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Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye is a PhD holder and a Morgan State University graduate who spent the entire Tigray genocide period spewing racist misogynist violent content and hate speech on Twitter using different accounts and stolen women’s photos. The latest in our series of members of Ethipia’s academic elite who used their education to tirelessly support the Ethiopian government during its campaign of rape and murder, Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye who is supposedly an expert in IT operated numerous accounts even as Twitter blocked and banned them for mocking rape victims. He had no sympathy even as 600,000 Tigrayans died from the genocide he supported. Until this day he continues with extremely racist content that targets Tigrayans, Somalis and Ukrainians.

Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye described himself as a “cyber security and data science researcher,” as well as an “educator and innovator,” on his original Twitter profile. When the genocide of Tigrayans began in 2020, he began to dedicate more and more of his time to using Twitter for hate speech, denying war crimes and spreading racism. But as his foul conduct would likely geet him in trouble in the work force, Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye decided to change his Twitter handle, Twitter name and profile picture in order to engage in abusive disgusting behavior online without revealing his identity.

Unfortunately for him, Tigrayan online investigators were able to easily identify his identity despite him being a self declared cyber security expert. More on that later.

In 2021, Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye changed his handle from @RasWonde to @GraceHoneyPot and his Twitter name to Grace. He engaged in catphishing by stealing the photograph of a young woman in Addis Ababa and pretending to be her (we are not identifying the woman, but we want to make it clear she has nothing to do with Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye’s online activities).

With the persona of a young woman, Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye began to mock rape victims of the Tigray genocide. Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers gang raped hundreds of thousands of women during the war, and rape victims still suffer as a result today. Horrific reports of the suffering of rape victims, many who contracted HIV, were raped over a period of days or weeks, had foreign objects inserted into them, or had their reproductive organs burned while being mocked with genocidal violence shocked the world.

In response to such horrors, in May 2021, using his fake name @gracehoneypot, Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye used disgusting language to mock Tigrayan rape victims saying:

“TIP: Every time TPLFites call you names like "Donkey", ask them "How does it feel like to be f**ked by a Donkey ?" 😛 Sorry not sorry 🤷‍♀️” a link to this disgusting tweet: https://web.archive.org/web/20210504185813/https:/twitter.com/GraceHoneypot/status/1389655182359900170

In response to a tweet by Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch who expressed sadness about the reports of gang rapes of women by up to 10 Ethiopian soldiers, Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye quoted and wrote:

"sometimes as many as 10 men waiting their turn to rape her." At least make the story plausible. You made it as if she was the only woman available in Tigray. dum dum dum” link to this tweet: https://web.archive.org/web/20210314043527/https:/twitter.com/GraceHoneypot/status/1370956686811398144

By using the picture of a young woman in Addis Ababa, Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye endangered her by using her image to spread extremely violent tweets which mocked rape victims. Tigrayans complained and reported the account, but nothing happened. As the trauma from reports of vulnerable rape and genocide victims in Tigray caused trauma for Tigrayans around the world, Mr. Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye used his platform which had tens of thousands of followers to insult them with language that is not fit for someone who is supposedly educated with a phD.

#FakeTigrayRape and #faketigraygenocide were some of the hashtags Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye used when engaging in misogyny online.

As a small brained, disgusting, misogynist, insecure man, Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye went after women who were outspoken or critical about the gang rapes that were carried out against Tigrayan women. Unable to intimidate them, he repeatedly harassed them online in an attempt to force them off the platform.

In response to reporting by the CNN’s Nima Elbagir who had found out that Tigrayan men were targeted in genocidal killings near the border with Sudan a very angry Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye claimed the reports were false and that the bodies of dead rebel fighters were being identified as civilians and dumped in a single place for Nima to fake a massacre, misinformation that Ethiopian government supporters were spreading for most of the genocide. He kept denying reports of atrocities and genocide with no evidence but blind rage and hatred, as even if journalists from around the world were confirming the reports.

In response to artificial intelligence expert Dr. Timnit Gebru repeatedly condemning the rape and genocide, Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye used his account to tag her and call her “a virgin.” Social media users now say that Mr. Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye had repeatedly targeted Dr. Timnit because of her superior expertise in IT, a field that Mr. Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye specializes in and the idea of him trailing far behind a woman in every aspect clearly hurt him deeply. The disgusting misogynist insult did not intimidate Dr. Timnit Gebru.

He also targeted Meaza Gidey Gebremedhin a Tigrayan and another formidable woman who spoke out and condemned the genocide. Likely burning and insecure about Meaza being able to attend powerful summits and platforms, Mr. Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye called her “a little satan.”

