{"id":1885,"date":"2015-05-17T04:19:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T04:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/?p=1885"},"modified":"2015-05-17T04:19:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T04:19:21","slug":"fleeing-slavery-for-uncertainty-one-eritrean-migrants-story-by-ben-wedeman-cnn-international-correspondent-updated-1218-pm-et-fri-may-15-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2015\/05\/17\/fleeing-slavery-for-uncertainty-one-eritrean-migrants-story-by-ben-wedeman-cnn-international-correspondent-updated-1218-pm-et-fri-may-15-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleeing slavery for uncertainty: One Eritrean migrant&#8217;s story  By Ben Wedeman, CNN International correspondent  Updated 12:18 PM ET, Fri May 15, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"pg-headline\"><\/h1>\n<div class=\"pg-rail-tall__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"pg-side-of-rail pg-rail-tall__side\">\n<div class=\"pg-rail-tall__head\">\n<section id=\"large-media\" class=\"zn zn-large-media zn-body zn--idx-0 zn-has-one-container\" data-eq-pts=\"xsmall: 0, medium: 460, large: 780, full16x9: 1100\" data-vr-zone=\"zone-0-0\" data-containers=\"1\" data-zn-id=\"large-media\" data-eq-state=\"large\">\n<div class=\"l-container\">\n<div class=\"el__gallery el__gallery--fullwidth js__leafmedia--gallery\">\n<div class=\"el-carousel__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"js-owl-carousel owl-carousel carousel--full body owl-loaded owl-drag\" data-galleryname=\"Eritreans search for asylum\" data-cut-format=\"16:9\" data-is-gallery=\"true\" data-slide-count=\"6\">\n<div class=\"owl-stage-outer owl-height\">\n<div class=\"owl-stage\">\n<div class=\"owl-item cloned\">\n<div data-slidename=\"Eritreans search for asylum\" data-analytics=\"_body_image\">\n<div class=\"el__resize\">\n<div class=\"el__position media js-gallery-aspect-ratio-wrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__image media__image--responsive media__image--cut-format owl-lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155115-eritrea-slave-migrant-2-exlarge-169.jpg\" alt=\"Benjamin had been in Italy for about eight days after making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean from Tripoli in Libya to Lampudesa, Italy. &amp;quot;I was vomiting from the time I got onto the boat,&amp;quot; he remembers. \" width=\"242\" height=\"136\" data-src-mini=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155115-eritrea-slave-migrant-2-small-169.jpg\" data-src-xsmall=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155115-eritrea-slave-migrant-2-medium-plus-169.jpg\" data-src-small=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155115-eritrea-slave-migrant-2-large-169.jpg\" data-src-medium=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155115-eritrea-slave-migrant-2-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-src-large=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155115-eritrea-slave-migrant-2-super-169.jpg\" data-src-full16x9=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155115-eritrea-slave-migrant-2-full-169.jpg\" data-src-small1x1=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155115-eritrea-slave-migrant-2-small-11.jpg\" data-eq-pts=\"mini: 0,  xsmall: 221,  small: 308,  medium: 461,  large:  781\" data-cut-format=\"16:9\" data-eq-state=\"medium\" data-src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155115-eritrea-slave-migrant-2-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-demand-load=\"loaded\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"el__position media js-gallery-aspect-ratio-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"el__position media js-gallery-aspect-ratio-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"js-media__caption media__caption el__storyelement__title\"><span class=\"el__storyelement__header\">Eritreans search for asylum<\/span> <span class=\"el__storyelement__gray\">6 photos<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"media__caption el__gallery_image-title\"><span class=\"media__caption-head\">&#8216;The example of hell&#8217;<\/span> \u2013 <span class=\"el__storyelement__gray\">Benjamin had been in Italy for about eight days after making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean from Tripoli in Libya to Lampudesa, Italy. &#8220;I was vomiting from the time I got onto the boat,&#8221; he remembers.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"el__gallery-showhide js__gallery-showhide\">\n<div class=\"js-el__gallery-caption el__gallery-caption\">Hide Caption<\/div>\n<div class=\"el__gallery-photocount\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"owl-item cloned\">\n<div data-slidename=\"Eritreans search for asylum\" data-analytics=\"_body_image\">\n<div class=\"el__resize\">\n<div class=\"el__position media js-gallery-aspect-ratio-wrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__image media__image--responsive media__image--cut-format owl-lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155455-eritrea-slave-migrant-5-exlarge-169.jpg\" alt=\"The day before the interview Italian police had come to the park with bulldozers and demolished a small shanty town of plywood and corrugated iron shacks that had housed around 200 migrants. \" width=\"232\" height=\"130\" data-src-mini=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155455-eritrea-slave-migrant-5-small-169.jpg\" data-src-xsmall=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155455-eritrea-slave-migrant-5-medium-plus-169.jpg\" data-src-small=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155455-eritrea-slave-migrant-5-large-169.jpg\" data-src-medium=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155455-eritrea-slave-migrant-5-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-src-large=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155455-eritrea-slave-migrant-5-super-169.jpg\" data-src-full16x9=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155455-eritrea-slave-migrant-5-full-169.jpg\" data-src-small1x1=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155455-eritrea-slave-migrant-5-small-11.jpg\" data-eq-pts=\"mini: 