Refugee Status for Eritrean Football Team
The Ugandan government has reportedly granted refugee status to 15 former members of Eritrea's national football team who disappeared in the country in 2012 while taking part in a regional tournament.
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The incident in Kampala was the third time the Eritrean football team had disappeared in an African state to claim asylum.
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THEY ARE IN CONFORT LIFE HOW THEY LIE? FRO WHAT THEY WILL PERSECUTION? LIERS. IF THE UGANDA GEVERNEMEN ACCEPT THIS AND SEND TO WAST IT WILL BE LIKE A BISNESS AND THE MEANING OF SPORT WILL BE DISAPPIR IN AFRICAN CONTINET. SO UGANDA GEVERNEMENT MUST SEND THEM TO ERITREA. ALL ARE LIERS IF YOU ASK ALL ERITREAN PPL THEY WAS NOT HAD ANY PROBLEM WITH THE ERITREAN GEVERNEMENT
they dont make sense at all.shame on them .
Some of you come here and leave your nonsense comments. Why would the whole national team run away? not once not twice , but always where ever they go. They ask for asylum, why the youth are dying in Sinai Egypt and attacked by racist mobs in Israel? Do you really think people who live in comfort choose hardship, being countryless, being treated as second and third class citizens in the host nation and risk their lives in the process?. Get your self some information. These players are in mandatory military service since they turned 18. Is that comfort to you ? you go ahead and try it, some of you living in your host country as refugee, you have lost human empathy and blinded by misguided "patriotism". You go and try serve your country in a military service for 20 years with out pay, you the hypocrites of tomorrow. Peace!
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