How I Escaped Africa’s Most Repressive State
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- In his native Eritrea, Dr. Berhane Asmelash was a military doctor who treated soldiers on both sides of the brutal war with Ethiopia that spanned much of the last two decades.
Despite his service, he was arrested and tortured for nearly a year for the crime of leading a Christian congregation in a country without freedom of religion or expression. He witnessed his fellow prisoners taken away for extrajudicial killings.
After seeking asylum in the UK, he is now a Church of England vicar and works to help Christians still being persecuted by the brutal regime, watching on as the situation becomes more and more dire in the wake of the Tigray War.
Correction : June 23, 2021
An earlier version of this video showed footage of the Eritrean-Ethiopian War (1998-2000) when referencing the present Tigray War.
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The saddest thing is, when I saw the title, I knew they were talking about Eritrea. My heart goes out to them most lovely people I have ever met.
Thx 🙏🏾 ❤️
BS!
Istg. It’s so sad
@Miya . . . . . what?? 🤫🤫 bed time now.
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It’s sad that the media rarely talks about other oppressive regimes outside of North Korea. Thank you for covering this VICE
You consider Vice, media? let alone NEWS?
Huh? All you have to do is google which countries you're curious about, I do that all the time
@@elijahvalencia3293 You do. A lot of people don’t get exposure to these things and don’t have the desire to seek out information.
Because all the media is completely obsessed with the DPRK
@@elijahvalencia3293 I agree with what Space Case said. Many people don’t even know what or where Eritrea is, let alone exists
"It was supposed to be temporary". Every dictator seems to use the exact same phrase.
What is supposed to be temporary?
Go do something about then.. lol
You so so weak and a sell-out on here
@@hizbawiginbarginbarghinda3872 the dictatorship
@@hizbawiginbarginbarghinda3872also the hgdef 2% tax lol
"Would you like me to sing for you?" 🥺
Imagine being locked up and tortured and this sweet man offers to sing you to sleep.
Sad reality of our country🇪🇷 !No freedom of speech,religion,press,ideology,internet,business opportunities ,universities and endless cruel military services !People can’t breath !Hope there will be a change soon!
How is it going now?
is there really no business opportunities?
@@abyudelyakem6449it’s not as bad as it seems, my uncle owns a shop there but it is hard to find money
This beautiful country and it's people deserve better. EPLS betrayed their supporters, just as so many have in Africa. The leaders of freedom fighters become the new dictators.
They are free now. Free from everything)
What is EPLS? Do you mean EPLF?
Silly!
Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.
Frank Zappa
@@JohnSmith-vj2mc the English premier league epl
My parents left Eritrea in the nineties, like this man, I have never visited it before, but I hope to return someday and see this beautiful country and finly live in our country by our rules. Thank you, Vice, for always talking about the vulnerable.
I hope to do the for my country, somalia but our problem is religion instead of a dictator
@@bigstonez naaah. Your president is a joke.
@@mwanikimwaniki6801 true
Eritrea itself is beautiful but the politics isn't.
@@bigstonezour problem isn’t religion you murtad it’s clans tribalism which is condemned in Islam
Chad's been under a military dictatorship for several decades. The Chadian president who was a 30-year-long dictator came to power via military coup was just recently killed, and now his son wants to take the throne. Add to that it's a landlocked country, and it's among the least developed nations in the world, lack of electricity and internet, and no free press. France props the government up, like it does many regimes in the region.
Why would Franch support a dictatorship when it itself is not a dictatorship.
@@tauceti8060 lmao it's called colonialism
@@tauceti8060 because the dictators secure the interests of France in that region.
That how u know this video is a propaganda.
True
The mass graves picture and video you show is not committed by Eritrean. It was a massacre of 1300 ethnic Amharas in #Mikadra in one day by Tigray liberation front & Tigrain youth called samri 😭
Vice news has spread misinformation about whats going on in Ethiopia since the conflict began. Garbage people.
Vice claims to be progressive and do a great job bringing issues to the main stream but they are extremely biased and misinformed. 🇪🇷✊🏾🇪🇷
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@@yordanostela1305 They are worst than FAKE NEWS CNN. VICE is what it is: a sponger and its host is the indifferent disgruntled ignoramuses. They are of no significance.
They only report good when it comes to american topics or issues, but when it comes to issues in Africa like in Ethiopia for example, they seem to not give indepth detail and show clips of a different video onto another video or one that has no connection to the topic. VICE is trash
I’m thankful for seeing this get some coverage. A lot of people don’t know or care about this.
