Date: Wed Dec 3 08:27:12 2014
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Eritreans who left their homeland illegally are welcome to return: Eritrean
Government
Written By Admin on Dec 3, 2014 | 12:17 AM
Re: The quotation attributed to the Eritrean Embassy Charge d'affaires, Mr.
Yonas Manna Bairu, in a Danish Newspaper 'Politiken' report is grossly
misleading.
The Eritrean Government has repeatedly stated on record that any citizen who
left their homeland for any reason and wants to return to their country on
their own accord are always welcome to visit or live in Eritrea. There will
be no punishment discharged upon citizens who are victims of irregular
migration and human trafficking themselves. Many citizens have already
visited or repatriated to Eritrea safely over the last number of years
without any imposition from the authorities.
This been the truth of the matter and a phenomena currently suffered by many
third world countries, Eritrea's plight has been singled out and politicised
by many actors to divert from the main root cause of the injustice
perpetrated upon the nation of Eritrea for more than a decade. The
unresolved occupation of Eritrea's sovereign land and unjust sanctions
imposed on Eritrea.
Eritrean Embassy to Scandinavia
2 December 2014
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Photo: Eritrean economic migrants in Israel. Eritrean migrants first began
to leave for Israel in 2006, after the Jewish state issued a 6-month work
visas for Eritreans. In order to permanently work in the country after their
visa expired, the migrants would claim they were persecuted refugees who
would be killed or imprisoned if returned to Eritrea. In 2012, Israel ended
its controversial 6 month work visa for Eritreans after finding 99.9% of
those entering their country were economic migrants pretending to be
refugees. After ending the policy, Eritrean "refugees" stopped coming to
their country overnight; which proved they were nothing more than economic
migrants who were being motivated/induced to leave their country because of
the six month work visa.
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