{"id":1221,"date":"2010-09-25T09:18:53","date_gmt":"2010-09-25T13:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/174.120.63.226\/~hrlha\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2010-09-25T09:18:53","modified_gmt":"2010-09-25T13:18:53","slug":"exodus-of-youth-from-zenawis-ethiopia-through-kenyan-border-ntv-kenya-investigates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanrightsleague.org\/?p=1221","title":{"rendered":"Exodus of Youth from Zenawi\u2019s Ethiopia through Kenyan Border: NTV Kenya Investigates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Hundreds of young people, who face political repression and economic destitution in Ethiopia, flee through the Kenyan border each week in search of better lives. Journalist Yasin Juma of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ntv.co.ke\/\" target=\"_blank\">NTV Kenya<\/a> goes undercover to investigate as the emigrants seeking safe refuge cross the border into Kenya.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Kenyan authorities continue to disregard international human rights and refugee protection laws covenants, and charge those fleeing the repressive regime of Zenawi as \u201cillegal aliens.\u201d<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>For the record, Kenya does not require \u201centry visas\u201d for those entering from Ethiopia, but an \u201centry stamp\u201d, that is free of charge. However, to secure this FREE \u201centry stamp,\u201d desperate young people fleeing the Zenawi regime are forced to pay \u201chuman traffickers\u201d (including border security and immigration officials) hefty bribes.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/em>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The following are two parts of the documentary by NTV Kenya. Other parts will be posted here as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/NTVKenya\" target=\"_blank\">they become available from YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of young people, who face political repression and economic destitution in Ethiopia, flee through the Kenyan border each week in search of better lives. Journalist Yasin Juma of\u00a0NTV Kenya goes undercover to investigate as the emigrants seeking safe refuge cross the border into Kenya. The Kenyan authorities continue to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethiopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanrightsleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanrightsleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanrightsleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanrightsleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanrightsleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanrightsleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.humanrightsleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanrightsleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.humanrightsleague.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}