Tag: G15
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Sept. 18, 2001: The Day Memory Was Criminalized
Eritrea’s Day of Infamy: The Day Liberty Died Some days do not merely pass into history—they haunt it. September 18, 2001, is one such day: a wound unhealed, a silence unbroken, a betrayal unforgotten. It is Eritrea’s Day of Infamy—the day memory itself was criminalized. It is the day the regime drained the oxygen of
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History is Watching us
[This article is dedicated to a group of Eritrea’s Prisoners of Conscience who were arrested in 2001 after criticising President Isaias Afwerki’s rule, and have never been seen or heard from since. The prisoners, rather selflessly, led the way to meet the challenges head-on while their fellow ex-freedom-fighters failed to follow suit .] This piece
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The Death of Mihret Eyob as an Illustration
The Eritrean tragedy is not obscure to anyone who follows current events; there is an international awareness about the thousands of prisoners of conscience in the country. And Eritreans know that the awareness about their plight is a result of a dedicated and resilient struggle by people of goodwill, and Eritrean activists who made sure