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‘Leave no Tigrayan’: In Ethiopia, an ethnicity is erased (Miami Herald)

April 7, 2021 9:25 PM / Leave a comment

‘Leave no Tigrayan’: In Ethiopia, an ethnicity is erased (Miami Herald)

BY CARA ANNA ASSOCIATED PRESS

Lemlem Gebrehiwet, a 20-year-old Tigrayan refugee, holds her 3-day-old daughter, Semhal, in their shelter in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 16, 2021. Other Tigrayans were turned away because of who they were. "They started distributing new ID cards in Bahkar but only for Amhara and Wolkait," said Gebrehiwet, who fled while heavily pregnant and gave birth three days after reaching Sudan. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)
Lemlem Gebrehiwet, a 20-year-old Tigrayan refugee, holds her 3-day-old daughter, Semhal, in their shelter in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, near the border with Ethiopia, on March 16, 2021. Other Tigrayans were turned away because of who they were. “They started distributing new ID cards in Bahkar but only for Amhara and Wolkait,” said Gebrehiwet, who fled while heavily pregnant and gave birth three days after reaching Sudan. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty) NARIMAN EL-MOFTY AP

HAMDAYET, SUDAN

The atrocities have been seared into the skin and the minds of Tigrayans, who take shelter by the thousands within sight of the homeland they fled in northern Ethiopia.