U.N. rights chief accuses Eritrea of torture, killings

By Robert Evans

GENEVA | Mon Jun 18, 2012

(Reuters) - United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay accused on Monday gold-rich Eritrea, which holds a strategic stretch of the Red Sea coast, of carrying out torture and summary executions.

Pillay told the U.N. Human Rights Council there were between 5,000 and 10,000 political prisoners in the secretive African nation of some 6 million people which has been ruled by a single party and president since independence from Ethiopia in 1993.

"The human rights situation in Eritrea is a matter of deep concern," said Pillay, a South African former senior judge on the International Criminal Court in The Hague, who has just had her four-year term extended for a further two years.

"Credible sources indicate that violations of human rights include arbitrary detention, torture, summary executions, forced labor, forced conscription, and restrictions to freedom of movement, expression, assembly and religion," she said.

Eritrea, where former anti-Ethiopia guerrilla leader Isaias Afewerki has been head of state for nearly two decades, is rarely mentioned in the 47-nation council, where African and Asian countries often work to shield each other from criticism.

But responding to Pillay's remarks on Monday, a European Union representative said the 27-nation grouping backed Pillay's comments on the Red Sea state -- whose population is mainly Christian but includes a large Muslim minority.

Thousands of people have fled Eritrea in recent years because of poverty and political repression, according to human rights groups. Many have settled in neighboring Sudan, and some have reached Israel and Western Europe.

Independent human rights groups say the country has one of the world's most repressive governments, an accusation Eritrean officials reject, arguing that the country is the target of a foreign smear campaign backed by the United States.

Eritrea fought a border war with Ethiopia from 1998 to 2000 which killed 70,000 people on the two sides and occasional clashes have flared up since with both accusing each other of supporting armed rebel groups.

In April, Ethiopia's President Meles Zenawi Afewerki accused Eritrea of abducting dozens of miners from his country's north-western gold region which borders an area where Eritrea' largely untapped reserves of the precious metal are located.

Pillay told the rights council that she had written to the Eritrean government in January this year with an offer to send a mission from her office by this month at the latest to help it address its "human rights challenges."

But despite later talks with an Eritream delegation in Geneva, she said, there had so far been no reply.

(Reported by Robert Evans, editing by Diana Abdallah)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/ ... V520120618

Oromai!!! shabo is deep deep [deleted]. Time for ICC to indict the bastard Ugum Medhin berad, Yemane Monkey, Hagos Kisha, Yemane Charlie, etc. etc. for crimes against humanity and genocide.

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U.N. rights chief accuses Eritrea of torture, killings

By Robert Evans

GENEVA | Mon Jun 18, 2012

(Reuters) - United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay accused on Monday gold-rich Eritrea, which holds a strategic stretch of the Red Sea coast, of carrying out torture and summary executions.

Pillay told the U.N. Human Rights Council there were between 5,000 and 10,000 political prisoners in the secretive African nation of some 6 million people which has been ruled by a single party and president since independence from Ethiopia in 1993.

"The human rights situation in Eritrea is a matter of deep concern," said Pillay, a South African former senior judge on the International Criminal Court in The Hague, who has just had her four-year term extended for a further two years.

"Credible sources indicate that violations of human rights include arbitrary detention, torture, summary executions, forced labor, forced conscription, and restrictions to freedom of movement, expression, assembly and religion," she said.

Eritrea, where former anti-Ethiopia guerrilla leader Isaias Afewerki has been head of state for nearly two decades, is rarely mentioned in the 47-nation council, where African and Asian countries often work to shield each other from criticism.

But responding to Pillay's remarks on Monday, a European Union representative said the 27-nation grouping backed Pillay's comments on the Red Sea state -- whose population is mainly Christian but includes a large Muslim minority.

Thousands of people have fled Eritrea in recent years because of poverty and political repression, according to human rights groups. Many have settled in neighboring Sudan, and some have reached Israel and Western Europe.

Independent human rights groups say the country has one of the world's most repressive governments, an accusation Eritrean officials reject, arguing that the country is the target of a foreign smear campaign backed by the United States.

Eritrea fought a border war with Ethiopia from 1998 to 2000 which killed 70,000 people on the two sides and occasional clashes have flared up since with both accusing each other of supporting armed rebel groups.

