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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Fred Harter in Addis Ababa

‘I saw many bodies’: having escaped one conflict, Tigray refugees face new terrors

Refugees at the Um Rakuba settlement in south-east Sudan.
Refugees at the Um Rakuba settlement in south-east Sudan. Photograph: Ed Ram

Selassie’s nightmare began when men who said they were farmers picked him up, promising him agricultural work.

After managing to leave behind the violence of the civil war in his home region of Tigray, northern Ethiopia, in late 2020, he had done several such casual jobs, harvesting sorghum and digging irrigation ditches for farmers near Tunaydbah, a refugee camp in south-eastern Sudan.

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