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حادثة غرق 359 مهاجرا قبالة لامبيدوسا اعتبرت I
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حادثة غرق 359 مهاجرا قبالة لامبيدوسا اعتبرت "مأساة" مؤلمة داخل إيطاليا وخارجها

قال محققون إيطاليون إن مواطنا إريتريا رحل إلى إيطاليا من السودان، قد يكون وراء عمليات تهريب البشر، لا سيما المهاجرين من دول إفريقية نحو أوروبا.

ويدعى الرجل ميراد ميضاني ويبلغ من العمر 35 عاما، ويعرف باسم "الجنرال"، وقد قبض عليه في السودان في 24 مايو/أيار الماضي، قبل ترحيله إلى العاصمة الإيطالية روما.

وقالت الوكالة الوطنية لمكافحة الجريمة في بريطانيا: "إن هذا الشخص يعتقد أنه وراء تنظيم رحلة أحد القوارب التي غرقت في عرض البحر الأبيض المتوسط، قبالة جزيرة لامبيدوسا الإيطالية في أكتوبر/تشرين الأول عام 2013.

وقد قتل في تلك الحادثة ما لا يقل عن 359 مهاجرا غير شرعي غرقا في البحر، حيث انطلقت الرحلة من ليبيا، وكان أغلب الضحايا من إريتريا والصومال.

السخرية من غرق المهاجرين.

وقد خضع هاتف ميضاني للتنصت من قبل المحققين، وأشارت التسجيلات إلى أنه "كان يضحك بسخرية من غرق القارب قبالة جزيرة لامبيدوسا بسبب كثرة ركابه."

وفي تسجيلات أخرى، كان "الجنرال" يعطي تعليمات لعصابات تهريب البشر، ويخطط لعمليات إرسال مزيد من المهاجرين غير الشرعيين عبر البحر الأبيض المتوسط.

وقالت وكالة "أنسا" الإيطالية للأنباء إن ميضاني متهم بإدارة تنظيم واحدة من أكبر العصابات التي تتاجر في البشر بين منطقة إفريقيا الوسطى وليبيا.

وينظر إلى ميضاني باعتباره أحد أكبر مهربي البشر المطلوبين في العالم، إذ يعتقد أنه مسؤول عن مأساة غرق مئات المهاجرين غير الشرعيين في قارب صيد قبالة سواحل جزيرة لامبيدوسا الإيطالية.

وتعتبر هذه العملية الأولى من نوعها التي يلقى فيها القبض على مهرب للبشر في القارة الإفريقية وينقل إلى أوروبا لمحاكمته.

ويقوم محققون في مدينة باليرمو في صقلية الإيطالية بالتحقيق في تلك الاتهامات، ومن المقرر أن يمثل ميضاني أمام المحكمة الأربعاء.

وأكدت الوكالة الوطنية البريطانية لمكافحة الجريمة أنها تتبعت المتهم وتحركاته وعلمت بعنوان منزل كان يستخدمه، حيث ألقي عليه القبض لاحقا هناك.

ويتعاون محققون بريطانيون مع المحققين الإيطاليين في قضية غرق المهاجرين قبالة جزيرة لامبيدوسا.

Ongoing human rights abuses in east African nation include rape, murder and torture, report alleges

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A migrant from Eritrea simulates what she says is a torture technique during a protest outside the European Union delegation in Israel, in June 2015. Eritrea is believed to have a shoot-to-kill policy to stop people from fleeing the country, according to the head of a UN inquiry. (Baz Ratner/Reuters)

 

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UN rights investigators accused Eritrean leaders of crimes against humanity including torture, rape and murder on Wednesday and called on the Security Council to impose sanctions and refer the case to the International Criminal Court.

Atrocities — including an indefinite military national service program that amounted to mass enslavement — had been committed since the country's independence in 1991 and were ongoing, the UN Commission of Inquiry said.

"We probably think there are 300,000 to 400,000 people who have been enslaved," Mike Smith, the head of the inquiry, told a news conference.

He also said he believed Eritrea was still operating a shoot-to-kill policy on its borders to stop people fleeing from the country, many of them heading to Europe as refugees.

The report says "particular individuals, including officials at the highest levels of State, the ruling party — the People's Front for Democracy and Justice — and commanding officers bear responsibility for crimes against humanity and other gross human rights violations." 

The inquiry said there had been no improvement since a year ago when it published a 484-page dossier describing extrajudicial killings, widespread torture, sexual slavery and enforced labour.

