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The Eritrea-Ethiopia War of 1998-2000 generated many refugees, among them over 4,200 Kunamas, Eritrean pastoralists who took the wrong side in that war and now live in a camp across the border in north Ethiopia.(The Week)(Brief article)

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The Eritrea-Ethiopia War of 1998-2000 generated many refugees, among them over 4,200 Kunamas, Eritrean pastoralists who took the wrong side in that war and now live in a camp across the border in north Ethiopia. The camp is milked for taxes and recruits by a local Eritrean rebel group. This group was naturally upset to hear that the Kunamas, all 4,200 of them, had been offered resettlement in the U.S. To forestall the threatened loss of money and manpower, the rebels set up a makeshift video parlor in the camp and played the old 1977 TV miniseries Roots to the refugees, omitting to tell them that the anti-slavery ...

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