How this country imprisons (nearly) its entire population

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    How this country imprisons (nearly) its entire population
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  • @OBFYT
    @OBFYT  Před 7 měsíci +43

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    • @franciscoacevedo3036
      @franciscoacevedo3036 Před 7 měsíci +1

      1:25 USA beating the "3 North Koreas" one for Africa and one for Central Asia in !mpr1sœnment PER CAPITA says a lot about the so called land of the free

    • @carkawalakhatulistiwa
      @carkawalakhatulistiwa Před 7 měsíci +2

      Only Eritrea and usa tax people overseas

    • @hmmmidontknow
      @hmmmidontknow Před 7 měsíci +2

      it directs me to the site

    • @-guy113
      @-guy113 Před 7 měsíci +3

      "No I don't think I will"

    • @aurelaurel8222
      @aurelaurel8222 Před 7 měsíci +2

      Very beautiful woman 👩 Eritrea 🇪🇷

  • @boburiinchankludho
    @boburiinchankludho Před 7 měsíci +1679

    I thought the thumbnail map was showing Vietnam and was confused as to why it was imprisoning its citizens

    • @lostdanger37291
      @lostdanger37291 Před 7 měsíci +53

      me too man

    • @mildlydispleased3221
      @mildlydispleased3221 Před 7 měsíci +149

      Imprisoned in Nike and Samsung factories.

    • @tempejkl
      @tempejkl Před 7 měsíci +53

      @@mildlydispleased3221Samsung is in South Korea mate. Also, Bangladesh is where the real sweatshops are

    • @mildlydispleased3221
      @mildlydispleased3221 Před 7 měsíci +131

      @tempejkl Most Samsung products are made in Vietnam and sweatshops can be found in many countries mate. Get your facts right before spewing bollocks.

    • @nullc0ntext
      @nullc0ntext Před 7 měsíci +26

      Vietnam literally only a couple places above it in the list.

  • @medio-litro
    @medio-litro Před 7 měsíci +583

    In the Sacha Baron Cohen movie "The Dictator", the fictional country of Wadiya was depicted with Eritrea's borders. The fact that Eritreans would be better off under Aldeen than Afwerki is really saying something.

    • @nathanseper8738
      @nathanseper8738 Před 7 měsíci +86

      Ouch. That is a weirdly accurate statement. At least the Supreme Grocer gets you food once in a while.

    • @mgntstr
      @mgntstr Před 7 měsíci +1

      Supreme grocer supplied by western super-nationals. Fuck these UN deals.

    • @Hot_Sky
      @Hot_Sky Před 7 měsíci +48

      you know I thought Wadya is just fictional country that made for the movie, but after watch this I realized it was a real country, just the name of the country is what changed.

    • @HermitKing731
      @HermitKing731 Před 7 měsíci +8

      Yet in the movie the country is a very Arab country With very Arab looking people.

    • @borrusiamartinez2647
      @borrusiamartinez2647 Před 7 měsíci +1

      I thought it was Kazakhstan lol

  • @Omer1996E.C
    @Omer1996E.C Před 7 měsíci +1088

    As an Ethiopian, I want to tell you that the Ethiopian government wants to reconquer Eritrea, or any nearby coastal country.
    IDK, but in the last week, our whole media is just talking about our "legitimate right for sea border" and today there was a minor military parade accompanied by the PM, I just expect the Ethiopian government to start a new war soon, and we're sick of wars honestly. This is a new ambition of this prime minister, along with his extravagant palace project and land confiscations programs
    Edit: I'd like to reunite with Eritrea, almost our everything is similar, food, culture, language, clothes, traditions, economics, etc... But I'm skeptical about a war, especially with the fact that the Eritrean government will force its all population to war, that'd be a major humanitarian catastrophe

    • @Blex_040
      @Blex_040 Před 7 měsíci +63

      Many points of this sound really simliar to North and South Korea

    • @mgntstr
      @mgntstr Před 7 měsíci +6

      I think the general populace, the unpromoted shills, the unpaid "Influencers" would all A fucking Agree.

    • @poetryflynn3712
      @poetryflynn3712 Před 7 měsíci +52

      Doesn't Ethiopia have a really bad civil war going on simultaneously though?

    • @der6409
      @der6409 Před 7 měsíci +13

      It's just a lil bit of death, get out there soldier, win those beaches back.

    • @user-rc9gy7fb3l
      @user-rc9gy7fb3l Před 7 měsíci

      The same thing in countries like Guatemala, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Honduras, Suriname and the United States are corrupt countries with human rights abuses with potential political violence, police brutality and war crimes in the Americas.

  • @MustacheCashStash125
    @MustacheCashStash125 Před 6 měsíci +38

    “You might assume only North Korea could commit such horrific human rights violations against their own people”
    Pol Pot basically turned his whole country into one giant concentration camp

    • @poetcomic1
      @poetcomic1 Před 6 měsíci +3

      And he dreamt up this insane Khmer nightmare while sitting in the cafes of Paris with other radical intellectuals.

    • @arbendit4348
      @arbendit4348 Před 6 měsíci

      What horrific human rights violations has North Korea committed other than unsubstantiated claims by western funded "defectors"

    • @jwenting
      @jwenting Před 5 měsíci +2

      If a country happy to see North Vietnam invade them (as the Cambodians were) you know things are very very bad there...
      And yes, Cambodia was invaded by Vietnam, but only after the Khmer Rouge invaded Vietnam, kidnapped thousands of people, and burnt down numerous border towns.