0,  xsmall: 221,  small: 308,  medium: 461,  large:  781\" data-cut-format=\"16:9\" data-eq-state=\"medium\" data-src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155455-eritrea-slave-migrant-5-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-demand-load=\"loaded\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"el__position media js-gallery-aspect-ratio-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"js-media__caption media__caption el__storyelement__title\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"media__caption el__gallery_image-title\"><span class=\"media__caption-head\">&#8216;The example of hell&#8217;<\/span> \u2013 <span class=\"el__storyelement__gray\">The day before the interview Italian police had come to the park with bulldozers and demolished a small shanty town of plywood and corrugated iron shacks that had housed around 200 migrants.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"el__gallery-showhide js__gallery-showhide\">\n<div class=\"js-el__gallery-caption el__gallery-caption\">Hide Caption<\/div>\n<div class=\"el__gallery-photocount\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"owl-item cloned\">\n<div data-slidename=\"Eritreans search for asylum\" data-analytics=\"_body_image\">\n<div class=\"el__resize\">\n<div class=\"el__position media js-gallery-aspect-ratio-wrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__image media__image--responsive media__image--cut-format owl-lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155524-eritrea-slave-migrant-6-exlarge-169.jpg\" alt=\"An Eritrean man stares at a cell phone. According to European Union regulations, migrants must be registered in the country they arrive in, and cannot go on to request asylum elsewhere. But many who arrive in Italy flee before they are registered hoping to make it to other European countries. \" width=\"265\" height=\"149\" data-src-mini=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155524-eritrea-slave-migrant-6-small-169.jpg\" data-src-xsmall=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155524-eritrea-slave-migrant-6-medium-plus-169.jpg\" data-src-small=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155524-eritrea-slave-migrant-6-large-169.jpg\" data-src-medium=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155524-eritrea-slave-migrant-6-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-src-large=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155524-eritrea-slave-migrant-6-super-169.jpg\" data-src-full16x9=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155524-eritrea-slave-migrant-6-full-169.jpg\" data-src-small1x1=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155524-eritrea-slave-migrant-6-small-11.jpg\" data-eq-pts=\"mini: 0,  xsmall: 221,  small: 308,  medium: 461,  large:  781\" data-cut-format=\"16:9\" data-eq-state=\"medium\" data-src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155524-eritrea-slave-migrant-6-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-demand-load=\"loaded\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"el__position media js-gallery-aspect-ratio-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-slidename=\"Eritreans search for asylum\" data-analytics=\"_body_image\">\n<div class=\"js-media__caption media__caption el__storyelement__title\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"js-media__caption media__caption el__storyelement__title\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"media__caption el__gallery_image-title\"><span class=\"media__caption-head\">&#8216;The example of hell&#8217;<\/span> \u2013 <span class=\"el__storyelement__gray\">An Eritrean man stares at a cell phone. According to European Union regulations, migrants must be registered in the country they arrive in, and cannot go on to request asylum elsewhere. But many who arrive in Italy flee before <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"media__caption el__gallery_image-title\">they are registered hoping to make it to other European countries.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"media__caption el__gallery_image-title\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"owl-item cloned\">\n<div data-slidename=\"Eritreans search for asylum\" data-analytics=\"_body_image\">\n<div class=\"media__caption el__gallery_image-title\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"el__gallery-showhide js__gallery-showhide\">\n<div class=\"el__gallery-photocount\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__image media__image--responsive media__image--cut-format owl-lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155121-eritrea-slave-migrant-3-exlarge-169.jpg\" alt=\"An Eritrean man in Rome. Eritreans make up the second largest group of migrants -- after Syrians -- reaching the shores of Europe.\" width=\"262\" height=\"147\" data-src-mini=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155121-eritrea-slave-migrant-3-small-169.jpg\" data-src-xsmall=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155121-eritrea-slave-migrant-3-medium-plus-169.jpg\" data-src-small=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155121-eritrea-slave-migrant-3-large-169.jpg\" data-src-medium=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155121-eritrea-slave-migrant-3-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-src-large=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155121-eritrea-slave-migrant-3-super-169.jpg\" data-src-full16x9=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155121-eritrea-slave-migrant-3-full-169.jpg\" data-src-small1x1=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155121-eritrea-slave-migrant-3-small-11.jpg\" data-eq-pts=\"mini: 0,  xsmall: 221,  small: 308,  medium: 461,  large:  781\" data-cut-format=\"16:9\" data-eq-state=\"medium\" data-src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155121-eritrea-slave-migrant-3-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-demand-load=\"loaded\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"js-media__caption media__caption el__storyelement__title\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"owl-item active\">\n<div data-slidename=\"Eritreans search for asylum\" data-analytics=\"_body_image\">\n<div class=\"media__caption el__gallery_image-title\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"media__caption el__gallery_image-title\"><span class=\"media__caption-head\">&#8216;The example of hell&#8217;<\/span> \u2013 <span class=\"el__storyelement__gray\">An Eritrean man in Rome. Eritreans make up the second largest group of migrants &#8212; after Syrians &#8212; reaching the shores of Europe.