Human Rights Watch argued that "this authoritative report rightly condemns the horrific patterns of torture, arbitrary detention, and indefinite conscription that are prompting so many Eritreans to flee their country".
What's really damning for Slomka isn't so much the defeat against a strong 96 team but the fact that this result fits two horrific patterns all too well.
The smugglers soon created a lucrative underground industry that began flourishing in 2012, the same year that Amnesty International underscored Libya's growing pattern of "horrific abuse".
When the people of a community are terrorized by a lengthy pattern of horrific acts committed by members of an organized group whose intent is to dominate the streets, that is terrorism.
Both horrific and funny, they are locked into an inescapable pattern.
The aftermath of the horrific terrorist attack that struck Brussels on Tuesday has followed a pattern that has become glumly familiar from its 7/7, Charlie Hebdo and Bataclan forerunners.
There is, however, a pattern of violence against women that's broad and deep and horrific and incessantly overlooked.
This shows not "blunders" but an unmistakable pattern of civilian terrorism: hospitals, schools, nurseries, housing estates, power sources, markets, farms, churches, monasteries, against which horrific "anti-personnel " cluster bombs were used.
