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\nThey are fleeing the iron rule of Eritrea\u2019s President Isaias Afwerki<\/a> and his thick catalog of human rights violations, including (but not limited to) forced and indefinite military conscription, <\/strong>arbitrary arrests and torture. In fact, the autocratic East African country leads the world in only two grim categories: media censorship and child labor.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no wonder why so many young Eritreans (most refugees are age 18 to 24) try their luck in neighboring Ethiopia,\u00a0which currently hosts more than 131,660 Eritrean refugees. According to UNHCR, 40,000 arrived in 2015, almost twice as many as the year before. Ethiopia is politically stable and has close cultural and historical ties to Eritrea, so refugees are well treated. Many, however, go to Sudan, where they can cross to Libya and take the dangerous passage to Europe.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no future for anyone in Eritrea,\u201d says Khalid, a 17-year-old from Asmara, Eritrea\u2019s capital, who reached the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa<\/a> after a 20-hour journey at sea from Libya. His older brother managed to get asylum in Switzerland, so that\u2019s where he hopes to go next.Crossing the Mediterranean is a gamble with one\u2019s life, but even Eritreans who stay in Sudan are not guaranteed their safety. Refugees often fall victim to smuggling, trafficking and rape. Human Rights Watch has reported cases of refugees being forcibly deported from Sudan back to the brutal regime from which they were fleeing.<\/p>\n

When faced with a refugee crisis, a common response from developed nations is to try to improve refugees\u2019 living conditions in the country of origin through diplomatic threats, aid packages or both. Unfortunately, neither of these strategies is likely to succeed in Eritrea, says Nicole Hirt, associate researcher at the GIGA Institute of African Affairs in Hamburg, Germany. The EU recently gave a $326 million aid package directly to Afwerki\u2019s coffers with the hope of curbing the refugee influx. But Hirt believes \u201cthis will definitely not help. Instead, it will just contribute to extend the militarization<\/a> of society.\u201d Meanwhile, the government is actually benefiting from the growing diaspora through remittances and a 2 percent \u201cdiaspora tax\u201d enforced by Eritrean embassies to citizens living abroad. (The government of Eritrea did not reply to requests for comment.)
\nFor now, Eritrea continues to grow so hostile to its own citizens that it can\u2019t even hold onto its national soccer team. After the World Cup Qualifier in 2015, 10 of its players asked for asylum in Botswana\u00a0\u2014 the fourth time such mass defection has happened.<\/p>\n

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