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Inquiry head Mike Smith says atrocities including rape, murder and de facto enslavement have been committed since Eritrea's independence in 1991. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone/Associated Press)

'Facade of calm'

Visitors to the country should not be fooled by the "general sense of calm and order" in the capital Asmara, because abuses were carried out in military training camps and detention centres, the report said.

"The facade of calm and normality that is apparent to the occasional visitor to the country, and others confined to sections of the capital, belies the consistent patterns of serious human rights violations," it added.

Eritrea's government did not allow the inquiry team to visit the country, although its diplomats met the investigators at the UN headquarters in New York.

Last year the three-strong inquiry team, led by Smith, an Australian diplomat and counter-terrorism expert, did not have a mandate to look into "international crimes," so the previous report said only that crimes against humanity may have been committed, without apportioning blame.

'Groundless accusations'

In the past year, the inquiry has received almost 45,000 written submissions, almost all group letters and petitions criticizing the first report, the direct result of a government campaign to discredit the inquiry, the report said.

Some signatories contacted by the inquiry said they had been coerced or their signatures had been forged and they were unaware of the letters, the report added.  

Eritrea's government said on Wednesday it rejected what it called the "politically motivated and groundless accusations."

The report is "an unwarranted attack not only against Eritrea, but also Africa and developing nations." said presidential adviser Yemane Ghebreab in a statement. 

The east African nation has routinely dismissed reports by UN bodies and campaign groups of rights violations in the past.

 

Source=http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/world/un-eritrea-slavery-human-rights-1.3621631

 

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Eritrea commits crimes against humanity, UN says

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UN investigation reports a litany of crimes committed in Eritrea since 1991, including enslavement, rape and murder.

08 Jun 2016 12:28 GMT

 
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A refugee from Eritrea simulates what she says is a torture technique done by Eritrean authorities [Baz Ratner/Reuters]

Eritrea's government is guilty of committing crimes against humanity since independence a quarter-century ago with up to 400,000 people "enslaved", the UN said on Wednesday.

The crimes committed since 1991 to the present day include imprisonment, enforced disappearance, extrajudicial killings, and rape and murder, said the United Nations Commission of Inquiry (COI) on human rights.  

The forced labour of military conscripts is also a major problem in the country, the UN said.

"We probably think that there are 300,000 to 400,000 people who have been enslaved," chief UN investigator Mike Smith told journalists in Geneva.

The governement also operates a shoot-to-kill policy to stop people fleeing the country, according to evidence collected by the UN inquiry. 

About 5,000 Eritreans risk their lives each month to flee the nation where forcible army conscription can last decades.

"Very few Eritreans are ever released from their military service obligations," Smith said.

Eritrea's Minister of Information Yemane Meskel denounced the UN's findings on Twitter. 

One witness said that Air Force conscripts were made to work in a plantation that belonged to the Air Force chief. The conscripts were not paid and were sent to detention facilities if they refused to work.

These acts were perpetrated to terrify and control the civilian population, while crushing opposition, the Commission of Inquiry said.

"There is no genuine prospect of the Eritrean judicial system holding perpetrators to account in a fair and transparent manner," Mike Smith chair of the commission said.

The Commission of Inquiry recommended that the international community and the International Criminal Court get involved. 

 

Exiled Eritreans campaign for freedom of journalists

"Crimes against humanity have been committed in a widespread and systematic manner in Eritrean detention facilities, military training camps and other locations across the country over the past 25 years," the UN commission said.

"Particular individuals, including officials at the highest levels of state, the ruling party - the People's Front for Democracy and Justice - and commanding officers bear responsibility for crimes against humanity," it said.

The 1991 split between Ethiopia and Eritrea followed a three-decade independence war, which saw Eritrean rebels battling far better-equipped Ethiopian troops backed first by Washington and then by the Soviet Union.

The country ranks below North Korea as the worst in the world for press freedom, according to Reporters Without Borders.

With an annual per capita gross national income of $480, Eritrea is one of the world's poorest nations, according to the World Bank. 

Source=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/06/crimes-humanity-eritrea-1991-160608100250646.html

 

EU plans to try and stop the flow of refugees from Eritrea are causing officials to downplay a UN report into potential crimes against humanity by the regime.

“This is deeply disturbing,” says Marie-Christine Vergiat, Left Front French MEP who is a member of the European Parliament’s Human Rights Committee. “We have been warning the Commission for months about the situation in the Horn of Africa and especially in Eritrea – without any results.”

