[PDF] Conversations With Eritrean Political Prisoners eBook

Author : Dan Connell
Publisher : The Red Sea Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Eritrea
ISBN : 9781569022351

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In 2001, after a devastating war with Ethiopia, a huge debate erupted within Eritrea regarding government policy. This book revisits that debate through interviews with five critics - top government officials and former liberation movement leaders - shortly before they disappeared into the Eritrean gulag. As these conversations reveal, the speakers knew what was in store for them - arrest and indefinite detention. This book not only opens a critical window into that seminal moment, it also signals the persistent dream of a democratic future yet to be fulfilled.

Author :
Publisher :
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 27,48 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Detention of persons
ISBN : 9781564328151

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"In September 2001, when the world's attention was focused on the destruction of the World Trade Center towers in New York, the president of Eritrea, Isaias Afwerki, cracked down on critics of his rule, accelerating Eritrea's slide into authoritarianism. Isaias imprisoned 11 members of his government, journalists, and others. Nothing has been heard from the prisoners since. This briefing paper pieces together what Human Rights Watch knows of what happened to the so-called G-15 prisoners: locked up incommunicado in secret prisons. Many of them are feared dead. The paper also describes the wide range of human rights abuses perpetrated by the Isaias regime: arbitrary and indefinite detention; torture; shocking jail conditions; restrictions on freedom of speech, movement, and belief; religious and ethnic persecution; and indefinite conscription and forced labor in national service. The briefing paper calls for the release of all political prisoners, access for independent monitors to Eritrea's jails, and other reforms."--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Jonathan Miran
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 28,52 MB
Release : 2009-07-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0253220793

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In the late 19th century, the port of Massawa, in Eritrea on the Red Sea, was a thriving, vibrant, multiethnic commercial hub. Red Sea Citizens tells the story of how Massawa rose to prominence as one of Northeast Africa's most important shipping centers. Jonathan Miran reconstructs the social, material, religious, and cultural history of this mercantile community in a period of sweeping change. He shows how Massawa and its citizens benefited from migrations across the Indian Ocean, the Arabian peninsula, Egypt, and the African interior. Miran also notes the changes that took place in Massawa as traders did business and eventually settled. By revealing the dynamic processes at play, this book provides insight into the development of the Horn of Africa that extends beyond borders and boundaries, nations and nationalism.

Author : Dan Connell
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 689 pages
File Size : 10,62 MB
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0810875055

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The history of Eritrea is told in this reference through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Eritrea's history from the earliest times to the present. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Eritrea.

Author : Dawit Mesfin
Publisher :
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9781569025260

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As a journalist and activist in the 1940s and '50s, Woldeab Woldemariam is acclaimed by Eritreans as the father of their national movement. Surviving numerous assassination attempts, he not only fashioned Eritreans' agenda for liberation but also became the finest writer of Tigrinya, the country's leading language. Woldeab's persistent and principled appeals to the Eritrean leadership for unity, tolerance and democracy enhanced his popular standing but led to his unjust neglect by the national authorities. Dawit Mesfin's biography at last extends Woldeab the recognition he has long deserved.

Author : Robert I. Rotberg
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 34,6 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815775706

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"Examines the state of governance in the countries of the greater Horn of Africa region--Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, the Sudan, and Yemen--and discusses strategies to combat the transnational threat of terrorism, including suggestions for more effective U.S. engagement in the region"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 32,45 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 1564324729

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Methodology -- Recommendations -- Part 1 : background -- Part 2 : human rights violations -- Part 3 : the experience of Eritrean refugees -- Part 4 : Eritrea's legal obligations -- Part 5 : Responding to Eritrea's crisis.

Author : Milena Belloni
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,26 MB
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520298705

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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Tens of thousands of Eritreans make perilous voyages across Africa and the Mediterranean Sea every year. Why do they risk their lives to reach European countries where so many more hardships await them? By visiting family homes in Eritrea and living with refugees in camps and urban peripheries across Ethiopia, Sudan, and Italy, Milena Belloni untangles the reasons behind one of the most under-researched refugee populations today. Balancing encounters with refugees and their families, smugglers, and visa officers, The Big Gamble contributes to ongoing debates about blurred boundaries between forced and voluntary migration, the complications of transnational marriages, the social matrix of smuggling, and the role of family expectations, emotions, and values in migrants’ choices of destinations.

Author : Dan Connell
Publisher : The Red Sea Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 22,12 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781569021453

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Rethinking Revolution brings to life the spirited and often contentious debates among frontline activists over how to unify and transform their societies toward greater economic, social and political equality. Looking at the most dynamic new social movements in several countries, Connell examines how these groups are challenging and enriching strategic vision of leading political parties, even as they redefine the nature of power and the struggle to achieve it. A bold and provocative analysis' - Howard Zinn 'Thoughtful, often brilliant' - Margaret Randall'

Author : Jemera Rone
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 34,1 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9781564321640

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