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[https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/mexican-media-face-perils-reporting-on-drug-war by PBS NEWS 25/8/10] | [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/mexican-media-face-perils-reporting-on-drug-war by PBS NEWS 25/8/10] | ||
A Mexican reporter tried to do a stand-up in the northern city of Reynosa. But with bullets and grenades flying just below this bridge, he and the cameraman were forced to lie on the concrete. | A Mexican reporter tried to do a stand-up in the northern city of Reynosa. But with bullets and grenades flying just below this bridge, he and the cameraman were forced to lie on the concrete. | ||
=====“They Are Making Us into Slaves, Not Educating Us”===== | |||
[https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/08/09/they-are-making-us-slaves-not-educating-us/how-indefinite-conscription-restricts by HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH 8/8/19] | |||
Since the border war with Ethiopia in the late 1990s, Eritrea’s President Isaias Afewerki and the ruling People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ) have used indefinite national service to control the Eritrean population. Human Rights Watch research finds that many Eritreans have spent their entire working lives at the service of the government in either a military or civilian capacity. This indefinite national service has had a visible and lasting impact on the rights, freedom, and lives of Eritreans. | |||
