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Young women fighters train with AK-47's captured from retreating Ethiopians. At women's EPLF training camp in Nakfa, Eritrea. June 9th, 1988.

Victims of the recent fighting at Nakfa and Afabet being treated at well-equipped but desparately overcrowded hospital at EPLF's base in Orotta. Victims were burnt by napalm bomb.

Still adorned with the Hammer and Sickle, a symbol of Ethiopia's paymasters, an abandoned guardhouse of Ethiopian military base at Afabet is taken over by EPLF. June 7th, 1988.

In a mountain-ridged region near the Sudanese border, guerrillas guard hundreds of Ethiopian prisonners of war captured in the rout at Afabet.

Refugees of war come into the Nakfa Valley area fleeing Ethiopian military repraisal and air attacks. Most of the 5,000 refugees already in Nakfa had come from Afabet, a town recently captured by EPLF (Eritrean People's Liberation Front). June, 1988.

Ethiopians left immense amount of equipment behind when they fled the town of Afabet. Here EPLF soldier walks through Ethiopian tank cemetary. June 7th, 1988.

On the road from Afabet to Nakfa, bodies of Ethiopians killed by EPLF ambush are decaying on roadside. They were killed and burnt almost three months ago. 6/8/88.

Refugees from famine in the camp in Eritrea.

Around the town of Afabet, which they captured recently, the fighters of EPLF hold out the front line among desert rocks.

Story Summary, After 25 years of one of the world's bloodiest wars, the Eritreans launched several major offensives in 1987, capturing large areas and killing thousands of Ethiopian troops. POWs and refugees, fleeing the Government's repraisal…