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Eritrea: When Does the Agony End?

Eritrea:  When Does the Agony End? A Simmons College Warburg Panel Presentation Eritrea was Africa’s newest independent nation in 1991.  In only a few years the ruggedly beautiful Red Sea state slid from hopefulness to conflict and

Eritrea:  When Does the Agony End?

A Simmons College Warburg Panel Presentation

Eritrea was Africa’s newest independent nation in 1991.  In only a few years the ruggedly beautiful Red Sea state slid from hopefulness to conflict and then to despair.  Three decades of disputes and clashes with its neighbors turned Eritrea into a regional outcast.  Worse, political repression under the one-man rule of President Isaias Afwerki killed most hopes of democracy or respect for human rights.  Eritrea today is an impoverished police state.

Fleeing Eritreans face new tragedies at the hands of human traffickers and criminal gangs operating in the Sinai and elsewhere.  This wide-scale suffering is one of the underreported disasters of continuing authoritarian rule in Eritrea.

Despite these hardships, Eritreans remain resilient and increasingly confident that fundamental change cannot be indefinitely delayed.

Join us for a panel presentation and discussion of the situation in Eritrea today, the tragedy of human trafficking from Eritrea, and prospects for positive political change.

WHEN AND WHERE:

March 5, 2013, 5 – 6:30 p.m. | MCB Room C-101

Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA

Free & open to the public

Speakers include:

Ambassador (ret) William M. Bellamy, Warburg Professor of International Relations, Simmons College

Professor Dan Connell, Senior Lecturer, Professor of Practice, Simmons College

Yebio Woldemariam, Adjunct Professor, City University of New York; director of the International Commission for Eritrean Refugees

Excerpts from a ground-breaking Israeli documentary film will be screened.

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5 COMMENTS
  • habte tesfay March 5, 2013

    selamta. ezom abwetsae koynom zereba issayas trah zeykone
    kinewu zereba yzarebu alewu. aberitra zelewus zamenu aminom ngiziau. abdege zelewu gna mtsiwarom nsenom alona.
    ableli ezom sebat eziatom sgumti mwsad kfal meswaeti ele yamn. kabzi nlaeli mtswar adlay aymeslenen.

  • MEHRETU HABTE March 5, 2013

    Intelligent & people with real hearts,

    That is the main thing that burns my heart…Please do not fail to discuss, how ,we Eritreans..if we clearly recognize our identity & the confusion between fake nationalism based solely on the geographical integrity /disintegrity of the ¨nation¨,but on the people.

    Thank you

  • Hailu March 5, 2013

    Hi Organizers,
    It could have been nice if this was a tele conference or accessed thru skyp we could have participated it

    any way thanks and do not forget to update us

  • Gere March 6, 2013

    It is very shocking to see our brothers and sisters in pain. What happen with us, do not we have an identity any more, why are we only individuals, why do not we organize and help ourself. There is no nation or organisation, that can help us better than ourself. We must think about the Rashaida´s nationality in Eritrea. If they do not respect our sisters and brothers, they must leave our country.

  • semere March 7, 2013

    we have to kill all rashaidas and their supports in eritrea

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