  • @icylemur2258
    @icylemur2258 Před 7 měsíci +211

    As a Central African I hope Eritrea gets better, at school our professors talked about the situation there. I hope both of our countries the CAF and Eritrea get better. 🇨🇫❤🇪🇷

    • @timinator900
      @timinator900 Před 7 měsíci +8

      As an Ethiopian-American, I pray the same fate. In fact, I'm hoping there'd be peace among both Ethiopia and Sister Eritrea. My parents were born and raised in Ethiopia and escaped due to tensions going on between Ethiopia and the TPLF under Meles Zenawi's administration.

    • @Western_Decline
      @Western_Decline Před 7 měsíci

      The U.S. oppresses Eritrea, let’s get the story straight.

    • @booradley6832
      @booradley6832 Před 7 měsíci +2

      I know Africa is doing pretty well right now but I really hope they(meaning various countries where this is an issue currently) manage to get the high level corruption under control. The entire continent is poised to explode in economic opportunities and living standards, it would be a real shame to have some particularly bad people at the top stifle that for everyone.
      rooting for you guys.

    • @carkawalakhatulistiwa
      @carkawalakhatulistiwa Před 7 měsíci +2

      @@timinator900 Only Eritrea and usa tax people overseas

    • @urgardista
      @urgardista Před 7 měsíci

      It won't. The whole world is going downhill.

  • @ClintonBooker
    @ClintonBooker Před 7 měsíci +50

    I had a heart attack as a Vietnamese when I saw the thumbnail.

  • @OKingSizeTv
    @OKingSizeTv Před 7 měsíci +49

    I met Eritrean refugees while living in Thüringen, Germany. They had clearly been through some shit and were quite withdrawn, but we would play beach volley together. Over time they would begin to open up more and did hear some horrific tales from Eritrea. It's just inhumane.

  • @alexandregaming8889
    @alexandregaming8889 Před 7 měsíci +38

    I have a friend that escaped Eritrea to France in 2020, sadly his father couldn’t

  • @braendo
    @braendo Před 7 měsíci +191

    Respect, it's hard being worse than Nord Korea

    • @mgntstr
      @mgntstr Před 7 měsíci +12

      No. North Koreans live within walking distance of freedom.

    • @Separatist777
      @Separatist777 Před 7 měsíci +64

      Nord Korea VPN

    • @Separatist777
      @Separatist777 Před 7 měsíci +4

      @@mgntstr lol

    • @DominoLarry
      @DominoLarry Před 7 měsíci +1

      Pledging allegiance to the flag every morning, for example

    • @rastkobubic4009
      @rastkobubic4009 Před 7 měsíci

      Wait untill you hear prisoner ratio compared to USA 💀

  • @aarongebreslasie7677
    @aarongebreslasie7677 Před 7 měsíci +58

    Your video sheds some light to the disastrous situation of my country. As a person who grew-up there it has a long-term impact on me, and the regime is quite happily ruling with an iron fist. Thank you for making this video!

    • @zagreus5773
      @zagreus5773 Před 7 měsíci +8

      Did you manage to escape or are you still living there? Sounds very difficult.

    • @aarongebreslasie7677
      @aarongebreslasie7677 Před 7 měsíci +20

      @@zagreus5773 No, l escaped in 2015, and now living in a safe country. If l was there, l don't think l'll be able to see this video.

    • @zagreus5773
      @zagreus5773 Před 7 měsíci +8

      @@aarongebreslasie7677 Congratulations then! Hope you're doing well!
      May I ask how you managed to escape? I'm just curious.

    • @ybarekg9033
      @ybarekg9033 Před 6 měsíci

      ​@@aarongebreslasie7677you would have you just didn't know where to look.

  • @kayleighgroenendal8473
    @kayleighgroenendal8473 Před 7 měsíci +27

    I went to high school with a girl who moved here to Michigan from Eritrea with her parents and brother when she was a little kid. She went on to work in govt assistant type positions in Washington D.C. so she is more successful than I'll ever be. Adversity can really create courage and strength!!! I just wish there weren't literally 2,000+ kids in my school so it would have been easier to get to know her.

    • @malcontender6319
      @malcontender6319 Před 6 měsíci

      Wait till you realize she was a diversity hire and likley no more capable than you or any other average person.

  • @jessetucker1606
    @jessetucker1606 Před 7 měsíci +47

    I went to school as a kid with Eritreans, some of the nicest people ever.

    • @recoil53
      @recoil53 Před 7 měsíci +5

      I took some engineering classes with an Eritrean, back in the 90's. Good guy, eventually moved to another state to be close to his kid.

    • @hello-friend990
      @hello-friend990 Před 7 měsíci

      Have a local bar run by Eritreans with a few regulars from their country. Agree they're very nice people. They don't deserve this

    • @bastiaan7777777
      @bastiaan7777777 Před 6 měsíci +1

      I lived in Eritrea. Most horrible people ever.
      Your personal opinion does not reflect everyone.

  • @NFR_Agartala
    @NFR_Agartala Před 7 měsíci +94

    videos like these make me feel grateful for all that my country has been providing.. Life is so hard for the citizens of these countries 😢

    • @__chinmay__
      @__chinmay__ Před 7 měsíci +11

      Long live Democracy ♥ 🇮🇳 ♥

    • @NFR_Agartala
      @NFR_Agartala Před 7 měsíci +3

      @@__chinmay__ Jai Hind 🇮🇳❤

    • @franciscoacevedo3036
      @franciscoacevedo3036 Před 7 měsíci +7

      1:25 USA beating the "3 North Koreas" one for Africa and one for Central Asia in !mpr1sœnment per Capita says a lot about the so called land of the free

    • @NFR_Agartala
      @NFR_Agartala Před 7 měsíci +6

      @@franciscoacevedo3036 and yet more than 8 to 900,000 adults are given citizenship of the US each year!

