Tigray war: Horror of women infected with HIV to reduce target population
Nairobi, March 14 -- For more than 100,000 women in Tigray, in the northern region of Ethiopia, their lives are like empty shells floating in a wavy sea. The horror of sexual violence has ripped off their sense of human hood.
A Columbia University biostatistician Kiros Berhane conducted a study on sexual and gender-based violence during Tigray's two-year civil war (November 3, 2020 -November 2, 2020).
He concluded that the number of women subjected to the most heinous crimes may have exceeded 100,000.
How they were done was extremely inhuman.
Women were subjected to multiple incidents of rape, including sexual slavery, with survivors typically held for two to 35 days, found another research carried out by a woman academic trapped in t...
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