ADDIS ABABA– The Western media keep on misrepresenting the current situation of Ethiopia, the Ethio-American Development council said, mentioning The Guardian’s usage of an unrelated and misleading image to blame the government for the pseudo ‘Tigray Genocide.’
The Guardian posted a photograph showing morose mothers to illustrate the news article written about Tigray until it has been silently edited.
The Ethio-American Development Council called-out for “the dishonest and unethical misuse of images that The Guardian has once again resorted to silent edit. The Guardian is using plagiarism photos to turn victimizers into victims.”
“What’s more cruel than using pictures of Amhara survivors of ethnic cleansing by Tigrayan forces to shove their debunked Tigray Genocide, how low can The Guardian go?,” the council tweeted.
A foreign journalist, Ann Garrison also tweeted that she was there when the cameraman took that picture. “One picture can tell 1000 words, or a 1000 lies. I was with Getty images Photographer, Jemal Countless when he took this Photo at Sekota, Amhara State IDP camp for Amhara fleeing TPLF. The Guardian is using it to illustrate a Tigray ‘ethnic cleansing’ story based on Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International’s report.”
The image has been taken in Sekota, Amhara State from January 2021, The Ethiopian Herald learnt.
Since the beginning of the northern conflict, the West’s corporate media have been highly engaged in information warfare and employing unrelated and misleading content. A few days right from the start of the war, the New York Times used a surgical image showing wounded civilians. But, it has been later exposed that the so-called civilian in the picture was a soldier in the warfront.
Last year, Aljazeera maliciously disseminated fake news saying that “at least three people killed in an air strike in Mekelle” while using a fake image which has already been used by the AFP for another news story.
BBC has also used pictures of chemical weapon attacks even though it has admitted that the picture was taken in Syria. By the same token, CNN has been used to disseminate fake news in support of the TPLF since the war started.
BY YESUF ENDRIS
The Ethiopian Herald 27 April 2022