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"el__gallery-showhide js__gallery-showhide\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"owl-item\">\n<div data-slidename=\"Eritreans search for asylum\" data-analytics=\"_body_image\">\n<div class=\"el__resize\">\n<div class=\"el__position media js-gallery-aspect-ratio-wrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__image media__image--responsive media__image--cut-format owl-lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155451-eritrea-slave-migrant-4-exlarge-169.jpg\" alt=\"Eritreans are not fleeing war, they are refugees from open-ended military service -- a system that human rights activists describe as official slavery.\" width=\"214\" height=\"120\" data-src-mini=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155451-eritrea-slave-migrant-4-small-169.jpg\" data-src-xsmall=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155451-eritrea-slave-migrant-4-medium-plus-169.jpg\" data-src-small=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155451-eritrea-slave-migrant-4-large-169.jpg\" data-src-medium=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155451-eritrea-slave-migrant-4-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-src-large=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155451-eritrea-slave-migrant-4-super-169.jpg\" data-src-full16x9=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155451-eritrea-slave-migrant-4-full-169.jpg\" data-src-small1x1=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155451-eritrea-slave-migrant-4-small-11.jpg\" data-eq-pts=\"mini: 0,  xsmall: 221,  small: 308,  medium: 461,  large:  781\" data-cut-format=\"16:9\" data-eq-state=\"medium\" data-src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155451-eritrea-slave-migrant-4-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-demand-load=\"loaded\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"js-media__caption media__caption el__storyelement__title\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"media__caption el__gallery_image-title\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"media__caption el__gallery_image-title\"><span class=\"media__caption-head\">&#8216;The example of hell&#8217;<\/span> \u2013 <span class=\"el__storyelement__gray\">Eritreans are not fleeing war, they are refugees from open-ended military service &#8212; a system that <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"media__caption el__gallery_image-title\">\n<div class=\"owl-item\">\n<div data-slidename=\"Eritreans search for asylum\" data-analytics=\"_body_image\">\n<div class=\"media__caption el__gallery_image-title\"><span class=\"el__storyelement__gray\">human rights activists describe as official slavery.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"el__gallery-showhide js__gallery-showhide\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"owl-item\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"media__caption el__gallery_image-title\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"owl-item\">\n<div data-slidename=\"Eritreans search for asylum\" data-analytics=\"_body_image\">\n<div class=\"el__resize\">\n<div class=\"el__position media js-gallery-aspect-ratio-wrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__image media__image--responsive media__image--cut-format owl-lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155109-eritrean-slavery-migrant-1-exlarge-169.jpg\" alt=\"CNN International correspondent Ben Wedeman (L) with Benjamin, an Eritrean migrant in a park in Ponte Mammolo in northern Rome. He was one of a very few migrants in park who would agree to an interview. \" width=\"253\" height=\"142\" data-src-mini=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155109-eritrean-slavery-migrant-1-small-169.jpg\" data-src-xsmall=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155109-eritrean-slavery-migrant-1-medium-plus-169.jpg\" data-src-small=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155109-eritrean-slavery-migrant-1-large-169.jpg\" data-src-medium=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155109-eritrean-slavery-migrant-1-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-src-large=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155109-eritrean-slavery-migrant-1-super-169.jpg\" data-src-full16x9=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155109-eritrean-slavery-migrant-1-full-169.jpg\" data-src-small1x1=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155109-eritrean-slavery-migrant-1-small-11.jpg\" data-eq-pts=\"mini: 0,  xsmall: 221,  small: 308,  medium: 461,  large:  781\" data-cut-format=\"16:9\" data-eq-state=\"medium\" data-src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155109-eritrean-slavery-migrant-1-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-demand-load=\"loaded\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"js-media__caption media__caption el__storyelement__title\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"js-media__caption media__caption el__storyelement__title\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"js-media__caption media__caption el__storyelement__title\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"owl-item\">\n<div data-slidename=\"Eritreans search for asylum\" data-analytics=\"_body_image\">\n<div class=\"media__caption el__gallery_image-title\"><span class=\"media__caption-head\">&#8216;The example of hell&#8217;<\/span> \u2013 <span class=\"el__storyelement__gray\">Benjamin had been in Italy for about eight days after making the perilous journey across the <\/span><span class=\"el__storyelement__gray\">Mediterranean from Tripoli in Libya to Lampudesa, Italy. &#8220;I was vomiting from the time I got onto the boat,&#8221; he remembers.