National Geographic - USA (2021-11)

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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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