Tghat in media, policy, and academia

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Tghat’s documentation and analysis have been widely recognized across international media, policy institutions, human rights organizations, and academic research. Its rigorous evidentiary work—produced during one of the most restricted information environments in recent history—has become a trusted source for verifying events, informing policy assessments, supporting legal investigations, and advancing scholarly understanding of the Tigray War.

The following sections summarize the range of institutions that have cited or utilized Tghat’s work, demonstrating its role as a reliable reference point in global reporting, policy formulation, human rights monitoring, and academic inquiry.

Tghat in media 

In international media: 

• Associated Press (AP News): ‘You can’t even cry loudly’: Counting Ethiopia’s war dead (Independent verification and authentication of Tghat’s victim list’s data integrity via random sampling.) 
• France 24: Ethiopia: video of Tigray massacre lifts lid on ‘war without photos’ (Subsequent reporting on the Debre Abbay massacre) 
• The Daily Telegraph: ‘You should have finished off the survivors’: Ethiopian army implicated in brutal war crime video (Follow-up investigation into the Debre Abbay massacre) 
•  The Intercept report cites our Victim List:  Voice of America’s Biased Ethiopia Coverage
•  We have been mentioned by the LA times for our report on the Bora Selwa massacre: In an out-of-sight war, a massacre comes to light
• Just security for our article on Western Tigray https://www.justsecurity.org/…/with-deliberate-famine…/
• Radio France Internationale Ethiopia aid effort ‘severely hampered’ after key bridge destroyed in Tigray cites Tghat article We never intended to Liberate Mekelle, Says Ethiopian Prime Minister. 
• Radio France Internationale  cites Tghat’s tweet
• New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/…/ethiopia-tigray-abiy-war.html
• Radio France Internationale https://www.rfi.fr/…/20210701-ethiopia-aid-effort…
• Refugee Internationa፡ Just Security: The Tigray Conflict at One Year: Ethiopia’s Descent into Famine and Civil War  cites Tghat article Ethiopian Leader Says Tigray Blockade Deliberate
• The Washington Free BEacons New Footage Emerges of Possible War Crimes in Ethiopia cites Tghat’s The shelling of a Tigrayan church (footage)
• Etiopia: Fra fredsprisvinner til forbryter mot menneskeheten? Cites Tghat’s The Betrayal on the People of Tigray: Overall Consequences and a Beacon of Hope
• Access Now: Aperçu des données de 2022 Déclencheurs de coupure
• Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft’s The world watches as Abiy loses it — and risks losing Ethiopia, too cites that’s “The Cancer of Ethiopia”: Statement by PM Abiy Ahmed
•  African Studies Association Portal https://africanstudies.org/…/asa-condemns-the…/ cites Tghat’s Destroyed Civilian Infrastructure
• This massacre was covered by us (A massacre in Abuna Yemata Guh, at the foot of the famous rock-hewn church) first and then the Guardian after a week (Eritrean soldiers killed 19 civilians in latest Tigray atrocity, locals claim). In fact, they took our story, but they didn’t mention us, because they said  it is more credibile like that. 

In local media in Ethiopia and the diaspora: 

• Dimtsi Weyane Television covers Tghat event A Music and Discussion Event for Tigray at Splendor Amsterdam (also to be livestreamed)
• Dimtsi Weyane Television covers (in Amharic) Tghat’s The Human Cost of Peace in Tigray 
• Dimtsi Weyane Television covers (in Tigrinya)  Tghat’s Tigrayan families at greatest risk of starvation are last to get food
• Dimtsi Weyane Television covers  (in Afaan Oromo) Tghat’s State of the Famine Response in Tigray
• Dimtsi Weyane covers (in Tigrinya)  Food aid restarts in Tigray with a reduced target. See also Dimtsi Weyanne Facebook Page.  
• Dimtsi Weyanne: Getache Reda says praises  Tghat, albeit in a context where he  criticizes another media outlet (in Tigrinya, see  from Minute mark 33፡00) 
• ​​Tigrai Media House covers Tgha’s Takeaways from Isaias Afewerki’s interview 
• Dimtsi Weyane Television covers A Music and Discussion Event for Tigray at Splendor Amsterdam (also to be livestreamed)
• Dimtsi Weyane  covers  Addi Qoylo Massacre
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECqPqG46U20 covers Tghat’s HRW Horn of African Director warns against terminating mandate of ICHREE
• Dimtsi Weyane   Tghat’s Interview with Laetitia Bader 
•   Addis Standard: Navigating Betrayal, Defending Autonomy: Quadrant alignment imperiling Tigray’s survival, sovereignty mentions a Tghat Forum discussion. 

