What "torture"? Detention, yes. But "torture"? Give me a break. Please do not insult our intelligence. Eritreans inside and in Diaspora have been asking their officials non-stop for any signs of torture for the last 10 years. After all, it's literally our sisters, brothers, mothers and fathers that are detained. Trust me, if there were any signs that there existed torture, we would not need a clueless watchdog like AI to get us to act (and not just talk, talk, and talk). We would have stopped the action or at least stopped paying 2% taxes 10 years ago.

ZE KURUMT`KA HUTSA TE`TKURTMELU! What is happing to our follow Eritrean brothers and sisters is horrible to say the least,unfortunatly some of us are in a state of denial and it is very hard to break that denial cycle unless one of your family member is the victim of the Eritrean government.Remember, that what goes around cames around !You just have to wait uptill your time of been a victim is coming before you know it.Injustices to one is injustices to all of us!

It is a shame that after all the years of war with Ethiopia we now have the enemy inside. One of our brothers who fought with us is torturing our people and making them flee to other countries to beg for asylum. There are no words to explain the pain I feel knowing that my cousins and my uncle will be forced back to Eritrea and arrested directly at the airport. Those who pay the 2% are only financing the torture of their brothers and sisters. I will not denie and also not support dictatorship!!!

Eritreans are immigrating to other countries for better life as any other country's citizens do. What is wrong to go somewhere and live a better life. A better life than in Eritrea as is done by any other county's citizen in the world is doing. Of course there are some factors that make eritreans to leave their country. National service is one. But religiouse reasons are fake in most cases. Most ofthose who claim as pentecotals are bogus, as they use this excuse to get acceptance.It is even more suitable for Ethiopians to calim as pentecostal believers from Eritrea- they make bogus claims.Majority of those who flee the country are not affected by the national service- It is just a competetion of individuals to live better and make money better. There are older women and men who flee the country who are not required to do national service but want to live in europe or America because life is simpler and more money to get with out working even. I was in Eritrea recently and a fifty five year old man with a nice job and children, good health told me he is desperate to go abroad. All the asylum seekers in sudan, Egypt, kenya, Uganda, israel and those who arrive in europe, america and Canda are not neccessarily Eritreans. I can guess how many of the refugees in egypt and Israel are Eritreans? most asylum seekers from Ethiopia claim asylum as Eritreans. How is the government of Egypt to know who is eritrean and who is ethiopian. The case in Europe is the same. So where do countries stand to identify who is real Eritrean and who is the bogus asylum seeker who uses Eritrean identity to lodge a claim for asylum. What then if Ethiopian asylum seeker was sent to eritrea because he put the claim to dodge. It is a dilemma to the countries of asylum also.

On the news we hear much eritrean refugees again and again. There more Ethiopian refugees fleeing the country but when they reach the country of asylum they call themselves Eritreans. so Eritrean s should not be fooled by this senarios.

I understand what you are saying and there is definitely througt behind it. But what about other factors like eg, that the are no votes in Eritrea, no variety of political parties, the constitution never came to effect and that there is no freedom of speech and freedom of press? Dont you think that that makes also elder people flee? The national service is only good for the short term, but what the youth needs is education, otherwise we will not develop our country.