Author: HRCE

Refugee Camp in Tigray Attacked with Artillery

Reports are coming through that one of the four refugee camps in Tigray province of Ethiopia, Adi Harush, has been bombarded with artillery by the Federal Government forces. It is reported that five refugees are dead and ten wounded.   Following a period of electoral and constitutional…

Eritrean Armed Forces Fighting Inside Tigray

Human Rights Concern-Eritrea (HRCE) has received credible evidence that the Eritrean Armed forces including conscripts, have been sent to the Tigray region of Ethiopia and are engaged in heavy fighting with the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Forces (TPLF), alongside the Ethiopian armed forces. The TPLF fought a…

Eritrea Interferes in Civil War in Tigray Region of Ethiopia

A civil war within Ethiopia in which the Ethiopian army is advancing into the northern province of Tigray has been seriously escalated by the participation in hostilities of the neighbouring state of Eritrea, which has signed a peace agreement with Ethiopia.  In an apparent response to…

Military Offensive in Tigray Endangers Eritrean Refugees

Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister, has ordered the military to confront the Tigrayan regional government because, he says, it attacked a military base; he has also cited months of “provocation and incitement”. Heavy fighting is reported to have broken out in Tigray —the Northernmost of 9 regional…

Amnesty International Applauds Settlement in Landmark Nevsun Resources Mining Case

(Amnesty International, Oct 23, 2020) Canadian companies must take responsibility for human rights abuses abroad, says human rights organization   Amnesty International is welcoming news that a group of Eritrean plaintiffs have reached an out-of-court settlement in a lawsuit against Canadian mining company, Nevsun Resources. The…

Eritrea: Nothing Has Changed

ERITREA: How did a new nation’s hopes and expectations for freedom and democracy come to be so brutally dashed? And why do we particularly remember this deprivation each year on 18th September? At the end of the war with Ethiopia, a group of Eritrean academics and…