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December 17, 2008

Eritreans Want Recognition as Refugees

by Ruth Eglash, Jerusalem Post, Israel - Wearing white masks to conceal their identities, more than 500 Eritrean asylum seekers took to the streets of Tel Aviv Tuesday to protest what they describe as the Israeli government's refusal to recognize them as refugees and grant them certain rights under the United Nation's convention on the status of refugees, to which Israel is party.

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