Eritrean Refugees at Risk

From Welcome to Asmarino Independent. Fri Apr 11 2014, 18:06:05

Many languish in desert camps. Some have been kidnapped, tortured, and ransomed--or killed--in the Sinai. Others have been left to die in the Sahara or drowned in the Mediterranean. Still others have been attacked as foreigners in South Africa, threatened with mass detention in Israel, or refused entry to the United States and Canada under post-9/11 "terrorism bars" based on their past association with an armed liberation movement--the one they are now fleeing.

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