'I don't even know if my parents are alive' - the war heroes jailed 25 years ago
I was hurt."In the US, Aster was shell-shocked by what had happened - and was in a very bad way. But while the family waited at Asmara International Airport on 11 December 2003, she failed to emerge through arrivals with the other passengers.Their hopes began to wilt along with the flowers they had brought: "It was a long, long wait. Eventually we gave up and went back home."First we called to the US, friends and relatives told us they saw her off at the airport."Then ominously an official called from the airport asking Aster to collect her luggage.
- ▪I was hurt."In the US, Aster was shell-shocked by what had happened - and was in a very bad way.
- ▪But while the family waited at Asmara International Airport on 11 December 2003, she failed to emerge through arrivals with the other passengers.Their hopes began to wilt along with the flowers they had brought: "It was a long, long wait.
- ▪Eventually we gave up and went back home."First we called to the US, friends and relatives told us they saw her off at the airport."Then ominously an official called from the airport asking Aster to collect her luggage.
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'I don't even know if my parents are alive' - the war heroes jailed 25 years agoImage source, Hanna Petros SolomonImage caption, Aster Yohannes and Petros Solomon fought in Eritrea's war of independenceByTesfalem Araia and Teklemariam Bekit, BBC TigrinyaPublished6 minutes agoHanna Petros Solomon breaks down in tears as she recalls how she and her siblings effectively became orphans 25 years ago when their father was arrested in Eritrea and jailed without trial. Their mother was subsequently detained - and no-one has heard from either of them - or of them - since."He had a towel on his shoulders like a sportsman," she tells the BBC about the last time she saw her father when she was 10 years old, and he had gone out for a jog."He used to work out every morning."Her parents met when they…
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