  • @flamingkitsune2792
    @flamingkitsune2792 Před 7 měsíci +12

    its weird if you tilt it at an angle it looks like vietnam

  • @robmeagher2443
    @robmeagher2443 Před 7 měsíci +50

    Im not a dictator so im no expert but if you made your country nice to live in wouldn't less people WANT to leave? Could save a fortune on surveillance...

    • @thefirm4606
      @thefirm4606 Před 7 měsíci +16

      Aaaand that’s why you’re a comment on YT and not an authoritarian regime leader… 😂😂

    • @Miss_Twilight
      @Miss_Twilight Před 7 měsíci

      @@thefirm4606😭😭😭

    • @cashewnuttel9054
      @cashewnuttel9054 Před 7 měsíci +21

      Because:
      - that's: hard work,
      - they're selfish,
      - they don't care,
      - they just use the position to become king and queens,
      - they want all the money their country makes to themselves.

    • @ajc-ff5cm
      @ajc-ff5cm Před 6 měsíci +5

      The country that most closely mirrors this IMO is Saudi Arabia. They're an absolute theocratic monarchy run under strict religious laws, but they do invest in infrastructure and pay their citizens when needed to keep them happy. (See the Arab Spring or COVID).

    • @skywatchers9675
      @skywatchers9675 Před 6 měsíci

      Your job there is to join army and give free labour your whole life .. there's no leaving military . It's slavery

  • @cxngo8124
    @cxngo8124 Před 7 měsíci +17

    I had 2 friend from Eritrea when I was in high school in 2019. Kinda crazy that they were in my school considering what you are saying.

    • @iamsomeone8175
      @iamsomeone8175 Před 7 měsíci +1

      not really… the majority of the eritrean diaspora r descendants of migrants that left the country before the dictatorship came to power and/or when it was under italian (and technically british) rule

    • @cxngo8124
      @cxngo8124 Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@iamsomeone8175 they were immigrants that had arrived a year before.

    • @abubekernurahmed8263
      @abubekernurahmed8263 Před 7 měsíci

      @@iamsomeone8175Not really I have seen a lot people who fled when I was in the refugee camp in 2011. I remember there was 3 camps with over 50,000 people.

  • @darijus4094
    @darijus4094 Před 7 měsíci +42

    There were over 580,000 Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers abroad as of the end 2021, and “the overwhelming majority cited the indefinite national service as the principal reason they fled the country,” according to the May 2022 report of the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea. Not 76000

    • @jonnielsen4564
      @jonnielsen4564 Před 7 měsíci +4

      stop the boats to europe

    • @Urkelsam12
      @Urkelsam12 Před 7 měsíci +9

      Out of that 580,000 applicants, only 76,000 were actually Eritreans. The rest were mostly northern Ethiopians, and some Sudanese, Yemani, and various west Africans that did not get approved due to fraud and impersonating as Eritreans.

    • @darijus4094
      @darijus4094 Před 7 měsíci +3

      @@Urkelsam12 dawg or they are fucking Eritreans

    • @themasterMi7
      @themasterMi7 Před 7 měsíci +2

      ​@@Urkelsam12 it's true, in europe alot of Northern Ethiopian were caught by migration because of impersonating as eritrean.

    • @Findgod222
      @Findgod222 Před 6 měsíci +2

      @@Urkelsam12glad to see Europeans actually realizing this. Many Ethiopians and other Africans pretend to be Eritreans to get to Europe, it’s not fair for the actual Eritreans.

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un Před 7 měsíci +57

    Man, I can't believe this Isaias Afwerki guy overthrew Admiral General Aladeen and changed the country's name from Wadiya to Eritrea. 😂I loved it when Admiral General Aladeen arrived in NYC on a camel. Eritrea has a neat flag! The green stands for the agriculture and livestock of the country. Blue stands for the Red Sea and its marine wealth. Red for the bloodshed in the struggle for independence. The yellow wreath symbolizes peace and Eritrean unity. The outer wreaths have 15 leaves on each side, representing the 30 years it took to get independence. There are six leaves total in the center, and the leaves are split into three, with one side representing the 9 ethnic groups of the country and the other side for the 9 national languages.
    The country's emblem features a camel surrounded by an olive wreath. The camel was the beast of burden used during the war of independence from Ethiopia to transport supplies and goods, and was seen as being instrumental to the movement's success by Eritrean nationalists

    • @9b5a
      @9b5a Před 7 měsíci +2

      what are you doing here kim

    • @yanmarle2864
      @yanmarle2864 Před 7 měsíci +2

      surely you must have some missiles that haven’t been test-fired yet. Shouldn’t you be out there firing them off to see if they work?

  • @robbonabbo
    @robbonabbo Před 7 měsíci +15

    Ex italian colonies try not to be the worst place imaginable challenge:

  • @jennadaniels3463
    @jennadaniels3463 Před 6 měsíci +3

    Meanwhile the UN appointed Eritrea to the human rights council in 2022. This is why I wonder if we should take the UN seriously

  • @survive7771
    @survive7771 Před 7 měsíci +78

    i would say something about obf accepting a sponsorship by a garbage time sucking game filled with discord mods and no lifes but thank you for making a video on an under reported inhumane prison state that most people don't know much about

    • @nullc0ntext
      @nullc0ntext Před 7 měsíci +7

      Sponsorblock can help with that.

