ARRA opens third camp in tigray region for Eritrean refugees

ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia announced Thursday it has opened a new camp in the north of the country to accommodate the growing number of Eritrean refugees arriving each month.
The first batch of 356 people arrived on Thursday at the camp in Adi-Harush in Tigray, the fourth to be established in the region since 2004, the Administration for Refugee and Returnee Affairs said in a statement.
"Eighty percent of the first group is composed of mainly young people between the ages of 21 and 34," it added.
The agency said up to 2,000 mostly young men and women were now crossing the border each month to "avoid excessive repression, gross human rights violations and forced conscription into the army."
Rights groups say Eritrea has turned into a "giant prison" where detentions, torture and prolonged military conscription have become rife since a 2001 crackdown on perceived political opponents, including senior officials.
Earlier this month, a former Eritrean prison guard who fled to Ethiopia claimed his country's ex-foreign minister and an army chief had died in prison while thousands of others had fallen severely ill in "secret detention centres".
The two officials were close allies of President Issaias Afeworki throughout the Red Sea state's 30-year war for independence.
In addition to the 49,000 Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia, hundreds of others arrive every month in neighbouring Sudan, according to the UN refugee agency.

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[MegaTekleab]

Wow they are a lot of Eritrea people!

[e2tigre]

eritrea popel no but tigray peopel the hidden aganda wayan go ask what happen o gadeni oromia amahra zone never get in eritrea inculd (oppositios byname of eritrea ) hidden aganda vert godt asmarino dalina awat assna tigray hidden aganda by by by by by wayan asked suppling news from in or out never get eritrea eritrea nation if likes or not

[gtesfay]

wow a lot of hate on Eritrean people catagorically... That sounds like some some sort of issue underneath . In any case , cool down dude... It is just because of Governance issue but doesn not have anything with the Eritrean people as a whole. Repression issues are in many countries but their levels-bad to worse- differ from country to country. Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Chad as examples have diffrent repression levels on their own people and hence people flee to the neighboring countries..

[HandsomeMrEthiopia]

@NatKingCole46 wtf fuck do you mean eritrea and tigray are the same??? YOU REALLY ARE SMOKING CRACK. I HOPE THE RED SEA FLOODS ERITREA................... THAT WOULD BE THE END OF A SLAVE NATION :)

[HandsomeMrEthiopia]

@NatKingCole46 hey you fucker, we kicked your ass in the border war and still hold badme. YOU GOT YOUR ASS KICKED BY ITALY YOU FUCKING PUSSY ASS ASHKER AND THERE WASNT AN ERITREA BEFORE '95, YOU ERITREANS HAVE NO HISTORY WHAT SO EVER. AND WHAT DO YOU MEAN WE WERE BOUGHT BY ITALY?? IT WAS A SMALL OCCUPATION NOT A COLONIZATION YOU STUPID FUCK. GO BACK TO WHAT YOU WERE DOING....... SUCKING ITALIAN DICK!

[NatKingCole46]

lol 206amar1 is so stupid and ignorant, Ethiopia was also a SLAVE nation like every nation on earth, Ethiopia was also bought by Italy more than 5 years. The truth hurts you huh?? And ERITREA WON THE WAR!!!



[206amar1]

@NatKingCole46

Tigray has history of kings and emperors for 3,000 years. What is Eritrea? An Italian slave nation!

Every day I piss on the Eritrean flag, the only good Eritrean is a dead one!

Ethiopia4everrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!

Death to Eritrea!

[NatKingCole46]

@206amar1 TIGRAY IS THE SAME AS ERITREA:

TIGRINYA FOREVER!!!!! :):):)

[206amar1]

@NatKingCole46

Tigray isn't the same as Eritrea. You Eritrean bastards are sub-human dikalas and I won't rest until you pasta eating Italian slaves are wiped off the map.

Fuck Eritrea!

[100kidane]

@206amar1 well ok