Word: eritreans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crew of a sambuk marooned a load of pilgrims on an uninhabited island near the Eritrean coast, telling them they were in the Holy Land. Most of the pilgrims died of thirst, but a few lived to identify the sambuk crew, who were hanged. Last year a Saudi Arabian patrol found another party of pilgrims, 18 of them dead of thirst, who had been dumped on a lonely shore and told to walk in the wrong direction. None of this was known to 32 innocent Nigerians who had spent two years walking from the west coast of Africa, across deserts...
...U.S.S.R. proposed outright independence for Eritrea. Poland plumped for independence in three years, Pakistan in two. Iraq wanted an Eritrean...