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.