The tiny nation of Eritrea – situated between Ethiopia and the Red Sea – is haemorrhaging people. As many as 5,000 a month cross borders, evading guards with orders to shoot to kill. They flee a regime that traps them in permanent servitude: a system of indefinite conscription that can last for decades.

Eritreans and Sudanese make up the majority of the African refugees, drowning in the Mediterranean and arriving in “the Jungle” in Calais. European officials are determined to halt the exodus by almost any means.

Plans for the EU to co-operate with the Eritrean authorities to halt the refugee flight are described in official documents as: “Assistance to develop or implement human trafficking regulations.” They include sharing intelligence and police reports with the regime.

The UN Commission of Inquiry report into Eritrea’s gross abuses threatens to derail these plans. Collaboration with President Isaias Afwerki’s regime would be difficult, if not impossible, if they were officially designated as a regime that commits “crimes against humanity”. 

The EU’s development principles are founded on respect for human rights. As its basic understanding with Africa and the Caribbean, the Cotonou agreement, put it: “respect for human rights, democratic principles and the rule of law, and good governance is part and parcel of long term development”. It would be hard to flout such a clearly-stated undertaking.

 

Yet senior EU officials have spent the last week preparing for such an eventuality.   They have been quietly suggesting that since the UN Commissioners were not allowed to visit Eritrea (despite repeated requests) their work was unfortunately “anecdotal” and cannot be relied on.

In making this claim the EU is marching in step with the Eritrean government, which has attacked the UN report before it is published.

The Eritrean Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued a statement accusing the Commission of Inquiry of showing a “total disregard for the basic principles of fundamental rules of procedure and established norms of fair play” and suggesting that its credibility has been undermined. The statement fails to mention that it was the government’s own actions that kept the Commission out of Eritrea.

Documents leaked from the Eritrean capital provide an insight into the scale of the official campaign against the UN Commission. The government’s plan is to collect 300,000 signatures protesting against the work of the Commission.

News of this development has been revealed by a whistleblower in the Eritrean capital, who goes by the name of “Samuel”.

A seven-page letter in Tigrinya from the Eritrean Ministry of Foreign Affairs details the operation. Every Eritrean foreign embassy is required to fulfil an allocated “quota” of signatures against the Commission’s report.

For Eritreans in the diaspora this is not a mere request. Living – as many of them do – in countries like Sudan, they are open to real pressure to comply with this request for support. Refusal would leave the exiles open to accusations of being unpatriotic, resulting in a denial of assistance from any Eritrean embassy – including passports, visas or any other form of official documentation or permission.

Thousands of Eritreans across the diaspora are being officially encouraged to travel to Geneva. “Spontaneous” protests are planned against the Commission’s findings, even before they have been made public.

Human rights campaigners are critical of the shared objectives of the EU and the Eritrean government. “Nobody should undermine the work of the UN Commission of Inquiry.  European civil servants shouldn’t comment on – even less minimise a UN report – especially prior to publication.”

Source=http://www.newstatesman.com/world/africa/2016/06/eu-attempting-protect-eritrean-dictatorship

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Erimedrekፕረሲደንት ኢሳያስ ኣፍወርቂ 200 ሚልዮን ዶላር ዝትመን ወርቂ ቢሻ ኣብ ቀጠር ባንክ ኣብ ዝርከብ ናይ ውልቁ መኸዘኒ ካሳ (vault) ኣቐሚጡ ምህላዉ ዝተረጋገጸ ሓበሬታ ተረኺቡ።

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በዚ መሰረት፥ ፕረሲደንት ኢሳያስ 25% ኣታዊታት ዕደና ወርቂ ቢሻ ኣብ Qatar National Bank ኣብ ዝርከብ ናይ ውልቁ ካዝና ኣእትይዎ ምህላዉ ተረጋጊጹ ኣሎ።

Fresh chaos as Italian border town sees new migrant influx

The Italian border town of Ventimiglia has seen more than 300 migrants arrive in the last week. Photo: Valerie Hache/AFP

 

The Local · 6 Jun 2016, 14:20

 Published: 06 Jun 2016 14:20 GMT+02:00
 

More than 300 people arrived in the Ligurian town after making their way up from southern Italy after a week that saw 13,000 rescued at sea.

The spike comes a year after Italy and France became embroiled in a standoff after hundreds of migrants were stranded in Ventimiglia because they were refused entry into France.

With the border still being stringently monitored, just 20 of the 300 migrants who arrived in Ventimiglia have attempted to cross, with the majority now housed in the town’s main refugee centre, run by the parish church of San Antonio, where numbers have swelled to over 600.

