article_snippet.sent: Across the Ethiopian border, through to Sudan and then up and across into Libya -- from where the migrant ships operated by human traffickers set sail at high tide.
article_snippet.sent: Eritrea is ranked as one of the most repressive countries in the world, with an aging dictator enforcing a brutal regime of forced conscription to the army that rights groups believe is a cover for mass exploitation.
article_snippet.sent: Elected by Eritrea's national assembly in 1993, Isaias Afewerki runs what is essentially a one-party state.
highlights_snippet.sent: Many come from Somalia, Ethiopia and especially Eritrea -- which is ruled by a one-party state .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Despite the risks, Eritrean refugees say Eritrean refugees'd risk Eritrean refugees lives with people smugglers .