Three-year-old Semere Beyene was injured in the war, but did not receive medical attention. His arm is therefore deformed. The boy is now on the run with his family in Tigray, in northern Ethiopia.
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The school in Mekele is closed to students. It now houses 1,400 people, who, like three-year-old Semere, have fled the war.
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The mother of seven mother Lemlem Gebreyohannis and her eldest daughter are deeply distressed. The other six children have disappeared.
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She experienced a mother’s greatest fear. When she fled from the soldiers, the children disappeared.
On the night of November 9 last year, hell came to the village of Mai Kadra, in northern Ethiopia. Hundreds of people were slaughtered with knives and machetes by militias.
When Lemlem Gebreyohannis fled with his seven children, there were dead bodies everywhere. Among the dead were her own relatives and friends, she tells Norwegian Church Aid, which was recently in Tigray province.
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