Leave no Tigrayan : In Ethiopia, an ethnicity is erased
By CARA ANNAApril 7, 2021 GMT
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HAMDAYET, Sudan (AP) The atrocities have been seared into the skin and the minds of Tigrayans, who take shelter by the thousands within sight of the homeland they fled in northern Ethiopia.
They arrive in heat that soars above 38 C (100 F), carrying the pain of gunshot wounds, injured vaginas, welts on beaten backs. Less visible are the horrors that jolt them awake at night: Memories of dozens of bodies strewn on riverbanks. Fighters raping a woman one by one for speaking her own language. A child, weakened by hunger, left behind.
The bodies of the two brothers were left for more than a day. Their families knew they were there, but the soldiers wouldn’t let them collect the bodies. The soldiers left behind witnesses, though: two boys, barely teens, tied to a tree nearby, after the soldiers forced them to spend the night on the ground, between the bodies of the murdered men.
The brothers were Kahsay and Tesfay, who both cared for young children and elderly parents in a small village in the northeastern corner of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, in an area home to the Irob, a small ethnic minority.
Dying by blood or by hunger : The war in Ethiopia s Tigray region, explained msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In a series of tweets put out by Omna Tigray, the nonprofit explains the current situation of the people in the region. Beginning now, join us in a Twitter and Petition campaign calling for the protection of the Irob and Kunama communities in Tigray. Hashtags: #IrobMassacre #KunamaStarvation #TigrayGenocide Tweets are available: https://omnatigray.org/irob-kunama/ Sign our petition: https://omnatigray.org/protect-the-irob-and-kunama/ said a tweet. As a minority within a minority, the Irob + Kunama have seen their human rights rapidly deteriorate as the Abiy gov t came into office. After months of active genocide + occupation by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces and Amhara militias, it is unclear how many Irob + Kunama remain, another read.
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Farmer Nega Chekole, 30, a Tigrayan refugee from Humera, touches his stitched wound in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 14. He says he was shot by militias before the war broke out on Nov. 4. The atrocities have been seared into the skin. It s often the only evidence at hand to show the world. Now Tigrayans by the thousands take shelter within sight of the homeland they left behind in northern Ethiopia, some of them told to leave or be killed. Image by Nariman El-Mofty. Sudan, 2021.
HAMDAYET, Sudan (AP) The atrocities have been seared into the skin and the minds of Tigrayans, who take shelter by the thousands within sight of the homeland they fled in northern Ethiopia.