Table 2 Showing how categories and themes were constructed

- Witnessed the overkillings of their family member

- Son saw his mother being raped

- Mother could not feed her neonate

- Child crying because of separation from her mother by troop

- Mother disappeared for weeks leaving children behind

- No one looked after children

¬ Bad act exihibited to the significant others

¬ Deprivation of mother’s Care

Infliction of long lasting trauma on children

- Crying

- Felt stress

- Fear of exposing the secrete

- Fear of stigma and discrimination

- Taken forcefully & publicly

- Could not move/ ambulation problem

- Persistent pain, body sore

- Bleeding

- Broken teeth

- First time experience

- Being teenager

- Life is over

¬ Psychological & Physical traumas

¬ Physiological change

¬ Body image disturbance

¬ Prefering teenagers

¬ Hunt for virginity

Effects of the rape

- To appear at the door at the first knock of the troop

- Pretending to be having HIV infection

- Disease condition

- Courage

- Being submisive

¬ Sacrificial for others

¬ Disease condition as protection

¬ Divine intervention

¬ Raped by HIV carrier for pretending to be carrier

Means of escaping from rape and killings

- Looting health institution

- Destruction of physical structure

- Presence of troops in the compound

- Home remedies

- Curfew

¬ Counselling

¬ Health service interruption

¬ Troop occupation

¬ Health service inaccessibility

¬ Alternatives to health care

Home remedies as means of life saving in war affected areas

- Blaming women for feeding Tigray defence force (TDF)

- Accusing women of knowing where about of TDF forces

- Hosting women in camps

- Fisting

- Uterine prolapse

- Gang rape

¬ False accusation as means for & justification for rape

¬ Damaging reproductive organ

Beyond Rape