HUNDREDS OF WOMEN, GIRLS BRUTALIZED BY SOLDIERS IN TIGRAY WAR .

Soldiers came to their homes and demanded to know the whereabouts of their husbands, fathers or brothers, insisting the men were fighters with Tigrayan forces at war with the government of Ethiopia. When the men were nowhere to be found, soldiers attacked wives, daughters and sisters. “They pointed a gun at me and shouted, ‘We know your father is a fighter,” said one 16-year-old rape survivor in an empty and looted community center in Mekelle, Tigray’s regional capital.