{"id":8874,"date":"2017-07-31T01:05:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T01:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/?p=8874"},"modified":"2017-07-31T01:05:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T01:05:01","slug":"family-recovers-body-shoot-kill-victim-eritrea-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2017\/07\/31\/family-recovers-body-shoot-kill-victim-eritrea-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Family recovers body of shoot-to-kill victim at Eritrea border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/asmarino.com\/images\/AI\/TesfaAlem.jpg\" width=\"342\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tesfalem Tekle Abay was only 38 when he was killed at the Eritrean border whilst attempting to leave the country. A photograph smuggled from the repressive country shows an obituary notice by the family inviting members of the community to attend his funeral, as is customary. His conscription round is included in the notice, an identifier which has become part and parcel of the identity of the Eritrean population. He was conscripted on the 6<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0round of the Eritrean Compulsory National Service, in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>In Eritrea, the shoot-to-kill policy at the border has been in practice for over a decade and many victims have gone missing, but news of their fate is only made available by fellow travellers who managed to survive or citizens of the villages who happen to be near the incidents. As a consequence, the bereaved families have no choice but to mourn and hold wakes without the bodies of their family members. Such was the fate of Yohana\u2019s family last year. At only 26, she was a member of the 26<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0round when she was shot dead near Haykota in October 2016.<\/p>\n<div id=\"floatad\"><\/div>\n<p>The murder of Eritreans attempting to cross the border in an attempt to escape the indefinite slave labour that is the national service is among many of the criminal practices which the Eritrean government is perpetrating. Those who are captured at the border have repeatedly informed of the torture they suffer once they manage to escape the country. Arbitrary detention, torture, extra-judiciary killings, rape and other practices have led a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/Documents\/HRBodies\/HRCouncil\/CoIEritrea\/A_HRC_32_CRP.1_read-only.pdf\">UN Commission of Inquiry conclude that crimes against humanity have been committed<\/a>\u00a0in Eritrea and refer the matter to the Security Council and the African Union barely a year ago in June 2016. Worrying developments, led by the refugee crisis in Europe, indicate that Member States of the EU are starting to turn a blind eye to events like the shoot-to-kill policy, but the practice continues to this day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In a rare occasion, Tesfalem\u2019s family managed to obtain his corpse from the Eritrean border control, which on June 24<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and 25<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0informed the families of 27 individuals of the death of their family members at the border.<\/strong>\u00a0The Eritrean border control has only given out the names and photographs of those who died at the border, but refused to give the corpses to the families. The news, which was published on Erimedrek.com, also informed that 7 families were detained after insisting that the bodies of their family members be handed over to them.<\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Concern\u2013Eritrea\u2019s sources confirm Tesfalem was killed by the Eritrean border control. His family held his funeral on June 29<sup>th<\/sup>2017, but they could only state \u2018incident\u2019 as the cause of death in the public notice below (In Tigrigna Language).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pull-center\" src=\"http:\/\/asmarino.com\/images\/AI\/TesfaAlem.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Human Rights Concern \u2013 Eritrea<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:Eritrea.facts@gmail.com\">Eritrea.facts@gmail.com<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc-eritrea.org\/\">www.hrc-eritrea.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>asmarino.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesfalem Tekle Abay was only 38 when he was killed at the Eritrean border whilst attempting to leave the country. A photograph smuggled from the repressive country shows an obituary notice by the family inviting members of the community to attend his funeral, as is customary. 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