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Ethiopians seeking refuge in neighboring Sudan have described the horror of intense fighting in Ethiopia\u2019s northern Tigray region, where deadly battles between federal government troops are rebel forces have sparked international alarm.<\/p>\n
With a communication blackout and severed transport links in much of the restive state, the reports by exhausted and terrified refugees pouring across the remote frontier into Sudan provide some of the first witness accounts of the 10-day conflict, which has reportedly killed hundreds of people.<\/p>\n
\nTigray conflict: Ethiopian refugees, soldiers cross into Sudan<\/article>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cThe government wants to get rid of the Tigray people, so we fled. The people are living in conflict there,\u201d Gowru Awara, an Ethiopian refugee in Sudan\u2019s Gadarif state, told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople have been slaughtered with knives. Pregnant women have had their bellies opened. The government is bombing civilians and killing us all.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both sides have been accused of carrying out atrocities against civilians. The communications blackout makes it difficult to verify claims on both sides of the fighting.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are hungry and we\u2019re afraid that they will kill us,\u201d an old woman told Reuters news agency in the Sudanese border town of Hamdayat, referring to government troops battling loyalists of the Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front (TPLF), the party that controls the region.<\/p>\n
She spoke moments after paying the owner of a small boat 30 Ethiopian biir (about 80 US cents) to bring her across the river, while women and children were seen swimming. Refugees said one person drowned while trying to cross the night before.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nEthiopians who fled the continuing fighting in the Tigray region are seen at the Setit River on the Sudan-Ethiopia border.\u00a0<\/em><\/figure>\n
Niqisti, 42, said her brother was shot dead by government-allied militiamen in front of their home in Humera, in Tigray state, and her small restaurant was looted. It was not possible to verify her account.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThey bombed with artillery, and the air force raided,\u201d said Asmara Tefsay, a 31-year old mother. \u201cThen we saw the soldiers approaching and I fled with my two children, my mother and my father.\u201d<\/p>\n
The refugees quoted by news agencies appeared traumatized by the sheer intensity of the bombardments they say were carried out by the Ethiopian army. Many told stories of artillery attacks and shooting in the streets, with fighting spilling over into neighboring Amhara state.<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw women giving birth on the road, but then continuing to walk because they feared the Ethiopian soldiers would kill them,\u201d said Roni Gezergil, a female engineer aged 25.<\/p>\n
Gabera Solasi, a 22-year-old mathematics student at university, took the only shelter he could find when the heavy bombardments grew close.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hid in a well during the bombing, and then fled during a lull,\u201d Gabera told AFP news agency. \u201cNow I am in Sudan and I think the war will continue. I am not sure I will ever be able to go back to university.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sudanese officials were registering refugees but could not provide sustenance to the several thousand people who made the journey.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople are hungry and the flow of refugees is continuing but we have little to offer,\u201d said Hamdayat official Salah Ramadan.<\/p>\n
Ethiopia\u2019s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, winner of last year\u2019s Nobel Peace Prize, ordered military operations in Tigray on November 4, saying they were prompted by a TPLF attack on a federal military camp \u2013 a statement that a top TPLF official appeared to confirm on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The outbreak of fighting last week instantly sparked fears that a prolonged conflict could reverberate across the Horn of Africa and\u00a0draw in outside forces.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe military escalation in Ethiopia is risking the stability of the whole country and wider region,\u201d the European Union\u2019s commissioner for crisis management, Janez Lenarcic, said on Twitter. \u201cShould this endure, a full-blown humanitarian crisis is imminent. I am calling for unimpeded humanitarian access to Tigray.\u201d<\/p>\n
Abiy has said government troops will strike TPLF targets, including arms depots and equipment, but several refugees reportedly said their areas had been shelled by artillery from neighboring Eritrea to support the Ethiopian army. This could not be independently verified.<\/p>\n
