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The thirty years of armed struggle, which was an ultimate price collectively paid by the Eritrean people, was not only to free the land and the people from foreign colonizers, but also to achieve freedom, peace, liberty, justice, and the rule of law. But none of these exit in Eritrea, due to Afwerki, who has turned the euphoria for the independence into a living nightmare and who has become the enemy no.1 of freedom for the Eritrean people.

A prominent Greek speech writer, Demosthenes, once wrote “every dictator is an enemy of freedom and an opponent of law.” Afwerki is obviously a paragon of this.

The list in the link below is a shocking list of political prisoners, prisoners of conscience, and other forcibly disappeared citizens in Afwerki's cruel gulags.





https://eritreahub.org/wp-content/uploa ... I-pd11.pdf

Over 15 000 Eritrean political prisoners 30 years after independence, says Amnesty International.

Eritrea's prisons are filled with thousands of political prisoners, locked up without ever being charged with a crime, many of whom are never heard from again.

Amnesty International has received many reports of deaths in detention, as a result of torture, appalling conditions or suicide. These include accounts of prisoners dying of treatable diseases such as malaria and illnesses caused by excessive heat. There is an extensive network of detention facilities in Eritrea - some are well known, others are secret. But the extreme opaqueness around detention procedures in the country means the exact number is unknown. Amnesty has mapped the location of known detention centres.

Numerous detention centres use underground cells and metal shipping containers to house prisoners. Many of these prisons are in desert and other locations and experience extremes of high and low temperatures that are magnified by underground conditions and metal container walls. All are overcrowded and unclean; food and drinking water are scarce.

We couldn't lie down [in the underground cell]. It's best to be standing because if you lie down, your skin remains stuck to the floor. The floor is terribly hot.

A former detainee held in an underground cell in Wi'a military camp.

The room was about 2.5 metres by 3 metres and we were 33 people. It is very, very hot. The door is closed, the ceiling is low, about 2 metres. The temperature was about 50 degrees. A boy, about 17 years old, was about to die. We were not permitted to speak, but we banged the door. They [the guards] told us they would kill all of us if we did not stop shouting. We couldn't do anything to help him.

Barentu who was held in a detention centre.

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Credit: pushkin

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15 Sep 2023, 14:23