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ANFET INDEPENDENCE WEEK SPECIAL-May 21, 20225
On Independence Day, the only thing truly worth celebrating is Fact #1—the hard-earned sovereignty of Eritrea. The Eritrean people fought for their independence, and that victory remains irreversible. However, true freedom has yet to be realized, as the nation remains burdened by repression, injustice, and systemic failure. These ten facts define Eritrea’s current reality and must serve as a constant reminder of the urgent need for change.
- Eritrea is an independent and sovereign state, recognized under international law following its referendum for self-determination in 1993.
- Eritrea operates under an authoritarian regime that systematically suppresses fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech, press, assembly, association, movement, and religion, in violation of international human rights conventions.
- 3. Human rights protections are severely absent, as Eritreans endure arbitrary detentions, enforced disappearances, torture, and extrajudicial killings, contradicting internationally recognized norms outlined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).
- Civil liberties are neither guaranteed nor safeguarded by law, as Eritrea lacks independent judicial oversight, legal due process, and mechanisms to protect individual rights against state oppression.
- Eritrea functions without a constitutional order, having failed to implement the ratified 1997 Constitution, leaving its governance structure devoid of democratic legitimacy, rule of law, and institutional checks and balances.
- Eritrean society lives under systematic fear and repression, with mass surveillance, indefinite imprisonment, and forced disappearances used as tools to silence dissent and control the population.
- Eritrea remains in a perpetual state of conflict and militarization, with ongoing tensions and unresolved territorial disputes exacerbating instability and fostering a climate of war and insecurity.
- Eritrea enforces indefinite and compulsory military service, depriving generations of youth of educational, economic, and personal freedoms, amounting to state-enforced labor and human rights violations.
- Social and familial structures are deteriorating, as repression, forced conscription, and mass migration disrupt traditional bonds, diminishing prospects for marriage, family formation, and communal harmony.
- Eritrea’s population is deliberately hindered from growth and development, as state policies foster economic stagnation, forced migration, demographic depletion, and institutional failure—undermining national sustainability and survival.
SUMMARY:
- Eritrea is an independent and sovereign country.
- Eritrea is a country without freedoms of speech, writing, assembly, association, movement and religion.
- Eritrea is a country where human rights are not respected
- Eritrea is a country where civil liberties are not protected by law
- Eritrea is a country without constitutional order, democracy and justice
- Eritrea is a country where its people live in fear and terror, familial conflicts and imprisonment
- Eritrea is a country without peace and tranquility that lives in war and rumors of war
- Eritrea is a country where its youth live in forced indefinite military service
- Eritrea is a country without peace, love, harmony, marriage and wedding of its youth
- Eritrea is a country that is deliberately doomed to decline, bankrupt, displace, vanish, and fail as a state
* ኤርትራ ዘይጽግዕተኛን ልኡላዊትን ሃገር እያ፣ እትብል ናይ ጉግል ብእንግሊዝኛን ዓረብኛን ክትጎም ከሎ ልክዕ ከምዚ ይብል Eritrea is an independent and sovereign state, إريتريا دولة مستقلة وذات سيادة،