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"el__gallery-showhide js__gallery-showhide\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"owl-item\">\n<div data-slidename=\"Eritreans search for asylum\" data-analytics=\"_body_image\">\n<div class=\"el__resize\">\n<div class=\"el__position media js-gallery-aspect-ratio-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"el__position media js-gallery-aspect-ratio-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"el__position media js-gallery-aspect-ratio-wrapper\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__image media__image--responsive media__image--cut-format owl-lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155455-eritrea-slave-migrant-5-exlarge-169.jpg\" alt=\"The day before the interview Italian police had come to the park with bulldozers and demolished a small shanty town of plywood and corrugated iron shacks that had housed around 200 migrants. \" width=\"207\" height=\"116\" data-src-mini=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155455-eritrea-slave-migrant-5-small-169.jpg\" data-src-xsmall=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155455-eritrea-slave-migrant-5-medium-plus-169.jpg\" data-src-small=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155455-eritrea-slave-migrant-5-large-169.jpg\" data-src-medium=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155455-eritrea-slave-migrant-5-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-src-large=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155455-eritrea-slave-migrant-5-super-169.jpg\" data-src-full16x9=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155455-eritrea-slave-migrant-5-full-169.jpg\" data-src-small1x1=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155455-eritrea-slave-migrant-5-small-11.jpg\" data-eq-pts=\"mini: 0,  xsmall: 221,  small: 308,  medium: 461,  large:  781\" data-cut-format=\"16:9\" data-eq-state=\"medium\" data-src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155455-eritrea-slave-migrant-5-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-demand-load=\"loaded\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"js-media__caption media__caption el__storyelement__title\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"media__caption el__gallery_image-title\"><span class=\"media__caption-head\">&#8216;The example of hell&#8217;<\/span> \u2013 <span class=\"el__storyelement__gray\">The day before the interview Italian police had come to the park with bulldozers and demolished a small shanty town of plywood and corrugated iron shacks that had housed around 200 migrants.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"el__gallery-showhide js__gallery-showhide\">\n<div class=\"js-el__gallery-caption el__gallery-caption\">Hide Caption<\/div>\n<div class=\"el__gallery-photocount\">5 of 6<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"owl-item\">\n<div data-slidename=\"Eritreans search for asylum\" data-analytics=\"_body_image\">\n<div class=\"el__resize\">\n<div class=\"el__position media js-gallery-aspect-ratio-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__image media__image--responsive media__image--cut-format owl-lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155524-eritrea-slave-migrant-6-exlarge-169.jpg\" alt=\"An Eritrean man stares at a cell phone. According to European Union regulations, migrants must be registered in the country they arrive in, and cannot go on to request asylum elsewhere. But many who arrive in Italy flee before they are registered hoping to make it to other European countries. \" data-src-mini=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155524-eritrea-slave-migrant-6-small-169.jpg\" data-src-xsmall=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155524-eritrea-slave-migrant-6-medium-plus-169.jpg\" data-src-small=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155524-eritrea-slave-migrant-6-large-169.jpg\" data-src-medium=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155524-eritrea-slave-migrant-6-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-src-large=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155524-eritrea-slave-migrant-6-super-169.jpg\" data-src-full16x9=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155524-eritrea-slave-migrant-6-full-169.jpg\" data-src-small1x1=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155524-eritrea-slave-migrant-6-small-11.jpg\" data-eq-pts=\"mini: 0,  xsmall: 221,  small: 308,  medium: 461,  large:  781\" data-cut-format=\"16:9\" data-eq-state=\"medium\" data-src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155524-eritrea-slave-migrant-6-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-demand-load=\"loaded\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"js-media__caption media__caption el__storyelement__title\"><span class=\"el__storyelement__header\">Eritreans search for asylum<\/span> <span class=\"el__storyelement__gray\">6 photos<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"media__caption el__gallery_image-title\"><span class=\"media__caption-head\">&#8216;The example of hell&#8217;<\/span> \u2013 <span class=\"el__storyelement__gray\">An Eritrean man stares at a cell phone. According to European Union regulations, migrants must be registered in the country they arrive in, and cannot go on to request asylum elsewhere. But many who arrive in Italy flee before they are registered hoping to make it to other European countries.