Why should they care for something that is fabricated? There is nothing to know in Fake News! It is Fake!
They dot know because there is nothing wrong and they dot care because its non of their business!!
I don't mean to be condescending but I wish these videos were more mainstream. Let people know what persecution really entails
I mean, Eritrea is one of the worst places to be on Earth with some of the best people. But that doesn't mean that situations that are a bit better aren't persecution.
What you are watching is from 1998 whatever they are saying about the country is a lie. Just visited this country a year ago.
Its fake news created by the pro tplf groups to tarnish the image Eritrea and Eritrean government. For example the video footage used from 9:12 to 9:18 is from 23 years ago when the tplf/ ethiopian forces killed ERITREAN civilians in badme and deda. They used it here the other way round false false false. fake news
Most of people comenting here do not know Eritrea it seems. When i see those coments I am confused wether you are talking about Eritrea my country or another Eritrea. Eritrea is not heaven but it is not like you portray it here. It all started in 1997 when a war broke between eri and Ethiopia because of a peace of land which was awarded to eritrea by international court in 2002. But the land stayed with Ethiopia despite the verdict. It was no peace no war between the two countries for 20 years. Eritrean youths werr forced to stay in military because anytime the war coud break again. Mind you the population in Ethiopia is more than 100million while Eritrea population is barely 5million. So all young people must stay in military indefinitely untill the issue is resolved. Its natural the country would want to defend itself. The young people also also want to work live a normal live. So the dilema comes here between a government wanting to defend the country and the people wanting to live a better live. And now I want to aske everone commenting here if ypur country was in the same situation what would you do? I blame the TPLF for starinf the war, not abiding by international court and turning our life miserable before I point my finger to the goverment. And to the fellow Etitreans why have you failed to ask why badme was not handed to Eritrea as promised by the court untill dr Abey come.
Infantilism!
Thank you so much for covering stuff like this VIce. SO rarely talked about. You are amazing, God Bless You All.
This man is truly lucky and blessed to be alive !! It takes courage to make videos like these. Lord how long will Eritreans suffer under this totalitarian dictatorship!! ?
Why the f, is the background music always louder than the talking of the people ...
In 2019 I've visited somalia🇸🇴 muqdisho and hargeisa, what a beautiful country. I have friends from Eritrea also.
hargeisa is Somaliland
@@isabdi04 you wish
@@ooooiiii1680 😂😂😂
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did you visit by yourself?
Thanks for shining a light on this, Vice. This is why you're the best
VICE the best? Lol!
“We speak the same language”he says. If you are Eritrean then you know why this statement tells a lot about his frame of thinking.
I'm Tigre from Keren, we DO NOT speak one language, there are 9 languages in Eritrea.
@@verysmartultrahuman939 that is right and in Eritrea we are all the same. 🇪🇷🇪🇷🇪🇷🦾🦾🦾 #9are1
@@barakmoss1691 absolutely brother.
@@verysmartultrahuman939 85% of Eritreans are either Tigrinya or Tigre so it's understandable why he would think that.
One of the biggest problems is people impersonating as ethnic Eritreans who support the government and it's important to acknowledge that majority of the people in authority positions in the Eritrean government are not Eritreans. The system of power has been in play even during the war of independence to prevent ethnic Eritreans to live in their own land in peace.
Isais has to go. He has brought so much suffering to his people. My wife is Eritrean and I have seen how much people suffer because they are refugees in other countries due to Eritrean dictator.
Who are you? Papagallo!
We Eritreans had a dream!
A dream that we could build our country.
We had an idea.
An Idea that after 30 years of fighting, we would be the Singapore of Africa.
Never have I thought that Eritrea would turn into a dictatorship.
Never did I think that the Eritrean EPLF heroes would go to jail in 2001.
I love my Eritrea.. but Eritrea now is worse! Worse than North Korea.
I do not understand why Eritreans support him.
Where are the elections, PDFJ people... Where is the justice system!
Poor Eritrea.. my home.. forever behind in the world.
God bless you our brother and sister for being the voice of truth. Yes, the God of Justice has seen it all and would right the wrongs committed against the innocent people of Tigray. I pray for the justice of Eritrean people, too who have been suffering in the hands of the evil regime of Issayas ኣፈሃመድ! Ajona, justice will be served soon!!!