    • @themageofspace5516
      @themageofspace5516 Před 7 měsíci +8

      i suppose they gotta make a living somehow

    • @andrewhdz
      @andrewhdz Před 7 měsíci +4

      It would be worse if no one sponsor would be comfortable to support a video that depicts a dictatorship only by the assumption of "would not be nice to support the delivery of bad/horrific news"

  • @_damballah
    @_damballah Před 6 měsíci +6

    tankies be like: "nah, but it aint that bad tho"

  • @diomuda7903
    @diomuda7903 Před 7 měsíci +19

    I saw Eritrea's map and if you look carefully, it will be like an incomplete Vietnam map haha.

  • @iandhr1
    @iandhr1 Před 6 měsíci +10

    I think all of us lose perspective from time to time. I know I am guilty of it but I can drag myself back to reality. As an American, I know my country is far from perfect, but videos like this remind me how lucky I am.

    • @saldownik
      @saldownik Před 6 měsíci +2

      Don't just enjoy your luck, maintain it.

  • @Eikenhorst
    @Eikenhorst Před 7 měsíci +48

    I never understood how Ethiopia didn't just take the whole south cost of Eritrea. Eritrea is basically split in half by the Eritrean Highlands, leaving just 1 road to link with the north of the country. Ethiopia can easily walk in through vast flat desert, destroy that single road and the south is cut off and easily taken, giving Ethiopia precious access to the sea.

    • @momo-cchi5978
      @momo-cchi5978 Před 7 měsíci +22

      Been asking myself this exact same question for years. Hell, Ethiopia could even exploit the fact that the Red Sea province is predominantly ethnically Afar so they easily annex it and incorporate it into their own Afar region. They could technically pull that same stunt with Somalia and Djibouti, but I, an ethnic Somali, shudder at thought of inviting 15 million Somalis into my country. 😩🤷🏾

    • @echo5935
      @echo5935 Před 7 měsíci +2

      @@momo-cchi5978are you suggesting that ethiopia invade somalai?? Traitor. Ethiopia will never take somalia if it even dares they will never see the light of fay again

    • @echo5935
      @echo5935 Před 7 měsíci +1

      And now your sanctioned

    • @rocinante4488
      @rocinante4488 Před 7 měsíci +10

      I’m pretty sure that desert is a very inhospitable place. Marching a modern army across a roadless, unpopulated desert would be quite the logistical feat. And then once it has reached a coastal city, how to maintain its supply lines? Ethiopia would have to airdrop in supplies, make caravans across the desert, or rely on some other country to ship in supplies via sea. All the while Eritrea could just easily send its troops down the highway from its capital heartland. Maybe capturing just the city of Aseb would be doable as there is a road leading there from Ethiopia. I don’t know if that road is good enough to be used by tanks and heavy trucks or if the port of Aseb is a deep water container ship port that would be worth taking

    • @sergeantskrtskrt9594
      @sergeantskrtskrt9594 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Afar Depression.

  • @zakuraiyadesu
    @zakuraiyadesu Před 7 měsíci +15

    Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!

  • @kelvinnkat
    @kelvinnkat Před 7 měsíci +16

    Why are we citing the Heritage Foundation at all, it was so easy to cite anyone else instead

    • @memesforplebs7341
      @memesforplebs7341 Před 7 měsíci

      It will make more sense when in a few years the US govt is trying to warmonger against this random country in Africa. Just trying to create hate of a random place so later down the line they can justify war or smt

  • @XYZ_Vu
    @XYZ_Vu Před 3 měsíci +1

    Thanks for reporting on this, I had no idea how deeply the repression was

  • @ducksareurlords3782
    @ducksareurlords3782 Před 7 měsíci +6

    Ertrean government literally read 1984 and said "yea this is nice"

  • @jonathanwilliams1065
    @jonathanwilliams1065 Před 7 měsíci +3

    The war between Eritrea and Ethiopia officially ended in 2000
    The 2018 agreement was to resolve border disputes from the peace treaty which had caused occasional border clashes, but no official declaration of war occurred

  • @cuju-virtuose
    @cuju-virtuose Před 7 měsíci +16

    thank you for making this accurate vid about my country and its problems. This subject is very underreported and unknown to many.

    • @koryhardy9594
      @koryhardy9594 Před 7 měsíci +1

      I pray everything gets better for the people of Eritrea 🙏🏻

    • @IRosamelia
      @IRosamelia Před 6 měsíci

      Like myself, it's very hard to believe

  • @Mologust
    @Mologust Před 6 měsíci +11

    My favorite Eritrea fact is that it is one of two countries that taxes its citizens regardless of where they reside. The other is The United States.

    • @saldownik
      @saldownik Před 6 měsíci

      US you can quit though

    • @bastiaan7777777
      @bastiaan7777777 Před 6 měsíci

      Land of the free.

    • @ayadhyist
      @ayadhyist Před 4 měsíci

      I thought Hungary did that as well?

    • @bastiaan7777777
      @bastiaan7777777 Před 4 měsíci

      @@ayadhyist Expatriation Tax. Many countries do so. But: Unlike all other countries with the exceptions of Eritrea and Hungary (with caveats), the United States taxes its citizens on worldwide income, even if they are permanently resident in another country.

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican Před 7 měsíci +14

    Eritrea got their independence from Ethiopia in the first place because the Italians colonized Eritrea starting in 1882 (with Assab and they fought a war with the Ethiopians between 1887 and 1889 to expand) and ruled it until 1941. Conquered by the Allies in 1941, Italian East Africa was sub-divided. Eritrea was made a British protectorate from the end of World War II until 1951. However, there was debate as to what should happen with Eritrea after the British left. The British delegation to the UN proposed that Eritrea be divided along religious lines with the Christians to Ethiopia and the Muslims to Sudan.
    The UN decided on a federation between Eritrea and Ethiopia in 1952, as a compromise to reconcile Ethiopian claims of sovereignty and Eritrean aspirations for independence. About nine years later, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie dissolved the federation and annexed Eritrea, thus triggering the struggle that lasted three decades. At first, the group fighting for independence was the ELF who got support from Arab countries, however the EPLF became the dominant group after Christians left the ELF due to tensions with Muslim members, and subsequently formed the EPLF and defeated the ELF in 1981. Eritrea got de facto independence in 1991, and official independence in 1993 after a referendum with over 99 percent in support.

