THREAD: This investigation took up most of my 2025 to produce, and it was published in this weekend's edition of @thecontinent newspaper.
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The fact that this was a laser guided MAM-L warhead, suggests that the group of people were intentionally attacked.
With such a small blast radius, you cannot claim that this was the result of shrapnel or debris from a separate and legitimate target away from the gathering. Multiple precision strikes on the same sizeable gathering over the course of three hours (with women and children), with such a precise weapon?
Cold blooded, premeditated slaughter.
Djibouti never publicly acknowledged its purchase of drones. But in 2022, during 45th independence day celebrations, it held a military parade for President Ismail Omar Guelleh...that was broadcast live by Djiboutian state media. The screenshot is from that broadcast.
From 1:15:20 (link below)...you can see Djibouti's fleet of Bayraktar TB2 drones, armed with Roketsan warheads. You can even read the Roketsan logo on the bomb. Consistent with what was found at Siyaru.
https://youtu.be/ifnWPKpvnWU -
Djibouti never publicly acknowledged its purchase of drones. But in 2022, during 45th independence day celebrations, it held a military parade for President Ismail Omar Guelleh...that was broadcast live by Djiboutian state media. The screenshot is from that broadcast.
From 1:15:20 (link below)...you can see Djibouti's fleet of Bayraktar TB2 drones, armed with Roketsan warheads. You can even read the Roketsan logo on the bomb. Consistent with what was found at Siyaru.
https://youtu.be/ifnWPKpvnWUConclusion: consistent testimony + openly sourced evidence = a triple tap strike targeting funeral goers that could not be the result of shrapnel.
It took place on Ethiopian soil. There's no way blowback caused by a MAM-L from a target in Djibouti could reach all the way out to the location identified.
What Djibouti claimed was a domestic anti-rebel operation...was actually a possible war crime in a neighbouring country.
Questions remain though.
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Conclusion: consistent testimony + openly sourced evidence = a triple tap strike targeting funeral goers that could not be the result of shrapnel.
It took place on Ethiopian soil. There's no way blowback caused by a MAM-L from a target in Djibouti could reach all the way out to the location identified.
What Djibouti claimed was a domestic anti-rebel operation...was actually a possible war crime in a neighbouring country.
Questions remain though.
Among the unanswered questions...why would Ethiopia be strangely silent about a drone massacre in its territory by a neighbouring country, with a far smaller army that poses no realistic threat to Ethiopia?
Why was Djibouti so eager to cover it up that its Presidential advisor Alexis Mohamed claimed (in this now deleted social media posts) that reports of an atrocity in Ethiopia were "pure disinformation orchestrated by elements hostile to Djibouti"?
Why all hush hush?
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Among the unanswered questions...why would Ethiopia be strangely silent about a drone massacre in its territory by a neighbouring country, with a far smaller army that poses no realistic threat to Ethiopia?
Why was Djibouti so eager to cover it up that its Presidential advisor Alexis Mohamed claimed (in this now deleted social media posts) that reports of an atrocity in Ethiopia were "pure disinformation orchestrated by elements hostile to Djibouti"?
Why all hush hush?
So the whole chain of events actually started in December 2024.
Ethiopian and Djiboutian intelligence officials met in the Ethiopian capital for talks. Afterwards, they signed an opaque agreement to tackle "cross-border anti-peace activities."
This Ethiopian state media report didn't provide many details, about what those activities were, and how they would be jointly tackled. Vague, as is typical for state announcements from this part of the world.
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So the whole chain of events actually started in December 2024.
Ethiopian and Djiboutian intelligence officials met in the Ethiopian capital for talks. Afterwards, they signed an opaque agreement to tackle "cross-border anti-peace activities."
This Ethiopian state media report didn't provide many details, about what those activities were, and how they would be jointly tackled. Vague, as is typical for state announcements from this part of the world.
This is the explanation that Djiboutian sources have for what was agreed to:
Djibouti called the meeting, requesting permission from Ethiopia to use its airspace to attack Djiboutian FRUD rebels known to operate across the porous border. Ethiopia, too preoccupied with internal wars to go after them, agreed.
