Thread by @meronina

Thread: Wounded Eritrean refugees from Hintsats refugee camp in Tigray are taken back to Eritrea, through three way call I was able to speak to one of the refugees who is hospitalized in Barentu Eritrea. He told me that Ethiopian federal military and Eritrean military controlled

the refugee camps and fighting enraptured between the Tigrayan militia in the area as I was running the Tigrayan militia man shot me with a small pistol that he was holding, he thought I was one of the Eritrean soldier or their collaborator and all I remember after that is

waking up in Barentu Eritrea. He kept on screaming on the phone saying “why am I here, who brought me here, I don’t want to be here, what will happen to me now…etc”. He told me that he saw tens of dead refugees at the refugee camp when fighting enraptured,

he also told me 3 other wounded Eritreans plus a mother of one of the wounded boys were taken to Barentu and that the mother had three other children left behind at the Hintsats refugee camp in Tigray. She is worried for her three children left in Tigray,

she is worried about her wounded son who is now half paralyzed from waist down and the doctors have told her that there is not enough treatment for him in Eritrea, she is worried of what will happen to her as she is under Eritrean security agencies

and she was told she can not go back to Ethiopia. Similar stories of the other two wounded refugees now being treated in Barentu. He says he see new refugees being brought back from Tigray to the hospital, he asked me will UNHCR make sure that we return

and he asked me if there is anybody that will check on our safety, will there be accountability for what happened to us. The direct family person who connected us is in Sweden and is willing to speak to the media if there is an interest.

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