In April, Ethiopia's President Meles Zenawi Afewerki accused Eritrea of abducting dozens of miners from his country's north-western gold region which borders an area where Eritrea' largely untapped reserves of the precious metal are located.

Pillay told the rights council that she had written to the Eritrean government in January this year with an offer to send a mission from her office by this month at the latest to help it address its "human rights challenges."

But despite later talks with an Eritream delegation in Geneva, she said, there had so far been no reply.

(Reported by Robert Evans, editing by Diana Abdallah)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/ ... V520120618

Oromai!!! shabo is deep deep [deleted]. Time for ICC to indict the bastard Ugum Medhin berad, Yemane Monkey, Hagos Kisha, Yemane Charlie, etc. etc. for crimes against humanity and genocide.

ICC is another instrument of political agenda much like the world band and IMF. It applies only to poorer nations as well as to rebel leaders.

Gold rich Eritrea should allow foreign land grabbing and handover its vast mineral resources to neo-colonial powers in order to earn the squeaky-clean image enjoyed by most heavily exploited African countries. The European debt crisis affecting Greece, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, etc... can only be resolved through African countries willing to relinquish their sovereignty and starve their own people to death in order to bail out the Europeans.

So, my friendly advice to Eritreans is to learn superior diplomatic skills from the woyanes who have opened the door wide open for exploitation in return for flowery words praising their servitude. Watch the following video to see why the flamboyant woyane Adwash takes great pride in his role in the neo-colonization of Ethiopia.

Diplomacy at its best!
Just the way the UN likes it!

Oromai!!! shabo is deep deep [deleted]. Time for ICC to indict the bastard Ugum Medhin berad, Yemane Monkey, Hagos Kisha, Yemane Charlie, etc. etc. for crimes against humanity and genocide.

ICC is another instrument of political agenda much like the world band and IMF. It applies only to poorer nations as well as to rebel leaders.

Adwash malelit ,

By repeating the word UGUM again and again never changes your indentity. Ugum is always Ugum as you are.

By the way, Eden [deleted], Prince abel, Halaif [deleted], Weyanay-Prodigy, Roha [deleted] and all other weyane thugs are not happy with you to use the WORD .

My condolence for the suicidal death of 1976 Malelit Manifesto of Abay Tigray

R.I.P Abay Tigray,

Ethiopia's dictator is committing genocide in Ogaden, and there are all kinds of documents to prove that, yet Pillay never mentions Meles Zenawi against the massacre he is committing in Western Ethiopia where he is killing the farmers selling the land and deliberately starving Ethiopia's East to depopulate the area for investors to take over the field. Former WFP director Mr. Homls told BBC reporter Streakland Ethiopian Somalis are being massacred en-mass, WFP operators travelling in the region were shot at and two of them killed the other two were detained and ONLF rescued them. He told BBC that information, the world knows this fact, only UNHRC does not have a mandate to save the people marked for dead. Mrs. Pillay may need to save these people from extermination.

Gold rich Eritrea should allow foreign land grabbing and handover its vast mineral resources to neo-colonial powers in order to earn the squeaky-clean image enjoyed by most heavily exploited African countries...

Don't veer off on a tangent, you moron shabo. Release the freackin' prisoners from your dungeons, you savage Ugum.

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Hawzen shabo,

woyanne's got the "Bull by the Horn"; don't worry too much about Abay Tigrai. [deleted]

IT'S TIME TO AUTHORIZE THE USE OF FORCE TO BULLDOZE THE S.O.B. OUT OF AFRICA.

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Adwash Malelit,

Congratulations! You are nominated the dumbest participant of the forum and in Tigray (tie with Gebru Asrat).

Sorry for the overflowing frustration you have. We understand how you feel the death of 1976 malelit Manifesto of Abay Tigray. It is dead! There is not way we can assist for a dead issue. It is better to get used to it and get out of this evil hatred.

One thing I might agree with you though, PIA should face justic in the ICC mainly because he had abused Melesech, your brother from Adwa before Melesech hooked up with white and black masters

R.I.P Abay Tigray

Thanks for Isayas Afwerki who killed and buried Abay Tigray deep down 25 kilometer. What is remaining is Abay Qimal, Abay [deleted], Abay Beggar, Abay Qomata Ye Qomata Zere.