Tghat in policy and reports: 

• Danish Immigration Service: Ethiopia; Security situation in Amhara, Oromia and Tigray regions and return
• COI FOCUS Ethiopia Security situation in Tigray (2024)
• COI FOCUS Eritrea  Mobilisatie na de oorlog in Tigray (2025) 
• The Netherlands Foreign Ministry:  Thematisch Ambtsbericht Tigray 2021
• The Netherlands Foreign Ministry: Algemeen Ambtsbericht Ethiopië 2022
• COI Focus ETHIOPIE Veiligheidssituatie in Tigray
• The Norwegian Country of Origin Information Centre: Temanotat Etiopia Sikkerhet og humanitære forhold i Tigray etter våpenhvileavtalen
• UN: A Joint Press Release by Salsay Weyane Tigray (SAWET)
• International Peace Information Service – IPIS: January 2022 – Current Famine as weapon of war
• Chatham House: Navigating the regionalization of Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict
• Starvation Accountability: A GLOBAL RIGHTS COMPLIANCE OSINT …
• Genocide in Tigray: Serious Breaches of International Law in the Tigray Conflict, Ethiopia, and Paths to Accountability
• U.S. Department of State: ETHIOPIA 2022 INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUSETHIOPIA 2022 INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM REPORT
• U.S. Department of Education: Enhancing Access to Inclusive Education Policies for Girls with Disabilities in Post-War Tigray
• University of Oxforf: Humanitarian, Social, Economic, and Political Costs
• BAMF – Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Germany): Länderreport 33 Äthiopien (05/2021)
• BAMF – Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (Germany): Länderreport Äthiopien – Tigray (Stand: 09/2022)
• Swedish Defence and Security Analysis Department: Etiopien – Lifos 
• United Nations: A/HRC/56/NGO/16 General Assembly – the United Nations
• World Heritage Watch Report: World Heritage Watch Report 2024
• INTER-AGENCY HUMANITARIAN EVALUATION OF THE RESPONSE TO THE CRISIS IN NORTHERN ETHIOPIA 
• Center for Strategic and International Studies: U.S. SECURITY PARTNERSHIPS AND THE PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS
• Al Jazeera Centre for Studies: Civil Society Monitor of the Cessation of Cessation of Hostilities Agreement
• The All-Party Parliamentary Group on International Law, Justice, and Accountability:  The Three Horsemen of the War in Tigray – Mass Killings, Sexual Violence and Starvation
•  Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World AffairsThe Tigray Conflict: When Ethnicity Takes Precedence cites our article on Perversion of Evangelical Christianity. 
• The Japan Platform Ethiopia Conflict Victims Assistance Response Plan: エチオピア紛争被災者支援対応計画
• Eritrea Focus: THE TIGRAY WAR & REGIONAL IMPLICATIONS
• General Assembly – the United Nations
• The Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Thematic Country of Origin Information Report on Tigray 2021
• The Sentry: Power and Blunder  
• The Call to Action on Protection from Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies
• Data for Governance Alliance Policy Brief
• The 4th Universal Periodic Review: Social Services and Values in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region

Tghat in academic publications 

• Online speech and offline violence: Reflections on the current violence in Ethiopia 
• Humanitarian aid must be allowed to enter the besieged Tigray region of Ethiopia 
• Tigray: A Nation in Search of Statehood? 
• Introduction: Situating Ethiopia in Genocide Debates 
• Inventing hell: how the Ethiopian and Eritrean regimes produced famine in Tigray 
• Crop Cultivation at Wartime – Plight and Resilience of Tigray’s Agrarian Society (North Ethiopia)
• Mass Atrocities in Ethiopia and Myanmar: The Case for ‘Harm Mitigation’ in R2P Implementation
• ACM Interactions’ Mapmaking for memory’s sake: The Tigray genocide
• Cites Tghat’s Victim List.   
• Sexual Violence and the Mobilisation of Diasporic Tigrayan cites a Tghat forum discussion. 

Tghat in theses:

•  Populism in Ethiopia?  THE CASE OF PRIME MINISTER ABIY
• AND HIS MEDEMER PHILOSOPHY
•  Tigray Genocide
•  Revealing sexual violence as a weapon of war : the case of the Ethiopian civil conflict in Tigray 2020-2022
•  Human Rights Responsibilities Of States In Armed Conflicts case of Eritrean involvement in Ethiopia’s Tigray war

Tghat in books: 

• Reporting Heritage Destruction: From Darkness to Dawn: Cultural Heritage Restoration in Tigray, Ethiopia’s Conflict Zone
• Tigray: The Hysteresis of War 
• Tigary: The Panarchy of War
• Ethiopia’s Insecurity Complex: Protest, Transition, and War 
• Understanding Ethiopia’s Tigray War

Tghat in human rights and advocacy reports and statements:

• The New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy: Genocide in Tigray: Serious Breaches of International Law in the Tigray Conflict, Ethiopia, and Paths to Accountability
• Yale Law School Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic: “All of Us Are in Const Ant HUnger” 
• Global Rights Compliance: An OSINT Investigation of Starvation Crimes in Tigray
• The New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy: Conflict-Related Sexual and Reproductive Violence in Tigray
• Joint Human Rights watch and Amnesty International Report: “WE WILL ERASE YOU FROM THIS LAND” 
• The New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy: Conflict-Related Sexual and Reproductive Violence in Tigray

Other citations and mentions: 

Wikipedia articles where Tghat articles are used as evedence material: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:WhatLinksHere/Tghat

Recognitions: Tghat was recognized by and given an award by the Tigray-based EYES (a civil society) for its service during the war.