Eritrea-Drivers and Root Causes of Emigration, National Service and the
Possibility of Return
26.11.2014
· Country of Origin Information for Use in the Asylum Determination
Process
· Report from the Danish Immigration Service’s fact finding missions to
Ethiopia and Eritrea
August and October 2014
Copenhagen, November 2014
Danish Immigration Service
Ryesgade 53
2100 Copenhagen Ø
Phone: 00 45 35 36 66 00
Web: www.newtodenmark.dkE
-mail: us_at_us.dk
Content
1. Background and methodology
1.1 Purpose of mission
1.2 Methodology
2. Brief country Introduction
2.1 Freedom of movement
2.2 Observations by the delegation
3. Drivers and root causes of emigration from Eritrea
4. National Service
4.1 Background
4.2 Transition from school to National Service: Sawa
4.3 After Sawa: Content of the National Service
4.4 Duration of service
4.5 Salaries
4.6 People’s Militia/Army
4.7 Round ups of National Service draft evaders
4.8 Consequences for evasion/desertion from the National Service
4.8.1 Reprisals against family members
5. Return to Eritrea
5.1. Regularizing relationship with the government before returning to
Eritrea
5.2. Possible Penalties for illegal exit for individuals who return to
Eritrea
5.2.1. Are National Service evaders or deserters seen as traitors and
political opponents by the government
5.3. Examples of returns
5.4. Recent developments
Annex A –Sources consulted
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Berhane Habtemariam
Received on Wed Nov 26 2014 - 13:00:20 EST