VICTIMS OF THE NAZI HOLOCAUST WOULD BE AGHAST
The recent events in Israel with regard to the treatment of African refugees is becoming of major concern to all peace loving and decent people of the world. The uproar caused by an alleged rape of an Israeli woman by African immigrants has definitely unmasked the true face of Israel so much touted as a beckon of democracy in a region characterized as wild, autocratic and with a system not compatible with the Judeo-Christian/ Greco Roman civilization. The action as deplorable as it is, still there is no ground for responsible officials led by the Interior Minster and some keenest members to charge like blood craze Cossack on defenseless African of whom the majority are from Eritrea. It is here, the same as in the next door neighbor Egypt where Africans are mistreated, their organs harvested and the right bestowed upon them by international convention completely ignored. It is in Israel where 60,000 African refugees are completely denied of bare existence in a land of plenty. It is in Israel where budget is apportioned through the legislative body to build high tech prisons for the so called infiltrators without the due process of law. Never mind of the basic rights, such as the right to life, body, property and dignity enshrined in the so called ‘operative constitution’ of the State of Israel, Eritreans escaping the harsh rule at home are treated inhumanly. It is appalling to hear the Prime Minster of the country echoing the same rage and insensitivity toward the Eritreans and their fellow African refugees.
For everything there are two sides of a story. The rape if it did happen is horrible crime that an Eritrean refugee should never contemplate to commit. Who should be more empathetic to raping a person than an Eritrean, himself a veteran of the miserable conditions in Sudan, Egypt and the Sinai where his sisters and mothers were violently raped by outlaw gangs? In that case the rapist or rapists have to face the court of law and bear the consequence. However, there are also rumors floating that this could be a witch hunt ala Salem witch hunt in the 1690 where religious zealots took the law into their own hands to hit a target. Could the story have a parallel also in the wicked Nazi propaganda who blamed the innocent Jews on all ills besetting Germany in the 1930s? What better excuse would the politicians who crave for power in Israel have than to blame the innocent ‘infiltrators’ who in their mind are changing the very character of Israel as a Zionist state where Jews and only Jews would live comfortably at the expense of Arabs and today poor Africans?
What is happening to Eritreans in Israel today is affront to the spirit of the millions of innocent Jews perished by the savage Nazi regime in the 1940s. If they would rise up from dead for only one minute and see what the government trading in their name is doing. They would be aghast and cursed that hypothetical minute they rose up from their grave to witness the horrible spectacle reminiscent of the pogrom in Warsaw and other European cities.
We demand that the Israeli government stand up of its responsibility and act like any civilized state where the rule of law and international conventions take precedence. ICER further requests the Government of Benyamin Netanyahu to protect the refugees from physical abuse and instead provide them with the necessary protection they deserve. Nowhere in western democracy are refugees inhumanly treated like in Israel.
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Escape From An Eritrean Prison
Eritrea's human rights record has long faced international criticism. Located in the Horn of Africa, the country is home to five million people, but so closed to the outside world that individual stories tend to come almost exclusively from those who have fled.
Kidane Isaac was just 18 when he says Eritrean authorities arrested him for an unspecified crime. It's possible he was suspected of planning to desert military service. Thousands of Eritreans flee the country every month, many of them teenagers, to escape the
Eritrean Charity to Extend Assistance to Victims of Trafficking
(London 17th May 2013) Release Eritrea is to extend its support to victims of trafficking through two projects in Egypt and Israel respectively. The projects which have been funded for three years starting this month will build on the work that was carried out over the last two years enabling local staff and volunteers to provide relevant services as identified by those already engaged in the field.
Read more...Eritrean Youth Solidarity for Change (EYSC) Launches New Television Program: EYSC TV
EYSC (15-05-2013): The Eritrean Youth Solidarity for Change - Global Group - announced today the launch of its new television program, EYSC TV.
The television program, which will air twice a month beginning on Wednesday May 22nd at 7:33 PM Berlin time, covers over half a million households in the Frankfurt, Wiesbaden and Darmstadt areas in Germany and will be accessible world-wide at the same time via YouTube or via the distribution links of the TV studio. EYSC ensures interested viewers that it will publish the programme simultaneously to the TV broadcast on EYSC Facebook and in YouTube.
