Afar Persecution in Dankalia, Eritrea, June 27, 2024
Ten years of Afar persecution, crimes against humanity, discrimination and economic and cultural marginalization as reported by the UN investigative team.
The Eritrean Afar National Congress has compiled ten years of eyewitness testimonies and excerpts from UN special rapporteurs’ findings, which reveal the widespread violations against the Afar people in Eritrea that constitute crimes against humanity.
A decade-long and extensively detailed reporting by UN investigations and experts reveals the unique nature of the crimes against the indigenous Afar in Eritrea. The premeditated and systematic destruction of the Afar indigenous nation or ethnic groups by the Eritrean government is evident.
Eritrea has colonized, marginalized and persecuted the Afar since the formation of the state in 19931. The UN Commission on the Situation of Human Rights in Eritrea [COI-Eritrea] and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Situation of human rights in Eritrea [SR-Eritrea] thoroughly examined how Eritrea treated the Afar community. Both UN bodies concluded that Eritrean authorities systematically persecuted the Afar population, including forcibly removing them from their ancestral lands near Assab port through acts of violence, murder, and mass killing. Read the full report below…