Rusted screws, metal spikes and plastic rubbish: the horrific sexual violence used against Tigray’s women

In attacks designed to destroy fertility, foreign objects such as these nail clippers, were inserted into women’s wombs, usually following rape. Photograph: Ximena Borrazas

For two years, Tseneat carried her rape inside her. The agony never faded. It attacked her from the inside out. The remnants of the attack stayed in Tseneat’s womb – not as a memory or metaphor, but a set of physical objects:

Eight rusted screws.