[ti:The Human Cost of Ethiopia’s Fighting in Tigray Grows]
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[00:00.04]People who fled fighting in Ethiopia's Tigray area
[00:06.60]continue to tell stories of suffering as they gather in refugee camps.
[00:15.12]At a simple medical center in Sudan,
[00:18.88]a doctor who is also a refugee cares for the hurt and sick.
[00:26.28]Tewodros Tefera sees many injuries: children hurt in explosions,
[00:33.92]wounds from axes and knives, and broken bones from beatings.
[00:40.44]Recently, he treated the broken legs of refugee Guesh Tesla,
[00:47.88]a woodworker who just arrived at the camp.
[00:52.88]He came with information about 250 young men
[00:58.52]taken from one village into neighboring Eritrea by Eritrean forces.
[01:06.28]Ethiopia denies Eritrean forces are involved in the fighting.
[01:12.44]In late November, Guesh said he saw many bodies
[01:17.52]on the streets in his hometown of Rawyan.
[01:21.68]There, he said, Ethiopian soldiers
[01:24.92]beat him and took him to the border town of Humera.
[01:29.84]The Humera courthouse, he said, had been turned into a center for killing
[01:36.00]by militias from the neighboring Amhara area.
[01:40.92]He heard the screams of men being killed,
[01:44.84]and quietly escaped during the night.
[01:48.60]"I would never go back," he said.
[01:52.80]It is impossible to know if these stories are true
[01:57.28]as Tigray remains almost completely cut off from the world.
[02:02.92]It has been more than 50 days since fighting began
[02:07.60]between Ethiopian forces and groups in Tigray.
[02:13.28]The Tigray people led the country's government
[02:16.36]for nearly 30 years, but are now marginalized.
[02:22.04]Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed
[02:26.44]continues to refuse international requests
[02:30.56]to bring humanitarian assistance to the area.
[02:34.64]He also refuses requests from those pressing
[02:39.20]for investigations of Ethiopian forces.
[02:44.04]Last year, Abiy won the Nobel Peace Prize for political reforms.
[02:50.20]But this conflict threatens to end his peace-making activities.
[02:56.80]"I know the conflict has caused unimaginable suffering,"
[03:03.60]Abiy wrote last week.
[03:06.64]He argued, however, that "the heavy cost we incurred as a nation
[03:12.40]was necessary" to hold the country together.
[03:16.92]No one knows how many thousands of people have been killed in Tigray
[03:22.92]since the fighting began on November 4.
[03:27.20]The United Nations has said there are reports of artillery strikes
[03:32.64]on populated areas, civilians being targeted and looting.
[03:39.32]Now, refugees are arriving from areas deeper inside Tigray.
[03:45.44]They have more severe trauma, Tewodros said.
[03:50.88]He said there are signs of starvation and dehydration
[03:55.68]and some gunshot wounds among the refugees.
[04:01.00]In the future, the stories of refugees, like Tewodros and Guesh,
[04:08.16]and the people who are still in Tigray,
[04:11.08]will show how much abuse was carried out
[04:14.32]against people for ethnic reasons.
[04:18.20]"Everyone looks at you and points out the part of you
[04:22.48]that doesn't belong to them," said Tewodros.
[04:26.24]He is both an ethnic Tigrayan and Amhara.
[04:31.72]"So, if I go to Tigray, they would pick up that I'm Amhara
[04:37.20]because Amhara is not a part of them.
[04:40.40]When I go to Amhara, they would pick up the part of Tigray
[04:44.80]because Tigray is not a part of them."
[04:48.24]Such differences have become deadly.
[04:51.88]Many ethnic Tigrayan refugees
[04:54.88]have accused ethnic Amhara fighters of targeting them.
[05:00.24]The Amhara militias are fighting with Ethiopian government forces.
[05:06.36]Abrahaley Minasbo is a 22-year-old dancer.
[05:11.40]He said Amhara militia members
[05:14.56]pulled him from his home in Mai-Kadra on November 9.
[05:19.64]They beat him in the street with an axe and other tools,
[05:24.00]and they left him to die.
[05:26.32]He survived and made it to Sudan.
[05:29.88]His face is covered with scars.
[05:33.40]For Tewodros, the conflict has been about the wounded civilians.
[05:39.56]In November, he worked at a hospital in Humera that came under fire.
[05:45.48]He insisted some of the shelling came from the direction of Eritrea.
[05:51.32]Fifteen bodies arrived at the hospital that first day,
[05:55.84]and eight the next, he said.
[05:58.28]The shelling continued.
[06:00.32]He and his colleagues fled,
[06:03.08]after moving wounded patients to a nearby village.
[06:07.40]Tewodros and colleagues hid for two days in the forest, hearing gunfire.
[06:14.16]They later walked for more than 12 hours, crossing a river into Sudan,
[06:21.00]where he started treating wounded refugees
[06:24.64]for the Sudanese Red Crescent Society.
[06:29.08]"Where we are now is extremely unsafe,"
[06:32.48]he said of the refugee center near the border.
[06:36.92]He said the Amhara fighters threaten the refugees
[06:40.92]from the other side of the river.
[06:44.60]The militias "are more dangerous
[06:46.92]than the Ethiopian national forces," he said.
[06:51.56]I'm Susan Shand. 更多听力请访问21VOA.COM
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