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Peace deal ending Ethiopia’s Tigray war yet to dispel fear of more atrocities

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 Washington Post

Tigray residents in the towns of Axum, Adwa and Sheraro said some Eritrean soldiers were still present. In the Tigray region, doctors at hospitals in three cities said last week that women were still coming in and reporting that they had been raped by Eritrean soldiers. Residents said in interviews that the Eritreans were also routinely looting food, animals and any remaining phones or equipment from the impoverished population.

 A three-month-old peace deal in Ethiopia has revived humanitarian aid and restored telephone links and electricity to the northern region of Tigray, but many families there are still fearful because of the continued presence of soldiers from neighboring Eritrea, blamed for a wave of atrocities during the two-year war.

Despite widespread reports of a pullout by the Eritreans, who have supported Ethiopian government forces, residents in three Tigrayan cities said in interviews that they had seen Eritrean soldiers as recently as Tuesday. Others said family members in rural areas had informed them that soldiers there also had not left.

“We are not at peace when we live in fear,” said one resident, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.

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