Posed by The Ethiopia Observatory (TEO)
Four Eritrean Catholic bishops have published a letter criticising life in the country – a rare move in one of the world’s most tightly controlled states.
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Posed by The Ethiopia Observatory (TEO)
Four Eritrean Catholic bishops have published a letter criticising life in the country – a rare move in one of the world’s most tightly controlled states.
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Tags: 38-page letter, deaths in high seas, desolate Eritrea state, destitution of the land, disintegration of family, educational depravity, Eritrea clergy, human trafficking, lack of justice, mass exodus, rampant corruption, spiritual poverty
"When they [government officials] first came they told us an investor was coming and we would develop the land alongside one another. They didn't say the land would be taken away from us entirely. I don't understand why the government took the land."
Farmer Gemechu Garbaba
His wife adds:
"Since the land was taken away from us we are impoverished. Nothing has gone right for us, since these investors came."
Africa succumbs to colonial-style land grab
Channel 4 News, 7 January 2012
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