A still from Marianne Getti and Agnes Nabat’s “The Silent Weapon,” a report about sexual violence and ethnic cleansing in Ethiopia, which won the ‘World at a Crossroads’ Award at the 2025 Hinzpeter Awards. (courtesy of the May 18 Foundation)
The top prize of the 2025 Hinzpeter Awards went to bold reporting on large-scale, systematic wartime sexual violence that occurred in Ethiopia during the Tigray War.
The Hinzpeter Awards Organizing Committee announced the winners of five categories (four competitive, one noncompetitive) in a press conference at the May Recollection Archive Hall at the May 18 Foundation in Gwangju, Korea, on Thursday.
The grand prize, called “World at a Crossroads,” went to Marianne Getti and Agnes Nabat for “The Silent Weapon,” a video report about a campaign of mass rapes committed by a coalition of Ethiopian government forces, Eritrean government forces, and the Amhara Fano militia from the northwestern Amhara region.
Getti and Nabat smuggled themselves into the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia and reported on sexual violence and efforts to help the survivors. Their reporting demanded considerable courage, given the Ethiopian government’s efforts to prosecute a “war without witnesses” that had claimed the lives of 600,000 people. Read more…