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Thousands of Eritrean refugees are increasingly caught in the middle of the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, where witnesses and U.N. officials say forces have attacked their camps ...
On 7 May 2023, reports by The Guardian were released stating that hundreds of Eritreans had been taken away from their refugee camps near the Eritrean-Sudanese border. Several of the citizens being deported were reported to be Eritrean men who had fled the Eritrean army after being conscripted. Several women were also reported to be arrested. [2]
The border has also seen illegal acts such as human trafficking and hundreds of illegal crossings made by Eritreans. [3] Due to the Tigray War, Sudan saw a surge of Eritrean and Ethiopian civilians cross its border with Eritrea and by 2023 there were nearly 130,000 refugees and civilians confirmed living in the country. [4] [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 UN had access to the Mai Aini camp.
Recent conflict in the Tigray region of Ethiopia has Eritrean refugees living in the U.S. are worried about family still living there.
The Eritrean–Ethiopian border conflict was a violent standoff and a proxy conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia lasting from 1998 to 2018. It consisted of a series of incidents along the then-disputed border ; including the Eritrean–Ethiopian War of 1998–2000 and the subsequent Second Afar insurgency . [ 8 ]
True casualties statistics have been difficult to determine, largely due to deliberate information blackouts in the region. [7] Journalists have noted the difficulty they face attempting to report on the war, as the Ethiopian government has taken steps to reduce press access to the Tigray Region, facing the risk of getting killed or imprisoned.
Many scholars and authors believe that the current source of internal conflict in Ethiopia is the implementation of ethnic federalism since 1991. [52] Evidence suggests the implementation of ethnic federalism "politicized tribal identity" and scholars refuted its application on Ethiopian state context. [ 53 ]