“The situation has become unsustainable,” parish priest Father Rito Alvarez told San Remo news.

Volunteers at the centre are now preparing 700 meals a day.

“We're trying to welcome everyone, but there are so many and the number keeps growing,” Maurizio Marma, a volunteer from Caritias, the church-run charity, told Ansa.

“Many of them are now sleeping on the floor outside; we are looking for another solution.”

The problems are not just logistical. The spike in arrivals is also creating a headache for guards at the French border.

Although the majority of the arrivals have been identified in Italy and therefore must stay, some have been caught trying to cross the border into France, with a reported 20 migrants being removed from France-bound trains on Monday morning alone.

The sudden influx has also caused sanitation problems inside the refugee centre.

An outbreak of chickenpox last week saw four refugees hospitalized and a further 80 given vaccinations against the disease.

Ventimiglia Mayor Enrico Ioculano is set to meet with religious leaders on Monday in the hope that more Church structures can be freed up for use as welcome centres.

In June last year around 250 migrants camped out in Ventimiglia for four days, protesting that they should be allowed to enter France on their way to their desired destinations in northern Europe.

Italy’s Interior Minister Angelino Alfano described the dramatic scenes as “a punch in the face of all European countries that want to close their eyes”. The migrants were eventually forcibly moved.

Migrants in Ventimiglia last June. Photo: Valery Hache/AFP 

Source=http://www.thelocal.it/20160606/fresh-chaos-as-italian-border-town-sees-spike-in-migrant-arrivals

ብዕለት 05 ሰነ 2016 ዓ.ም.ፈ. ጉባኤ ዓመት 2015 / 2016 ጨንፈር ቁ. 2 ሃገር ሽወደን ካብ ሰዓት 19.00 ክሳብ 23.00 ብመራኸቢ ብዙሓን ፓቶልክ ብምልኣተ ሃለዋት ኣባላትን ኣቦ ወንበርን ተሓዝ ገንዘብን ጨንፈር ቁ. 1 ሰዲሃኤ ዝተሳተፍዎ ብልዙብ ኣገባብ ተሳላሲሉ። ሰክረታርያ ጉባኤ ድሕሪ ምምራጽ ብኣካያዲ ሽማገለ ዝቀረበ ስሪዒታውን ገንዘባዉን ጸብጻባት ቀሪቡ ኣገዳሲ ክትዕ ድሕሪ ምክያድ ብሙሉእ ድምጺ ረጊኡ። ቀጺሉ ብሓጻይት ሽማገለ ዝቀረቡ ሕጹያት ቀረቦም ብዲሞክራስያዊ ኣገባብ ንዓመተ 2016/2017 እትመርሕ ሽማገለ መሪጾም ብኣገደስቲ ሃነጽቲ ለዋታትን ምስጋና ንዝነበረት ኣካያዲት ሽማገለን ተዋሂቡ ጉባኤ ብዓወት ተዛዘሙ።

في أمسية الخامس من يونيو/ جزيران 2016، عقد فرع رقم (2) لحزب الشعب الديمقراطي الإرتري بالسويد مؤتمره السنوي.

إفتتح المؤتمر أعماله في الساعة السابعة مساءا وإستمر حتى الساعة الحادية عشر ليلا بغرفة البالتوك. 

 

عُقد المؤتمر بحضور ثلثي العضوية وبمشاركة الزميلين رئيس وأمين مالية فرع رقم (1) بالسويد. و بعد إنتخابه سكرتارية المؤتمر، ناقش المؤتمرون بروح المسؤلية، التقريرين االتنظيمي والمالي لعام 2014/2015 وأجازهما بإجماع، كما إنتخب المؤتمرون قيادة جديدة لعام 2016/2017.

 

,إختتم المؤتمر أعماله بإجازة التقارير، كما شكر لجنة الفرع السابقة لما قامت به من مجهود، وأخيرا صادق على المقترحات و التوصيات.

Proposal intended to stop refugees reaching southern Europe, according to draft document seen by the Guardian

 
369 migrants crammed into a heavily overcrowded wooden hulled boat which was located in the waters just north of Libya.                                                                                               
 369 migrants crammed into a heavily overcrowded wooden hulled boat which was located in the waters just north of Libya. Photograph: MOD/REX Shutterstock


Jennifer Rankin in Brussels, and Patrick Kingsley in Istanbul

Monday 6 June 2016 20.36 BST  Last modified on Monday 6 June 2016 21.00 BST

Europe is considering whether to forge ahead with a plan to work with repressive African regimes in an attempt to stem migration flows, according to the draft version of a policy expected to be finalised by European officials on Tuesday.

