Stark photos of a military equipment graveyard serves as an eerie reminder of a grim and bloody civil war that cost more than 125,000 lives.
The tank graveyard on the outskirts of Eritrea's capital Asmara is from the country's vicious war against its much bigger neighbour Ethiopia.
The images, taken by amateur photographer Marina Marcato, show piles of hardware stacked high into the beautiful African sky, mangled together in army green.
Other vehicles such as a classic VW camper van and a German beer bus are also among the cast offs.
Cacti sprout from many of the vehicles which local children come and pick the fruit from.
The tanks and trucks that litter the site are mostly Ethiopian equipment that were abandoned after the Eritreans successfully defended their capital city.
The Ethiopians started the graveyard in an attempt to hide their tanks and equipment rather than leaving them in the street - giving the people of Eritrea a morale boost.
Now that the war is over, and relations between the two east African countries have improved, they pull in tanks and trucks from around the country to the site, so the graveyard is still growing.
The unusual site has attracted brave off-the-beaten-track tourists who are curious to see such a spectacle.
The peace between the two countries has come about largely thanks to a new regime in Ethiopia.
Eritrea is a total autocracy where national service is random and often indefinite, effectively making slaves out of the population.
Around 12 percent of Eritrea's population has fled the country in a bid to escape the regime's repressive policies.
The tanks may have come from fabulous victories, but for many they are a dark reminder because so many of the people who fought in them have been killed or jailed by their own government.
