She'eb
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She'eb is a town in northeastern Eritrea, in the Northern
Red Sea administrative region with its capital in Massawa.
It lies on the fertile plain at the foot of the eastern escarpment of the
Eritrean highlands. It was the site of a massacre carried out by the Ethiopian
occupational army in 1988. The entire town was raised and burnt to the ground,
the people who had not been able to flee were ordered to assemble and
subsequently run over with tanks while those trying to flee were shot. The
massacre left about 400 people dead, thereamong many
elderly and children who had not been able to flee in advance. The motive for the
Ethiopian army was that the town was notorious for harboring Eritrean
separatist rebels (Eritrea
was under Ethiopian occupation at the time).
The town has recovered since the
independence of Eritrea
in 1991(de facto)/1993(de jure) and is now the scene of
a thriving agricultural industry. It is connected by asphalt road to the port
of Massawa via Gahtelai
and using the same road, there is a junction at the village of Shebah
with a gravel road winding up the eastern escarpment to Serejeqa
which in turns connects to the Asmara-Keren
asphalt road, thereby connecting
the area with all three of Eritrea's major cities.
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