Editorials
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By Nharnet Team (April 7, 2005) |
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March :Important Dates in Eritrean History By Nharnet Team (March 9, 2005) |
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ELF-RC Information and Cultural Office (23/2/2005) |
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Making Sound Strategic Solutions The Nharnet Team: (Feb 12, 2005) |
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In Search of a Victory Strategy By Nharnet Team (Feb 9, 2005) |
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By Nharnet Team (Feb 6, 2005) |
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February : Dates in Eritrean History Nharnet Team (Feb 6, 2005) |
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The ELF-RC Information and Cultural Office (1/2/2005) |
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and Khartoum Meeting of the Opposition: Woldeyesus Ammar (Jan 18, 2005 |
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A Broad Coalition, A winning Formula Nharnet Team (Jan 15, 2005) |
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Eritrean Liberation Army (ELA) Part VIII and Final By Nharnet Team (Jan 13, 2005) |
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From Dictatorship to Democracy The ELF-RC Information & Cultural Office, 13/01/2005 |
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January : Some Dates in Eritrean History Nharnet Team (Jan. 8, 2005) |
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Nharnet Team (December 31, 2004) |
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Nharnet Team (December 1st, 2004) |
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And Supporters, 1st of December Is Nharnet Team (December 1st, 2004) |
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Opposition Demonstration in Washington DC The Nharnet Team (November 23, 2004) |
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By Woldeyesus Ammar (November 14, 2004) |
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Nharnet Editorial (November 6, 2004) |
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November: Dates in Eritrean History (And a Reading on ‘Waala’ Biet Giorghis) Nharnet Team (November 4, 2004) |
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Denies Allegations by Herui Tedla Nharnet Team (October 30, 2004) |
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Nharnet Editorial (October 28, 2004) |
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From the Experiences of the ELA (Part V) The Nharnet Team (October 21, 2004) |
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The Need for Credible and Acceptable Coalition of the Opposition The ELF-RC Information and Cultural Office 18.10.2004 |
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Described as ‘Dynamic Democracy’ Nharnet Team, 14 October 2004 |
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Forging a United Patriotic Opposition Nharnet Team, October 10, 2004 |
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From the Experiences of the ELA (Part IV) The Nharnet Team (6/10/2004) |
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How Veterans Told the Story of the First 10 Years of ELA The Nharnet Team (October 1, 2004) |
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Changing Times and Changing Roles Nharnet Editorial (October 1, 2004) |
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From the Experiences of the ELA (Part III) The Nharnet Team (30/9/2004) |
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Nharnet Editorial (19/9/2004) |
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From the Experiences of the ELA (Part II) (12/9/2004) |
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(10/9/2004) |
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September 1st Puts Public Trust to the Test (1/9/2004) |
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الوحدة الوطنية الارترية ...... بين الأمس واليوم بقلم / ابراهيم محمد علي |
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RC Speaker Urges Libya’s Colonel Gadafy (30/8/2004) |
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| ELF-RC Proposal for Unity of the Eritrean Opposition |
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CONCLUDING STATEMENT: |
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14th Anniversary of Eritrea’s Liberation The Prisons Out-number The Schools!!!
Who is celebrating the anniversary of Eritrea’s liberation? In Eritrea, the Eritrean citizen is either in military camps or in war fronts or in prisons or in hiding, afraid of being taken to military training camps, or is preparing to escape to some other countries.
In Eritrea, there are restrictions on practicing religious rituals and the citizens do not have political rights. They have no right to change their rulers or to protest their policies. In addition, the people have no access to information from independent sources as the government closed independent newspapers and restricted access to the internet.
There are thousand of arbitrarily detained people . The detainees are not allowed for a due process of law and may stay in prison for years without trail. They could not hire independent lawyers and their families are not allowed to visit them.
The prisons out-number the schools. Prisons are found in every quarter and in every military camp or military barrack. Prisons, have been established in the Red Sea Islands, in containers, and underground cells.
Torture is widely practiced in prisons. As the result of torture and poor prison health conditions, prisoners suffer from psychological disorder, paralysis, malnutrition and other kinds of contagious diseases that often lead to death.
Security forces round up people on streets and search houses to look for people who should go for military services. The government does not apply its own laws of military service appropriately. According to its laws every Eritrean between the ages of 18 and 40 is obliged to stay for one and half year in mandatory military service. However, people are forced to stay for longer years and in some cases for 10 years. In addition, contrary to its own laws the government recruits less than 15 years aged children and more than 60 years aged adults. Women recruits are exposed to rape and other kinds of sexual abuses by the camp’s military officers who own the power to do anything they wish.
In 2003, the government forced students throughout the country to spend the last year of their high school studies in Sawa, a military camp in the western lowlands of Eritrea. After one year’s of academic studies and military training they are allowed to sit for their university entrance exams in the camp. At the end of March 2005 hundreds of students fled the camp to neighboring Sudan as the result of these harsh conditions. The current situation of Eritrea complies best to the title “Freedom for some Eritreans has become synonymous to prison and torture” of an article written by Jonah Fisher, a British journalist, to the Independent newspaper in last year’s anniversary of Eritrea’s Independence. Ending the aforementioned human rights violations is what Eritreans look for at their14thanniversary of the independence of their country.
At present, there is no space for other dreams.
Suwera Centre for Human Rights 24/5/2005 |
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