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Eritreans in Germany Demonstrate in
Support of 300 Detainees in Libya
By
Nharnet Stringer (Europe)
Eritreans in Germany on Thursday, 5 October 2006, demonstrated in front
of the UN offices in Bonn and submitted an appeal letter urging the
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan to assist the release of 300
Eritrean youth who are under the threat of forced deportation from Libya
to Eritrea where they will face imminent torture and inhuman treatment,
to say the least.
The demonstrators also tried to submit a protest letter to the Libyan
Embassy in Bonn but they were told that “there was no one” inside the
Embassy to receive their protest letter to Libyan authorities. In the
demonstration that lasted between 2pm and 5 pm, the participants
screamed slogans calling for an immediate action to stop the threat of
deportation of the Eritrean youth detained near Benghazi in Libya. The
demonstrators did not fail to call for the solidarity of the Libyan
people with fraternal Eritrean youth whose country is today under a
brutal anti-youth dictatorship.
Organized by the recently formed Eritrean Youth Association in Germany,
the demonstration was supported and joined by members of the Eritrean
opposition organizations in Germany. Frankfurt residents alone joined
the protest demonstration with two bus-loads of people of all ages.
Entire families, with mothers companied by young children, were part of
the angry demonstrators at the UN offices and the Libyan Embassy
premises in Bonn. (Full reportage of the event will follow soon in
Arabic and Tigrinia.)
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