    • @malcontender6319
      @malcontender6319 Před 6 měsíci

      "and official independence in 1993 after a referendum with over 99 percent in support."
      So, back to corruption then?

  • @KiranKumarBokkesam
    @KiranKumarBokkesam Před 6 měsíci +1

    I used to have a colleague from Eritrea and he would get so angry and emotional and refuse to speak about how he escaped from Eritrea 😢

  • @joyeternal2314
    @joyeternal2314 Před 7 měsíci +15

    Only God can save these people :(. Please God, will you save one person who needs help most today.

  • @stewart2589
    @stewart2589 Před 7 měsíci +16

    Remember when a country somewhere has a bad reputation, an African country usually has to outmatch them

  • @thomaspeterson9505
    @thomaspeterson9505 Před 7 měsíci +14

    Intentionally misleading thumbnail, nice video, nice graphics

    • @socialistrepublicofvietnam1500
      @socialistrepublicofvietnam1500 Před 7 měsíci +9

      you mean the fact that the map looked like vietnam? it was just eritrea flipped on its side

    • @runajain5773
      @runajain5773 Před 7 měsíci +2

      ​@@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500yeh but it look like a north Vietnam

    • @thomaspeterson9505
      @thomaspeterson9505 Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@socialistrepublicofvietnam1500 yes thanks for the update friend

  • @guydreamr
    @guydreamr Před 7 měsíci +5

    North Korea's new tagline: we're not so bad, we're not Eritrea.

  • @eruno_
    @eruno_ Před 7 měsíci +27

    Eritrea isn't communist. Neither is North Korea.

    • @spicychad55
      @spicychad55 Před 7 měsíci +9

      NK is about as close to communism, but yes it does allow some capitalism as part of its grey market.

    • @eruno_
      @eruno_ Před 7 měsíci +16

      @@spicychad55
      state control of economy isn't communism.

    • @DukeofTxtspeak
      @DukeofTxtspeak Před 7 měsíci +4

      @@eruno_Bruddah, yes it is.

    • @eruno_
      @eruno_ Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@DukeofTxtspeak
      According to Marx communism is "free association of producers". It's a post scarcity, post capitalist economic system after withering away of the state itself. It's exact opposite of state control.

    • @sylvali1046
      @sylvali1046 Před 7 měsíci +13

      @@DukeofTxtspeak so the incan empire was communist?

  • @TheMostAwesomeMan2424
    @TheMostAwesomeMan2424 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Wow. I’ve never heard of this country before.

  • @gabrielalmeida6917
    @gabrielalmeida6917 Před 7 měsíci +68

    As a Brazilian, I thought our situation was bad during the american-supported dictatorship. Now I am extremely surprised.

    • @brunookami8968
      @brunookami8968 Před 7 měsíci +14

      why would that be even close to some of the worst regimes ocurring right now lol

    • @user-rc9gy7fb3l
      @user-rc9gy7fb3l Před 7 měsíci

      Guatemala, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Honduras, Suriname and the United States are corrupt countries with human rights abuses with potential political violence, police brutality and war crimes in the Americas.

    • @ItalianIrishguy
      @ItalianIrishguy Před 7 měsíci +13

      I hope you're not talking about Boslonairo. He was democratically elected.

    • @davidias9020
      @davidias9020 Před 7 měsíci +32

      @@ItalianIrishguy Nah, he is talking about 1964-1985 american-supported military dictatorship.
      And yes Bolsonaro (who always openly supported that dictatorship) was democratically elected but he did tried a coup after losing 2022 election to Lula. It only failed because the Army Generals didn't wanted to, because they didn't have same US support this time.

    • @ItalianIrishguy
      @ItalianIrishguy Před 7 měsíci

      Bolsonaro didn't attempt a coup and I supported his brand of Brazilian Nationalism. Now your country has that leftist criminal Lula back in office.

  • @roygoodhand1301
    @roygoodhand1301 Před 7 měsíci +2

    >see thumbnail
    >"That looks like 'Nam!"
    TIME FOR UNCLE SAM'S REVENGE!

  • @lmmlStudios
    @lmmlStudios Před 7 měsíci +1

    The Audio is a bit muffled, lots of bass

  • @theneccromancer1997
    @theneccromancer1997 Před 6 měsíci +3

    Man, Iran is also facing the EXACT same problems as Eritrea, specially the mandatory military service (at least 2 years for +18 males), and you have to pay something in the range of 2-5 thousand dollars to the government if u want to leave the borders without finishing military service, the police force infiltrating livelihood of almost the WHOLE nation, many women are hired by human traffickers as Sex workers for neighboring Arab nations. Just like North Korea and Eritrea, Iran's also run by a authoritarian leader since 1989 and only one political party could candidate for elections, while the price of mobile phones are twice as the rest of the world, the usage of the social media is either filtered and impossible to access without VPNs and the so called free medias are also heavily under surveillance by the regime. The government has established a so called "Registration System" to avoid smuggling (but in fact, to collect taxes from importing any product from other countries) and the medium salary of 175 USD (70 million Iranian Rials) compared to the poverty line of 40 million Rials (800 USD) per month, and I'm pretty sure Iran is one of the 6 countries below Eritrea in case of media censorship.