Misinformation about Africa has become a growth industry in the West. A vocabulary of metaphors is used in describing Africa. For example, “black on black violence” is a euphemism the Western press used in writing about South Africa in the 1980s, yet British journalists do not report on “white on white violence” when reporting the conflict in Northern Ireland.
Most Westerners have never visited Africa and may never visit the continent. Yet there is a particular image of Africa in the Western mind. When one is asked to think of Western images that come to mind when thinking of Africa, the overall mental images are of primeval irrationality, tribal anarchy, hunger/famine, civil war, managerial ineptitude, political instability, flagrant corruption and incompetent leadership. Do your research... dont let medias become your source. Dont forget the media can be bought and they have there own agenda.
i am Eritrean and this is 100000% true, keep the drama to your self
Great video, thank you for focusing on this
God bless this man!
It seems he truly does the work of the righteous. I cannot imagine the horrors he has borne witness to, and yet he continues on.
Thank God his plea for asylum didn't fall on dead ears!!!
A Liar!
@@hizbawiginbarginbarghinda3872 either you don’t anything about Eritrea, except that you heard from Eritv or you are denying the truth. Coz what I heard is not a lie coz I left the country recently and I know a lot similar cases.
i wish more people knew about what's currently taking place in Tigray, its very sad how little media coverage its getting.
And this is why people were infuriated at Tiffany Haddish for saying their dictator was like her brother
Tiffany must be canceled. If that doesn't get you canceled then what will?
We also in Nigeria are having this problem with Buhari ad his Fulani foreign tribe. Stay Strong Eritrea.
You are taking your country for granted
Your country is a democratic state. Every four years you have elections. Olisigon abasango is a yourba man, was a president visted eritrea i remember. Good luck jonathan is a igbo man form the east was a president. Buhari hausa man from the north. At least you have elections and you see different faces from different tribes ruling the country. You have different local medias tv stations and so on. But some biafrans want to have their own country biafra land in the s.east. thats why under nmadi kanu they engage compromising nigerias image outside. So compare eritreas problem with nigeria is sensless
@@KO-oj1ty First, you are not a Nigerian, so you do not know why we are not pleased, with the situation, Secondly, Jonathan is not an Igbo or Ibo, he is an Ijaw. Thirdly Nigeria is experiencing Genocide's that is under reported and terrorism backed by the state, such that that borders on the south are closed, the president tribes men want all land for themselves and threaten the other tribes, with killings, and actually kill hundreds to thousands every week. A president who does not respect human right to free speech and assembly, who wants his tribe to be in power perpetually, by putting the mechanism in place. We have seen far, this is why we are agitating, not only Biafrans, the Yoruba's are also agitating for their Nations. Which is Legitimate since the Nigeria State is a British contraption, Do you know how many Biafrans where killed in The Nigerian Civil war, and the genocide's that occurred, and how they are always oppressed and do you know that now, not only the Biafrans are being killed in hundreds and thousand. So are we suppose to keep quiet and look on while this government keeps committing atrocities.
@@solutions9991 ok so jonathan is not igbo but he is from the south and obasanjo from the west youruba tribe. Buhari came with elections just like jonathan and obasanjo, and he cant compete in the next elections. Secondly, if u r saying no freedom of speech i know the nigerian medias very well, as for twitter ban, it is a correct descion becouse who are they those twitter to decide what is right or wrong. They interfer in the internal matters of countries which is not allowed. The civil war back in the 60s cost alot of lives, those who want the country back in this situation , were not born and never saw the suffering of ppl at that time. Attacking police stations , looting, endengering the harmong and coexistence of people, do you expect any govermnt of any country in the world will see it and do nothing about it. Ppl are dying in the south and north as well. African countries all of our borders were drawn by the colonial powers not only nigeria so its not unique to you.
@@KO-oj1ty So are you okay with how the colonial exploiter came to Africa and decided what is your Nation and how you should live, don't you know that what the colonial exploiters created is for the benefit of the colonial countries, not for the people, before the colonial exploiters came to Africa, we had our kingdoms and we lived in more stability, and it was for our benefit. No African has gone to Europe and told them who they are and how to live. We know our own Nationalities in Nigeria, so we deserve to restore it back, without the permission of anybody, self determination is an international right.
Captions? I can't hear what is being spoken clearly enough over the music to understand what people are saying. Audio mixing seems a little bit off in this video
I thought it was because the guy was softly spoken, but yes I had to put subtitles on.