Tigray\u2019s leader, Debretsion Gebremichael, said on Tuesday that Eritrea had sent troops across the border in support of Ethiopian government forces but provided no evidence. Eritrea\u2019s Foreign Minister Osman Saleh Mohammed denied this on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were shelled by artillery volleys from across the Eritrean border,\u201d said Naksiam Guru, a 22-year refugee who lives near the border. \u201cI saw people dying in the streets.\u201d<\/p>\n
Burhani Abraham, 31, who arrived days ago with his wife and three-year-old child also reported shelling from Eritrea. \u201cI\u2019m very hungry,\u201d he said, sitting in the crowded makeshift camp.<\/p>\nOfficials say at least 21,000 Ethiopians have crossed into eastern Sudan seeking help.<\/em><\/figure>\n
Rocket attacks<\/h4>\n
Separately on Saturday, the Tigray regional government said it fired rockets at two airports in the neighboring Amhara region, adding that such strikes would continue \u201cunless the attacks against us stop\u201d.<\/p>\n
Ethiopia\u2019s central government in Addis Ababa said the airports in Gondar and Bahir Dar were damaged in the strikes late on Friday, asserting that Tigray regional forces were \u201crepairing and utilising the last of the weaponry within its arsenals\u201d.<\/p>\n
Each side regards the other as illegal, the result of a months-long falling out amid dramatic shifts in power after Abiy took office in 2018.<\/p>\n
The TPLF, which once dominated the country\u2019s ruling coalition, broke away last year, and Addis Ababa says members of the region\u2019s ruling \u201cclique\u201d now must be arrested and their well-stocked arsenal destroyed.<\/p>\n
Amid rising fears of ethnic targeting, the TPLF in a statement denied allegations that scores or even hundreds of civilians were \u201chacked to death\u201d on Monday in the town of Mai Kadra.<\/p>\n
The massacre was confirmed by Amnesty International, which cited a man helping to clear away bodies as saying many of the dead were ethnic Amharas. Amnesty said on Thursday it had not yet been able to confirm who was responsible for the killings, but had spoken to witnesses who said forces loyal to the TPLF were responsible.<\/p>\n
The TPLF statement asserted that the allegations against their forces, repeated by Abiy, are \u201cbeing proliferated with the intent to incite hatred toward [ethnic] Tigrayans in Ethiopia\u201d.<\/p>\n
Ethiopia\u2019s Human Rights Commission, appointed by the government but independent, has sent investigators to Mai Kadra, Aaron Maasho, senior adviser and spokesperson for the group, told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe team will carry out an investigation that will be made public,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
In Sudan\u2019s Gadarif state, Gidey Asafa said the fighting had forced her and her family to flee Mai Kadra with nothing but the clothes on their backs.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe saw people being slaughtered. There was blood all over. We fled because we didn\u2019t want to die,\u201d she told Al Jazeera. \u201cSome women lost their husbands. We came with nothing but our lives. These clothes were given to me by the people here.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nSudanese villagers offer what help they can, but some fear the thousands arriving from Ethiopia will strain their already very limited resources.<\/em><\/figure>\n
Alsir Khaled, regional head of the Sudanese refugee agency, said that as of Friday evening, at least 21,000 Ethiopians had crossed into eastern Sudan seeking help.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThey keep on coming,\u201d he told AFP, adding that many arrived from Humera, where some of the heaviest fighting has been reported.<\/p>\n
Journalists who toured the area said there was little support for the Ethiopians from the state or charities, with aid coming mostly from villagers.<\/p>\n
\u201cDuring the two-day walk, I only drank water, there was nothing to eat,\u201d said Tsefay Salomon, a 23-year-old student.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce we crossed the border, some Sudanese took us in a car to this village. The local community gave us food, but it is so little that we keep it especially for children.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sudanese villagers offer what help they can, but some fear the thousands arriving from Ethiopia will strain their already very limited resources.<\/p>\n
\u201cInstead of being in camps, many have settled in our fields,\u201d said local farmer Jamal Adam.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have cut our trees to protect themselves from the sun, while others are sleeping under the stars in our fields. It is now time for the sorghum harvest, and I risk losing everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Ethiopians who fled the continuing fighting in the Tigray region are seen at the Setit River on the Sudan-Ethiopia border.\u00a0<\/em><\/figure>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/2020-11-14T165406Z_661569596_RC243K90X1P1_RTRMADP_3_ETHIOPIA-CONFLICT-SUDAN.jpg?w=770&resize=770%2C508\")
Officials say at least 21,000 Ethiopians have crossed into eastern Sudan seeking help.<\/em><\/figure>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/000_8V76EX-1.jpg?w=770&resize=770%2C501\")
Sudanese villagers offer what help they can, but some fear the thousands arriving from Ethiopia will strain their already very limited resources.<\/em><\/figure>\n