[ti:The Human Cost of Ethiopia’s Fighting in Tigray Grows] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.04]People who fled fighting in Ethiopia's Tigray area [00:06.60]continue to tell stories of suffering as they gather in refugee camps. [00:15.12]At a simple medical center in Sudan, [00:18.88]a doctor who is also a refugee cares for the hurt and sick. [00:26.28]Tewodros Tefera sees many injuries: children hurt in explosions, [00:33.92]wounds from axes and knives, and broken bones from beatings. [00:40.44]Recently, he treated the broken legs of refugee Guesh Tesla, [00:47.88]a woodworker who just arrived at the camp. [00:52.88]He came with information about 250 young men [00:58.52]taken from one village into neighboring Eritrea by Eritrean forces. [01:06.28]Ethiopia denies Eritrean forces are involved in the fighting. [01:12.44]In late November, Guesh said he saw many bodies [01:17.52]on the streets in his hometown of Rawyan. [01:21.68]There, he said, Ethiopian soldiers [01:24.92]beat him and took him to the border town of Humera. [01:29.84]The Humera courthouse, he said, had been turned into a center for killing [01:36.00]by militias from the neighboring Amhara area. [01:40.92]He heard the screams of men being killed, [01:44.84]and quietly escaped during the night. [01:48.60]"I would never go back," he said. [01:52.80]It is impossible to know if these stories are true [01:57.28]as Tigray remains almost completely cut off from the world. [02:02.92]It has been more than 50 days since fighting began [02:07.60]between Ethiopian forces and groups in Tigray. [02:13.28]The Tigray people led the country's government [02:16.36]for nearly 30 years, but are now marginalized. [02:22.04]Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed [02:26.44]continues to refuse international requests [02:30.56]to bring humanitarian assistance to the area. [02:34.64]He also refuses requests from those pressing [02:39.20]for investigations of Ethiopian forces. [02:44.04]Last year, Abiy won the Nobel Peace Prize for political reforms. [02:50.20]But this conflict threatens to end his peace-making activities. [02:56.80]"I know the conflict has caused unimaginable suffering," [03:03.60]Abiy wrote last week. [03:06.64]He argued, however, that "the heavy cost we incurred as a nation [03:12.40]was necessary" to hold the country together. [03:16.92]No one knows how many thousands of people have been killed in Tigray [03:22.92]since the fighting began on November 4. [03:27.20]The United Nations has said there are reports of artillery strikes [03:32.64]on populated areas, civilians being targeted and looting. [03:39.32]Now, refugees are arriving from areas deeper inside Tigray. [03:45.44]They have more severe trauma, Tewodros said. [03:50.88]He said there are signs of starvation and dehydration [03:55.68]and some gunshot wounds among the refugees. [04:01.00]In the future, the stories of refugees, like Tewodros and Guesh, [04:08.16]and the people who are still in Tigray, [04:11.08]will show how much abuse was carried out [04:14.32]against people for ethnic reasons. [04:18.20]"Everyone looks at you and points out the part of you [04:22.48]that doesn't belong to them," said Tewodros. [04:26.24]He is both an ethnic Tigrayan and Amhara. [04:31.72]"So, if I go to Tigray, they would pick up that I'm Amhara [04:37.20]because Amhara is not a part of them. [04:40.40]When I go to Amhara, they would pick up the part of Tigray [04:44.80]because Tigray is not a part of them." [04:48.24]Such differences have become deadly. [04:51.88]Many ethnic Tigrayan refugees [04:54.88]have accused ethnic Amhara fighters of targeting them. [05:00.24]The Amhara militias are fighting with Ethiopian government forces. [05:06.36]Abrahaley Minasbo is a 22-year-old dancer. [05:11.40]He said Amhara militia members [05:14.56]pulled him from his home in Mai-Kadra on November 9. [05:19.64]They beat him in the street with an axe and other tools, [05:24.00]and they left him to die. [05:26.32]He survived and made it to Sudan. [05:29.88]His face is covered with scars. [05:33.40]For Tewodros, the conflict has been about the wounded civilians. [05:39.56]In November, he worked at a hospital in Humera that came under fire. [05:45.48]He insisted some of the shelling came from the direction of Eritrea. [05:51.32]Fifteen bodies arrived at the hospital that first day, [05:55.84]and eight the next, he said. [05:58.28]The shelling continued. [06:00.32]He and his colleagues fled, [06:03.08]after moving wounded patients to a nearby village. [06:07.40]Tewodros and colleagues hid for two days in the forest, hearing gunfire. [06:14.16]They later walked for more than 12 hours, crossing a river into Sudan, [06:21.00]where he started treating wounded refugees [06:24.64]for the Sudanese Red Crescent Society. [06:29.08]"Where we are now is extremely unsafe," [06:32.48]he said of the refugee center near the border. [06:36.92]He said the Amhara fighters threaten the refugees [06:40.92]from the other side of the river. [06:44.60]The militias "are more dangerous [06:46.92]than the Ethiopian national forces," he said. [06:51.56]I'm Susan Shand. 更多听力请访问51VOA.COM