@@JaimieRain When I first tried to watch there weren't any subtitles yet so maybe I'll try again
Eritreans in the diaspora instead of coming together and fight their brutal regime, they are choosing to divide across religiouse tribal and reigional lines. The effort and time they waste to accuse each other is un imaginable. They fled a brutal government but if they come to power they will be uglier than isaias. Such people until they learn to change their narrow tribal mindset, they will continue to suffer.
I agree but this started long before Isyas.
@@adamdebesai I have never had a problem with other Eritreans but it seems we have a negative idea about each other, we need dialogue and communication.
Can you just say how he escaped aritrea and without saying the all africa ?
Interesting! He is a born again fish fugitive thief. He escaped not only Eritrea but Africa just like many Africans who risk their life to swim across Mediterranean.
Eritrea can achieve so many great things if only they get rid of this evil dictatorship!
The damage Issayas has created in Eritrea will take another 30 years to fix. How can someone want the worse for his people and country. I just don't get it. The amount of trauma Eritreas are experiencing around the world breaks my heart. I hope we'll see justice someday.
Agame! Talk aboutJandas and Janda Land. ERITREA is winning on all fronts.
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@@hizbawiginbarginbarghinda3872 win? like how?
More like 4 generations
Thank you for covering this when the media barely talks about it
Vice just fed you a bunch of lies
The clip At 9: 12 its disgusting!! They are Eritreans who were massacred by the rebel group who were in power in Ethiopia 3 years ago,i always thought vice is independent media outlet, i realized you are a puppet.
Why don't you show both end of the story.
You depicting TPLF as an Engels organization but they are the ones who are commuting this crimes.
You know it's going to be great when Vice does documentary in Africa🔥
It is so sad that Eritrea keeps persecuting Christians and denies point black.
Our brutal dictator Isaias Aforki
From hero to zero.
From dream of Singapore to zero.
Thank so much Esu
We all hope peace and justice for all our people Eritrean Ethiopian Tigray ect pls
Dont forget about the muslims in eritrea!
So what about Muslims
@@Turthhurt they have been disappearing and continued to disappear starting from 1991. Basically the regime started arresting Muslims based on their religion first then continued to arrest Jehovah witnesses, Pentecostal and so on
@@erigirl9358 even the appointed head of the Orthodox Church was arrested by the unelected dictator
Oppression like this has no place in 2023.
I met an Uber driver from Eritrea. He didn’t mention any of the politics, I guess he was young when they left. I’m glad he and his family made it to the United States.
Vice the grave that you shows is Amhara grave who have been killed by TPLF in MYKADRA not Eritrea Eritrean government.
Much respect for vice
Where is he now living?
Kuwait
Eritrean government doesn’t allow foreign interference under the guise of religion.
Vennuse, the masacar video you mentioned happened in Tigray right now was inccorect information. The video has shown us was committed by TPLF regime in 1998 during the border war of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Please do not lie reliable document is essential when reported.
Why world is ignored mafia iseyas Afewerki
It's going to be interesting when Afwerki dies. Will there be revolution? Or will the uprising be silenced by the government? My father's from here, he will tell you that it's more the latter. Eritreans fought 30 years against an oppressive regime only to be ruled by another totalitarian government. It's sad, but I have hope for Eritrea that they will free themselves from the chains.
The people are capable of overthrowing the dictator, but it’s not about him, if the government is weak structurally and militarily it’s put in risk of being occupied by foreign forces. Eritrea has to many enemies, recently peace between Ethiopia Djibouti Sudan and Somalia was signed now only a group called Tplf needs to be removed or else they will remove Eritrea from the map.
Once TPLF is wiped out, Eritrea will prosper.
Do you mean EPLF? The cause of Eritrean suffering is because of the tyrant in Asmara.
I heard vice was hacked
Dear Vice,
Please make a documentary about; current Ethiopian Civil war!
How are there Protestants in Eritrea? Wth
2:50 it's 1961 not 1951.
Eritrea must be free! Pray for Eritrea guys.
Because of TRAUMA and how he fought the country as younger, he became a paranoid, he protected the country from good/bad, he don’t trust even the technology, everything is how found, I want tell Eritreans as Somali with a war experience, be patient for you bad leader, they will either way leave by voluntarily or death and country and people will learn and grow.
thanks for covering something Rarely covered.. Africa.. and also subtitles would be nice on this, please!
