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Isolated from the world by President Isaias Afwerki’s 30-year authoritarian rule, the east African nation of Eritrea remains intentionally unknown.
“It’s impossible, or very difficult, to get an accurate picture, because the government has closed the country so effectively that even those who have successfully fled the country are afraid to speak publicly, out of fear for what could happen to their families,” said Adotei Akwei, an Amnesty International deputy director who specializes in sub-Saharan Africa.
In the new FRONTLINE documentary
Escaping Eritrea, filmmaker Evan Williams explores the human rights landscape of one of the world’s most repressive regimes, from compulsory conscription to the ongoing exodus of refugees. The Eritrean government declined to respond to FRONTLINE, other than to say they’d seen many fabricated stories before. Here is an introduction to five of Eritrea’s biggest human rights crises.
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Over the past two decades, more than a half a million Eritreans have fled their home country in eastern Africa. They say they are escaping one of the most repressive and secretive dictatorships in the world.
Now, with exclusive secret footage and testimony, an undercover investigation by FRONTLINE and Channel 4 in the UK documents shocking allegations of torture, arbitrary detention and indefinite forced conscription into military service.
“I want people to know the truth. Until this day, it’s still hidden. We need to rip it open,” a guard who secretly filmed conditions in one of the country’s most notorious prisons says in
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