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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Health
Veronique Mistiaen, Hana Kahsay

HISTORICAL FACTS: How tigray war rape victims turned to rwandan genocide survivors to heal | History Defined

Women gather at the HAL Centre in Bora, Tigray for psychosocial support [Gelila Getahun/Al Jazeera]

Tigray, Ethiopia – “I was angry all the time,” says Bezunesh, spinning wool in her small mud house in Bora, a remote district of deep valleys, sloping mountains and small terraced farms in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray.

It has been a few years since the mother of eight, whose real name we are not using to protect her privacy, suffered the worst attack of her life – and the trauma of what happened still haunts her.

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