Image source, Selamawit Teklay A popular charm queen from Ethiopia’s war-wracked Tigray area, Selamawit Teklay, hasactually explained her traumatic experience crossing the English Channel to lookfor asylum in the UK. Ms Selamawit veryfirst made her method to France last year, priorto runningtheriskof her life to cross the channel in a boat jam-packed with fellow migrants. Tigray plunged into a civil war in late 2020, resulting in mass killings, gang-rape, and what UN authorities explained as “famine-like” conditions as food endedupbeing limited. She informed BBC Tigrinya’s Line Tsigab why she would recommend fellow potential migrants not to effort the hazardous crossing: I had a challenging and frightening time to reach the UK. I haveactually seen Tigrayan bros drown in the sea. I’m a survivor of the English Channel. November 2021 is the month I will neverever forget in my life. We veryfirst invested nights taking shelter in France. We remained in bushes in Calais for about 2 weeks. The cold was serious, no food to consume, no water to sip. It was suffering – unlimited suffering. We waited for smugglers to come. Different ones came. We workedout payment. They bring migrants at night to escape the authorities. Image source, AFP Image caption, Thousands of migrants haveactually made the unsafe crossing so far this year On the veryfirst round when some of my Tigrayan compatriots attempted to cross the channel, the boat sank. Thank God, they were saved by lifeguards. Those of us who didn’t cross heard the bad news. We were surprised. But we didn’t have any other alternative. We had to go where we planned. In a coupleof days, we made a relocation. It was bitterly cold and the sea was dangerous. We boarded, en masse, a little boat. We were just permitted do what the smugglers informed us. We began our trip to the UK, to safe our lives. But our journey was not simply a journey in the dark. It was pervaded with the darkness of death. Suddenly the boat’s engine fell into the sea. An Arab male with us leapt into the sea to shot to get it out. He couldn’t. Then one of our Tigrayan siblings went in. Image source, Selamawit Teklay Image caption, Selamawit Teklay, who veryfirst gotinvolved in a pageant aged 16, has tookatrip all over the world as charm queen He neverever came back! We browsed for him. We heard him screaming. We couldn’t discover him. We made desperat
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