Witnesses report on Eritrea’s participation in the war
After the start of the war on 3 November 2020 (ICHREE, 2023), Eritrean and Ethiopian soldiers killed, arrested, and tortured civilians in Aksum (Tesfa et al., 2024). They looted public and private resources
including Aksum University from 19–27 November 2020, according to the focus group discussants (Interviewee AXFGD01, focus group discussion by Tesfa, face-to-face, 23 March 2023). The Eritrean
soldiers in Aksum separately continued looting money, jewellery and smart phones, searching house to house. The soldiers were raping adolescent girls as well as killing civilians (approximately 100 civilians were killed by shelling and indiscriminate killing including a university lecturer – most of whom were killed by the Eritrean Army). Read more