Locals are returning to homes scarred not just by intensive fighting but by what they say are atrocities committed by Tigrayan fighters-a charge the rebels deny.... Abandoned zig-zag trenches sliced the red-orange sandy soil parallel to the road.... Government soldiers and Amhara special forces described an ongoing battle to remove small pockets of Tigrayan fighters." There is hand-to-hand conflict about 6 kilometres away," said an Amhara militiaman in the town....