More than 600 Eritreans, deported from Ethiopia last week, arrived in western Eritrea through the Mereb-Setit front on Monday after a six-day journey, the Eritrean News Agency (ERINA) reported. It quoted the returnees as saying the situation of Eritreans in Addis Ababa remained “desperate”. Eritrean spokesman Kidane Woldeyesus told IRIN the deportation of Eritreans from Ethiopia in this was had become a “tradition”. “The civilians are brutalised,” he said. “Their assets are frozen, property and houses confiscated or burnt down and yet the international community has not condemned this.”
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