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"el__gallery-showhide js__gallery-showhide\">\n<div class=\"js-el__gallery-caption el__gallery-caption\">Hide Caption<\/div>\n<div class=\"el__gallery-photocount\">6 of 6<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"owl-item cloned\">\n<div data-slidename=\"Eritreans search for asylum\" data-analytics=\"_body_image\">\n<div class=\"el__resize\">\n<div class=\"el__position media js-gallery-aspect-ratio-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__image media__image--responsive media__image--cut-format owl-lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155121-eritrea-slave-migrant-3-exlarge-169.jpg\" alt=\"An Eritrean man in Rome. Eritreans make up the second largest group of migrants -- after Syrians -- reaching the shores of Europe.\" data-src-mini=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155121-eritrea-slave-migrant-3-small-169.jpg\" data-src-xsmall=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155121-eritrea-slave-migrant-3-medium-plus-169.jpg\" data-src-small=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155121-eritrea-slave-migrant-3-large-169.jpg\" data-src-medium=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155121-eritrea-slave-migrant-3-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-src-large=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155121-eritrea-slave-migrant-3-super-169.jpg\" data-src-full16x9=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155121-eritrea-slave-migrant-3-full-169.jpg\" data-src-small1x1=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155121-eritrea-slave-migrant-3-small-11.jpg\" data-eq-pts=\"mini: 0,  xsmall: 221,  small: 308,  medium: 461,  large:  781\" data-cut-format=\"16:9\" data-eq-state=\"medium\" data-src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155121-eritrea-slave-migrant-3-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-demand-load=\"loaded\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"js-media__caption media__caption el__storyelement__title\"><span class=\"el__storyelement__header\">Eritreans search for asylum<\/span> <span class=\"el__storyelement__gray\">6 photos<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"media__caption el__gallery_image-title\"><span class=\"media__caption-head\">&#8216;The example of hell&#8217;<\/span> \u2013 <span class=\"el__storyelement__gray\">An Eritrean man in Rome. Eritreans make up the second largest group of migrants &#8212; after Syrians &#8212; reaching the shores of Europe.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"el__gallery-showhide js__gallery-showhide\">\n<div class=\"js-el__gallery-caption el__gallery-caption\">Hide Caption<\/div>\n<div class=\"el__gallery-photocount\">1 of 6<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"owl-item cloned\">\n<div data-slidename=\"Eritreans search for asylum\" data-analytics=\"_body_image\">\n<div class=\"el__resize\">\n<div class=\"el__position media js-gallery-aspect-ratio-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__image media__image--responsive media__image--cut-format owl-lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155451-eritrea-slave-migrant-4-exlarge-169.jpg\" alt=\"Eritreans are not fleeing war, they are refugees from open-ended military service -- a system that human rights activists describe as official slavery.\" data-src-mini=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155451-eritrea-slave-migrant-4-small-169.jpg\" data-src-xsmall=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155451-eritrea-slave-migrant-4-medium-plus-169.jpg\" data-src-small=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155451-eritrea-slave-migrant-4-large-169.jpg\" data-src-medium=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155451-eritrea-slave-migrant-4-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-src-large=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155451-eritrea-slave-migrant-4-super-169.jpg\" data-src-full16x9=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155451-eritrea-slave-migrant-4-full-169.jpg\" data-src-small1x1=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155451-eritrea-slave-migrant-4-small-11.jpg\" data-eq-pts=\"mini: 0,  xsmall: 221,  small: 308,  medium: 461,  large:  781\" data-cut-format=\"16:9\" data-eq-state=\"medium\" data-src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155451-eritrea-slave-migrant-4-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-demand-load=\"loaded\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"js-media__caption media__caption el__storyelement__title\"><span class=\"el__storyelement__header\">Eritreans search for asylum<\/span> <span class=\"el__storyelement__gray\">6 photos<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"media__caption el__gallery_image-title\"><span class=\"media__caption-head\">&#8216;The example of hell&#8217;<\/span> \u2013 <span class=\"el__storyelement__gray\">Eritreans are not fleeing war, they are refugees from open-ended military service &#8212; a system that human rights activists describe as official slavery.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"el__gallery-showhide js__gallery-showhide\">\n<div class=\"js-el__gallery-caption el__gallery-caption\">Hide Caption<\/div>\n<div class=\"el__gallery-photocount\">2 of 6<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"owl-item cloned\">\n<div data-slidename=\"Eritreans search for asylum\" data-analytics=\"_body_image\">\n<div class=\"el__resize\">\n<div class=\"el__position media js-gallery-aspect-ratio-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__image media__image--responsive media__image--cut-format owl-lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155109-eritrean-slavery-migrant-1-exlarge-169.jpg\" alt=\"CNN International correspondent Ben Wedeman (L) with Benjamin, an Eritrean migrant in a park in Ponte Mammolo in northern Rome. He was one of a very few migrants in park who would agree to an