AFP: Tigray forces shelling Afar civilians indiscriminately & murdering 6 children in one family alone:
Posted: 17 Feb 2022, 15:08
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"The shell crashed through Aicha Nur's flimsy hut just as she was serving a lunch of bread and milk to her nine-year-old son Tahir.
His slim body quickly became engulfed in flames. She grabbed Tahir and another son before fleeing on foot to safety, dodging an artillery assault carried out by Tigrayan rebels on her village in northern Ethiopia's Afar region. They managed to escape, but Aicha's six other children remain unaccounted for.
More than 15 months since the first shots rang out, foreign envoys are talking up paths to peace for Ethiopia and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed publicly refers to the conflict in the past tense. But Afar is enduring its roughest period yet, sparked by a fresh rebel offensive that has yielded massive destruction and displacement, according to officials and residents. Across the arid, punishingly hot region, shell-shocked survivors await food handouts at schools that have been transformed into makeshift displacement sites."
"The shell crashed through Aicha Nur's flimsy hut just as she was serving a lunch of bread and milk to her nine-year-old son Tahir.
His slim body quickly became engulfed in flames. She grabbed Tahir and another son before fleeing on foot to safety, dodging an artillery assault carried out by Tigrayan rebels on her village in northern Ethiopia's Afar region. They managed to escape, but Aicha's six other children remain unaccounted for.
More than 15 months since the first shots rang out, foreign envoys are talking up paths to peace for Ethiopia and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed publicly refers to the conflict in the past tense. But Afar is enduring its roughest period yet, sparked by a fresh rebel offensive that has yielded massive destruction and displacement, according to officials and residents. Across the arid, punishingly hot region, shell-shocked survivors await food handouts at schools that have been transformed into makeshift displacement sites."