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'I Would Never Go Back': Horrors Grow in Ethiopia's Conflict

Associated Press

   HAMDAYET, SUDAN - One survivor arrived on broken legs, others on the
   run.

   In this fragile refugee community on the edge of Ethiopia's Tigray
   conflict, those who have fled nearly two months of deadly fighting
   continue to bring new accounts of horror.

   At a simple clinic in Sudan, one doctor-turned-refugee, Tewodros
   Tefera, examines the wounds of war: Children injured in explosions.
   Gashes from axes and knives. Broken ribs from beatings. Feet scraped
   raw from days of hiking to safety.

   On a recent day, he treated the shattered legs of fellow refugee Guesh
   Tesla, a recent arrival.

   The 54-year-old carpenter came bearing news of about 250 young men
   abducted to an unknown fate from a single village, Adi Aser, into
   neighboring Eritrea by Eritrean forces, whose involvement Ethiopia
   denies. Then in late November, Guesh said he saw dogs feeding on the
   bodies of civilians near his hometown of Rawyan, where he said
   Ethiopian soldiers beat him and took him to the border town of Humera.

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