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HAMDAYET, SUDAN - The young coffee seller said she was split from family and friends by an Ethiopian soldier at the Tekeze River, taken down a path, and given a harrowing choice. He said: Choose, either I kill you or rape you , the 25-year-old told Reuters at the Hamdayet refugee camp in Sudan where she had fled from conflict in Ethiopia s Tigray region.
The doctor who treated her when she arrived at the camp in December, Tewadrous Tefera Limeuh, confirmed to Reuters that he provided pills to stop pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, and guided her to a psychotherapist.
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HAMDAYET, Sudan – One survivor arrived on broken legs, others on the run.
In this fragile refugee community on the edge of Ethiopia s Tigray conflict, those who have fled nearly two months of deadly fighting continue to bring new accounts of horror.
At a clinic in Sudan, one doctor-turned-refugee, Tewodros Tefera, examines the wounds of war: Children injured in explosions. Gashes from axes and knives. Broken ribs from beatings. Feet scraped raw from days of hiking to safety.
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