Eritrea: Remembering pre-2005 Asmarino

From Welcome to Asmarino Independent. Thu Sep 18 2014, 13:49:24

If we talk about "what happened to whom" after that infamous day, the list of prisoners is rather long: former higher officials, journalists, religious leaders and their followers, merchants, former tegadelti, students, the youth, peasants, etc. But if we put it thematically, the loss to the nation has been at every conceivable level: the constitution, free speech, freedom of worship, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, freedom of movement, free trade, etc. And with ever step the regime made in its totalitarian striving, the life of the people became more and more unbearable; so much so, that the only way to free oneself from the chokehold of the regime's totalitarian grip has become to flee the nation.

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