Photo by lynseyaddario / Ten-year-old Desnest Gebreabzgi was wounded when she and other children were playing with unexploded ordinance in her village of Denbela, Ethiopia, in May. In Ethiopia's Tigray region, a grave humanitarian crisis is unfolding. As civil war escalates, millions have been displaced, thousands killed, and reports of human rights violations and atrocities are rampant—including mass rapes, executions, the intentional bombardment of civilians, and the flagrant looting of hospitals and clinics. As Mussie Tesfay Atsbaha, the Ayder hospital’s chief administrator in the regional capital of Mekele, told us, “I never saw hell before but now I have.” The United Nations has called for an investigation of war crimes, and the United States has cut economic and security aid to Ethiopia and banned travel to the U.S. by officials involved in the violence or in blocking humanitarian aid. #ethiopia #tigray #Lynseyaddario