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Anger and collective trauma scar Ethiopia's Tigray region

One woman was held captive for over ten days, raped by 23 Eritrean soldiers, then left on the side of the road. Surgeons had to remove stones and nails that had been inserted inside her genitals.

https://amp.dw.com/en/anger-and-collective-trauma-scar-ethiopias-tigray-region/a-56794452
#OLF officially out from upcoming election, continues call for release of its jailed leadership, members addisstandard.com/news-analysis-… Batte Urgessa spoke to @Siyaanne on arrests that depopulated the party of its key personnel, & deprived it of the ability to organize for election.
The massacre in #Axum is one of the deadliest atrocities documented so far in the conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia. @Amnesty is calling for a UN-led investigation into this and all alleged atrocities that have been committed in the conflict.

Our report: amn.st/6015HoTsT 📢
The intentional use of the starvation of civilians as a method of waging war is a war crime.

This week I urged the @UN Security Council to seek accountability for these atrocious acts, and to remind parties to conflict of their obligations under international humanitarian law.
https://twitter.com/antonioguterres/status/1370727343497576450?s=21
Biden Dispatches Senate Ally to Ethiopia to Address Crisis
Chris Coons to deliver a tough message to Abiy Ahmed.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/03/18/biden-chris-coons-senator-ethiopia-tigray-crisis/
Coons told Foreign Policy in a statement that he shares the administration’s concerns with the “deteriorating situation in the Tigray, which threatens the peace and stability of the Horn of Africa region.”
Ethiopia: A rare view inside the conflict zone
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-africa-56456793?__twitter_impression=true

Six-year-old Betlehem Tesfaye, who fled from near Aksum, about 50km (31 miles) to the east, lost both her legs in the conflict. Her mother was killed in the same explosion.

Her father spent his savings on her treatment. And now he does not know how he can get prosthetic legs for her.
Ethiopia ‘will be digging up mass graves for a decade’: inside Tigray’s dirty war https://t.co/oB23J160Hu

Holding a leaf from a eucalyptus tree, she said: “The innocent blood of Tigrayans will fertilise this ground and grow fresh leaves. Our dead children will not be forgotten.”