r/Eritrea

Why is it the Italians are revered in Eritrea. They were absolutely despicable, detention camps and torture methods. Very perverted and abuse of the young. Over 800,000 died. Is it due to a lack of education of their actions in the horn?

I just spent a whole night in fucking custody for no reason.

Disclaimer I'm not even from Tigray, I was born in Eritrea and I'm Eritrean by origin, and have never been to Tigray. on Saturday night, I was out with my friends on the outside chairs of a coffee shop and we were talking to each other (in Tigrinya), and there were three police officers staring at us a few meters away, then they suddenly walked up to us and started harassing us demanding our identification, then told us we were being detained. We asked for what reason and they said that because we were in a group it was 'suspicious activity'. I spent the night in custody and they interrogated me non-stop, searched my entire clothes, phone, wallet, even opened up my fucking shoes to see if I was hiding shit in there, asked me if I was with Shabia/Tibibir (I haven't been back to Eritrea in over 2 decades), and the next day I couldn't stay longer as I could risk losing my job, I paid them 10,000 birr and they let me go but not until they investigated me again for another 5 hours.

I'm not the only one that this happened to, I even had to pay to bail out my cousin last week who they arrested for the same stupid reason, this reminds me when they were mass arresting Tigrayans here during the war, it's fucking ludicrous, the government has an intelligence system, I understand there's a war going on but they can't be that paranoid to just mass arrest people they see on the streets for no reason. Complete bullshit, fuck this government.

Is this a sign of discrimination? Or the government is using police corruption to build up their funds for this stupid war?

Now that diplomatic relations have been fully severed on both sides. The Ethiopian army seems to be having an easy time advancing towards Mekelle without much resistance and whether this is a trap being set by TPLF or they’re just not the fighting force they were before, that remains to be seen. The question is whether Abiy will be reckless enough to ignite a full blown war especially if TPLF collapses.

Press Release: Ethiopia’s Deplorable Acts of Hostility

The Ethiopian Government issued a Press Statement today announcing the closure of the Eritrean Embassy to Ethiopia as well as declaring ten Eritrean Diplomats, including the Charge d ’Affairs and other Eritrean Diplomats accredited to the African Union as “persona non grata”.

To justify these unwarranted acts of hostility, the Ethiopian Government has turned the tables to accuse Eritrea for “direct and indirect acts of hostility and belligerence against Ethiopia”.

This is astounding indeed.

In reality, it is Ethiopia which has been pursuing an agenda of incessant hostility – in effect, a publicly pronounced declaration of war – against Eritrea for three years in pursuit of “the imperative of acquiring sovereign access to the sea” through the invasion of sovereign Eritrean ports and coastal areas.

In parallel with these aggressive intentions, Ethiopia has gone further to host, train, and provide arms, to an assortment of what it calls “Eritrean armed opposition groups” to stoke internal conflict for “regime change” in Eritrea.

Throughout these trying times, Eritrea has displayed patience and restraint in the hope of averting a dangerous escalation.

In the current circumstances, however, Eritrea has no option but to reciprocate in kind and severe all diplomatic ties with Ethiopia with all the negative corollaries that this entails.