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May
26
2021
By The African Mirror
Soldiers detain hundreds in Tigray

Soldiers detain hundreds in Tigray

NEWS
GUILIA PARAVICINI and KATHERINE HOURELD ERITREAN and Ethiopian soldiers forcibly detained more than 500 young men and women from four camps for displaced people in the town of Shire in the northern region of Tigray on Monday night, three aid workers and a doctor told Reuters. The soldiers arrived at around 11 p.m. and loaded hundreds of people onto trucks, the humanitarians and the doctor said, citing witnesses' accounts. Several men were beaten, their phones and money confiscated, one of the aid workers said. One man who lives in one of the camps, and hid during the incursion, said soldiers…
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Apr
16
2021
By The African Mirror
Exposed: Sexual violence used as a weapon in Tigray

Exposed: Sexual violence used as a weapon in Tigray

NEWS
KATHERINE HOURELD 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. The woman, 27, is among hundreds who have reported that they…
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Apr
16
2021
By The African Mirror
Eritrean soldiers kill nine civilians in Tigray

Eritrean soldiers kill nine civilians in Tigray

NEWS
ERITREAN soldiers have opened fire in an Ethiopian town, killing at least nine civilians and wounding more than a dozen others, a local government official told Reuters. Berhane Gebretsadik, an administrator for Ethiopia's federally appointed interim Tigray government, said on Wednesday that Ethiopian National Defence forces had intervened to repel the attack in the town of Adwa. "It was the Eritrean soldiers who killed innocent people," he said. "If it wasn't for the National Defence who intervened and saved them (residents), they would have continued killing more people," he said, referring to Ethiopia's national army. The attack shows continued Eritrean…
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Mar
28
2021
By The African Mirror
‘Don’t shoot,’ begged priest, before he was shot 3 times

‘Don’t shoot,’ begged priest, before he was shot 3 times

NEWS
FOURTEEN-year-old Mibrak Esayus recalls the day last November when she says Eritrean soldiers burst into her home in Ethiopia's Tigray region and killed her mother and father. It was 10 days into Ethiopia's military campaign against fighters from the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), the region's former ruling party, following their surprise assault on federal army bases in Tigray. The family heard shooting outside their home in the town of Zalambessa, on the border with Eritrea, from around dawn, Mibrak said. Eritrean soldiers burst in around midday. Her father, a priest at the local Ethiopian Orthodox church, begged them "Don't…
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