Tghat

tghat.com
Type of site
News
Available inEnglish
Area servedEthiopia
URLtghat.com
LaunchedNovember 2020; 4 years ago (2020-11)

Tghat is a Tigray news site known for reporting on the Tigray War.[1][2][3]

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".[4]

Editorship

France 24 describes the Tghat editorial group as "Tigrayan activists living abroad".[1] Meron Gebreananaye describes herself as a United Kingdom-based PhD student and one of the Tghat editors.[5] Gebrekirstos Gebreselassie Gebremeskel (aka Gebrekirstos G. Gebremeskel[6]) 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.[7][8] The editorial group includes several university-based researchers.[9]

Coverage

As of 2022, Tghat reporting is focussed on the Tigray War.[3] 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".[9]

Tghat's report on the Debre Abbay massacre on 12 January 2021[2] 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.[1][10]

Casualty recording

According to Associated Press (AP), Tghat's victim list is compiled by Desta Haileselassie, 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.[11]

References

  1. ^ a b c Mas, Liselotte (10 March 2021). "Ethiopia: video of Tigray massacre lifts lid on 'war without photos'". France 24. Archived from the original on 18 July 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  2. ^ a b Kassa, Lucy; Bulos, Nabih (19 March 2021). "In an out-of-sight war, a massacre comes to light". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 24 March 2021. Retrieved 24 March 2021.
  3. ^ a b Vaswani, Sharnam (10 January 2022). "Ethiopia grants amnesty to high-profile political prisoners". JURIST. Archived from the original on 27 July 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  4. ^ "Tghat, About". Tghat. 2021. Archived from the original on 11 July 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  5. ^ Gebreananaye, Meron (23 June 2021). "'Hands Off Ethiopia': A new phase in the Tigray disinformation campaign". Ethiopia Insight. Archived from the original on 5 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  6. ^ "Gebrekirstos Gebreselassie Gebremeskel". Tghat. 2022. Archived from the original on 3 May 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  7. ^ Gebremeskel, Gebrekirstos (18 December 2020). "The war on Tigray: A multi-pronged assault driven by genocidal undercurrents". Ethiopia Insight. Archived from the original on 26 May 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  8. ^ "What would a full-blown conflict mean for Ethiopia's future?". Al Jazeera English. 26 November 2021. Archived from the original on 25 November 2021. Retrieved 26 November 2021.
  9. ^ a b "About". Tghat. 2022. Archived from the original on 7 October 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  10. ^ Mas, Liselotte (10 March 2021). "Éthiopie : dans un conflit 'sans images', la vidéo d'un massacre documente un possible crime de guerre au Tigré" [Ethiopia: in a conflict 'without images', the video of a massacre documents a possible war crime in Tigray]. France 24 (in French). Archived from the original on 18 July 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  11. ^ Anna, Cara; Keyton, David; Castaneda, Nat (15 November 2021). "'You can't even cry loudly': Counting Ethiopia's war dead". Associated Press. Archived from the original on 15 November 2021. Retrieved 20 November 2021.