Destruction in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region

A house destroyed during one of the battles fought for the control of the town of Hawzen, Tigray, in Ethiopia, on June 6, 2021. (VOA/Yan Boechat)

A woman tries to sell tomatoes and onions on an almost empty market in Hawzen, Ethiopia, on June 6, 2021. (VOA/Yan Boechat)

Since the beginning of the war in November 2020, his little town in the Tigray region, in Ethiopia, on June 6, 2021. (VOA/Yan Boechat)

Letay Girmay, 50, says she and other Hawzen residents buried the bodies of many civilians after battles in Hawzen, Ethiopia, on June 6, 2021. (VOA/Yan Boechat)

A destroyed armored vehicle lays in one of the mains streets of Hawzen, a small town in the frontline of the war in Tigray, Ethiopia, on June 6, 2021. (VOA/Yan Boechat)

Hawzen residents say dozen of civilians are buried in this grave in the Tigray Region, in Ethiopia, on June 6, 2021. (VOA/Yan Boechat)