Sudan condemning deported Eritreans to ‘certain abuse’
AFP: KHARTOUM — Sudan has condemned more than 300 Eritreans asylum seekers to "certain detention and abuse" by deporting them to one of the "most brutal" countries in the world, a rights group said on
AFP: KHARTOUM — Sudan has condemned more than 300 Eritreans asylum seekers to “certain detention and abuse” by deporting them to one of the “most brutal” countries in the world, a rights group said on Tuesday.
“Sudan is forcibly returning men, women, and children to certain detention and abuse in one of the world?s most brutal places,” said Gerry Simpson, senior refugee researcher at Human Rights Watch, in a statement received by AFP.
“Eritrea, ruled by an extremely repressive government, requires all citizens under 50 to serve in the military for years,” the statement said.
“Anyone of draft age leaving the country without permission is branded a deserter, risking five years in prison, often in inhumane conditions, as well as forced labor and torture,” it added.
Last week, Sudan handed more than 300 Eritreans to the neighbouring country’s military without screening them for refugee status, drawing condemnation from the UN refugee agency (UNHCR).
A spokesman for the UNHCR said the deportation took place despite an agreement between the UN agency and the Sudanese Commissioner for Refugees that the Eritreans would be transferred to Khartoum for joint screening.
The asylum seekers, who had been trying to cross into Egypt, were convicted of illegal entry and movement in Sudan, and returned to their home country after being detained for several weeks in northern Sudan’s Dongola.
“After decades of hosting tens of thousands of Eritreans in eastern Sudan, the authorities have suddenly started to crack down on some of the world?s most vulnerable people,” Simpson said.
In July, one Eritrean asylum seeker died in Sudan and another was left unconscious after jumping from a truck, as they were being deported.
Weldit October 25, 2011
Al-Beshir who murdered 100s of thousands of Darfurian civilians is by far worse than Isayas.
Does anyone with his right mind think that this genocidal devil would care about the safety of Eritrean refugees?
Let’s not waste our time.
Selamawi October 25, 2011
Dear compatriots!
This is terrible news which calls for some action.
How about demonstrations in front of the Sudanese embassies in the free wold? I do not think what has been done can be undone (for obvious reasons) but we have to try to stop this from happening again.
Anyone will to refuse food and protest in front of the Sudanese authorities/embassies? Just a thought.
May God give courage and strength to those in difficulty. May peace and justice reign in Eritrea.
Thanks
Temesgen Medhanie October 25, 2011
Sudan is Isaias’ b*tch where the latter pulls strings if he feels like having Eritrean refugees deported back to Eritrea where he takes a sadistic gratification seeing them going through unimaginable cruelty and harsh living conditions as they are hauled to a barren place to be detained without having a day in a court of law. As much as it is abnormal to see people leaving the country in thousands, it would be prudent for a reasonable government to get to the bottom of the calamity and listen to the plight of the people but the fact that Eritrea is being run by a bunch of thugs and mafia cartel, it would be too naive to expect Eritreans to be treated as citizens who had waited a generation to see a light of day as their brothers, sisters, daughters and sons paid with their blood to leave a legacy of freedom, prosperity and a just system.
Shewit October 25, 2011
Temesgen,
As you may have noticed, when you and I have discuss various topics before, the matter of Eritrean refugees is very close to heart. This is a very distressing issue to me. I was able to be among Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia in 2010 and in Kenya just last month. Many of our compatriots have already gone through so many unimaginable ordeal, and now this? Apart from the western world, the only ones that have a better deal to be treated as normal human beings are those, who are in Ethiopia. (I know, I know..now every one is up and ready to call me woyane kedamti..) In Kenya, I witnessed young men and women, with so many potential wasting their time in so called coffee houses that are made of shacks doing absolutely nothing or fighting in a bar and getting arrested. Yet, at least they experience a much less harassment from the Kenyan police. What the heck is wrong with the Sudanese? I have never been to Sudan. But from what I have heard, they used to be the most friendly ones to us in the past..Are we Eritreans are just foolish, who don’t know our friends or we are just becoming black sheep of the region.. (Sorry, if I am sounding that I am blabbering. I am just frustrated out of my mind) ….
Temesgen Medhanie October 25, 2011
Shewita haftey,
Part I.
I sure resonate with your vexation where frustration could as well be an understatement given the gravity of the predicament that has befallen on the lives of our brothers and sisters. As much as young people are the pillars of our society where they are expected to carry on the legacy of our martyrs, it sure is disheartening to see them leaving the country not out of protest to the perfidy of PFDJ but out of an utter hopelessness where they roam around the world till Eritrea makes it to the statistics as the highest per capita producer of refugees around the world.
Temesgen Medhanie October 25, 2011
Shewita haftey,
Part II.
As you’ve aptly noticed, Sudan had been our primary benefactor or a champion of hospitality as we sought refuge and asylum during the struggle for independence. But in many interesting and complex ways, the political reality of Sudan at times can not be seen in isolation when one puts in to a perspective the ever sad and yet dynamic political reality of Eritrea as well. Thus, Isaias seems to have a considerable leverage in pulling strings as he tries to thwart the ever restive political volatility of Sudan where our young people seem to get caught in the middle as Al-Beshir goes into an appeasing prostration to Isaias.
