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A witness told AFP that 26 or 27 refugees were taken by the EDF to an unknown location. [5] On 2 February, Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), stated after a visit to Ethiopia that Eritrean refugees had been "caught in crossfire, abducted and forced to return to Eritrea under duress by Eritrean forces ...
The refugees have settled in a number of poor neighborhoods in the city of Tel Aviv, Israel's economic capital. [1] The clashes erupted during an event organized by the Eritrean embassy to mark Revolution Day on September 1, which commemorates the start of Eritrea's war of independence against Ethiopia in 1961. [5]
Khaled Idris Bahray was an Eritrean refugee and asylum seeker in Germany, who was stabbed to death on January 12, 2015, in Dresden.Although it was widely speculated and claimed in the media and on social media that the murder had racist motives, some days later an Eritrean roommate of Bahray confessed to the murder.
One Eritrean refugee, who wished to remain anonymous for safety reasons, said he was arrested after someone heard him speaking Tigrinya - a language used in Eritrea, as well as Ethiopia's Tigray ...
In addition, one third of Eritreans live abroad. [2] In 2022, 37,357 Eritreans fled to Sudan, Egypt and Libya to seek asylum, estimated around 1% of its population. [3] Since 2001, 700,000 people have left the country as a result of political repression under Isais Afwerki. [4] In 2015, approximately 40,000 Eritrean arrived in Europe via the ...
A mass grave of civilians in Tigray [15] [16]. The EHRC claimed in November 2020 that the Mai Kadra massacre could constitute a crime against humanity. [3] Human Rights Concern Eritrea claimed in February 2021 that crimes against humanity occurred during the war, in particular in the "appalling treatment of Eritrean refugees in the Shimelba and Hitsats camps" and called for an immediate ...
The Hitsats massacre was a massacre at Hitsats refugee camp on or around 19 November 2020 during the Tigray War. [1] The civilians killed were 300 Eritrean refugees, according to Europe External Programme with Africa (EEPA), [2] and five humanitarian workers, according to The New York Times, [1] Associated Press, [3] and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
HRCE stated that ten Eritrean refugees at the Hitsats refugee camp were shot dead and forty wounded on 23 November 2020. A few days later, the wounded refugees were taken to Eritrea. On 5 January 2021, all the remaining refugees were forced to walk to Sheraro, which they did in two to three days. They were then deported on trucks to Eritrea. [6]