Then he pinned Ms. Mona to a sofa and tried to rape her. The soldier fired a volley of bullets that cut through Ms. Mona’s right arm and right leg. Ms. Mona, who consented to be identified, called it a calculated act of war. President Biden recently sent an envoy, Senator Chris Coons, Democrat of Delaware, to Ethiopia for talks with Ethiopia’s prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, that lasted five hours. On Tuesday, addressing Ethiopia’s Parliament, Mr. Abiy publicly acknowledged that sexual assault had become an integral part of a war that he once promised would be swift and bloodless.

Source: International New York Times April 01, 2021 09:00 UTC