Such are the eternal scars of Tigray’s war; some make furrows in the skin and many others immense holes in the soul.

Azmera has two scars, those on her skin and those on her soul.

#Tigray @UN_Women @unwomenethiopia @WHO After being held for three days at the Eritrean soldiers’ base outside the town of Adwa, after being raped by four soldiers and forced to bury her captive companion, Maeza was transferred to an Ethiopian government base.

She was held there for seven days.

Hayla (name changed at the victim’s request) is 21 years old and was born in a village near Adwa.

During the war she was intercepted at her home by 10 Eritrean soldiers and kidnapped for four days at their military base. ⬇️

#Tigray “They started asking me where are the TDF men? I said, “I don’t know, I’m a civilian, I’m a student”.

Did they rape you? I asked her through Sister Mulu from the Ayder one stop centre, who was acting as interpreter.

“Yes,” Sister Mulu said. “They raped her one by one.

Interviewing Azmera is one of those stories you will never forget, especially if you are a woman.

She is 32 years old and was born in Adwa city, one of the hardest hit by the bloody war that ravaged Tigray from 2020 to 2022. ⬇️

@UN_Women @unwomenafrica @ONUMujeres Before the outbreak of the conflict, her life was very different, she traded goods from Tigray to Djibouti.

On 1 June 2021, two Eritrean patrols came to her house and kidnapped her.

They took her yo the military base in Adi Berak and she was held captive there for 3 days.

I am not and will not be complicit in the silence of the media and international authorities on the brutal rape of women and girls during the war in Tigray.
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While the world and society (because of stigma) itself ignores and hides the raped women and girls, the objects taken from their genitals are a faithful witness to the cruelest darkness of mankind.