interview. \" data-src-mini=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155109-eritrean-slavery-migrant-1-small-169.jpg\" data-src-xsmall=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155109-eritrean-slavery-migrant-1-medium-plus-169.jpg\" data-src-small=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155109-eritrean-slavery-migrant-1-large-169.jpg\" data-src-medium=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155109-eritrean-slavery-migrant-1-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-src-large=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155109-eritrean-slavery-migrant-1-super-169.jpg\" data-src-full16x9=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155109-eritrean-slavery-migrant-1-full-169.jpg\" data-src-small1x1=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155109-eritrean-slavery-migrant-1-small-11.jpg\" data-eq-pts=\"mini: 0,  xsmall: 221,  small: 308,  medium: 461,  large:  781\" data-cut-format=\"16:9\" data-eq-state=\"medium\" data-src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155109-eritrean-slavery-migrant-1-exlarge-169.jpg\" data-demand-load=\"loaded\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"js-media__caption media__caption el__storyelement__title\"><span class=\"el__storyelement__header\">Eritreans search for asylum<\/span> <span class=\"el__storyelement__gray\">6 photos<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"media__caption el__gallery_image-title\"><span class=\"media__caption-head\">&#8216;The example of hell&#8217;<\/span> \u2013 <span class=\"el__storyelement__gray\">CNN International correspondent Ben Wedeman (L) with Benjamin, an Eritrean migrant in a park in Ponte Mammolo in northern Rome. He was one of a very few migrants in park who would agree to an interview.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"el__gallery-showhide js__gallery-showhide\">\n<div class=\"js-el__gallery-caption el__gallery-caption\">Hide Caption<\/div>\n<div class=\"el__gallery-photocount\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"owl-carousel js-owl-filmstrip owl-filmstrip owl-loaded owl-drag\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pg-rail-tall__body\">\n<section id=\"body-text\" class=\"zn zn-body-text zn-body zn--idx-0 zn-has-multiple-containers zn-has-36-containers\" data-eq-pts=\"xsmall: 0, medium: 460, large: 780, full16x9: 1100\" data-vr-zone=\"zone-1-0\" data-containers=\"36\" data-zn-id=\"body-text\" data-eq-state=\"large\">\n<div class=\"l-container\">\n<div class=\"el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--storyhighlights\">\n<div class=\"el__storyhighlights_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"el__storyhighlights\">\n<h3 class=\"el__headline\">Story highlights<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"el__storyhighlights__list\">\n<li class=\"el__storyhighlights__item el__storyhighlights--normal\">Eritreans make up the the second largest group of migrants, after Syrians, reaching the shores of Europe<\/li>\n<li class=\"el__storyhighlights__item el__storyhighlights--normal\">They are fleeing open-ended military service &#8212; which some human rights activists describe as official slavery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Rome (CNN)<\/cite>&#8220;What are you doing here?&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">A man in a red t-shirt and a long black ponytail shouted angrily at us as we conducted interviews at a center for migrants &#8212; most of whom were from Eritrea &#8212; in the Rome suburb of Tiburtina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8220;You should be in Eritrea interviewing that demon there!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">That &#8220;demon,&#8221; the man went on to explain, is Isaias Afwerki, the country&#8217;s president since 1993.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">The man told us he was from Eritrea and had been in Italy for eight years, but declined to be interviewed, fearing his relatives back home would be punished.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Eritreans make up the second largest group of migrants, after Syrians, reaching the shores of Europe.<\/p>\n<h3>Fleeing military service<\/h3>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">But unlike the Syrians, the Eritreans aren&#8217;t fleeing war. Instead they are refugees from what human rights activists describe as a system of official slavery\u2014open-ended military service for all males and unmarried females between the ages of 18 and 50.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Benjamin, 23, comes from Asmara, the capital of Eritrea. When we met him in a park in Ponte Mammolo in northern Rome, he had been in Italy for about eight days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8220;I ran away from Eritrea because I don&#8217;t want to serve in the military,&#8221; he told me. &#8220;I was hiding from place-to-place for a very long time. My family suffered too much trying to hide me. I had to move out. My destiny was to be in the military and that&#8217;s not what I want. The only opportunity I have is running away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Benjamin spoke almost flawless English, which he taught himself while on the run. When we interviewed him, he asked that we not show his face. He was one of the few in the park who were willing to be interviewed at all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">The day before Italian police had come in the morning with bulldozers and demolished a small shanty town of plywood and corrugated iron shacks that had housed around 200 migrants. Benjamin&#8217;s &#8220;house&#8221; as he calls it, is a strip of cardboard he sleeps on under a tree.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">His story is similar to many we&#8217;ve heard from other migrants.