While the FRUD rebellion remains a lowscale insurgency, in 2022, they did ambush a Djiboutian army base, killing 7 soldiers. Al Jazeera coverage of that attack.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/8/djibouti-says-seven-soldiers-killed-in-armed-group-attack -
This is the explanation that Djiboutian sources have for what was agreed to:
Djibouti called the meeting, requesting permission from Ethiopia to use its airspace to attack Djiboutian FRUD rebels known to operate across the porous border. Ethiopia, too preoccupied with internal wars to go after them, agreed.
While the FRUD rebellion remains a lowscale insurgency, in 2022, they did ambush a Djiboutian army base, killing 7 soldiers. Al Jazeera coverage of that attack.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/8/djibouti-says-seven-soldiers-killed-in-armed-group-attackWhile the exact terms of what 🇩🇯 and 🇪🇹 agreed to in December remains up for speculation...what is known..is that weeks later, Djiboutian drones began to strike targets in Ethiopia.
A first strike in December missed its target. A second killed two pastoralists. The last one...was the Siyaru massacre of 30/1/25.
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While the exact terms of what 🇩🇯 and 🇪🇹 agreed to in December remains up for speculation...what is known..is that weeks later, Djiboutian drones began to strike targets in Ethiopia.
A first strike in December missed its target. A second killed two pastoralists. The last one...was the Siyaru massacre of 30/1/25.
An Ethiopian source tells me that in response to the backlash that followed Ethiopian local media reports...Ethiopian officials ordered Djiboutian drones to stop crossing the border, and they did.
However, Ethiopia did not want news of its allowing a neighbouring country to massacre its civilians on its soil for the second time in five years (link to reports of Eritrean war crimes in Tigray) so it went ahead with the coverup, and total silence.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/03/05/ethiopia-eritrean-forces-massacre-tigray-civilians
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An Ethiopian source tells me that in response to the backlash that followed Ethiopian local media reports...Ethiopian officials ordered Djiboutian drones to stop crossing the border, and they did.
However, Ethiopia did not want news of its allowing a neighbouring country to massacre its civilians on its soil for the second time in five years (link to reports of Eritrean war crimes in Tigray) so it went ahead with the coverup, and total silence.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/03/05/ethiopia-eritrean-forces-massacre-tigray-civilians
If you're still with me...you must be wondering what the heck the role of France is in all this.
France is not used as clickbait in this thread, and I'll address Paris and its possible complicity in the bloodshed from hereon out.
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If you're still with me...you must be wondering what the heck the role of France is in all this.
France is not used as clickbait in this thread, and I'll address Paris and its possible complicity in the bloodshed from hereon out.
You may recall the other day, I put up this brief thread, highlighting how rising anti-French sentiments across western Africa in recent years...let to the withdrawals of French troops from 6 African states, and huge strategic and geopolitical losses of influence.
Facing rejection in the West Africa, France is working overtime to consolidate its presence in East Africa.
Including in the country that hosts the last French army base in Africa: you guessed it, Djibouti.
https://dair-community.social/@ZekuZelalem/115274769314108860
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You may recall the other day, I put up this brief thread, highlighting how rising anti-French sentiments across western Africa in recent years...let to the withdrawals of French troops from 6 African states, and huge strategic and geopolitical losses of influence.
Facing rejection in the West Africa, France is working overtime to consolidate its presence in East Africa.
Including in the country that hosts the last French army base in Africa: you guessed it, Djibouti.
https://dair-community.social/@ZekuZelalem/115274769314108860
Djibouti's former colonizer France has had a permanent military presence in Djibouti since the country's 1977 independence...which Djibouti kept as a tool to fend off possible territorial threats during the cold war from Ethiopia and Somalia.
In July 2024, Presidents Macron and Guelleh signed a renewal of the 🇩🇯 🇫🇷 military pact that would keep the 1,500 French soldiers in the country, with Djibouti pocketing a cool 85M euros annually.
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