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

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Warning: this article contains extremely graphic and distressing testimony and imagesTens of thousands of Tigrayan women report brutal wartime abuse by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers, such as gang-rape and the insertion of objects into their uteruses. But justice seems a distant prospectPhotographs and reporting by Ximena BorrazasFor 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. Continue reading...