Looking for Greener Pastures Beyond Eritrea
Thousands of young Eritreans flee to Ethiopia via Sudan in the hope of escaping conscription and poverty, but the journey is fraught with danger.
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Eritrea: Fear of Compulsory Recruitment Drives Teen to Flee Home (press release)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 19 March 2012
Gebre* knew the dangers as well as any 13-year-old. He understood that to be captured fleeing his country by the Eritrean border guards could mean jail or worse. And anyone taking ... read more »
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Sudan: UN Agency Seeks Solution for Long-Term Refugees in Eastern Region
UN News Service, 13 January 2012
The head of the United Nations refugee agency has praised efforts to find a lasting solution for tens of thousands of long-term refugees in eastern Sudan, most of them Eritreans, ... read more »
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Eritrea: Gov't Pledges Not to Harm Citizens Who Fled Conscription If They Return
Sudan Tribune, 9 January 2012
Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki has said that he will guarantee the safety of tens of thousands of young people who fled the country to avoid forced conscription in the ... read more »
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Eritrea: 'Silent Crisis' As Young Men Flee to Ethiopia
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks, 5 August 2011
More and more Eritrean refugees, mostly educated young men, continue to arrive in Ethiopia, with the UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, expressing concern over the rising numbers. read more »
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Eritrea: World Fails Refugees
AfricaFocus, 12 May 2011
"If refugee flows are a sign of political meltdown, then Eritrea is a level seven nuclear disaster. Figures from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees indicate that ... read more »
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Eritrea: With Refuge Like This
Inter Press Service, 17 June 2010
Habtom, a 30-year-old Eritrean, has all the grim qualifications needed to be a refugee. He was arrested for protesting a dictatorship, tortured in custody, and fears his life would ... read more »
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Ethiopia: Eritreans Join Ethiopia's Universities Decade After Bloody Border War
Sudan Tribune, 15 October 2010
Hundreds of Eritrean refugees who have for years been camped at various refugee camps in Northern Ethiopia, for the first time have began joining Ethiopian government owned ... read more »
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Eritrea: Repression Creating Human Rights Crisis (press release)
Human Rights Watch, 17 April 2009
Eritrea's extensive detention and torture of its citizens and its policy of prolonged military conscription are creating a human rights crisis and prompting increasing numbers of ... read more »
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Eritrea: Human Rights Violations Described as Rampant (analysis)
Catholic Information Service for Africa, 11 December 2007
The people of Africa's youngest nation, 14-year-old Eritrea in the northeast, live as if locked up in a vast prison manned by a rogue communist regime. read more »
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DEAR UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES ( GENEVA)
Referring the above article I would ask questions.
1. Is this organization independent? 2. Are individuals free from corruption? 3. Is it must to involve in internal affairs of Countries?
According my opinion it is good for you to find out who is creating problems causing people to flee their homes not even only Eritreans now days, but all over the world people are not stable at all. People are making riots and sleeping on the street. Eg. In France, United State, Why?
I have had coffee with a Eritrean woman who also makes a delicious bread. A church here sponsored her and her daughters, U.S. The woman now has an accounting degree and a nice place to live and a nice car, her children are doing well. I hope this encourages someone else to leave Eritrea...she also said, when she last was in her village, there were no young men there, all had been forced into the military. Every town she went to, same thing.
I am and Eritrean 35 years old. I live in Asmara, work with the government as a national service since 1998. Went to numerous wars. I have served them for over 14 years for a salary of 500nakfa (10usd) per month. I have a un-treatable medical condition but they refuse to let me go out of Eritrea for medical attention saying I can survive just well. I have special set of skills which can help me get good jobs but they refuse to give me release without which no one can hire you. I can runaway but they know where i live so they will come for me. I live with my parents who feed me pay my med bills etc...oh i forgot everyone under 40 is just like this in this country so running to Sudan is our only option...unless ...to be continues...
unless 1, you are a son or daughter or close family of party members 2, terminally ill and disable ..therefore useless 3, live outside of eritrea and pay 2% of your income 4, you a a millionair's son and can afford to bribe officials 5, or above 50...oh and there is no govt run pension plan
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