For nearly three months residents of Dengolat, a village in northern Ethiopia s Tigray region, have been afraid to share their traumatic story with the world.
On November 30 last year, Eritrean soldiers massacred 164 civilians in the town of Dengolat in Ethiopia s Tigray region, one day after a major Orthodox Christian holiday.
The killing was one of the worst incidents of civilian suffering in the ongoing conflict in Tigray, where the Ethiopian government launched a military operation and unseated the long-ruling TPLF.
Mass graves now dot the village as surviving family members mourn their deceased loved ones.
Violence and grief
Beyenesh Tekleyohannes heard the first gunshots as she fled in the opposite direction to safety, and immediately feared the worst for her male loved ones down below: her husband, two adult sons and two nephews.