  • @aquaspidermc
    @aquaspidermc Před 7 měsíci +1

    Fun fact: the country in the dictator (wadiya) replaces Eritrea in the map

  • @Imightberiding
    @Imightberiding Před 6 měsíci +4

    Thanks for this informative video. We in free western countries need to see & be made aware of such horrendously evil countries like this to effect change for our fellow brothers & sisters in despotic nations such as this. Without videos & information like this, I nor anyone else would not be aware of the human rights tragedies such as this. Thank you for making this video & thus making so much of the world aware of these tragedies. Big thumbs up & also providing us more fortunate to effect change. Right on!

  • @turtlebeach3116
    @turtlebeach3116 Před 7 měsíci +2

    maybe it still is easier than to make a run in eritrea when compared to north korea ? ?

  • @rapidthrash1964
    @rapidthrash1964 Před 7 měsíci

    I suggest a space-style invasion

  • @AndreOAirton
    @AndreOAirton Před 7 měsíci +4

    Great video as usual, but sources and useful links in the description would be nice

  • @JeffreyCC
    @JeffreyCC Před 7 měsíci +1

    Could you please apply a high pass filter for a cleaner voice? It sounds like you are talking through a wall.

  • @hikarikaguraenjoyer9918
    @hikarikaguraenjoyer9918 Před 7 měsíci +9

    Eritrea does not claim to be Communist

    • @redfront6707
      @redfront6707 Před 7 měsíci +11

      Eritrea isn’t communist and has never been communist

    • @asscheeks3212
      @asscheeks3212 Před 7 měsíci +3

      Tbf, USA never claim to be Capitalist either, and Israel claim to be secular.

  • @eldonhoward7925
    @eldonhoward7925 Před 6 měsíci

    I have never heard of this before.

  • @gustavjohansson8562
    @gustavjohansson8562 Před 7 měsíci +1

    12:35 lemmino background music

  • @davidstephens189
    @davidstephens189 Před 7 měsíci +2

    I had no idea this country existed.

    • @frodo322
      @frodo322 Před 6 měsíci +1

      You should learn more geography

  • @naaat
    @naaat Před 7 měsíci +7

    The voice on the video is so blurry

  • @DavyTwoHands
    @DavyTwoHands Před 7 měsíci +1

    No nukes, no oil, so no help from countries that actually could help.

  • @mgntstr
    @mgntstr Před 7 měsíci +30

    The problem: Colonial disinterest.
    Human nature at full display for all to see.

    • @jofujino
      @jofujino Před 7 měsíci

      I also feel like the world, or at least the western nations, have grown more isolationist lately and have lost faith in direct interventions having positive effects on severely distressed nations. Who wants to spend tons of money, get some of your citizens killed, and waste years to kick out the existing government only to see it replaced by warlords and religious extremists that are even worse and set the stage for decades more of conflict in the region that will just be an even worse outcome for the citizens there than the current oppressive regime.

    • @mowvu5380
      @mowvu5380 Před 7 měsíci

      modern day versions of this are usa and west chyna. if neither of those countries have ransacked your nation then you have nothing worth taking

    • @recoil53
      @recoil53 Před 7 měsíci

      So if Western countries interfere, they are arrogantly imposing their solutions on local problems in a place where they are not wanted. And maintaining the world order that benefits them.
      If they don't, they callously allow this to happen.
      Pick a side, accept the costs.

    • @TheRatOnFire_
      @TheRatOnFire_ Před 7 měsíci +13

      Ah yes, colonialism is to be blamed for all, as usual.

    • @mgntstr
      @mgntstr Před 7 měsíci +5

      Yes. If colonialism didn't happen it is colonialisms fault for not trying hard enough.@@TheRatOnFire_

  • @ajaxrosso1
    @ajaxrosso1 Před 7 měsíci +11

    Can you imagine living in a place like that and just knowing the luxuries much of the world has. The wonders of modern world artificially withheld for one sick man's benefit.

  • @shakilahmed6915
    @shakilahmed6915 Před 7 měsíci +3

    you have to add bangladesh also....we bangladeshis are going with extrime situations..

    • @user-oj3lc2bq1m
      @user-oj3lc2bq1m Před 7 měsíci

      Atleast you guys can leave

    • @shakilahmed6915
      @shakilahmed6915 Před 7 měsíci

      @@user-oj3lc2bq1m but it needs money to leave what we don't have bro😭😭,,all money is looted by pro indian ruling govt....😭😭,,,we are in trouble like Palestinians... But it is invisible...

    • @user-vd5py5eu7y
      @user-vd5py5eu7y Před 6 měsíci

      ​@@shakilahmed6915would it feel better if your money was looted by a pro Pakistan/pro China government instead?

  • @Broken_dish
    @Broken_dish Před 7 měsíci +1

    the history is pretty interesting the soviet union and cuba got involved

  • @pvpcraft2081
    @pvpcraft2081 Před 7 měsíci +22

    I’m Eritrean and to be honest, this came as a shock

    • @JimmyM1975
      @JimmyM1975 Před 7 měsíci +8

      Are you living there

    • @pvpcraft2081
      @pvpcraft2081 Před 7 měsíci +15

      No.

    • @dl5498
      @dl5498 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Were you actually born there?

    • @ybarekg9033
      @ybarekg9033 Před 6 měsíci

      ​@@pvpcraft2081he is speaking from a western point of view. Eritrea is against usa with China and Russia and kicked the uk embassy out so the western always hit it with sanctions also un never done nothing but hold space in Eritrea.
      Eritrea is not divided like he is put it on the map either.