<\/p>\n<h3>Harrowing journey<\/h3>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">His family scraped together as much money as they could to pay what he described as &#8220;facilitators&#8221; to help him escape from Eritrea and travel across Ethiopia and Sudan to Libya, where he ended up in the town of Ajdabia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">In Ajdabia, a town I spent lots of time in during the Libyan uprising in 2011, he stayed for a month in a house run by several facilitators, ironically, fellow Eritreans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">The bonds of nationality didn&#8217;t count for much.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8220;He was a very terrible person,&#8221; recalled Benjamin. &#8220;The only thing he wanted from us was money. He didn&#8217;t feed us properly. To be honest I didn&#8217;t take a shower for the full month I was in that house. You were allowed to go to the bathroom only one time a day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">The facilitators &#8220;took our phones, they took everything we had in our pockets. I had \u20ac200. They took my wallet and my documents. All I had was the clothing I was wearing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Summing up the experience in Ajdabia, he said &#8220;it was the example of hell.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">From Ajdabia he and other Eritrean migrants were moved to the Libyan capital, Tripoli. There they were crammed with around 600 others onto a two-level fishing boat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8220;The engine burned out two or three times and the fan belt also broke. We stayed in the middle of nowhere for seven hours,&#8221; he told me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">&#8220;Everybody gave up on that boat,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We were just praying to God to help us. Some people were fighting there. Some people were sitting inside the engine room. Many were unconscious. It was too hot, and people were vomiting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Benjamin was in a cramped, suffocating room on the lower deck. &#8220;I was vomiting from the time I got onto the boat. It was so crowded, but I sat on top of my friend and had my face in a little window where I could breathe. I don&#8217;t remember what happened after that. I was just feeling my pain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eritreans search for asylum 6 photos &#8216;The example of hell&#8217; \u2013 Benjamin had been in Italy for about eight days after making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean from Tripoli in Libya to Lampudesa, Italy. &#8220;I was vomiting from the time I got onto the boat,&#8221; he remembers. Hide Caption &#8216;The example of hell&#8217; \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_ml_titleColor":"#000000","_ml_titleFont":"Roboto","_ml_titleFontSize":1.1359999999999998987476601541857235133647918701171875,"_ml_titleFontWeight":"400","_ml_titleLineHeight":1.3000000000000000444089209850062616169452667236328125,"_ml_metaColor":"#708090","_ml_metaFont":"Montserrat","_ml_metaFontSize":0.67849999999999999200639422269887290894985198974609375,"_ml_metaFontWeight":"400","_ml_metaLineHeight":0.92000000000000003996802888650563545525074005126953125,"_ml_bodyColor":"#a9a9a9","_ml_bodyFont":"Open Sans","_ml_bodyFontSize":0.84999999999999997779553950749686919152736663818359375,"_ml_bodyFontWeight":"400","_ml_bodyLineHeight":1.1999999999999999555910790149937383830547332763671875,"_ml_wooPriceColor":"#666","_ml_wooPriceFont":"Open Sans","_ml_wooPriceFontSize":0.90000000000000002220446049250313080847263336181640625,"_ml_wooPriceFontWeight":"400","_ml_wooPriceLineHeight":1.270000000000000017763568394002504646778106689453125,"_ml_headingColor":"#000","_ml_headingFont":"Merriweather","_ml_headingFontSize":2.020000000000000017763568394002504646778106689453125,"_ml_headingFontWeight":"700","_ml_headingLineHeight":1.4699999999999999733546474089962430298328399658203125,"_mlglobal_userfontcolors":{"headingColorUser":[],"titleColorUser":[],"metaColorUser":[],"bodyColorUser":[],"wooPriceColorUser":[]},"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fleeing slavery for uncertainty: One Eritrean migrant&#039;s story By Ben Wedeman, CNN International correspondent Updated 12:18 PM ET, Fri May 15, 2015 - UNITED ERITREA MEDIA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fleeing slavery for uncertainty: One Eritrean migrant&#039;s story By Ben Wedeman, CNN International correspondent Updated 12:18 PM ET, Fri May 15, 2015 - UNITED ERITREA MEDIA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Eritreans search for asylum 6 photos &#8216;The example of hell&#8217; \u2013 Benjamin had been in Italy for about eight days after making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean from Tripoli in Libya to Lampudesa, Italy. &#8220;I was vomiting from the time I got onto the boat,&#8221; he remembers. Hide Caption &#8216;The example of hell&#8217; \u2013 [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2015\/05\/17\/fleeing-slavery-for-uncertainty-one-eritrean-migrants-story-by-ben-wedeman-cnn-international-correspondent-updated-1218-pm-et-fri-may-15-2015\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"UNITED ERITREA MEDIA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-05-17T04:19:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-05-17T04:19:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155115-eritrea-slave-migrant-2-exlarge-169.