@@evano5635" if you don't watch the news you're uniformed , if you do then you're misinformed".. this is what news is for lmao propaganda
@@chesbaret watching the news requires no mental capacity, critical thinking does
I don’t know what to believe. I am Eritrean American and I have not yet been to my country. The experience I am told of my family growing up is very different. I am sorry for this man’s horrible treatment. Still I do not think it is fair to call us the North Korea of Africa. We have more freedom, education and equality than that- you can’t flee North Korea without likely being k*led this is not the reality of Eritrea, however I wish my people didn’t have to flee at all. I do not doubt this brother’s experience and it is truly terrible and painful to hear. I do not believe this horrible experience though is representative of Eritrea. Western media ALWAYS puts us in a negative light so I do not know 😪🙏🏾🇪🇷🇺🇸❤✨
Thanks for shining light on Eritrea
This video is fake news, bud.
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Viva Eritrea 🇸🇴🇸🇴💕💕🇪🇷🇪🇷
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what is so good about eritrea
the people are nice and good
but the country is a low iq country
@@agame2545 *The Eritrean people are the smartest and bravest people . You just don't know about Eritrea*
🇸🇴❤️🇪🇷 4 Ever
@@HabeshawyanTV
eritrea is a country
if you are talking about the pure tigrians living in eritre yes those people are decent of axumits
I thought i was gonna see a Ugandan .. We are under heavy dictatorship too
Hey let me ask these question why is every African country feels weak
This is deplorable and despicable, to say the least...sad to see this after 30 years of independence. freedom for what for slavery..that is what I am witnessing today...
Agame! You are done! Watch VICE!
@@hizbawiginbarginbarghinda3872 watch what bro? you are pathetic for you can only say agame and that is it...pitty you cannot make a formidable argument like an educated person but keeps repeating the same insult agame agame and agame is the name of a region in Tigray but you still do not get it. ok, make a good argument for thinking that anyone with a sane mind should still think of Eritrea as an existing and functioning country, economically, politically, structurally in every aspect as other functioning countries in East Africa. make your point. that is all I am asking. go ahead; be a gentleman or gentlewoman and write properly as a grown-up person, not a child.
This is the first I've even heard of the country let alone the miserable life these poor people are enduring. The world has gone wrong. If someone gets shot in America we hear about it. A whole county is subjected to such terrors and I have never heard it reported on mainstream news, ever!!!
You never heard it before b/c it is lie. What VICE showed you is paid job...Ads!
The main problem we have in the country is there are some people, like the one who is saying this is a lie, are supporting the dictator. The sad truth is most of them live abroad and they visit the country just for 2-3 months. I left Eritrea in 2012. I was born and raised their. I left the country when I was 31 years old. I have seen a lot and I myself was arrested in 2001 when I was a university student, not only me, all the student from freshmen to those we were ready to graduate. We were arrested cos we demanded the release of the students Union president who was under arrest back then because we stood for the right of the students. Two student died there.
You can’t peaceful protest or express your opposite to the president( by the way, he has been in power since 1991 and he wasn’t elected by the people). If you try any demonstration that was not arrange by the government, watch the CZcams to see what will happen. Of courses an arrest and indefinite imprisonment also follows without any trial. czcams.com/users/shortsDx1QgFjBBJY?
@@hizbawiginbarginbarghinda3872 sure, dictator sympathizer…..looks like ur the one getting paid say otherwise 😂
It is the tip of the iceberg .lot have happen in eirteria
Yes! A lot great stuff has happened and still happening in Eritrea.
KEDAMI AGAME GAME OVER!
Now unleash the boot kickers in the comments section
Thanks
I never heard of Eritrea. In my 25 years of life in south africa
I thought everybody knew our country since that’s what our gov used to say to us lol …I went to Kenya and ppl ask me where am from and I was like „Eritrea“ and they be like „where is that“ lmao like dude cmon we’re both East Africans
If You want rule over eritreans or over habesha you must be a raw dictator , that is a fact that every body know . Even most individual eritrean are dictators but we love to push each other down then When we got owned by our opponents we cry to strangers for compation , that is sad.
You are sad😪😪 go have a happy meal that will fix everything
Exactly lol
sad so sad one of their won people trying to help his own people
Africa, a continent of 56 countries. But how many, if any, are not ruled by brutal dictators or warlords?
Quite a number. The continent is democratizing.
