President Isaias uses the “no-war, no-peace” situation with Ethiopia to continue his repressive domestic policies, including protracted national service.The UN Security Council retained arms embargo against Eritrea until at least April 2018 after receiving a report from its Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea.

This is at best revisionism trying to judge the past based on the suffering of the present (it doesn’t always add up)… just like the end doesn’t always justify the means.There were many psychological manipulations that were present during the armed struggle that have had the cumulative result of making us doubt ourselves and the sanity of our ways… and we are still emerging out of that history with wave after wave of Eritreans saying  #Yiakl…the silence of Eritreans is nuanced and it certainly isn’t always support of tyranny, for the most parts it is self-doubt.The other mistake that is also made is about those that have no choice but to stay silent… using your life’s saving (working as a taxi driver putting up with xenophobia, just holding on to the dream that one day you get to attain the pie-in-the-sky-of-a-home that would make all the sacrifice worth it)… putting up against the humiliation of silently watching as others are hurt becomes just another humiliation that one puts up with on the way to reaching the goal of ‘living the dream’… the clapping in them halls as they are told one more lie and are chanted at with one more deceit is not necessarily  support but rather resignation (look into their eyes as they numbly watch the latest seminar being hurled at them!

Eritrea: our nuanced silence in the face of brutal dictatorship . Most were released during the next three months, but some school leaders remain imprisoned at the time of writing. In March, a newly married couple was arrested at a wedding-related ceremony.Fifty-three Jehovah’s Witnesses remain in detention, including three arrested and sent to the Sawa military training camp in 1994. On Monday, the United Nations released the results of a year-long investigation into human rights in Eritrea. Civil discourse on the conflicting debates of Eritrea and Ethiopia as narrated by Naty Berhane... Some are assigned to civil service positions, while most are placed in military units, where they effectively work as forced laborers on private and public works projects.Largely because of the oppressive nature of the Isaias rule and the prolonged national service, about 12 percent of Eritrea’s population has fled the country. Eritrea again refused to cooperate with the group in 2017. The nation has a total area of approximately 117,600 km (45,406 sq mi), and includes the Dahlak Archipelago and several of the Hanish Islands. In July, the leaders of Eritrea and Ethiopia signed a five-point declaration to usher in “a new era of peace and friendship,” formally ending a border war that began 20 years earlier. In March, the Israeli High Court ruled the policy unlawful after the third-countries said they would refuse anyone deported from Israel. Eritrean Orthodox Patriarch Antonios, deposed by the government in 2007, remains under house arrest.Security personnel continue to raid private homes where devotees of unrecognized religions meet for communal prayer. Russia in September announced plans to build a “logistics center” at an Eritrean port but gave no details about the project.US Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Ambassador Donald Yamamoto visited Eritrea in April. The only result of the mediation was that Eritrea released four prisoners-of-war in 2016, after eight years of captivity; Djibouti claims Eritrea holds a dozen more. The United Arab Emirates, which played a role in back-channel negotiations between Eritrea and Ethiopia, and which rents a military base near Eritrea’s port of Assab that it uses in the Yemeni civil war, announced an agreement with Ethiopia to build an oil pipeline linking Assab with Ethiopia’s capital. An Eritrean tank destroyed in a battle with Ethiopian troops, near Barentu, Eritrea, May 20, 2000.

Although pay was increased in recent years, it remains nominal and insufficient to support a family, especially as such increases are offset by higher deductions for food.

Thousands, including minors, were arrested as they marched through Asmara to attend his funeral. At Djibouti’s request, the AU proposed sending a fact-finding mission to the border but Eritrea did not respond. What it found was horrific. The justice minister immediately proposed amending Israeli law to circumvent the court decision.A Swiss court held in 2017 that an Eritrean woman who had not proved she had deserted national service could be presumed not to face punishment on return. The northeastern and eastern parts of Eritrea have an extensive coastline along the Red Sea. I have come across atleast eight types of people who willingly support pfdj. In November, a Canadian appellate court allowed a suit against Nevsun by former national service conscripts complaining of forced labor at Bisha to proceedAbsent evidence that Eritrea had implemented democratic reforms and ended its human rights abuses, the European Parliament in July once again denounced as unwarranted further disbursements from the European Union’s 2015 €200 (US$238) million aid package, awarded to try to stem migration from Eritrea. Offenses include seeming to question authority attempting to avoid national service or to flee the country, practicing an “unrecognized” religion, or simply offending someone in authority. Some of them fled to Canada. Screenshot of a video depicting the demonstration and shooting at the Al Diaa Islamic School in Asmara, Eritrea, October 2017.People Born with Atypical Sex Characteristics Battle For Informed ConsentEritrea remains a one-man dictatorship under President Isaias Afewerki, now in his 26th year in power.

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