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don't worry you will. be. for many years people have been fleeing eritrea. a steady stream across the border into sudan but unable or unwilling to stay there the move on. many

end up in europe. others have made it across the sinai peninsula and managed to get into israel. today approximately forty thousand people from africa have made it into the country. and having rejected most of their asylum applications the israeli government now wants them out a new program has been announced except deportations to a third country such as rwanda or uganda or end up in an israeli prison. that's here in pockets of relatively deprived southern television but thousands of africans have made their home over recent years we'll hear from some of those who now stand to lose that here until trial just. tekhelet and eden have lived in tel aviv for about ten years now both of them say

the reason they fled eritrea was to escape the military it's a familiar story. according to a united nations investigation based on interviews with five hundred refugees around the world the military is in fact a recruitment tool for forced labor tracing its role to the country's long running conflict with its neighbor if the o.p.o. . eritrea gained formal independence from ethiopia in one nine hundred ninety three after a thirty year long armed struggle but since then the situation along the border has remained tense with frequent violent clashes. as a result the military here plays a central organizing role but beyond defending the country it has become an instrument of oppression according to retrain refugees. young men are forced to serve for many years but not just to execute military duties. the issues relating

to eritrea as military and slash national service programs include their arbitrary and indefinite duration the use of conscripts as forced labor including manual labor the inhumane conditions of service rape and torture often associated with service and their devastating impact on family life and freedom of choice for the individuals. overall the un investigators concluded that quote the commission has reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity namely enslavement imprisonment enforced disappearance torture other inhumanities persecution rape and murder have been committed in eritrea since one nine hundred ninety one. it's also recommended referring the situation to the prosecutor of the international criminal court. and natural way out of the country is north to

sudan but that country is hardly a long term solution. not too far away israel and many managed to cross into the country before israel decided to build a barbed fence along its border with egypt in the sinai peninsula. but now the government here says it's time for the refugees to go. but we come here to live in ski garden and so i will tell of it's a park here where years ago many of the asylum seekers were simply brought on a bus and left and now it's become something of a central point for this community. tekhelet came here in two thousand and six for a while he worked in a restaurant. he works for an engine advocating on behalf of the african community here. he didn't came here ten years ago with her husband and two kids since then she has given birth to

a daughter who is now in kindergarten she also works for an ngo let's start at the beginning of your story how and why did you leave eritrea and how did you end up here in israel when i was a nurse there was an athlete and there was also a student without any reason there terrorism between me and force him into the army and i trained as a soldier and the ask of them to give me a chance to return back to my studies and my training to become an athlete that was an athlete with a sense runner and that if he did me that he may claim. or where it came from and as a point i left my country because i've become hopeless in my own country i've become dreamless in my own country and it's my country on some consequence. in the way to cross the border and run because me my country military border guard this and they ask me where i'm going and i told them i'm leaving my country because of all the

stuff that happened to me and they asked me what was the prison i thought of them i know a prison was away so i can't go through them and a start drawing away from them the three times will kill me. had been done from sudden success didn't number two thousand and seven and the same thing happened in sudan this is government starting to in two hundred over there kind of sensical together and i can always from that and they came to egypt cairo and the same thing happened cairo so the only place is closed near to me was israel so i came to israel on the end of southern seven through. commenting on israel's new policy prime minister netanyahu had this to say on january twenty first we are taking actions against illegal immigrants who came here for work purposes israel will continue to be

a shelter for true refugees and will eject illegal infiltrators now the israeli government's argument in all of this is that the vast majority of the eritrean sudanese asylum seekers are not asylum seekers it calls them infiltrators and people who are here for economic reasons i mean how would you respond to that what what would happen do you think if you went back to eritrea first of all they never took over us and claim properly happening in toronto so they have no reason to what are you going to occur for in truth rather than to traitors right because they never give us a chance even some is there are setting up the question systematically they brought us to some of our claim even those who are climate similar again we didn't get it and so for that sometimes they reject automatically out of fun for no reason without checking their claim so it is completely a lie it's not completely right why they're sane especially in the world more than ninety per cent of eritrean get accepted as refugees in the sudan is are the same