When Russia invaded Ukraine, Mr. Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye began commenting on Russian affairs siding with Russia and referring to Ukrainian fighters as “Nazis” and “bitches.” His opinion on the invasion of Ukraine was “The west allied to fight the Nazi to crown themselves as the better Nazi not coz they are against fascism!” Once he referred to the TDF Tigray fighters in Tigray and Ukrainian soldiers as nazis fighting for the west.

He denied massacres and human suffering. He attacked a journalist for the AFP Robbie Corey-Boulet because he reported on killings of Tigrayan civilians. Robbie’s reporting revealed that new massacres and displacement were taking place in Humera. But Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye called it “another fake Humera massacre.”

Instead he kept spreading misinformation saying that all the dead civilians in the massacre reports were really dead fighters whose bodies were being carried to locations to look like a massacre.

In September 2021 when Al Jazeera produced a report confirming that women were still being raped and victims of horrible sexual violence weaponized by soldiers Mr. Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye said “They are now regurgitating their old videos and playing victims once again.” Mr. Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye’s obsession with mocking the rape victims was shocking and disgusting.

After almost two years of denying genocide and mocking journalism genocide reports Twitter finally suspended Mr. Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye’s fake @GraceHoneyPot account.

But he immediately opened a new account also named Grace, with a new handle @adeniumobesum_ and made it clear that this was his new one because the old one was suspended.

He stole the photograph of another young woman and continue to catphish believing that no one would know of his true identity. This account remains active and he is using the photograph of a young Italy based Eritrean woman who has nothing to do with his Twitter activity. Again, because he is pretending to be the women in his photographs, the real women may possibly be endangered by his use of violent, racist genocidal language with their photographs.

When Tigrayans learned of his real identity, Mr. Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye panicked and because he thinks he is a cybersecurity expert, he believed the only way it was possible was that Twitter employees secretly handed his data to Tigrayan activists. He tweeted threatening to sue Twitter employees who he thought exposed him.

But the truth is Mr. Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye was not a smart man. Instead of using a new account for his bad activities, he used his original account by renaming the account. So by searching for the account history, it was easy to find that the @GraceHoneyPot account that he used to mock rape victims for two years was originally his @RasWonde account.

Some evidence is here. Look at this link https://web.archive.org/web/20210103144721/twitter.com/RasWonde/status/1345743224074358785

This link with “ras wonde” in it leads to a tweet he made in 3rd January 2021. It is his original account and you can see his real photo, his real name in Amharic and his original handle.

But then a few weeks later he tweeted this 24 January 2021.

This link also has “ras wonde.” In this picture, he changed the photo to the stolen one of the young women, but he did not change the handle yet. So we can see his original @RasWonde handle with the stolen photo and the fake name Grace.

On 25 January 2021 he tweeted with this link and the new handle: https://web.archive.org/web/20210125005720/https://twitter.com/GraceHoneypot/status/1353507057266274311

But he forgot to change the old bio from @Raswonde and it still say “AI for cyber security researcher, educator, innovator.” In the pictures below, you can see the same tweets for both @Raswonde and even @Gracehoneypot. So if you want to steal women’s photos and use Twitter to attack and harass women and rape victims the lesson is you should not use your own account!

Nowadays with the genocide in Tigray slowing down Mr. Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye focuses his energy on racism and hate speech targeting Somali people. Using his new account @adeniumobesum he uses disgusting racist stereotype language and calls Somali people by using an ethnic slur “zoomali” which is very offensive to Somali people and culture. He spent the last year using this term and spreading racism against them and also calling them bitches.

He also uses xenophobia and islamophobia against them.

One tweet read:

“Zoomali eating banana like a monkey and stateless. You guys kill each other like the worst epidemic and still practice the Abrhamic religion, Islam.” Here is the link: https://x.com/AdeniumObesum_/status/1645292412451934208

Mr. Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye is an insecure, evil, disgusting misogynist. He spent years of his life dedicated to mocking victims of a genocide that left 600,000 people dead. His hatred of women who were not intimidated or afraid of him triggered an anger in him that led him to an obsession with women journalists, activists and anti genocide voices. He tried to pretend to be a woman, using the faces he stole through catphishing. In the end, Tigrayan women are the ones who exposed his real identity.

He is just another member of Ethiopia’s educated elite who used his education for genocidal purposes, siding with rapists against girls and women.

N.B reminder that the women seen in the photographs of Mr. Wondimu Kassahun Zegeye twitter accounts HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH HIS TWITTER ACTIVITY! They did not consent to their images being used in this disgusting way, which is illegal and a violation of their rights.