Tghat
{{Short description|Tigrayan news website}}
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Tghat is a Tigray news site known for reporting on the Tigray War.
Creation and editorial line
Tghat describes its creation during the Tigray War as motivated by communication blocks and the lack of reporting on "Tigrayan collective national sentiment, and the atrocities committed upon Tigrayans".
Editorship
France 24 describes the Tghat editorial group as "Tigrayan activists living abroad". Meron Gebreananaye describes herself as a United Kingdom-based PhD student and one of the Tghat editors. Gebrekirstos Gebreselassie Gebremeskel (aka Gebrekirstos G. Gebremeskel) states that he is an Amsterdam-based researcher who manages Tghat, and is described by Al Jazeera English as a researcher and manager of Tghat. The editorial group includes several university-based researchers.
Coverage
{{As of|2022}}, Tghat reporting is focussed on the Tigray War. Tghat describes its role as "documenting civilian casualties, the destruction of civilian infrastructure, hate campaigns, and providing perspectives and analyses on the war on Tigray".
Tghat's report on the Debre Abbay massacre on 12 January 2021 and its publication of video footage of the massacre in early February were followed by The Daily Telegraph on 19 February 2021 and by France 24 on 10 March 2021.
Casualty recording
According to Associated Press (AP), Tghat's victim list is compiled by Desta Haileselassie Hagos, a Tigrayan living in Stockholm. AP randomly selected 30 of the named victims and judged the information to be authentic after contacting the victims' families and friends.
References
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{{cite news | last1= Mas | first1= Liselotte | title= Ethiopia: video of Tigray massacre lifts lid on 'war without photos' | date= 10 March 2021 |newspaper= France 24 | url= https://observers.france24.com/en/africa/20210312-ethiopia-tigray-video-massacre-war-mai-harmaz-investigation |accessdate=18 July 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210718113059/https://observers.france24.com/en/africa/20210312-ethiopia-tigray-video-massacre-war-mai-harmaz-investigation |archive-date= 18 July 2021 |url-status=live }}
{{cite news | last1= Mas | first1= Liselotte | language = fr | title= Éthiopie : dans un conflit 'sans images', la vidéo d'un massacre documente un possible crime de guerre au Tigré |trans-title = Ethiopia: in a conflict 'without images', the video of a massacre documents a possible war crime in Tigray | date= 10 March 2021 |newspaper= France 24 | url= https://observers.france24.com/fr/afrique/20210310-ethiopie-tigre-guerre-massacre-tuerie-debre-abay-mai-harmaz-soldats |accessdate=18 July 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210718112629/https://observers.france24.com/fr/afrique/20210310-ethiopie-tigre-guerre-massacre-tuerie-debre-abay-mai-harmaz-soldats |archive-date= 18 July 2021 |url-status=live }}
{{cite web | last1 = Gebremeskel | first1 = Gebrekirstos | title= The war on Tigray: A multi-pronged assault driven by genocidal undercurrents | website= Ethiopia Insight |date = 18 December 2020 | url = https://www.ethiopia-insight.com/2020/12/18/the-war-on-tigray-a-multi-pronged-assault-driven-by-genocidal-undercurrents | accessdate = 18 July 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210526211925/https://www.ethiopia-insight.com/2020/12/18/the-war-on-tigray-a-multi-pronged-assault-driven-by-genocidal-undercurrents |archive-date= 26 May 2021 |url-status=live }}
{{cite news | last1= Kassa | first1= Lucy | last2= Bulos | first2= Nabih | title= In an out-of-sight war, a massacre comes to light | date= 19 March 2021 |newspaper= Los Angeles Times | url= https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-03-19/ethiopia-tigray-war-massacre-bora |accessdate=24 March 2021 |archive-url= https://archive.today/20210324135057/https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-03-19/ethiopia-tigray-war-massacre-bora |archive-date= 24 March 2021 |url-status=live }}
{{cite news | last1= Gebreananaye | first1= Meron | title= 'Hands Off Ethiopia': A new phase in the Tigray disinformation campaign | date= 23 June 2021 |newspaper= Ethiopia Insight | url= https://www.ethiopia-insight.com/2021/06/23/hands-off-ethiopia-a-new-phase-in-the-tigray-disinformation-campaign/ |access-date=21 July 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210705150518/https://www.ethiopia-insight.com/2021/06/23/hands-off-ethiopia-a-new-phase-in-the-tigray-disinformation-campaign |archive-date= 5 July 2021 |url-status=live }}
{{cite news | last1= Anna | first1= Cara | last2= Keyton | first2= David |last3=Castaneda |first3=Nat | title= 'You can't even cry loudly': Counting Ethiopia's war dead | date= 15 November 2021 |work=Associated Press | url= https://apnews.com/article/Counting-Ethiopias-War-Dead-ee2b9ad16ce952a5543f0d767c109104 |access-date= 20 November 2021 |archive-url= https://archive.today/20211115135252/https://apnews.com/article/Counting-Ethiopias-War-Dead-ee2b9ad16ce952a5543f0d767c109104 |archive-date= 15 November 2021 |url-status=live }}
{{cite news | title= What would a full-blown conflict mean for Ethiopia's future? | date= 2021-11-26 |newspaper= Al Jazeera English | url= https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2021/11/25/what-would-full-blown-conflict-mean-for-ethiopia-future |access-date= 2021-11-26 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211125190608/https://www.aljazeera.com/program/inside-story/2021/11/25/what-would-full-blown-conflict-mean-for-ethiopia-future |archive-date= 2021-11-25 |url-status=live }}
{{cite news | last1=Vaswani | first1=Sharnam | title=Ethiopia grants amnesty to high-profile political prisoners | date=2022-01-10 |newspaper=JURIST | url=https://www.jurist.org/news/2022/01/ethiopia-grants-amnesty-to-high-profile-political-prisoners |access-date= 2022-10-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220727145737/https://www.jurist.org/news/2022/01/ethiopia-grants-amnesty-to-high-profile-political-prisoners |archive-date= 2022-07-27 |url-status=live }}
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External links
- {{Official website|https://tghat.com/}}