To put it differently, as much as Isaias plays dirty politics to weaken Sudan, the leaders of Sudan would be left but to appease Isaias by succumbing to his spiteful wishes where the deportation of Eritrean refugees is one of the demands he invariably demands of Al-Bashir.
kozami October 26, 2011
Temesgen;
Did you know ‘bi*ch’ was traditionally a sexist bigotry. In fact, then it likened assertive women to female dogs that are are good only for sexual gratification…the strategy of keeping women in servitude to men, using the tactics of devaluation and degradation of the ‘woman’.
Temesgen Medhanie October 26, 2011
Qozami,
Ata entay bedile? Beqa neza zereba tewikha tewikha mis zen yeHwatey ketebaEseni delikha? Entay terekhbe? t’Uy seb endo ayneberkan?
kozami October 26, 2011
Temesgen,
ki’nlazeb ele’mber kem seb si zi’wetseka yeblun ajokha. However, the spoken ‘word’ is the most potent instrument of ‘good’ or ‘evil’. We ought to choose our wordings carefully iti mintay si mis tesherfe ab id men kem z’atw ayfletin!
Temesgen Medhanie October 26, 2011
Qozami,
Drinks will be on me when I see you next time around for the invaluable advice. If you don’t drink, will buy you a Capuchino either ab Bar Royal or Bar Empero. I am sure, I will have your back if security agents start breathing on my neck.
Kalu October 25, 2011
Temesghen.
Still you are in halowlow state of mind, when are you going to learn? Don’t you ask yourself why you are lonely running up and down in Assena a website tainted with regionalism. Have you ever checked yourself with a psychiatrist even though you are a person in medical field? Please check yourself brother, I so worried about you. I can tell from your statements or comments that you have a problem. For any pro government statement whether true or falls you are always against it, unless from your perspective opposition is to oppose for everything no matter what. Good luck with your no point philosophy.
Kibrom T. October 25, 2011
kalu
You are as cheap as Temesgen’s 3rd. word in the above posting!
Abdi October 26, 2011
lol,enjera Hsum e u ‘mo,awaqiskas aybelaE.
awet October 26, 2011
Kalu,
Why are you more interested in hijacking the whole subject matter, i.e., the deportation of the most vulnerable people on Earth – the Eritreans who are leaving their homeland in droves! Don’t you have a heart ? BTW, I don’t think you are an Eritreanas no Eritrean would argue the way you are selfishly arguening in this life threatening cercumstances!
abraham October 26, 2011
Dear “Kalu”
all these guys who r posting their comments are your brothers and sisters. dont be afraid to come to your senses? i know there is nothing our people can expect from this sadist government which has so far chocked a lot of our people. dont you at least feel the reality from just a moral point of view for your self? I know you are not a pagan like the higdefites….try to check all your sides and understand how your people are experiencing this terrible situation.
Kokhob October 26, 2011
Bashir, the time is not far this is end of dictators. dectators never learn and soon we will see the end of all. we will pay but we will make this world clean of those dirty animals.
my massage to PFDJ supporters, you know the truth but just you have been cheap and you will end cheap. let me assure you we are near to you and you will come to justice soon. your crime is more than PFDJ and PFDJ leaders don’t consider you human beings.
sol October 26, 2011
Despite being sad for the deportation of 300 Eritreans back tho their home by Sudanese authority, I would say that us one thing the Sudanese give can do. It is understandable that these people just to pass a horrible journey across the Sahara and Egypt dessert and by the end if the day these will be victims of human trafficking expected to pay 10, 000 of dollars, including death and abuse.So these people just caught at the beginning of their journey.It is also undeniable the refugees broke the law by crossing the boater illegally and as the government which is concerned with its relationship with Egypt and also other agents.We can not dictate how other nations treat Eritreans rather we should struggle to change the current regime and put a government which works for its citizens so as to alleviate the pain of its youth unless other wise we are exacerbating our plight.
zgohaye October 26, 2011
we love sudans but sudans does not love us, they are using us.
we need really really real action, this is not really life! sudans have partiel relation with the PFDJ and they conspired to deporte those innocent eritrean asylum when Isaias visited sudan last week.
Omar Albeshr himself is a dictator and could not respect human rights, so all Eritreans need to understand despite it is not fully, Ethiopia is better than Sundans and all refugee need to apply to ethiopia.
in the orthe hand we all Eritreans need to demonstrate against the deportation and outside the Sudans Embassies in the World. That sudans seem peaceful but they are crule and we need to expose their action in the world.
Dawit Amdeberhan October 26, 2011
Isayas blackmails Bashir..that’s his way of diplomacy. And Bashir complies with PIA’s interests even if he – Bashir knows that’s not fair by whatsover reason.
The problem is not Sudan deporting Eritreans, But PIA gambling with the lives of Eritreans and Eritrea. Unless something is done in due time, we will be hearing similar horror stories coming up. Now that Eritreans are being deproted from sudan, and thus our borthers and sisters will change their ways and try to make it to Ethiopia. PIA knows this, and he will doulbe check his shoot to kill policy towards that trend, and we will be mourning more..and more..Our people have suffered ENOUGH, and the silen death of the nation will haunt all the generations to come. Enough is Enough, we should no more give this devil another excuse to do his nasty experiments on our people whom had no any PEACE for so long now.
arcobaleno October 26, 2011
the sudanese people are not bad, but their leaders traditionally used eritreans and ethiopian refugees as an instrument for their political agendas. in order to divert their inner problems used scapegots to cheat their people . the sudanese are not politically engaged as their fellow arabs, Bashir will still remain at the helm for long time. but bashir is million times better than the idiot of Asmara.