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Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s post on Sunday violated the platform’s policies against inciting and supporting violence, spokeswoman Emily Cain for Facebook’s parent company, Meta, told The Associated Press. It was taken down on Tuesday morning, she said.
“The obligation to die for Ethiopia belongs to all of us,” Abiy said in the now-deleted post that called on citizens to mobilize “by holding any weapon or capacity.”
Abiy is still regularly posting on the platform, where he has 3.5 million followers. The United States and others have warned Ethiopia about “dehumanizing rhetoric” after the prime minister in comments in July described the Tigray forces as “cancer” and “weeds.”
Facebook has removed posts from world leaders before, although in rare circumstances. Earlier this year, the company deleted a video from U.S. President Donald Trump in which he peddled false claims about election fraud following a deadly skirmish at the U.S. Capitol. Facebook said at the time the video contributed to “the risk of ongoing violence.” Just last week, the tech platform yanked a live broadcast from Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro because he made false claims about the COVID-19 vaccines.
Spokeswoman Cain did not say how Facebook was made aware of the Ethiopia post, which the Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister made as Tigray forces took control of key cities over the weekend that put them in position to move down a major highway toward the capital, Addis Ababa.
Alarmed, Abiy’s government this week declared a national state of emergency with sweeping powers of detention and military conscription. The prime minister repeated his call to “bury” the Tigray forces in public comments on Wednesday as he and other officials marked one year of war.
Meanwhile, Ethiopia’s highly polarized social media this week saw a number of high-profile posts targeting ethnic Tigrayans and even suggesting they be placed in concentration camps.
Thousands of people have been killed in the war between Ethiopian and allied forces and the Tigray ones who long dominated the national government before Abiy took office. The United Nations human rights chief said Wednesday they had received reports of thousands of ethnic Tigrayans being rounded up for detention in recent months.
Former Facebook product manager-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen last month singled out Ethiopia as an example of what she called the platform’s “destructive impact” on society. “My fear is that without action, divisive and extremist behaviors we see today are only the beginning,” she told the Senate consumer protection subcommittee. “What we saw in Myanmar and are seeing in Ethiopia are only the opening chapters of a story so terrifying, no one wants to read the end of it.”
“Facebook removes Ethiopian PM Abiy’s post for ‘inciting violence’’
Mr. Abiy Ahmed can well damn scream suppression of free speech. And but the way, who is really arming these Tigray proxies?
Let the prostitutes play around, but they are not welcome into South Sudan. The low lives even run to Europe and then go and lie through their teeth that they are South Sudanese running away from violence. The level of HATRED and RACISM, who towards these prostitutes, the cloned so-called Arab of North Sudan, their evil white Americans, English people, their gulf Arab states’ financiers and their evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs and some their Bantuses low lives had gone pretty much very deep into our blood streams.
That we can live side by side with Abeshas (so-called ethiopians) prostitutes, cloned so-called Arabs of North Sudan, some of their Bantuses, white Americans, white English people, their gulf Arab states terror exporters, their evil juus (so-called israelis) attack dogs, their Indians, Pakistanis, Nepalese, Sri Lankans, Bangladeshi, Nigerians, Rwandans, mercenaries here in South Sudan like there are Dutch, English people, Portuguese, Indians, Indians, Pakistanis, Nepalese, Sri Lankans, Bangladeshis living side by in South Africa.
What do the evils smokes? Through the disguise of the sinister and creepy so-called *UN AGENDA 21, UN NEW WORLD ORDER GOVERNMENT, GOVERNMENT WITHOUT BORDERS, AFRICAN UNITY and REGIONAL INTEGRATION, HUMANITARARIAN AID, DONATIONS, PEACEKEEPING and so-called HUMAN RIGHT BUSINESS NONSENE.
The most galling thing on this planet earth is the lives project themselves onto people who are way well ahead them.
There are evils who have made it their careers or lifestyles to always South Sudan and the South Sudanese people as their means to make a career over us and our country. But there are some limits. There are evils who even call our country and our people their damn so-called ‘national security interests’.
Fellows, pure HATRED and RACISM, lurks here. South Sudan is not part a damn so-called ANGLO-AMERICAN empire, never has and will never under the sun. The evils in the US, the UK, their evil juus (so-called israel) attack) dogs, take our country and our people hostage.
But this time around, they are playing with fire. We have warned our lowly informed South Sudanese, to never ever again bring anything that is connected to our cloned so-called *Arab North Sudan, Abeshas (so-called ethioipians) prostitutes, some Bantuses, evil white Americans, white English people, their evil juus (so-called israelis) arrack dogs, their gulf terrorists, their damn UN, their sleazy NGOs, Indians, Pakistanis, Nepalese, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankan et al in the name rebuilding South Sudan just like in 2005, that South Sudanese would be as good as dead. Reasons, pure HATRED and RACISM.