National Geographic - USA (2021-11)

A War on Itself

BY LYNSEY ADDARIO AND RACHEL HARTIGAN

PHOTOGRAPHS BY LYNSEY ADDARIO

ETHIOPIA’S CIVIL WAR

HAS BECOME A humanitarian crisis,

WITH millions displaced,

thousands dead,

AND THE NATION’S EXISTENCE

in jeopardy.

Civilians have been

targeted with particular

brutality during the

conflict in Tigray. This

woman says she was

raped by 15 Eritrean

soldiers in one week.

She doesn’t know

where her children are.

“This is doomsday for

me,” she says.

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