number of get accepted as refugees so why is there is zero princes almost zero point. one person gets upset if it's almost there is ten people who get x. or the other if it is you see in the last ten years so you can understand is completely baseless it completely completely lie and in your own personal case what are the stakes i mean you you left because you deserve the army he was shot at crossing the border if you were simply to go home you obviously view yourself as an asylum seeker if you were to go there now what would happen to first of all if my country because they were in the set up my country so my country i am sure there would be imprisonment because there was a border illegally. i think you're going to disparage them and they're going to trial so if i work my country but not just me every transport of the country will be down year because we know now when we were in our country we know nothing about . the region but know we now have seen what you mean my country and to our people.

for even the military also played a critical role in her and her husband's decision to leave every train ten years ago. so why did you leave what forced you out of a trial because what is a man on is a man. city from there it was most of them was in sodomy and women. even if the man is really from the army the government came they took all his addresses a family especially for wife was a kid s. i don't want to be. in prison because every time prison is difficult prison like his underground prison it is so difficult you can eat one time in a day it is sleep you can sleep on the floor and this is your own personal experience when your husband fled the armenia you were in prison for two months yes

for two months i was with my delta now my daughter now is eleven years old as that time she was like one in the house and so you both ended up with you and your husband and your two children and it up in sudan in a refugee camp. what made you decide to come here because there is not. so that is also the same situation like like everything because if you sit in the fija come that is a smuggler as maybe as a kidnap a deal maybe they can now but the kid this to get the money. when i so when i listen some see it happen for someone like me my husband telling me let's try to leave to get a safe place and then he decided to send me to israel and i came i said and so you you're here you've been here for nearly

a decade and you've been trying you say to apply for asylum. what's happened how far is your asylum application i tried for four days. to applies asylum. feagin status but i didn't get any chance to in time because that is a lot of people and has immigration they don't want to meet. at a seedy asylum. because we decide to deport us to a little one that if someone applies at a fee to status it is. the same as from the deportation when you first arrived in israel nine years ago you didn't apply a prisoner i don't know no one conquered me i don't know because before i was in my country i don't know how to do about the fetus then out up like.

the old man and he came in to say hey we just. want to know that you didn't use the full moon. to get used to the ongoing and we can go through one down. and one about. environment here in southern tel aviv how do you get along with local people here are the major problems all of that if you just had here and they suffer from the people there never miss some neighbors that blame. you no more. shall hold shoot like this. i don't get abodes us. to eat the. chocolates and eat dinner and their fellow refugees are not fighting for their position alone for we came to demonstrate against the book dushan. we

disagree with. the decision of our government especially as jews. we are people of refugees asylum seekers. for two thousand years and we are here to say. now that we are in a sovereign state we have to deal with other asylum seekers worldwide was. in the last few weeks and months we've seen a real groundswell of israeli voices kind of advocating on your behalf we've seen holocaust survivors rushing to the government people even talking about sheltering people in homes and frank to prevent them from being deported what's that been like to witness from your perspective actually it is quite interesting for me this is not into life it's enough like surprise because the last ten years i know these people are fighting with me but their voice never here in the media is in the

fighting for my father and for the future for the picture of the country in the for the value of the country. it's not a deuce of value even like was a gun i mean. protecting the image of the country it's not just just about me and it's about as a country because the country the government is very working very hard to destroy. the to destroy the image of the countries of the last ten years not the government system as a people because my savior because my family become part of me for the last ten years i survived because of the people and the the public but this is them is completely made to break me and met just to kick me out of the country and take me down. many eritreans and others have already been transferred out of the country but the circumstances are murky and hard to verify as a result there is

a lot of speculation. a common story is that refugees are sent on to cover to rwanda or uganda with some cash and that the governments dare look the other way possibly in a deal with israel in the meantime refugees are staying in an open detention center here in israel called talent they are free to leave during the day but have to return by night the policy that is being now advanced by the prison or a third country which is widely thought to be a wonder there are some arguments that perhaps uganda could be involved as well that policy when it comes to that choice if you were presented with that choice personally prison or forced deportation back to an african country which is not your what choice would you make it's better for me to see your side is what is waiting for me in rwanda already one hundred there is no system created by waiting for me to give me a shelter or

