Eritrea: The land its citizens want to forget
By James Copnall BBC News, eastern Sudan
"I realise there are political problems everywhere, but in Eritrea it is unique," says Habtu Zere Maram, one of a thickening flow of Eritrean refugees who have crossed the border into Sudan.
Eritrean children at the Shagarab camp in Sudan
Many children flee Eritrea without their parents
"It's like the Middle Ages. Now we are in the 21st Century, how can we live like this? You can't speak, there is no freedom, you cannot say whatever you want to say.
"I dreamt of leaving, because I want to live free. Most of the Eritrean people think the same thing."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/8393376.stm
What a title.