"There was no one to hear our cries, our wails, and no one to help us," says a victim of sexual and gender-based violence in Ethiopia's Tigray region, like many still struggling to cope with the atrocity, two years after a peace deal ended the bloody conflict. According to recent studies and research, rape and sexual violence was a "systematic" weapon of war used against thousands of civilians-- primarily women and girls, but also men. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES