ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <!-- saved from url=(0060)http://www.ena.gov.et/EnglishNews/2007/Aug/02Aug07/33617.htm --> <HTML xmlns:asp><HEAD><TITLE>1150 Eritreans entered into Ethiopia</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1561" name=GENERATOR> <META content="Visual Basic .NET 7.1" name=CODE_LANGUAGE> <META content=JavaScript name=vs_defaultClientScript> <META content=http://schemas.microsoft.com/intellisense/ie5 name=vs_targetSchema><LINK href="../../../../Style/ENA.css" type=text/css rel=stylesheet><LINK href="../../../../../vg.css" type=text/css rel=STYLESHEET></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff MS_POSITIONING="GridLayout"> <P>&nbsp;</P> <TABLE id=Table1 style="Z-INDEX: 102; LEFT: 8px; WIDTH: 984px; POSITION: absolute; TOP: 8px; HEIGHT: 24px" cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=1 width=984 border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD style="WIDTH: 976px" vAlign=center align=middle> <P style="TEXT-ALIGN: left"><IMG src="1150 Eritreans entered into Ethiopia_files/Logo.gif"> &nbsp;&nbsp; <IMG src="1150 Eritreans entered into Ethiopia_files/ENALogo.gif"></P></TD> <TD vAlign=center align=middle> <P>&nbsp;</P></TD></TR> <TR> <TD style="WIDTH: 976px" vAlign=center align=middle bgColor=#cc3399></TD> <TD vAlign=center align=middle></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><BR><BR> <TABLE> <TBODY> <TR> <TD style="WIDTH: 622px" vAlign=top> <TABLE id=Table2 style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px solid; BORDER-TOP: 0px solid; Z-INDEX: 103; LEFT: 11px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px solid; TOP: 97px" cellSpacing=1 cellPadding=1 border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD style="WIDTH: 588px; LINE-HEIGHT: 200%; BORDER-BOTTOM: darkgray 1px solid; HEIGHT: 1px" vAlign=bottom align=middle bgColor=white><SPAN id=lblHeading style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: larger; WIDTH: 580px; COLOR: royalblue; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Visual Geez Unicode; HEIGHT: 24px">1150 Eritreans entered into Ethiopia </SPAN></TD></TR> <TR style="PADDING-RIGHT: 12px; PADDING-LEFT: 12px; LEFT: 20px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 12px; MARGIN-LEFT: 6px; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; PADDING-TOP: 12px"> <TD style="WIDTH: 588px; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; FONT-FAMILY: Visual Geez Unicode; HEIGHT: 17px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: ghostwhite" vAlign=top align=left bgColor=#f8f8ff><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Addis Ababa, August 2, 2007 (Addis Ababa) - Some 1150 Eritreans, who were suffering at the hands of the Eritrean dictatorial regime, recently entered into Ethiopia via the Mereb and Egela area, officials said. <P> <P>Eritrean refugee coordinator in Rama area, Negussie Teklu and Security and Administrative Affairs Head of the Aferom Woreda Administration, Colonel Berhie Adhanne told ENA some 300 soldiers, 80 civil servants, and 745 youth, farmers, and businesspersons of that country crossed into Ethiopia since the beginning of the current month. <P> <P>The Eritreans, who could not live in their country due to the dictatorial regime, fled into Ethiopia since the Eritrean regime continued forcing citizens to join military training centers. <P> <P>Two of the refugees namely; Te`ebe Gebremedhin and Yodit Teferi, who fled with five minors, were forced to come to Ethiopia since the Eritrean regime threatened to fine them 50,000 Nakfa each due to their husbands that fled their country earlier. <P> <P> <P>---END--- <P></SPAN></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD> <TD style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; WIDTH: 657px" vAlign=top> <TABLE> <TBODY> <TR> <TD style="WIDTH: 366px"></TD></TR> <TR> <TD style="WIDTH: 366px; HEIGHT: 4px; BACKGROUND-COLOR: cornflowerblue; TEXT-ALIGN: center"><STRONG><SPAN style="COLOR: #ffffff; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS">Headlines</SPAN></STRONG></TD></TR> <TR> <TD style="FONT-SIZE: smaller; WIDTH: 366px; FONT-FAMILY: 'Visual Geez Unicode'"><IMG src="1150 Eritreans entered into Ethiopia_files/grn_arrow.gif" ?><A href="http://www.ena.gov.et/EnglishNews/2007/Aug/02Aug07/33617.htm">1150 Eritreans entered into Ethiopia </A><BR><IMG src="1150 Eritreans entered into Ethiopia_files/grn_arrow.gif" ?><A href="http://www.ena.gov.et/EnglishNews/2007/Aug/02Aug07/33615.htm">Two defendants of sedition charges say defense testimonies so far heard enough to make their cases</A><BR><IMG src="1150 Eritreans entered into Ethiopia_files/grn_arrow.gif" ?><A href="http://www.ena.gov.et/EnglishNews/2007/Aug/02Aug07/33603.htm">4th joint conference of speakers kicks off </A><BR><IMG src="1150 Eritreans entered into Ethiopia_files/grn_arrow.gif" ?><A href="http://www.ena.gov.et/EnglishNews/2007/Aug/02Aug07/33614.htm">University to launch 14 new programs </A><BR></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR> <TR> <TD style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: whitesmoke; TEXT-ALIGN: center" colSpan=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: #006699; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS"><STRONG>(c) The Ethiopian News Agency</STRONG></SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></BODY></HTML>