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An independent Ethiopia based online media focusing on current affairs. Original content+daily gist of media monitoring
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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.”
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He confessed that “the Ethiopian leaders” responded by rather strongly worded languages such as “We are going to destroy” and “wipe out the Tigrayans for one hundred years”

“For me this referred to very serious human rights atrocities and crimes” he said, adding “If you wipe out a national minority, it’s obvious that we have to react because it looks like ethnic cleansing.”

https://addisstandard.com/news-ethiopian-leaders-told-me-theyre-going-to-wipe-out-destroy-tigryans-claims-eu-envoy/amp/?__twitter_impression=true