To stop refugees reaching southern Europe from Africa, Europe is mulling whether to partner with Sudan, whose president is wanted for war crimes, and Eritrea, whose government is accused of crimes against humanity by the UN.

Both countries are a significant source of refugees in Europe, while Sudan is also a major migration thoroughfare for people moving between east Africa and the Libyan coast, the springboard for most people-smuggling missions to Italy. Over 150,000 people reached Europe from Libya in 2015 – only slightly fewer than the record of 170,000 in 2014.

In a draft document seen by the Guardian ahead of its official release by European civil servants on Tuesday, the EU has pledged to go ahead with a project that could see Europe provide Sudan’s security services with more equipment and funds to stop refugees, as well as assisting Eritrea’s judiciary.

The text has yet to be finalised, and EU sources could not confirm that the sections concerned would be kept in the text when it is officially published on Tuesday. The plans are only the latest iteration of a new EU migration strategy still being fleshed out by European leaders.

The proposed strategy also includes sending more aid and technical assistance to about 20 countries including Jordan, Lebanon, Niger, Libya and Ethiopia, in a bid to persuade their governments to do more to curb irregular migration.

Following a fall in the number of people reaching Europe from Turkey, European leaders are now trying to curb migration from elsewhere in the region. Favourable trade deals and visa liberalisation programmes are among the suggested ways of winning the acquiescence of target countries. Vague reference to legal pathways for refugees to Europe, as well as increased job opportunities for refugees left behind in Africa and the Middle East, are also included among the so-called “country packages”.

But buried deep within the draft document, the most eye-catching announcement concerns the EU’s “Better Migration Management” project, which the draft suggests “will start this summer”.

The project was first floated publicly in December, and according to documents released at the time could involve the provision of cars, equipment and possibly aircraft to the Sudanese government – as well as “capacity-building” for Eritrean judges, whom the UN accuses of aiding and abetting President Isaias Afwerki’s despotic regime in Asmara.

The proposals have been met with fury by some rights campaigners and leftwing MEPs. Barbara Spinelli, an Italian MEP from GUE/NGL, a leftwing coalition in the European parliament, said: “These ‘country packages’ would make us complicit with dictatorships and deny basic fundamental rights to people fleeing wars, famine and extreme poverty … The commission should be ashamed of this proposal.”

Sara Tesorieri, a policy adviser at Oxfam, accused EU leaders of compromising European values, should the proposals come to pass on Tuesday. She said: “The EU needs to reconsider very carefully exactly how much it is willing to sacrifice on the altar of migration, because right now, they are headed down a road where they will have a foreign policy that consists of a single objective. And they will be bargaining with regimes that they have held at arm’s length.”

She added the EU “should be rethinking its approach. It needs to return to reframing migration as an opportunity. The reality is that migration is increasing globally and Europe is going to be part of that.”

A spokesperson for the European commission said: “There are also no [concrete] plans at this stage to provide equipment to the Sudanese government. Any decision to provide civilian equipment will be taken on the basis of a forthcoming appraisal mission to Sudan from the EU and the consortium of EU member states.”

The German development minister, Gerd Müller, last week told the Guardian that Germany had no plans to send money to Sudan, contrary to reports in Der Spiegel and statements within EU policy documents, including the draft seen by the Guardian.

The Guardian view on Eritrea: a regime of terror

Editorial: The EU may be saving lives in the Mediterranean but it is turning a blind eye to the political repression in Africa’s worst dictatorship

Tuesday’s policy paper is only the latest attempt by the EU to stem the flow of people arriving on Europe’s shores. At a summit in Valletta last November, the EU promised to give 23 African nations a share in a €1.8bn (£1.4bn) “trust fund”, money for employment projects and border controls to dissuade people from travelling to Europe.

Some countries would like to see the EU go further, with a tougher approach to refugees. Austria’s foreign minister, Sebastian Kurz, has called for asylum seekers to be kept on islands rather than having direct access to the continent. In an interview with Die Presse on Sunday, he urged the EU to follow the Australian model, where migrants and refugees are sent to Pacific island detention centres, where they are held indefinitely, while their asylum applications are processed.

Hungary, a staunch opponent of plans to redistribute refugees around the bloc, had already proposed that refugees be restricted to “closed and protected” centres beyond the EU’s borders.

Source=http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/06/eu-sudan-eritrea-migration

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