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Our Somalian Brothers Kicks Out Z Bantu Ethiopian Ambassador In Moqdisho(((VIVA SOMALIA & MY ERITREA)))!!! WEEY GUUD !!!

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Re: Our Somalian Brothers Kicks Out Z Bantu Ethiopian Ambassador In Moqdisho(((VIVA SOMALIA & MY ERITREA)))!!! WEEY GUUD

Post by Right » 07 Jan 2024, 14:02

An African gulag so ghastly that inmates risk death to escape

Forty-two former prisoners in Eritrea’s sprawling detention system described horrific conditions and frequent torture.

Washngton Post By Katharine Houreld, January 6, 2024

NAIROBI — The tiny African nation of Eritrea is a sliver of fear wedged between Ethiopia and the Red Sea, a land that has known only a single strongman leader and the shadow of repression since independence three decades ago. Nothing exemplifies the reach and cruelty of the state today as much as its prison system.

Eritrea is riddled with an appalling variety of prisons: Underground cells of crumbling concrete, and sweltering jails fashioned from converted metal cargo containers. Cages crammed with hundreds of men who must sleep on their sides like sardines, as their cellmates wearily stand to make room, and shallow holes scraped from the earth with log and dirt ceilings so low that inmates cannot stand up.

The conditions, former prisoners recounted, are often so ghastly and the prison terms so open-ended that desperate inmates frequently attempt to escape, but those who try are often gunned down. ....

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