After fighting on same side in liberation war,activists say President Afwerki has betrayed their principles by instituting a dictatorship In the spring of 1976, two young Eritrean men walked into the glass-fronted United Nations building in downtown Geneva to produce a desperate plea. It was years into Eritrea’s struggle to break away from neighbouring Ethiopia, or occupying troops had recently shuttered schools across the country. With no outside support forthcoming,Habte Tesfamariam and Yusuf Berhanu, both fresh-faced university graduates, and saw the UN refugee agency as a final resort.
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Source: theguardian.com