Tag: Commission of Inquiry
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Eritrea: Waiting for Bolokh
July 2012. It had been 15 years since the Eritrean government suspended the people’s constitution; 12 years since the end of the war with Ethiopia; 11 years since its enforced disappearance policy extended to high-powered government officials (G-15); 10 years since the National Service was converted to indefinite conscription under the PR phrase of “Warsay…
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How Eritrea Benefits From Institutionalized Short Memory
[spider_facebook id=”4″] Whenever the Government of Isaias Afwerki is challenged to meet the demands of a UN-impaneled body, whether that is the Special Rapporteur or the Commission of Inquiry, it has a uniform reply: we are engaged with the UN via the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and we reject targeted mandates. And, in that regard,…
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Videos: Mike Smith (CoI) & Yemane Gebreab
[spider_facebook id=”4″]Today, June 8, Mike Smith, Chairman of Commission of Inquiry (CoI) on Human Rights in Eritrea, held a press conference to explain why his commission will report that Eritrean government officials and some military commanders are guilty of committing crimes against humanity: Following Mike Smith’s address, Yemane Gebreab, Director of Eritrea’s ruling party, PFDJ,…
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Government of Eritrea and the Commission of Inquiry
[spider_facebook id=”4″] The mouthpiece of the Government of Eritrea, shabait.com, has published a Ministry of Foreign Affairs press release to complain about the timing of the release of the report by the Commission of Inquiry on Eritrea (CoIE.) The statement goes on to describe such a release, whose timing it considers “credible information” as an…