crying because i could not believe what was happening i was numb then they all left me alone with my husband and baby month face was my nose an opera lord joe were missing and his right arm was broken in about five places and then he closed his eyes and a and i felt like i was collecting rocks not could hear gunshots and i knew more new york were being killed i will never be the same person and more i cannot go on like this i was or one of those guys in the truck those guys will never remember what happened but i'm here i'm dying every day genocide human rights organizations say was the government led slaughter of hundreds of people from the n you walk tribe in two thousand and three today there are still thousands of people who fled gambell afore sudan living in refugee sites the genocide of december thirteenth two thousand and three is remembered as bloody saturday on that day a van carrying eight ethiopian government refugee camp officials was ambushed along a road twenty kilometers from the town of and the ethiopian government defense forces brought the mutilated bodies into the town of bela and displayed them to the hylander militia the highlanders blamed the local and you act group for the deaths the highlanders backed by the government forces retaliated by attacking the annual ak a frenzied massacre of four hundred twenty four unarmed and you act civilians occurred over the next three days the troops used a list of names to identify educated and you act men whom they dragged from their homes and killed the new act were hacked to death with machetes and nail studded clubs they were shot dead with guns they were entire villages were burned to the ground were raped thousands of the new act males including the president of the region fled across the border into war torn sudan this was the first time that uniformed ethiopian military had come into the capital of their home province and systematically tried to eradicate the leadership the male leadership of the n u i tribe that had never happened before and for more than four hundred of their male leaders to die in a single day was obviously you know a blow that went beyond all others it's all just so wrong that my husband on december thirteenth they decided to go after the male leadership and that would mean late teenage men and boys as well as the younger and middle aged men and this is information that i get and others have gotten by talking to the survivors of that day the soldiers came in again bella they went from house to house some of them had lists with names and they would come to a house not down the door and say we're looking for someone so is he here and when now a struggle over land and western ethiopia that pits village farmers against the government and land investors and you are people of the gambell region have lived in scattered settlements like this for century it's growing maize and wat months and farming closer to the river and the dry season but last year the ethiopian government launched a program called villages ation officials told the people here they would be relocated to areas with better access to clean water health and education but this woman says they were forced to move under false pretenses and give them back that way and then when we left our farm our crops were ready for harvest but they told us to leave them in the field that we would find plenty of corn and other food in the new place we were moving but they don't give you enough food to fill you up they give you food in a small container but it can't even feed a family for a day announced title to all the land here but farmers have the right to use it the government calls this land at bandon because it's so sparsely populated but i knew i could say they needed some for grazing some to lay follow and that it's rights watch says a new act are being forced to move so that the government can lease the land to investors the rights group recently documented cases of violence and arbitrary arrest turtle for a jew who says it's not just his people's land that's at stake with several rivers and a sizeable down is rich in water resources and water is the driving force behind many agricultural deals on the african continent this rice farm is owned by a saudi shake and is on land that the annual consider there according to the company's saudi star when complete saudis star typically eat rice and many question the move to grow crops for export when ethiopia and the horn of africa have a long history of periodic hunger caused by war and weather problems this country is a studies he says making sure people access to food should be the government's priority there is no provision in anyone's a contract signed by to go home and invest this there is no provision for food security me he didn't want to move to something will they have to the water from the small river the river will dry up then where will we get water i heard also local planning to take water from the lake a few kilometers from here the lake he is referring to is the hour where down been better many of the relocated communities could face and demick hunger as early as next year according to human rights watch most are still waiting for farms are seen more than twelve million ethiopians are