{"id":1931,"date":"2015-05-19T16:21:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T16:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2015-05-19T16:21:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T16:21:47","slug":"eritrea-says-rights-activists-to-blame-for-migrant-crisis-may-18-2015-719-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitederitreamedia.com\/blog12\/2015\/05\/19\/eritrea-says-rights-activists-to-blame-for-migrant-crisis-may-18-2015-719-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Eritrea says rights activists to blame for migrant crisis   May 18, 2015 7:19 AM"},"content":{"rendered":"<header id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1432009402833_838\" class=\"header\">\n<h1 id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1432009402833_839\" class=\"headline\"><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1432009402833_837\" class=\"credit-bar clearfix large-sharebtns\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1432009402833_854\" class=\"credit-bar-inner\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1432009402833_855\" class=\"interest-bar\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1432009402833_860\" class=\"action-bar\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1432009402833_859\" class=\"action-bar-wrapper\">\n<div id=\"mediacontentsharebuttons-light\" class=\"yom-share-btns-container light\">\n<div class=\"share-btns-int-container\">\n<div class=\"share-btns\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1432009402833_834\" class=\"cover-wrap \">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1432009402833_833\" class=\"\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1432009402833_832\" class=\"img-wrap\">\n<figure id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1432009402833_831\" class=\" cover  \n\n                        get-lbdata-from-dom\n                                go-to-slideshow-lightbox\n                        \" data-id=\"d5cb656d-8099-306f-8712-68816f556f76\"><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/eritrea-says-rights-activists-blame-migrant-crisis-111959991.html#\" data-ylk=\"rspns:xpnd;t1:a3;t2:ct-mod;t3:ld;sec:ct-mod;slk:expand;elm:img;elmt:ct;itc:1;grpt:;edtr_vos:;g:;aid:d5cb656d-8099-306f-8712-68816f556f76;ct:4;cpos:1;\" data-rapid_p=\"8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/bt\/api\/res\/1.2\/szIo9Mqhhswf8FIL6FFu1A--\/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTM3NztpbD1wbGFuZTtweG9mZj01MDtweW9mZj0wO3E9NzU7dz02NzA-\/http:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en_us\/News\/afp.com\/4034f45655b5089cbd8ccdfff88dbd78a9304d35.jpg\" alt=\"Shipwrecked migrants disembark from a rescue vessel as they arrive in the Italian port of Augusta in Sicily on April 16, 2015\" width=\"352\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1432009402833_830\" class=\"cta-overlay\"><span class=\"icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow \">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1432009402833_861\" class=\"cta-text large  \">\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1432009402833_918\" class=\"caption\">Shipwrecked migrants disembark from a rescue vessel as they arrive in the Italian port of Augusta in Sicily on April 16, 2015 (AFP Photo\/Giovanni Isolino)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1432009402833_920\" class=\"body yom-art-content clearfix\">\n<p>Addis Ababa (AFP) &#8211; The secretive Horn of Africa state of Eritrea claimed Monday that human rights activists were partly to blame for the hordes of migrants heading to Europe.<\/p>\n<div class=\"body-slot-mod\"><\/div>\n<p>The isolationist Red Sea dictatorship is one of the largest contributors to the exodus across the Mediterranean and has in the past also blamed a CIA conspiracy for the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>In a newsletter from Eritrea&#8217;s mission to the African Union, the country called for &#8220;a robust and concerted effort to identify, arrest and prosecute the human trafficking criminals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1432009402833_919\">It said among the criminals were &#8220;all those who in different guises, including human rights activism, are complicit in these crimes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although the commentary acknowledged there was a need for &#8220;increased opportunities for citizens in countries that are currently sources of migration,&#8221; it also said there should be an &#8220;end of the selective and unjustified politicisation of the migration issue&#8221; when it concerned those from Eritrea.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1432009402833_921\">In March United Nations human rights investigators said Eritrea was curtailing most basic freedoms, and that the iron-grip regime of President Issaias Afeworki uses &#8220;pervasive state control and ruthless repression&#8221; including extra-judicial executions and enforced disappearances to silence critics.<\/p>\n<p>This has sparked a massive exodus from Eritrea, which after Syria is the second largest source of migrants risking their lives to get to Europe.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1432009402833_925\">In October 2013, following a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa on which 300 people were killed, Asmara accused the CIA of using human trafficking as a &#8220;ploy&#8221; aimed at &#8220;paralysing the indomitable people and government of Eritrea&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1432009402833_924\">Eritrea, which broke away from Ethiopia in 1991 after a brutal 30-year independence struggle, has consistently raised fears domestically that Addis Ababa is scheming to re-take the country.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1432009402833_923\">This has allowed the government to conscript most adults into the army or force them to perform compulsory labour.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 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