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Eritreans risk being shot to death by their own troops if they try to flee their homeland and seek European asylum, a UN envoy has said.
UN special rapporteur on human rights in Eritrea, Sheila Keetharuth, speaking a few weeks after hundreds of Eritreans died in a boat accident off the coast of Lampedusa, said that only once human right violations ceded in the country, would "people stop putting their lives at risk by undertaking such dangerous journeys".
Keetharuth told the body that Eritreans were subject to some of the most serious rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings, incommunicado detention, arbitrary arrest, torture, inhumane prison conditions and indefinite national service.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/afric...ea-shoot-kill-policy-2013102594417854579.html
UN special rapporteur on human rights in Eritrea, Sheila Keetharuth, speaking a few weeks after hundreds of Eritreans died in a boat accident off the coast of Lampedusa, said that only once human right violations ceded in the country, would "people stop putting their lives at risk by undertaking such dangerous journeys".
Keetharuth told the body that Eritreans were subject to some of the most serious rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings, incommunicado detention, arbitrary arrest, torture, inhumane prison conditions and indefinite national service.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/afric...ea-shoot-kill-policy-2013102594417854579.html