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Voice of Assenna:National Team’s Habitual Defection, Reflection of Eritrea’s Deep Rooted Political Crises

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  • Philipos December 2, 2013

    This article states otherwise (seems they flee for opportunities):

    Nevi Gebremeskel, a 21-year-old defender who just finished his season playing for White City Woodville, a team in the South Australian Premier League, said that the Eritrean soccer officials led him to flee, not the government.

    “We need to play and we had a big problem with the federation,” he said in a telephone interview. “If anyone got the chance to go overseas, any team from any country, they didn’t allow them to go.”

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/sports/soccer/world-cup-qualifying-in-eritrea-soccer-as-ticket-out.html?_r=0

    • Sala December 2, 2013

      ..ahhh and why are they denied opportunity? soccer officials lead him to flee…of course he doesn’t work for government! the officials can’t give them clearance to travel because surprise the regime has indefinite national service and he blames the federation as if it has any powers. the regime denies them opportunity so that they get demoralized and leave, then the generals kidnap them and sell their body parts, if they make it they pay 2% and play asswhole like you idiot

      • Dawit December 3, 2013

        Great logic there. NOT. Get your head out of your ass you dimwit.

  • Kabbire December 3, 2013

    Do you remember? Menghistu’s: Eritrea will not be sold to the Arabs ?

    “ኤርትራ ለኣረብ ኣት ሸጥም። ኤርትራ ንዓረብ ኣይትሽየጥን። ”

    ሕልሚ ኣይኮነን፣ ሓቂ እዩ።

    Here it is in action:

    http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2013/dec/04/eritrea-military-trafficking-children-report

    Eritrean youths are being kidnapped by senior military officers, smuggled into Sudan and held to ransom, according to a report by Dutch and Swedish researchers. The captives are threatened with being sold to people traffickers if they do not raise tens of thousands of dollars. Some are freed if they raise the ransoms. Others are sold on to Bedouin traffickers in Sinai, even after money has changed hands, only to be tortured to extract further cash from their relatives.

    Basing their findings on interviews with 230 Eritreans who suffered this fate, the researchers conclude that between 2007 and 2012, some 25,000 to 30,000 people were trafficked. The report, by Meron Estefanos, a Swedish human rights activist, and Professor Mirjam van Reisen and Dr Conny Rijken of Tilburg University in the Netherlands, estimates that $600m has been extracted in this way.

    In the report, The Human Trafficking Cycle: Sinai and Beyond, published on Wednesday, researchers accuse Eritrea’s Border Surveillance Unit, under the command of General Teklai Kifle (alias Manjus), of being at the heart of these operations. The UN has named the general and several of his senior officers, as being involved in human trafficking, but this is the first time first-hand accounts have been published.

    • Elinor December 4, 2013

      The evidence is circumstantial at best. Who are these witnesses? Do they have conflicting agendas? All questions a sane individual would ask. I think we can also agree that Meron is not the most neutral. We should ask for an independent UN investigation that is submitted to the United Nations Security Council. These types of shock reports actually do us more harm than good. We have to train our minds to think in the long run and not go for simple, quick and soon forgotten victories.

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