Health official alleges 'sexual slavery' in Tigray; women blame soldiers

Health official alleges ‘sexual slavery’ in Tigray; women blame soldiers
By Reuters
By Katharine Houreld
Adigrat, Ethiopia - The young mother was trying to get home with food for her two children when she says soldiers pulled her off a minibus in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, claiming it was overloaded.
It was the beginning of an 11-day ordeal in February, during which she says she was repeatedly raped by 23 soldiers who forced nails, a rock and other items into her vagina, and threatened her with a knife.
Doctors showed Reuters the bloodstained stone and two 3-inch nails they said they had removed from her body.

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