  • @VinnyNajera-zn7th
    @VinnyNajera-zn7th Před 5 měsíci +1

    As a non-african citizen I am born and raised in the United States but to be very clear what he just said about this country in East Africa I am so sorry for these people I know this one person who escaped this country well I'm not saying I know that person I know she has a Twitter account she's primary famous inside her but I don't know where is she living but you know she's living in the United States and I hope she's realized that she watch this video and see how her country and you never know she will find out if they kidnapped her family or her family friends members from her friends family members other side but do you know it cannot be worse than That and I do believe that everyone deserves to live longer but in Reality anyone could suffer no matter what it is.

  • @LazyAndFabulous
    @LazyAndFabulous Před 7 měsíci

    I thought you were talking about Vietnam, because of the thumbnail.

  • @icarus387
    @icarus387 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Know I know why my Eritrean co-worker is so grumpy. This video explains why.

  • @phnix6242
    @phnix6242 Před 7 měsíci +18

    JUST SO YOU KNOw:
    Our WHO President is a former Secret Police Chief of Eritrea.
    Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Tigrinya: ቴዎድሮስ አድሓኖም ገብረኢየሱስ, sometimes spelt ቴድሮስ ኣድሓኖም ገብረየሱስ; born 3 March 1965 in Asmara, Eritrea) is an Ethiopian public health official, researcher, and the Director-General of the World Health Organization since 2017.

    • @nickpapadopoulos9978
      @nickpapadopoulos9978 Před 7 měsíci +4

      If I remember correctly, he was also a minister of health under the bloody Communist Megitsu regime in Ethiopia

    • @Zeyede_Siyum
      @Zeyede_Siyum Před 7 měsíci +3

      He is TPLF/EPRDF member not EPLF/PFDJ.

    • @Urkelsam12
      @Urkelsam12 Před 7 měsíci +7

      You guys are so uneducated. Tedros was born/raised in Asmara, but he’s full tigrayan and top executive member of the TPLF. It just blows my mind that the internet exist and people continue to say lies

    • @zagreus5773
      @zagreus5773 Před 7 měsíci +5

      WTF are you talking about? He was born in Eritrea when it was still part of Ethiopia and became the Minister of Health of Ethiopia. He was also the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia and then became Director of the WHO. He seems to have archived a lot of good and he never held any office in Eritrea. What are you talking about?

  • @franckcolomb5579
    @franckcolomb5579 Před 7 měsíci

    Its not tight enough given the number arriving at Lampedusa and migrating to Europe

  • @MahiAviation
    @MahiAviation Před 6 měsíci +2

    It’s sad that people only want to talk about humanitarian issues that will get them views (North Korea, etc.)
    Thank you for being different

  • @dmytropershyn8334
    @dmytropershyn8334 Před 15 dny

    Bro, "don't forget to sign up for a Conflict of Nations - world of global warfare" - feels like a perfect marketing slogan for CZcams, and yeah, I guess we all have free, life-time, no-withdraw-option super-premium subscription 🥶

  • @anewwaveanewbeginning3606
    @anewwaveanewbeginning3606 Před 7 měsíci +12

    As an Eritrean diaspora 🇪🇷 finally!!

  • @bluedragontoybash2463
    @bluedragontoybash2463 Před 7 měsíci +4

    Here are 30 bullet points summarizing the content:
    1. Title: "How this country imprisons (nearly) its entire population"
    2. The video discusses a secret detention facility in Eritrea, northeastern Africa.
    3. The facility holds prisoners who opposed the government or tried to flee the country.
    4. The existence of the facility became public in 2004.
    5. Hundreds or thousands of inmates are held in overcrowded containers.
    6. Eritrea has been heavily sanctioned by the UN since 2009.
    7. Eritrea is ruled by a one-party government with a communist ideology.
    8. Eritrea has poor rankings in terms of freedom of press.
    9. Eritrea is compared to North Korea in terms of human rights violations.
    10. Movement in and out of Eritrea is severely monitored.
    11. The southern border with Ethiopia is heavily patrolled.
    12. Leaving the country requires proof of military draft duty completion.
    13. Military service is essentially indefinite.
    14. Leaving the country also requires a substantial security deposit.
    15. A UNESCO report in 2021 revealed severe malnourishment in Eritrea.
    16. The mandatory military draft is a major issue in Eritrea.
    17. The draft was initially an 18-month conscription for defense and development.
    18. The draft consists of 6 months of military training and 12 months of service.
    19. In practice, it's much worse, with indefinite extensions.
    20. The national service program effectively controls the lives of young Eritreans.
    21. Conscription starts before the age of 18 in some cases.
    22. Draft dodging is illegal and can lead to arrests and torture.
    23. Few refugees have managed to escape Eritrea.
    24. Escape is made difficult by harsh climate and terrain.
    25. Eritrea's neighboring countries are not ideal options for settlement.
    26. Kidnapping and human trafficking are issues on the Eritrean border.
    27. The Eritrean government employs a range of surveillance techniques.
    28. Social control is maintained through bribery and incentives.
    29. Eritrea is ruled by President Isaias Afwerki.
    30. Eritrea's political repression is a result of Afwerki's rule, and the country remains isolated.

  • @AuthenticDarren
    @AuthenticDarren Před 7 měsíci +3

    To think that hundreds of thousands fought and often died for an independence like that.
    Fighting for the freedom to live in Hell.

    • @saldownik
      @saldownik Před 6 měsíci

      If there exist objective evil, this must be close.

  • @eraserboy12345
    @eraserboy12345 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Absolutely sad and heartbreaking. I hope the people of Eritrea experience true freedom soon.