a security you have to understand that there is no system at all for me or for us i'm sick of community and those countries because we know in the last years those people who are forces with countries where smugglers to other countries they were victims often months they were victims of human trafficking they didn't say they did him it turns to they did in libya and so the action of the soul so for me it's like i can do that i can't go to scan trees because i know asking protection in israel i never ask protection and one or uganda and secondly it's a good thing for me to say to level up my home which means it's better for me to stay in prison than to go to another one are you worried about your physical safety in either of those two countries or what is your main concern about being sent to one of those places most of them as a person i have a dream to grow and to become him being after here for ten years from scratch. actually you know the longer you know the culture and of the country i can

survive now but there push me to start from scratch again so i'm human being and do i need to create my future it's all from start point again to go back to slander i just said so for my physical protection and the president or his country because as we saw last you free use of those people who are in the courtroom would kill so i don't you kill yourself how people are feeling at the moment how seriously are people taking this threat that is coming from the israeli government that they're going to be forcibly deported to a country which is as i think i was saying the menace i wear it now because. they know it when it will behappen and there was also a lot of men that now in holland they get rejected a lot as there is the detention center in so far most of his and i get to get the

answer was that is. and so you think that this is going to target single men in particular and that they are under very realistic threat of imminent deportation. and you yourself you have a family you have three children one of them will was born here what is it been like bringing them up in this environment when there is a lot of uncertainty and fear about what might happen what's it been like for the kids i don't know if it will be happen for as unself was a kid is i'm not going to the one that i would i would say is again in prison it's better to sit in prison that's that's your view yeah because africa is africa is the same situation and your children i mean are very conscious of what's happening yes they know what is happening. i want to visit my doctor she's talking about the lunda she said what is the one. i don't think there were one.

she said why the government of israel decided to do like this said we are at home on being. says she said. why is the government gave me to. chose a country like the canada. i told her that is not under history's she said i don't think to go to london because i don't know the language i don't know the country is told to me if you need to board cause. everything i have a question tell me because we have a family in it and that it is better to do like the same done decide to. let your eleven year old and you have a younger daughter as well in kindergarten i mean what was the situation for her she done about that prosthesis is almost small but it is difficult because they could have. like her. in that or that of them

so it's quite literally creates an inheritance for you. for a fijian laser is no any sally kids learn together in the thing that about them it is also until one eleven two pm there is no longer any chance to put her hair like after school i pay for her. until i came to tech. and your own situation i mean if if you found yourself on a plane heading to rwanda what would that mean for you what would the prospect of life. be like for you i'm not going to london i would sit in the in the prison no matter how many lonely it takes. why is that what are you worried about that would happen because the wonder is the same like i don't africa if i go to one.

they can pick all the papers documented and oh and i know that in the higher court also i'm afraid. to get like a slave trade like that happen in libya i and i don't want do you think that the israeli government is really going to do this or do you think they're just trying to scare people i don't know maybe they need to scare people because. they can do like buy for us if somebody scary if they will put in unlimited prison. maybe someone they decide to go. the israeli government says that's the vast majority of people here who come from sudan and eritrea the african infiltrators as they call them are here for economic reasons they have to get better jobs to get a better lifestyle i mean how do you is not it is not it is wrong it is not. for

the job because when i was in eritrea i was working as a bank accounting the big credit. i did i don't want to walk in cleaning but the walk in bank or better to continue my education but i don't know if his. and your young daughter finally who is who was born here do you think that she has a future in this country there is no future for. even she is one and has that isn't a future because she's from it. and so your your aspiration your hope is to stay here and feel whole family to stay and live in israel permanently what is your my hope is. i don't know what my hope is if i get a chance i want the world for him he said because i can't continue kind of this life it is not a life. if i get the chalice i'm trying to get it done the sponsor that

if i get. i'm so happy. i was going to. quit the only long term solution points back to retrain. he wants nothing more than to return to what he still calls his country but first the situation there has to change. and your own future over the next few years i mean what do you think what do you hope is going to happen to you. i believe in god. to give me a good future and the person i know i have to fight back and work hard they tend. buddies of the government wired me looks like you're on so i have to become

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