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Youngsters play in front of a damaged truck belonging to the Ethiopian Defense Forces in the village of Bisober, in Ethiopia’s Tigray region on December 9, 2020. – Tigrayan forces settled in the school several months ago. The November 14 killings represent just one incident of civilian suffering in Bisober, a farming village home to roughly 2,000 people in southern Tigray. In retrospect, Bisober residents say, the first sign of the conflict came seven months ago, when members of the Tigray Special Forces took over the village elementary school, which had been emptied because of the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by EDUARDO SOTERAS / AFP)
The first shells landed before dawn, crashing through tin-roofed mud homes and sending Jano Admasi’s neighbours fleeing for the cacti-dotted hills around her village in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region.
‘Terrified’ survivors tell of attacks in Tigray crisis
AFP, BISOBER, Ethiopia
The first shells landed before dawn, crashing through tin-roofed mud homes and sending Jano Admasi’s neighbors fleeing for cacti-dotted hills around her village in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region.
Jano, a soft-spoken woman in her 60s, tried to escape as well, running with her eldest son, 46-year-old Miskana, along a dirt road leading out of the village.
However, on the way, she said, they encountered Ethiopian government soldiers who turned them around, forcing them into a nearby house with two other terrified families.
Refugees who fled the Tigray region line up to receive treatment at the Fashaga Camp in Sudan on Monday.
The first foreign aid convoy arrived in the war-hit Tigray region on Tuesday, as the conflict triggered a refugee crisis and humanitarian disaster.
Ethiopia s government launched a month-long attack on the region on November 4, battling forces loyal to the Tigray People s Liberation Front.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said seven trucks brought medicines and medical equipment for 400 wounded as well as relief supplies to Mekele, a city of half a million that had been all-but cut off to foreign aid since fighting began. This is exciting. The ICRC and the Ethiopian Red Cross trucks arrived and so here we are, in Mekele, said Maria Soledad Rueda Garcia, Head of ICRC’s Operations.
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Updated December 15, 2020
Ethiopian refugees who fled fighting in Tigray province are pictured at a reception centre in Sudan’s eastern Gedaref province, on November 17, 2020. (Photo by Ebrahim HAMID / AFP)
The first shells landed before dawn, crashing through tin-roofed mud homes and sending Jano Admasi’s neighbours fleeing for the cacti-dotted hills around her village in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region.
Jano, a soft-spoken woman in her sixties, tried to escape as well, running with her eldest son, 46-year-old Miskana, along a dirt road leading out of the village.
But on the way, she says, they encountered Ethiopian government soldiers who turned them around, forcing them into a nearby house with two other terrified families.