where the journalists were standing and where the marksmen were to show that the press vests were clearly visible. Exactly the kind of work 3D modelling is made for.
#ShireenAbuAkleh
🚨 New evidence on the killing of
@AlJazeera
reporter Shireen Abu Akleh by our Forensic Architecture Investigation Unit &
@ForensicArchi
. Our advanced spatial technologies establish that Israel's report on the incident is false & deliberately misleading.
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Looking at geolocated social media videos from the surrounding area, we found IDF trucks located within that 200m area. We found no one else within this radius.
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We spoke again to the family of Alula, who featured in our first report and whose family saw him in the massacre videos. They confirmed they found his ID card among the remains. His mother is inconsolable.
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After publishing our investigation into extrajudicial killings in Tigray, this comment from Senator
@ChrisCoons
👇🏻
New reports and footage emerging from
#Tigray
of extrajudicial killings, murders of civilians, sexual and gender-based violence, and forced displacement are deeply disturbing.
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