( 2 images )<\/span><\/figcaption>ABUSERS IN UNIFORM<\/h2>\n
The 25-year-old woman who spoke with Reuters said her abuser wore an Ethiopian federal army uniform.<\/p>\n
The five aid workers said other women described their alleged assailants as being militia fighters from Ethiopia\u2019s Amhara region or Eritrean soldiers, both allied with Abiy\u2019s troops. Reuters was unable to determine the identity of the woman\u2019s assailant.<\/p>\n
Abiy\u2019s spokeswoman, Tigray\u2019s interim governor, the mayor of the regional capital Mekelle, Eritrea\u2019s foreign minister and Ethiopia\u2019s army spokesman did not immediately reply to requests for comment on rape allegations. Reuters could not reach TPLF representatives.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t have any information about that,\u201d Amhara regional spokesman Gizachew Muluneh told Reuters by phone.<\/p>\n
Ethiopia and Eritrea have both denied that Eritrean troops are in Ethiopia, contradicting dozens of eyewitness interviews, diplomats and an Ethiopian general.<\/p>\n
\u2018WHY IS A WOMAN RAPED?\u2019<\/p>\n
At a meeting of security officials in Mekelle broadcast on Ethiopian state TV earlier this month, one soldier spoke of abuses even after the city had been captured by federal forces.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was angry yesterday. Why does a woman get raped in Mekelle city? It wouldn\u2019t be shocking if it happened during the war … But women were raped yesterday and today when the local police and federal police are around,\u201d said the soldier, who was not identified.<\/p>\n
Local authorities did not immediately respond to efforts to seek comment on whether any soldiers might be investigated or brought to justice.<\/p>\n
Tewadrous, the refugee camp doctor, described two other rape cases he had handled. One woman, who said she had escaped from Rawyan town in Tigray, told of three soldiers she identified as Amhara special forces knocking at her door, the doctor said. When she refused them entry, they broke in and assaulted her.<\/p>\n
An aid worker in the town of Wukro told Reuters victims had recounted how a husband was forced to kneel and watch while his wife was raped by soldiers they identified as Eritrean.<\/p>\n
A medical worker in Adigrat said he treated six women who had been raped by a group of soldiers and told not to seek help afterwards. They found courage to come forward days later, but there were no medicines to treat them, the medic said.<\/p>\n
In Mekelle, one man was beaten up after begging soldiers to stop raping a 19-year-old, according to a medical worker who treated both victims. Mekelle charity Elshadai said it has prepared 50 beds for rape victims.<\/p>\n
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