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Still Waiting for Sanctions on Eritrea for Human Rights Abuses

As we celebrate International Human Rights Day, we welcome the Security Council Sanctions on Eritrea as a means of bringing to light some of the human rights abuses being perpetrated every day on Eritreans in

As we celebrate International Human Rights Day, we welcome the Security Council Sanctions on Eritrea as a means of bringing to light some of the human rights abuses being perpetrated every day on Eritreans in Eritrea and in some of the countries they flee to, but we would welcome a more human-rights based approach focussing on the internal terrorism inflicted on the Eritrean people.

The sanctions address the issue of Eritrea’s destabilizing effect on the Horn of Africa: it condemns, for example, the financing of terrorist organisations, such as Al-Shebab, by the Eritrean Government; it condemns the use of the Diaspora Tax to fund said destabilization, and effectively makes illegal any attempt to collect the tax; it also addresses the issue of the Eritrean Mining Sector operations, asking for transparency in its financial dealings. It does not, however, address the issue of how Eritrean workers, some of whom are conscripts on little or no wages, are exploited and abused at these mining sites.

This is the problem with the sanctions as they stand: they do not address the human rights issues directly. They seem to be more concerned with the political angle of Eritrea’s foreign policy.The average Eritrean will be more in the public eye, perhaps, where the international media is concerned, but no sanctions have been passed on the inhuman treatment of Eritreans by the Eritrean government.

All kinds of freedom – of press, worship, association, etc. – have been forcefully suspended. There are over three hundred prisons detaining dissenting voices, and torture -in the form of beatings, electric shocks, genital torture, rape and sex slavery- are common in those prisons.

There is nothing in the sanctions to stop this, or to limit it in any way.

Out of Eritrea’s population of about 4 million, 300,000 men and women are serving the never-ending military service imposed by the regime. Children as young as 15, have been rounded up from schools and streets for training in military camps. The conscripts are forced to work in government construction companies and mining projects for 16 hours per day and $10 per month. The indefinite nature of the horrors of military service best illustrates the human rights abuses in the nation.

This forced conscription and endless military service have caused a mass exodus of the youth from the nation. Parents of army deserters are punished if their children flee the country, even taken hostage – yet another cruel step that the regime has taken to stop the flow of conscripts and army personnel.

Female conscripts are sexually, emotionally and physically abused, and are made servants and sex-slaves of military commanders. The only university in the nation has been closed, and all other colleges are now military boot camps. Generally, the government has been conducting its domestic policy through nothing else but terror.

Owing to the severity of the situation and continued violations of fundamental human rights in Eritrea, there is an urgent need to address the situation at the UN Human Rights Council on behalf of the Eritrean people. It is to be hoped that by putting Eritrea more in the public eye, the Human Rights abuses that so badly need to be addressed will be the next logical focus.

A deadline of 120 days has been given to begin to implement some of the sanctions. When will there be a deadline to save the Eritreans who are suffering in the country’s prisons, and army barracks, or while attempting to escape to other countries, and even upon reaching some of those countries’ and again when attempting to live there?

Human Rights Concern – Eritrea

London, U.K

10 December 2011

aseye.asena@gmail.com

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10 COMMENTS
  • Abdi December 10, 2011

    Eritreans bro/sis take my advice, the more you lie the more you distant yourselves from the Eritrean hearts,your lies might be heard by the organizations you guys addressed but it will be disregarded among your fellow Eritreans,As the say goes”Hasawn qorbetn enda hadere yfoks”,
    so please find a genuine issue to protest about and this way you can atleast get our respect even if you lose our support.

    • gerimuna December 11, 2011

      I know you are an agent of the self elected sadistic dictator. But to give you just one glimpse o fact in regard to gross violation of HR. Do you know about the Journalists and G15(By the way lead us to independence while your master was way behind the front). Have you ever thought about them and their families? Have FIA brought them to justice despite their jubilant service during their youth up to independence? who is he? God? To be exact he is foolish and coward who ran from justice because it is going to swallow him. Eritrea is totally a one man show as the others are simply running dogs. That is why he is the only culprit that should be chased.

    • eritrawit December 11, 2011

      abdi, just stop talking, do u hear me . u becoming annoying and sounding dumb.
      and ofcourse u r an agent bad one. u r imature haertless B. ok.

    • Huluf December 11, 2011

      Abdi Ibud,

      You underestimate people so much because subconsciously that is your inner thoughts of self value. People of Eritrea know how to filter what is a lie and what is not. Eri TV is the biggest propaganda machine….like tell our people G-15 were traitors….Is that not a lie?……these are people’s cousins, uncles, aunts of Eritreans and we are all connected. Few detached people like you who is not associated with extended families . You are some where in the west enjoying every bit of it…and spewing sadistic wishes for others. Why is that people of Eritrea do not demonstrate against USA…..? No way, association with group scares Higdef. I am hoping you join Eri TV soon….You would entertain many like comical Ali or Mousa Ibrahim of Gadaffi…..now history.

  • Kiflom December 11, 2011

    Abdi! it is no surprise to find thugs of the totalitarian dictator. The Eriterian people with whom I lived being harassed, intimidated, press=ganged to sawa concentration camp, labor camps, prisons, as well as the termites & lice that are found in the office of your beloved totalitarian dictator Isaias Afeworki in Asmara. (Don’t ever think that I am creating a fiction like you. All are just part of the whole truth, i.e. about 1% since my life in Addis. All of them are supported by documents and other evidences that are found distributed through about four continents(. Please if you don’t have the knowledge, experience, skill etc. of politics, be kind enough to learn & to make yourself one of the human beings in this world. Otherwise you will be one of those to condemn your idol when the times comes! What a waste of having a child to your parents!!! Shame on you.

    • Abdi December 11, 2011

      How/what can somebody learn from your lies and”nhna zbelnayo Trah eyu haqi”attitudes ?be realistic to get supported, other than that you will remain the anti Eritrea cheap woyane’s ally.as the say goes”you can bend the truth but can’t break it”here it is,the truth is prevailing on the hgdefs side,hence they deserve my vote.

      Btw,Im not a HGDEF member, Im an ordinary Eritrean who won’t/cannot forgive woyane for the crimes they committed on my fellow
      Eritreans.

      • Huluf December 11, 2011

        Abdi Ibud,

        Forgiving woyane or not has nothing to do with making your country democratic and strong. It is your DIA who made back room deals with Woyanes and fell flat on his game. This war was never about border but regional power….which now every neighbour are throwing eggs at him …they refused him to obey his whims as a regional director….so do not mix issues in your sadistic stamped grey matter in your head….please heal!! heal!!

  • Semere December 11, 2011

    If there are no sanctions on Eritrea for its human rights abuses, it proves further how the Isayas regime successfully diverted the attention of the International community from its hideous internal atrocities. It also proves the weakness of the opposition and of the general public in diaspora. Our weakness is the strength of HGDEF. Our country is undergoing the worst crimes in its history by “shefatu”, camouflaged as liberators. We are living in democratic countries but failed to raise ‘public opinion’ in a meaningful way. It is sad, but the Essays system successfully muted Eritreans, is and outside the country.
    This is not a credit to Abdi.

    • Abdi December 11, 2011

      Its a natural end of lairs who relay on illusions and lies to convince people.and soon you will see them kicked out from Ethiopia.

  • Eritrea December 12, 2011

    Abaddi, You are the best puppet of the Dictator, and time is coming soon you and your father would be thrown to the sea. you are a liar and one of those who are participating on the bad of Eritreans. No one was seen in the world like you, you will go like your friend Gaddaffi.

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