Tarik, 60, and Meresaeta, left, roast coffee beans over a wood stove in a classroom that has become their refuge
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Ethiopia’s offensive to crush a rebellion in the Tigray region was supposed to be a limited one, or so the Nobel peace laureate who launched it tried to reassure the world. Yet the violence Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister, unleashed on his country’s border with Eritrea has morphed into an appalling cascade of atrocities with no end in sight.
Mass rape, ethnic cleansing and killings, carried out by Eritrean and Ethiopian soldiers in pursuit of now near invisible Tigrayan rebels have swept up millions of civilians. In seven months, thousands have been killed and three million left at risk of famine. As The Times reported this weekend, the latest casualty of the fighting has been Tigray’s health system, with hospitals looted in a free
