Escape from massacre: Ethiopians recall Tigray conflict horror

Tuesday, November 17, 2020

An Ethiopian refugee rests in the shade inside a hut at the Umm Rakubah camp in Sudan’s eastern Gedaref province on November 16, 2020.

Ebrahim Hamid | AFP

By AFP

For Ethiopians who escaped intense fighting in their northern homeland of Tigray by fleeing into Sudan, they are now safe; but the terrifying nightmare of what they witnessed haunts them.

“I saw bodies dismembered by the explosions,” said Ganet Gazerdier, a 75-year-old sitting alone in the dust at Um Raquba refugee camp in eastern Sudan, newly opened to cope with a sudden influx of over 25,000 people fleeing airstrikes, artillery barrages, and massacres in Ethiopia.

Ebrahim Hamid | AFP