Issayas and Abiy need to go! Let the people be free
Lol
Not until the TPLF is wiped out. Then both countries can prosper.
@@kevinjohnson1630 TPLF is resurrecting with these inepts in power.
Greeting from Tigray.Thank you Doctor you are really a person of God and human.We Tigrians have no enemity to the Eritrean people.we just hate dictator Isayas.
We Eritreans have also no enemity to the ppl in Tigray. We just hate criminal TPLF terrorists. Fortunately this junta clique was totally razed to the ground so the population can soon live in peace.
@@mr.niceeeguy8681 tplf are democratically elected by the people of tigray. Tigrayans have spoken for what they believe is right for them so you have no right to speak for them. Tigray is not eritrea and we will not tolerate a dictator that strips away our democrate rights. The people of Eritrea have suffered for 25 years encounting it is a shame that eritrean diaspora continue to dismiss the human rights abuses while living in the comfortability of the west.
@@axumiteempire7017 TPLF = in 27yrs instilling hate & division among ethnic groups, institutionalized tribalism, packed prisons with dissents, normalized preferential treatment, pioneered ethical profiling, killing without impunity, invaded Eritrea 1998, deported more than 76K eritrean ppl from Ethiopia because of their „eye color“ and occupied Eritrean territory for over 20yrs illegal. There have never been free and fair elections in Ethiopia because the TPLF has built a corrupt system and controlled everything. U should stop talking about Eritrea all day and blaming Isayas & Abiy for the current situation. Ur terrorists from the TPLF brought u to this point because they only care about power and not the people of Tigray. It’s game over for TPLF.
Plz stop defending terrorists.
@@mr.niceeeguy8681 weird you calling them that when esayus was the person ever. Half brainwashed half woke.
@@yourforevermadtho It wasn’t Isayas who discriminated, robbed and deported Ethiopians on the basis of their ethnic origin. It wasn't Isasyas who started the war in 1998 and invaded Ethiopia. It wasn’t Isayas who illegally occupied Ethiopian territory for twenty years and rejected peace. And it wasn't Isayas who started the war in November and fired rockets at the civilian population in Mekele. As I said…everything that comes from u is only blaming on Eritrea for the total failure leadership of the TPLF. So who is brainwashed here?
The amount of hate and cruelty that Pentecostal Eritreans face from their own people is disgusting and the people who condone torture of Pentecostal Eritreans are monsters
And the people that say it’s a cult blah blah stfu and do your fing research okay
The rejection from our own people that we love is hurtful and painful
@@selammehreteab8066 it truly is, I am not Pentecostal but I have fought with people over this so many times. Because what happens to ur neighbour will happen to you eventually.
PFDJ started arresting muslim scholars in 1991 just after independence
Then the Jehovah witness
After that Pentecostal
And now pretty much everyone.
If we had stood with each, it won’t have been gone this far.
That’s true people don’t realize that that could be them too and they don’t realize the trauma that they are inflicting on us,
@@erigirl9358if u start politicizing religion, then u shouldn’t complain, if u actually know what kind of mindset hzbawi gnbar has developed throughout the years, religion and ethnic politics is one of the most repulsed ideologies by PFDJ, in Pentecostals it’s mostly the connection they can make with other non-eri believers, it could easily be manipulated and used, but in Islam there is some individuals who take their faith word for word and come up with delirious ideas of an Islamic state, changing the law into a more Quran based rule of law, but still this is just an opinion, I’m open for corrections.
Nice to see snowflakes live everywhere in the world and not just the US
The lady that is speaking is a liar and its sad cuz shes not telling the whole truth
And what is the African Union saying or doing about all this cos am African before I even ask what are international bodies like the UN doing I am holding Africa as a continent accountable what is the African union doing, what is their job exactly why has this continued for so long and why has it not been addressed? cos am East Africa and we have constant arrests of these people coming in illegally so it a problem that has been happening why are we not addressing this even in our local media. They only show the illegal border crossing arresting them and prosecuting them but they dont show/highlight the problems they are running from just shameful
Nothing.
I know eritrea is not the best in the continent but it is a country that does not bend its self for others. As eritrean my self i love my country and my government and i bleave that what is does is for the better of the country. But let me be clear here there are some things that are done that seem to be bad but i bleave it is doen for a reason like this gentleman saying that he went to prison and not saying the reason. I bleave that the president is doing his best and eritrea has come a long much sinda the war and that is thanks to him. I mean sure we could have figured it out with democtatic parties but eritrea didnt have that choice it had to strengthen its military power.
