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Civil War Never Ended in Ethiopia: I Have Never Seen this Kind of Cruelty in My Life’ – NY Times

December 5, 2024

By Alexis Okeowo
NY Times

Dec. 5, 2024

A rare look inside a region still reckoning with the toll of war crimes, even as new conflicts roil the nation.

Alexis Okeowo spent almost two weeks in Ethiopia for this article, visiting Amhara, Tigray and other areas with limited access to foreign journalists.

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Before war broke out in Ethiopia, in late 2020, Mehari could take the bus home from her work as a doctor at a public hospital in Axum, a town in the country’s northern region Tigray. But then fighting between its ruling party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, and Ethiopia’s federal government shut down public transportation, and Mehari was forced to walk 40 minutes between home and the hospital. After federal troops took the town and imposed a 6 p.m. curfew, Mehari would leave the hospital at the last possible moment, staying as long as she could to care for her patients. “I had to run from work to home almost every day,” she recalled. She was afraid soldiers would find her alone after curfew. “Maybe being killed could be the easiest thing that happens to you,” she said.

Read More – https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/05/magazine/ethiopia-civil-war-crimes.html

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