Tigray war: Ordeals of sexual violence survivors

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Burned by acid, raped, and mutilated, survivors of Ethiopia's Tigray war carry enduring scars. They are victims of the devastating weaponization of sexual violence. Viewer discretion advised, as some images are distressing.

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00:00She's holding in one room and locked it.

00:30They raped her for three, four days.

00:34Finally, they introduced this acidic substance in my head.

00:38Finally.

00:39She lives alone.

00:40She's always stressed.

00:41She's always crying

00:45because she needs a plastic surgery.

00:48Her medical intervention is for a plastic surgery

00:53in Addis, or rather, but she couldn't afford still.

00:57She's always on itchy and also pain, day and night.

01:03She says, I couldn't rest, always in pain.

01:27Plastic and plastic things are placed in my body,

01:49but it's also burning.

01:52Yeah, firing.

01:55Scissors.

01:57They cut me, they cut me, my vagina with scissors.

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