Date: Wed Nov 26 13:09:31 2014
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: <mailto:us_at_us.dk> 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
………. <http://www.meskerem.net/EritreareportEndeligversion.pdf> "According
to a Western embassy (B), 99.9% of all Eritrean asylum seekers in Europe
<http://www.meskerem.net/EritreareportEndeligversion.pdf>
http://www.meskerem.net/reportindex.2.jpgare economic refugees. The extended
families, which may comprise 50 persons, merge their savings in order for
them to send a bright young relative, usually a man, to Europe. It is an
investment and it is expected that the young man will send remittances back
to his family in Eritrea. As long as the family knows that he will be
granted asylum, they will not hesitate to send him off. But if the outcome
was not given, the family would think twice before they send the young man
to Europe. It was emphasized that the human rights situation in Eritrea is
no worse than in most other African countries and poverty in Eritrea is not
worse than in other African countries. There are no mass violations of human
rights in Eritrea, and European countries do not grant protection to
everyone from Guinea, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African
Republic or Egypt. In this respect, it could be argued that the Eritrean
government has a point when it states that Eritrean asylum applicants
received preferential treatment in Europe.
Commenting on Norway’s recent policy towards Eritrean asylum seekers, the
Western embassy (B) stated that the Norwegian announcement of a possible
return agreement with Eritrea had a huge psychological effect and it
effectively drove down the number of Eritrean asylum seekers in Norway. That
happened despite the fact that no one has been deported from Norway and
despite the fact that though Eritrea accepts voluntary returns, especially
when the returnees are given some money, it does not accept forced returns.
It was added that Eritrea will not give assurances regarding human rights
and it will not allow European countries to monitor unsuccessful asylum
seekers who have been returned to Eritrea…………………
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Berhane Habtemariam
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