The Burden of Exile: A Banned Journalist's Flight from Dictatorship Berhane Aaron
In the strict dictatorship of Eritrea, a young reporter co-founds the first independent newspaper, publishes stories that anger the president, and then has to escape to save his life and his loved…
Specifikacia The Burden of Exile: A Banned Journalist's Flight from Dictatorship Berhane Aaron
In the strict dictatorship of Eritrea, a young reporter co-founds the first independent newspaper, publishes stories that anger the president, and then has to escape to save his life and his loved ones.An idealistic journalist with a young family starts the first independent newspaper in the notorious police state of Eritrea -- one of the most brutal dictatorships in the world. When the paper is shut down, he flees arrest and begins a dangerous journey to freedom, first across a desert, at night, into Sudan, pursued by Eritrean secret police, then into secret safe houses in Kenya. With the help of the United Nations, he finds sanctuary in Canada -- a place he knows nothing about. Meanwhile, his wife and young children are stuck back home, in constant danger of reprisal.Berhane's story is one of bravery amid complicated international geopolitics,