By ASHISH KUMAR SEN A UN panel’s expected conclusion that crimes against humanity are being committed in Eritrea would be legally indefensible because of the flawed methodology in the compilation of the report and would further erode the credibility of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Africa, said the Atlantic Council’s Bronwyn Bruton. The UN’s […]
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By Simon Keleta, In June 2015, Eritreans around the world read with astonishment that the Eritrean state was accused of slavery, rape, and crimes against humanity. Eritreans are the longtime witnesses and victims of some of the modern world’s worst atrocities. During the liberation struggle and the 1998-2000 war with Ethiopia, Eritreans were the victims […]
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By Julia Crawford, IN JUNE, a Commission of Inquiry (COI) of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) published a 500-page report detailing how Eritrea has created a repressive system in which people are routinely arrested at whim, detained, tortured, killed or go missing. On July 2, the UNHRC extended the commission’s mandate to investigate whether […]
Continue ReadingBy Eritrean Mission, The Permanent Mission of Eritrea to the UN is aware that the Somalia-Eritrea Monitoring Group (SEMG) has submitted its February monthly report to the Sanctions Committee sometime early this month. In spite of our repeated requests to receive, in time, a copy of the report, we have not yet formally obtained the […]
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