Trauma, anger as Tigrayans recount Eritrea troops’ ‘grave crimes’
Al Jazeera
Survivors and witnesses accuse forces from neighbouring country of committing abuses in Ethiopia’s embattled region.
Mekelle, Ethiopia – December 4 is a date that fills Mona Lisa Abraha with horror. It was then, the 18-year-old says, that Eritrean soldiers entered her village of Tembin in Ethiopia’s embattled region of Tigray. “They tried to rape me and I was thrown to the ground. Then, one of the soldiers fired bullets to scare me, but they hit my hand and then fired another bullet that went through my arm,” Abraha recalls from a hospital bed on the outskirts of Tigray’s capital, Mekelle. “I was bleeding for hours. Then, I had my arm amputated,” she says, before breaking down in tears.
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