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Huit is 24 years old, and like many others, he refused to give a surname when CNN was crossing the border. Here, too, far from home, he says he feels insecure.
Huat says that when the Ethiopian army captured his hometown of Humera, his troops reassured Huat and those with him that they would be safe.
The Ethiopian army then retreated.
“Our military [Fano] Came and shot me in the leg and the blood of other wounded corpses spilled on my face as I fell to the ground, Huhit said.
“When the military people came to examine the bodies to see who lived and who died, they saw that I was covered in blood,” he recalled. “They thought I was dead, so they threw me into a stream.”
Huit said he was rescued by a group of Tigre refugees who pulled him out of the water and bandaged his legs.
“The Fano, they left me to die,” he told CNN, who had doctors clean up his wounds.
Fano is an ethnic Amhara military group affiliated with the Ethiopian Army.
An Ethiopian government spokesman “Fano” denied the existence of our army but – in confusion – acknowledged that “the military nation of the Amhara region is engaged in limiting the security of the border towns between the two areas.”
Violence against civilians
It is very difficult to know what is happening in the Tigris region of Ethiopia, as the government has endorsed a communications blackout.
On the Sudan-Ethiopia border, a CNN team spent days collecting the testimony of refugees who say they have been targeted because of their Tigray descent.
The conflict in Tigre took place in early November between the Tigre People’s Liberation Force (TPLF) and the government of Prime Minister Abiya Ahmed.
The Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) took control of Macaulay, home to half a million residents – half of whom have children – late last month.
CNN is not allowed to travel to the Tigris region of Ethiopia, although we have requested the requested CSS.
CNN may not be able to independently verify Huyet’s story, but the refugees we spoke to tell a similar story.
Again and again, they described how the Ethiopian army enters a city and tells the civilians that they are safe. Then the Ethiopian troops depart, and other armed groups arrive.
Fear of ethnic cleansing
Unlike Huit, Zer Gabergorzis asked if we had published his name in full – he had been separated from the rest of his family because he had fled his homeland and feared for his life. He does not believe that he has anything to lose.
Gaborgoris says his city – shares on the Eritrea-Ethiopia border – took over the Eritrean military position when Ethiopian troops left.
“They hit us with machine guns. They will put us on the ground and put weapons in our mouths.” “If you’re scared, they’ll kill you, and if you’re not scared, they’ll turn you on your back and hit you from behind the rifle.”
An Ethiopian government spokesman did not specifically deny the refugees’ claims that Eritrean troops were involved but rejected their claims due to propaganda spread by regional Tigre forces.
“The people of Tigre, under the tyrannical rule of the Tigre People’s Liberation Front, have been constantly campaigning for ‘fear of others’ for the last three decades.”
CNN tried to reach out to the Eritrean government for comment but failed.
Testimonials – if true – speak to the growing fear that months of hostility in Ethiopia could lead to other regional artists.
They also worry that it could lead to ethnic conflict.
Western diplomats based in the region, who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of escalating the situation on the ground, told CNN that their biggest fear is that the conflict could lead to ethnic cleansing.
“How can you say you don’t know when all the signs are there – as clear as day,” said one diplomat, expressing surprise at the general frustration among Western government representatives there. “But how do you even start to stop this?”
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