  • @title9387
    @title9387 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Gosh I never knew this was the situation in Eritrea...it operates like the Stasi.

    • @bastiaan7777777
      @bastiaan7777777 Před 6 měsíci

      How to say you are American, without saying you are American.

  • @zizoushifty1483
    @zizoushifty1483 Před 6 měsíci

    Good and very informative video, but it was so obvious you just looked up "Africa" for stock footage and used clips that were obviously not Eritrea. It was really distracting for me and hurt the delivery of the video.

  • @mochabear88
    @mochabear88 Před 6 měsíci +1

    Not sure what the way out is

  • @turtlebeach3116
    @turtlebeach3116 Před 7 měsíci +3

    what why does north korea launch nukes into the ocean ?

    • @iamsomeone8175
      @iamsomeone8175 Před 7 měsíci +3

      where else are they gonna test it

    • @socialistrepublicofvietnam1500
      @socialistrepublicofvietnam1500 Před 7 měsíci +1

      ​​@@iamsomeone8175seoul

    • @turtlebeach3116
      @turtlebeach3116 Před 7 měsíci

      @@iamsomeone8175 in a spot which was nuked previously and not in the ocean

    • @iamsomeone8175
      @iamsomeone8175 Před 7 měsíci +2

      @@turtlebeach3116 what💀 pretty much all nuclear tests ever happen on the countries personal land or in the ocean and north korea is wayyyyy too small to test it on their land so they can pretty much only test in the ocean

    • @turtlebeach3116
      @turtlebeach3116 Před 7 měsíci

      @@iamsomeone8175 they can test it in china at best beijing idk but the ocean is far to important to be nuked

  • @udy12
    @udy12 Před 6 měsíci +1

    I thought that the country with the largest incarcerated population in the world was the USA

  • @kd4n347
    @kd4n347 Před 7 měsíci +1

    This might possibly be the worst sponsor section ive ever seen on any video

  • @23o8idlnqdolkqd
    @23o8idlnqdolkqd Před 7 měsíci +1

    Looks extremely similar to modern Russia, no wonder they are friends

  • @williamkeitaro8910
    @williamkeitaro8910 Před 7 měsíci +4

    after watching this i feel sad that north korea isnt alone

  • @IRosamelia
    @IRosamelia Před 6 měsíci

    I literally had no clue this horror was happening in Eritrea. I thought life there would be like in Ethiopia.

  • @Ishaanbiniwale
    @Ishaanbiniwale Před 7 měsíci +1

    I thought only north korea dido this

  • @-Katastrophe
    @-Katastrophe Před 7 měsíci

    NGL, I thought this thumbnail was an image of North Korea that got blown up.

  • @sjoel3982
    @sjoel3982 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Sorry, way too many ads in your production..... couldnt finish

  • @hjalmarfreidenvall1655
    @hjalmarfreidenvall1655 Před 6 měsíci

    Neat

  • @redfront6707
    @redfront6707 Před 7 měsíci +10

    Omfg this guy can’t go a sentence without saying North Korea, also he says Eritrea has a communist government and it does not and never has.

  • @JustMe-yr5lw
    @JustMe-yr5lw Před 7 měsíci +7

    Great video! Heritage foundation is some dogshit think tank though. You can find better sources

  • @Lwazi9999
    @Lwazi9999 Před 7 měsíci +2

    I'm embarrassed seeing my country's flag here

  • @Mladjasmilic
    @Mladjasmilic Před 7 měsíci +1

    So this is Wadia?

  • @SkLui-pe5zc
    @SkLui-pe5zc Před 7 měsíci +1

    A living hell

  • @hia5235
    @hia5235 Před 7 měsíci

    Oh I just assumed you were talking about Gaza

  • @NovikNikolovic
    @NovikNikolovic Před 7 měsíci +2

    Now talk about how Turkmenistan does the same thing.

  • @benjiguevara7465
    @benjiguevara7465 Před 7 měsíci +2

    the ad placement is a little... off

    • @bastiaan7777777
      @bastiaan7777777 Před 6 měsíci

      No. I now want to play that game to see how it feels to..... yeah.. do what the game does. in this context.

  • @rfsl1266
    @rfsl1266 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Thank you for covering about Eritrea, it’s have the most beautiful people but the dictator just pressed lot people to keep quiet about their lives with fears tactics and having other people lies too the secret police.

  • @c.e.robinson1100
    @c.e.robinson1100 Před 7 měsíci +2

    You lost all credibility when you quoted “The Heritage Foundation”

  • @lordaragorn001
    @lordaragorn001 Před 7 měsíci +43

    thought you're gonna talk about israel and the gaza strip

    • @Omer1996E.C
      @Omer1996E.C Před 7 měsíci +5

      He shouldn't

    • @Dplayz-
      @Dplayz- Před 7 měsíci +4

      Should have known from the thumbnail

    • @mildlydispleased3221
      @mildlydispleased3221 Před 7 měsíci +3

      I looked at the thumbnail and thought it was Vietnam.

    • @MoonBerryShrimp
      @MoonBerryShrimp Před 7 měsíci +2

      The entire Internet is inundated with it, and you just HAD to bring it up here too. 🧐

    • @ApplePi1
      @ApplePi1 Před 7 měsíci

      💀

  • @generic_user_
    @generic_user_ Před 7 měsíci +4

    I miss thé gloriful days when Admiral General Aladeen was in charge..

  • @mrme8521
    @mrme8521 Před 7 měsíci

    I thought it would be about America and how the states have more people in prison than China and India combined

  • @kevintaylor2525
    @kevintaylor2525 Před 6 měsíci +1

    what country has the most people in prison? oh yeah the us. never mind that doesn't mean anything.