Seems like only South Africa , Botswana , Namibia , Seychelles and Mauritius don't have oppressive governments in Africa
and kenya
Bless Vice and Vanessa for shining light to the cruelty inflected onto Eritrea by dictator or self proclaimed "president for life" Isaias Afewerki. The world needs to know what is happening in Eritrea and how Isaias is exporting his vision and power lust outside of its' borders intensely endangering the stability of the Horn of Africa.
Vanessa is a TPLF supporter. A traitor to her country like her uncle who is locked up.
@@kevinjohnson1630 Vanessa is a courageous, inspiring woman! She dares to speak out against a restrictive regime that is Africa’s North Korea. She, her uncle and countless others are on the right side of history unlike Isaias, who’ll be heavily judged by history as he is today. Justice for all the people who fell a victim to that man and his pawns.
@@SummerRenaissance I would support her is she wasnt a TPLF supporter. Can't support our enemies.
Damn.
We need Justice!!!!
Go get it yourself; after you finish your big mac..
@@Positive---way waiting on God to deliver! Which will happen very soon. Mark my words!
wish had subtitles cant understand that dr guy
I can understand him just fine
He left the country 20 years ago but talk with such conviction as if he is an eye witness.
He said “i know the people who are dying and i know the people who are killing” 😂😂 what a liar
@@davidbasset7557 Well y'all aren't to bright what he is saying is both sides are the same to him 'brothers' he doesn't mean he literally knows the people. 'Both are my brothers we speak the same language' 09:47
Touche! He is a Christian liar! Anew born type, I believe!
"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad"
Friedrich Nietzsche
I glad vice report it
You are wrong the arm struggle for the independence founders are ELF than our hero EPLF troops bought us our independence by defeating Derg 1991
#IssayasToIcc
#EritreaOutOfTigray
Eritrea is doing good in Tigray. They need to continue.
@@user-qy6tu9ip9v stay out of Eritrean affairs.... this matter doesn't concerns you raw meat eater
Nipsey Hustle the Rapper was from Eritrea. U.S. put a hit on him and a jealous black man carried it out. Any Nation supported by a regime is enslaved.
He was half Eritrean
@@JohnSmith-vj2mc he was taught the ways of his eritrean people. Your point?
In Zimbabwe they atleast let you leave
Do they? And so does Eritrea.Contrary to Zambabwe Eritrea is not a primitive tribal racist country.. It is a self reliant resilient nation.
@@hizbawiginbarginbarghinda3872 self reliant in what way wake up to the truth that country has completely nothing but new prisons being built to imprison his own people You must have suffered a lot of trauma to still be supporting this brutal dictator. Eritrea is one of the poorest countries in Africa you dictator ha Adobe nothing but cripple Eritrea. So stop all this self reliant talk is that why people are running away and would rather die then stay in Eritrea trying to cross the Red Sea. People like you have too much pride for nothing.
Don't worry Ethiopia will liberate you soon 😂
Hello
I don’t understand the video and the topic you used about Eritrea is not the same
the struggle started in 1961 by Idris Awate. how the hell u gonna mistake like that?😅
The saddest part is majority of the older generation Eritreans still have strong support for this brutal regime. Many of whom have lost a family member fighting alongside the President Isaias for their independence from Ethiopia and the still worship Isaias Afwerki for his past heroics despite he’s the reason for the death, disappearance, incarceration, forced indefinite conscription of hundreds of thousands of Eritreans. And the old generation who reside in western countries raise their children drilling this idea that Isaias is the savior of Eritrea and without him it will fall apart, so even the kids who are born and raised in the west enjoying democracy & freedom continue to stand with this brutal regime while their relatives in Eritrea have to stand in line for hours to receive bread 30 years after their independence. Shame on you Eritreans born & raised in the west who support Isaias Afwerki! You are the definition of selfishness. I hope it was you in Sawa instead of those poor kids suffering in the middle of the desert
One word answer: Carefully...
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Every religion is accepted in Eritrea unless you dont Try their authority
the solution for africa is tribal federation and tribal democracy. The western brought just slavery and imperialism and its culture and religion. Africa must remember the old african kingdoms and the old heritage. The imminent action must be the throwing the wekest imperialist France and its culture language army and money from the heart of Africa
Bullshit 😂
Eritrea 🇪🇷 dictatorship
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