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UN report documented further severe crimes in Eritrea
Posted on 06/08/2016 | Updated at 10:48 AM
Geneva - A new report by a UN commission to Eritrea paints a bleak picture of the country. The East African country is therefore still responsible for crimes against humanity. The Panel recommends classified Eritreans seeking protection as refugees.
Slavery, torture, extrajudicial executions, disappearances and discrimination: These crimes are in Eritrea remains on the agenda, as is clear from the report that on Wednesday in Geneva was presented.
Created the document has a commission for Eritrea, which was created in 2014 by the UN Human Rights Council to reports of arbitrary detention and sexual violence to get to the bottom. A first paper, which was published in July 2015, had already reported about massive human rights violations and providing for lively discussions.
The human rights situation has not improved since the first report, the team concludes at the Australian jurist Mike Smith. Contrary to some assertions of the Eritrean regime exists, for example, the long-standing requirement for military service according to the Commission as before.
The absence of democratic institutions in the country to broadcast on a "climate of impunity" for crimes against humanity for 25 years, it is said in the report. "These crimes are still taking place," Smith said.
Thus people are for the atrocities to the top level of the state and the only party responsible, and above all the security forces and the top leaders of the military.
Tens of thousands of Eritreans have fled in recent years to Europe. In Switzerland, they are the largest group of incoming refugees: Last year there were nearly 10,000 asylum seekers. They will not be returned, because when returning persecution is suspected.
Bourgeois politicians draw however the earlier representations of UN experts in doubt and pushing for repatriation of Eritreans. From Switzerland traveled in early year a handful of parliamentarians on their own initiative to Eritrea and reported it, they would move freely within the country and to ask critical questions. They call on the authorities to conduct their own investigations.
The Commission considers that such findings are not surprising: The quiet location, the Eritrea show occasional visitors, contrary to the "basic model" permanent serious violations of human rights , it is stated in the report. The commission of inquiry calls on the countries to take Eritreans as refugees.
The Commission is also convinced that the Eritrean regime targeted a campaign operates to discredit the first report. One collaboration denied the regime. As for the first report received the group for the second no access to land. The first report based on the testimony of hundreds of witnesses outside the country.
Smith appealed in the new report to the UN Security Council, all set in motion, so that those responsible in Eritrea are held accountable. In particular, the International Criminal Court to be called. Smiths Commission contributed by its own account evidence against several persons.
The UN Security Council is also invited to impose sanctions such as travel bans and the blockade of assets. The African Union should set in motion and prosecute those responsible legally Commission's investigations to view.
The Commission calls on the Eritrean government for an end to the violations. It also requires them to apply the 1997 Constitution and ratified conventions on human rights. In addition to recently created laws - about a penal code - be put into effect.
Furthermore, the compulsory military service should be limited to one and a half years. There are also democratic elections take place and other parties and organizations of civil society approved. (SDA)
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