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Senayit was raped by soldiers on two separate occasions—in her home in Edagahamus, and as she tried to flee to Mekele with her 12-year-old son. (The names of the rape victims mentioned in this story are pseudonyms.) The second time, she was pulled from a minibus, drugged, and brought to a military base, where she was tied to a tree and sexually assaulted repeatedly over the course of 10 days. She fell in and out of consciousness from the pain, exhaustion, and trauma. At one point, she awoke to a horrifying sight: Her son, along with a woman and her new baby, were all dead at her feet. “I saw my son with blood from his neck,” she says. “I saw only his neck was bleeding. He was dead.” Senayit crumpled into her tears, her fists clenched against her face, and howled a visceral cry of pain and sadness, unable to stop weeping. “I never buried him,” she screamed, between sobs. “I never buried him.”

First they use sexual assualt, in order to pseudonym the witnesses (and victims) of the crime, from which the alleged witness reportely suffered pain, exhaustion and trauma. But then the crime was escalated to the level of murdering of her son, a woman and a new born baby.

I used before on this forum the way many people who think they are the only ones, that can understand everything and anything rely on the old and reused template (outdated template).

I am not trying to downplay sexual assualt against someone,which is gruesome, provided that it happened, but in my understanding still better to be able to stay in life than losing one's life, not to mention the lives of three people on a spot.

Where do you start to tell such story? From the more gruesome part or from the less gruesome part? why?

You use the one where you can find a cover for your fabrication, most likely. Else I can't tell why someone would try to put the lose of 3 lives behind the sexual assualt?

The cover up is here the use of pseudonym, at the cost of the victims' getting justice.

A grave humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Ethiopia. ‘I never saw hell before, but now I have.’