IRROB.ORG

Home » Posts tagged 'UN Official Says (VOA News)'

Tag Archives: UN Official Says (VOA News)

It May be ‘Many Months’ Before Full Scale of Tigray Rapes Known, UN Official Says (VOA News)

A Tigrayan woman who says she was gang raped by Amhara fighters, speaks to surgeon and doctor-turned-refugee, Dr. Tewodros…
FILE – A Tigrayan woman who says she was gang raped by Amhara fighters, speaks to surgeon and doctor-turned-refugee, Dr. Tewodros Tefera, at the Sudanese Red Crescent clinic in Hamdayet near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, eastern Sudan, March 23, 2021.

Editor’s note: This story contains graphic descriptions of rape

A senior United Nations official says that it may be many months before the full scale and magnitude of atrocities being committed against women and girls in Ethiopia’s Tigray region is known, as more reports of sexual violence emerge from the conflict zone.

%d bloggers like this: