SOCEPP:  As the world observes June 20 refugee day, SOCEPP is sadly obliged to state that the plight of Ethiopian refugees has worsened all over the world.  Hundreds of refugees perish in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean as they try to make their way to Yemen or Italy, immigration authorities deny them asylum on the flimsiest of pretexts, Libya holds hundreds in desert prisons, Sudan recently deported 48 Ethiopian refugees to placate the authorities in Addis Abeba. Egypt routinely shoots and kills Ethiopian refugees trying to enter Israel and Israel itself holds dozens of refugees in prisons. Fortress Europe is in place and from London to Oslo, Ethiopians have been denied asylum status and quite a few sent back to a very uncertain fate. Many female refugees have been raped by border police in many places.  Read More…