Rusted screws, metal spikes and plastic rubbish: the horrific sexual violence used against Tigray’s women

Rusted screws, metal spikes and plastic rubbish: the horrific sexual violence used against Tigray’s women

Warning: this article contains extremely graphic and distressing testimony and imagesTens of thousands of Tigrayan women report brutal wartime abuse by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers, such as gang-rape and the insertion of objects into their uteruses. But justice seems a distant prospectPhotographs and reporting by Ximena BorrazasFor two years, Tseneat carried her rape inside her. The agony never faded. It attacked her from the inside out. The …