SOCEPP: … We are certain that Your Excellency and your government know quite well the plight of Ethiopians under the repressive regime of Meles Zenawi. Hundreds of Ethiopian youngsters have been forced to flee political persecution, economic misery of unbearable intensity, religious and ethnic persecution to seek asylum elsewhere, near and far, from Sudan to South Africa and beyond. Hundreds of Ethiopian youths who have confronted immense danger and difficulties in the hands of human traffickers have made their way to Malawi, often to pass to South Africa and beyond. Many have been detained and even sentenced for six months imprisonment and jailed   for “illegal entry”. The recent condemnation of 16 Ethiopian youths by a Rumphi court is a case in point. Read More…