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Ethiopia: Soldiers Continue to Desert Eritean Army to Country
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The Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa)
27 March 2008
Posted to the web 28 March 2008
Addis Ababa
Some 1300 Eritrean soldiers crossed the borders to Ethiopia over the past 6 months in defiance to massive oppression and ill-military policies they face at home, Sudan Tribune rported on Tuesday citing the Administration of refugees and returnee Affairs.
The report said the 1300 soldiers were among the 3000 Eritreans who crossed the border in to Ethiopia over the said period.
"Over 3000 Eritreans have fled to Ethiopia over the past 6 months in protest to the heavy -handed treatments of the government in Asmara,"Law and protection department head under the administration Haileslasie Gebremariam was quoted as saying.
"Among the fled 1300 of them are Eritrean soldiers while the rest are students, social workers and various members of the community" he added.
In his addresse to the Parliament last wek, Prime Minister Meles zenawi said he did not see any point in going to war with Eritrea when a number of Eritrean soldiers were "coming to us every day." Human rights defenders routinely label Eritrea one of Africa's worst offenders, accusing it of using torture, killing and illegal imprisonment inside the country.
Relations between Washington and Asmara have soured as Eritrea accuses the United States of siding with Ethiopia in a border dispute. Asmara and Addis Ababa fought a 1998-2000 war over their 1000-km (620-mile) frontier.
The U.S. State Department said in its 2007 world human rights report that Eritrea continued to commit "numerous serious abuses".
It said President Isaias Afwerki's government used the border stalemate with Ethiopia to clamp down on dissent and keep much of the nation's youth in the military. Eritrea denies that.
The Report said an average of 300 Eritreans fled to Ethiopia on monthly basis during last year.
This figure has more than doubled since the turn of the new Ethiopian millennium, it added.
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Currently over 20,000 Eritrean are sheltered at shimelba refugee camp in northern Ethiopia, which according to the report was more than the camp's accommodation capacity.
A new refugee camp is under preparation to be constructed before the situation at shimelba goes out of control.
Immigrants have been receiving necessary treatment from the day of their arrival, including transferring them to USA, Canada and to various European nations. So far some 3400 Eritreans are resettled in to those countries, the Sudanese newspaper said on its website published on Tuesday.
Ethiopia: Two Prisoners of Conscience Freed Amnesty International
PRESS RELEASE 28 March 2008 Posted to the web 28 March 2008
Amnesty International today welcomed the release of human rights activists Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie, who had been detained in Ethiopia since November 2005, but said the two prisoners of conscience should be compensated for the time they spent in prison.
The two men were released today, having received a presidential pardon after they signed a letter “acknowledging mistakes” committed in relation to the 2005 elections. It is not yet clear if the pardon is unconditional. “These two... [Read Full Text]
GERRIRLIJAM,ETHIOPIA IS GOING TO OPEN THREE REFUGEE CAMPS IN TIGRAY AND AFAR REGIONS.SHEMELBA IS OCCUPIED BY 25000 ERTRIANS .IT SHOULD TAKE CARE OF HUNGRY AND DEPRIVED ERTRIANS. ACCORDING TO UN ,EVERY MONTH AN AVERAGE OF 300-500 PEOPLE ARE ENTERING ETHIOPIA. DO YOU KNOW WHAT AN ERTRIAN SAID:- "I am ashamed of being Eritrean,my own eritrean ppl keep on dreaming about gold deposit & other nonsences. This ain't the way 2 b like singapore. It's sad 2 c my ppl like this. When r we gone stop ofering others the oxygen mask while we r gasping 4 air?When r we... [Read Full Text]
Man's crime likely to lead to deportation to Ethiopia
By Kristin Owens Special to the Tribune Article Last Updated: 03/28/2008 01:38:57 AM MDT
A former Utah Valley State College student was sentenced Thursday to serve one more month in jail and three years of probation for felony theft. The 20-year-old will likely be deported to Ethiopia before he finishes that sentence, attorneys said. Kidus Chane Yohannes was convicted in February of third-degree felony possession of his roommate's credit card. Two additional felony charges of buying guns with a false identification number were dropped in... [Read Full Text]
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