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Administrator\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Administrator\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"6 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2015\/05\/17\/fleeing-slavery-for-uncertainty-one-eritrean-migrants-story-by-ben-wedeman-cnn-international-correspondent-updated-1218-pm-et-fri-may-15-2015\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2015\/05\/17\/fleeing-slavery-for-uncertainty-one-eritrean-migrants-story-by-ben-wedeman-cnn-international-correspondent-updated-1218-pm-et-fri-may-15-2015\/\",\"name\":\"Fleeing slavery for uncertainty: One Eritrean migrant's story By Ben Wedeman, CNN International correspondent Updated 12:18 PM ET, Fri May 15, 2015 - UNITED ERITREA MEDIA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2015-05-17T04:19:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2015-05-17T04:19:21+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/#\/schema\/person\/984095fb4b8562530c05496fc8b26adf\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2015\/05\/17\/fleeing-slavery-for-uncertainty-one-eritrean-migrants-story-by-ben-wedeman-cnn-international-correspondent-updated-1218-pm-et-fri-may-15-2015\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2015\/05\/17\/fleeing-slavery-for-uncertainty-one-eritrean-migrants-story-by-ben-wedeman-cnn-international-correspondent-updated-1218-pm-et-fri-may-15-2015\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2015\/05\/17\/fleeing-slavery-for-uncertainty-one-eritrean-migrants-story-by-ben-wedeman-cnn-international-correspondent-updated-1218-pm-et-fri-may-15-2015\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Fleeing slavery for uncertainty: One Eritrean migrant&#8217;s story By Ben Wedeman, CNN International correspondent Updated 12:18 PM ET, Fri May 15, 2015\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/\",\"name\":\"UNITED ERITREA MEDIA\",\"description\":\"\u0648\u0633\u0627\u0626\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0639\u0644\u0627\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0631\u064a\u062a\u0631\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0648\u062d\u062f\u0629\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/#\/schema\/person\/984095fb4b8562530c05496fc8b26adf\",\"name\":\"Administrator\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/913b0e245545154e0835947100e60b86?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/913b0e245545154e0835947100e60b86?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Administrator\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/author\/administrator\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Fleeing slavery for uncertainty: One Eritrean migrant's story By Ben Wedeman, CNN International correspondent Updated 12:18 PM ET, Fri May 15, 2015 - UNITED ERITREA MEDIA","robots":{"index":"noindex","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Fleeing slavery for uncertainty: One Eritrean migrant's story By Ben Wedeman, CNN International correspondent Updated 12:18 PM ET, Fri May 15, 2015 - UNITED ERITREA MEDIA","og_description":"Eritreans search for asylum 6 photos &#8216;The example of hell&#8217; \u2013 Benjamin had been in Italy for about eight days after making the perilous journey across the Mediterranean from Tripoli in Libya to Lampudesa, Italy. &#8220;I was vomiting from the time I got onto the boat,&#8221; he remembers. Hide Caption &#8216;The example of hell&#8217; \u2013 [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2015\/05\/17\/fleeing-slavery-for-uncertainty-one-eritrean-migrants-story-by-ben-wedeman-cnn-international-correspondent-updated-1218-pm-et-fri-may-15-2015\/","og_site_name":"UNITED ERITREA MEDIA","article_published_time":"2015-05-17T04:19:03+00:00","article_modified_time":"2015-05-17T04:19:21+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/cnnnext\/dam\/assets\/150514155115-eritrea-slave-migrant-2-exlarge-169.jpg"}],"author":"Administrator","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Administrator","Est. reading time":"6 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2015\/05\/17\/fleeing-slavery-for-uncertainty-one-eritrean-migrants-story-by-ben-wedeman-cnn-international-correspondent-updated-1218-pm-et-fri-may-15-2015\/","url":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2015\/05\/17\/fleeing-slavery-for-uncertainty-one-eritrean-migrants-story-by-ben-wedeman-cnn-international-correspondent-updated-1218-pm-et-fri-may-15-2015\/","name":"Fleeing slavery for uncertainty: One Eritrean migrant's story By Ben Wedeman, CNN International correspondent Updated 12:18 PM ET, Fri May 15, 2015 - UNITED ERITREA MEDIA","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/#website"},"datePublished":"2015-05-17T04:19:03+00:00","dateModified":"2015-05-17T04:19:21+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/#\/schema\/person\/984095fb4b8562530c05496fc8b26adf"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2015\/05\/17\/fleeing-slavery-for-uncertainty-one-eritrean-migrants-story-by-ben-wedeman-cnn-international-correspondent-updated-1218-pm-et-fri-may-15-2015\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2015\/05\/17\/fleeing-slavery-for-uncertainty-one-eritrean-migrants-story-by-ben-wedeman-cnn-international-correspondent-updated-1218-pm-et-fri-may-15-2015\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2015\/05\/17\/fleeing-slavery-for-uncertainty-one-eritrean-migrants-story-by-ben-wedeman-cnn-international-correspondent-updated-1218-pm-et-fri-may-15-2015\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Fleeing slavery for uncertainty: One Eritrean migrant&#8217;s story By Ben Wedeman, CNN International correspondent Updated 12:18 PM ET, Fri May 15, 2015"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/#website","url":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/","name":"UNITED ERITREA MEDIA","description":"\u0648\u0633\u0627\u0626\u0644 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0639\u0644\u0627\u0645 \u0627\u0644\u0625\u0631\u064a\u062a\u0631\u064a \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0648\u062d\u062f\u0629","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/#\/schema\/person\/984095fb4b8562530c05496fc8b26adf","name":"Administrator","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/913b0e245545154e0835947100e60b86?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/913b0e245545154e0835947100e60b86?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Administrator"},"url":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/author\/administrator\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1885\/revisions\/1887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}