The Horrors of Eritrea: Trafficking, Torture, & Russia’s Role (with Katharine Houreld)

Change Agents with Andy Stumpf

IRONCLAD

Society & Culture

4.8 • 607 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Today on Change Agents, an IRONCLAD original, Andy Stumpf has an extended discussion about the horrors of modern Eritrea, home to the second largest population of slaves in the world. Investigative journalist Katharine Houreld is the The Washington Post’s East Africa bureau chief and previously served as the East Africa bureau chief for Reuters, based in Nairobi. She is the writer behind a stunning recent report entitled, “An African gulag so ghastly that inmates risk death to escape” https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/01/06/eritrea-human-rights-prisons-torture/ SPONSOR: Change Agents is presented by Montana Knife Company. Use CODE "CHANGEAGENTS10" for 10% off your first order at ⁠https://www.montanaknifecompany.com/⁠ MTNTOUGH Go to ⁠https://mtntough.com⁠ and enter code CHANGEAGENTS to receive 40% OFF - a savings of about $100 on your MTNTOUGH+ annual subscription. Shop IRONCLAD Apparel: ⁠https://shop.thisisironclad.com/⁠ Change Agents is an IRONCLAD original. Visit ⁠https://www.thisisironclad.com⁠ to learn more. Be sure to subscribe to @thisisironclad on YouTube and major social platforms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:03.2	There are only four recognized religions in Eritrea.
1:05.5	And if you deviate from those religions,
1:09.3	even if it's something as simple as holding a prayer ceremony inside your house,
1:12.9	then you can be put in prison. And I started to wonder what, you know, what it was like in there.
1:18.3	And some of the answers I got were so horrifying and heartbreaking and also humbling because one of the things that came back again and again in people's accounts was how despite the most dehumanizing of conditions, prisoners would pull the tiny little things that they had and try to help each other stay alive.
1:45.0	How can I help? How can I be useful in ending needless suffering?
1:52.0	Do not be afraid of work that has no end.
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