DEMONSTRATION FOR DEMOCRATIC CHANGE IN ERITREA
Date: 24 May 2013- Time: 2:00PM – 6:00PM -Venue: in Front of 10 Downing Street
The Coordinating Committee representing the different exiled opposition political and civil society organizations in London calls on all Eritreans and the friends of Eritrea to participate in the Pro-democracy Peaceful Demonstration.
ENDF Mourns Former Colleague and Compatriot, Amare Gebremariam
It is with deep sadness that the Coordination Committee of the Eritrean National Democratic Forces (ENDF) learned the passing away on 12 May 2013 of compatriot Amare Gebremariam at the age of 70.
The late Amare Gebremariam was one of the founding members of ENDF which he served also for one year as its active vice-chairman actively supporting the ENDF chairman, Diplomat Humad Kullu.
With Robocalls, Eritrean Exiles Organize Passive Resistance
From his perch in California, Sium tries to stay politically connected to his country. He marches when there's a local demonstration, contributes to refugee causes and posts on Facebook.
But there's always one thing missing. The people inside Eritrea don't dare to "like" his Facebook posts. And they never march in the streets themselves. For Eritrean activists living abroad, this silence can be frustrating.
So Sium had an idea: If we can't ask them to come out, what if we ask them to stay home?
African Heads of States Challenged About Human Trafficking in the Sinai
Sharing her experience and expertise in the struggle against human trafficking in the region was Ms Meron Estifanos, Eritrean human rights activist and journalist with the diaspora based Radio Erena. In a moving presentation focusing on the narrative of a young victim of trafficking who died leaving her toddler son, in the hands of her abductors; Meron challenged every head of state present to respond to the plight of countless victims and address this shameful issue taking place in the region.
In his own presentation President Omer Hassan al-Bashir admitted that the concern is indeed a grave one that requires urgent attention. For his part president Paul Kagame also made a personal commitment to highlighting this concern at the UN Security Council, over the coming few months.
Read more...Israeli Supreme Court: "exceptional humanitarian reason" for release under the Anti-Infiltration Law
We are happy to report that the Supreme Court accepted our appeal against a verdict issued in a lower instance court that rejected the Hotline for Migrant Workers' request to release an asylum seeker who survived the torture camps in Sinai from the Saharonim internment camp. The outrageous lower instance ruling by Judge Eliyahu Bitan stated that severe torture cannot be considered as an "exceptional humanitarian reason" for release under the Anti-Infiltration Law. All asylum seekers who have entered Israel since June 2012 have been jailed under this draconian law according to which asylum seekers can be released only in exceptional circumstances including "exceptional humanitarian" cases. ...
Read more...Eritrea supports Egypt’s position over Nile water dispute
April 18, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) – The Eritrean government said this week that it supports Egypt’s stance over a colonial-era treaty that granted Egypt a right to utilise the lions share of Nile river’s water resources.
The Red Sea nation expressed its support in a message sent from the Eritrean president and delivered to Egypt’s president by Eritrean Foreign Minister Osman Saleh and Presidential Adviser for Political Affairs, Yemane Gebreab.
The Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi, has highly welcomed Eritrea’s position towards Egypt’s "historic rights" over the sharing of the water of the Nile River.
Eritrea accused of sending arms to Seleka rebels, says CAR ex-President Bozize
Allegations have surfaced this week against the government of Eritrea regarding their role in the in arming the rebels in the Central African Republic who recently overthrew Francois Bozize.
In an interview with ex-President Bozize recently ran in the media, the former CAR leader claimed that "the arms used by the Seleka rebels during their final assault on the presidential palace were purchased from Eritrea and transited through Chad with the permission of President Deby"
The Eritrean Ministry of Foreign Affairs this week issued a strong denial.
(Photo: Seleka rebels believed to be armed by Eritrea)
Read more...UN expert to assess human rights situation in Eritrea
Banjul, 11 April 2013 – The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Eritrea, Beedwantee Keetharuth, today regretted that the Eritrean Government continues to deny her access to assess the situation of human rights in the country, and announced she will undertake a mission to neighbouring countries to talk to Eritrean refugees.
“I have urged the Eritrean authorities to cooperate with my mandate, as required by the UN Human Rights Council,” Ms. Keetharuth said during the 53rd session of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) in Banjul, The Gambia, where she held an ad-hoc meeting with the delegation of Eritrea in the margins of the event.
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