Ethiopia is marking one year of war. Here are some of the AP’s groundbreaking stories on the conflict:http://apne.ws/6qQM1EJ
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Thousands of ethnic Tigrayans were swept up into detention centers across the country on accusations that they were traitors. Many were held for months without charges, the
@AP found in April.http://apne.ws/KKsHj6pShow this thread -
When the
@AP arrived in Hawzen in May, Tigrayan fighters had recently retaken the rural town from Ethiopian government troops, laying claim once again to land that had switched control multiple times since the war began.http://apne.ws/4j1c5KBShow this thread -
“If things don’t change soon, mass starvation is inevitable.” In June, the
@AP found that many people in Tigray were not just starving but being starved. Farmers, aid workers and local officials confirmed that food had been turned into a weapon of war.http://apne.ws/iLhrU6GShow this thread -
Bodies began appearing more frequently in the river separating the Tigray region from Sudan in August, marking the latest deaths in a war that had at that point killed thousands of civilians and spilled into other areas of Ethiopia.http://apne.ws/szyXfKa
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At the scene of one of the deadliest battles in the conflict, witness accounts reflected the increasingly blurred line between combatant and civilian after the Ethiopian government urged all capable citizens to stop Tigray forces “once and for all.” http://apne.ws/0Vdhaay pic.twitter.com/HaKEclHh7T
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In every district of Ethiopia’s Tigray region where one aid group works, residents have starved to death. Ethiopia’s prime minister and other senior officials have denied that there is hunger in Tigray.http://apne.ws/kMc3wgx
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