ህጹጽ መጸዋዕታ ንህጹጽ ጥርዓን

ትማሊ ሰንበት 6 መጋቢት 2011 ኣብ ዝተኻየደ ኣብ ምሉእ ዓለም ናይ ዝርከቡ ኩሎም ኣባላት ውድብ ደሞክራስያዊ ግንባር ሓድነት ኤርትራ ህጹጽ ኣኼባ ተኻይዱ። ኣብዚ ካብ ኣፍሪቃ፡ ካብ ማእከላይ ምብራቕ፡ ካብ ኤውሮጳ፡ ካብ ካናዳን ሕ/መ/ኣሜሪካን ብርክት ዝበሉ ኣባላት ዝተረኽብሉ ኣጋጣሚ፡ ነቲ ኣብ ሰሜናዊ ምብራቕ ኣፍሪቃ ብሓፈሻ ብፍለይ ድማ ኣብ ውሽጢ ሊብያ ዝካየድ ዘሎ ኩሉ ዓይነት ግፍዕታት ኣመልኪቶም ተዘራሪቦም። ኣብ ማእከል እዚ ሽግር’ዚ ንዘለዉ ኤርትራውያን ንምድሓንን ንምትሕግጋዝን ናብ ዝምልከቶም ኣካላት ጥርዓኖም ብቕጽበት ከመሓላልፉ ወሲኖም። እዚ ውሳኔ’ዚ መሰረት ብምግባር ህጹጽ ጥርዓኖም ኣዳልዮም ናብ ዝተፈላለያ ዝምልከተን ኣካላት ዝተላእከ እነሆ። 

በዚ መሰረት ኩሉ ዝከኣሎ ዘበለ ሓገዛት ክገብር ይጽውዑ ኣለዉ። 

ዝኸበርኩምን ወነንትን ኣካየድትን ናይ ኩሉ ዓይነት ናይ ዜና ማዕከናት ነዚ ህይወት ኣድሕን ህጹጽ ጥርዓን ጸዋዒት ከተመሓላልፉልና ንሓትት።

ደሞክራስያዊ ግንባር ሓድነት ኤርትራ

ዕለት 6 መጋቢት 2011

Mr Antonio Guterres

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Palais des Nations
CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland

Email:GUTERRES@unhcr.org

Urgent Appeal:

Time and again, the state of affairs of the Eritrean people has constantly been brought to the attention of the world community – in that the entire nation has been un-will-fully subjected to live under the unconstitutional Eritrean dictatorial regime. Consequently, Eritreans have been fleeing from such a brutal repression – in-to neighboring countries and beyond.

Of those refugees, many Eritreans have been languishing in the deserts during their transition from the Sudan to Libya. For those that have luckily been making it to Libya, the government of Libya, has been receiving them inhumanely - which among other things included: detention, torture, deportation, and did in-fact repeatedly deport hundreds of Eritrean refugees - in the past. Such illegal acts were perpetrated on our nationals - in contravention of the Geneva Convention for refugees. In a desperate attempt to escape from such an inhumane treatment, by the Libyan authorities, thousands of our nationals that have been attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea, by an unsafe and over-loaded human trafficking smaller boats, have been drowning in the high seas.

Likewise, other Eritrean refugees who took the Sudan – Egypt transition route, have been languishing in the Egyptian deserts. Worst of all, the Bedouin human smugglers, have been inhumanely detaining, rapping, and savagely killing Eritrean refugees in the Sinai deserts. The atrocities being committed on our nationals - by those Bedouin perpetrators, have been committed with the knowledge of - and the collaboration from the out-going Egyptian authorities. Contravening the Geneva Convention for refugees, the same authorities had repeatedly deported Eritrean refugees - without due regard to their safety and well-beings. As you can see, all exit avenues have been leading to a sad story of human tragedies!!!!

At present, there are a large number of Eritrean refugees in Libya (including in Tripoli, Rabesh Gedima, and Benghazi …etc.). Those Eritrean refugees are caught up in the middle of the current uprising and frightening crisis unfolding in Libya.The situation is extremely volatile and rapidly changing.  Their lives are put under a grave danger on each passing risky day. It has become increasing difficult to find up to-date information from Libya. Nevertheless, According to Human Right Concern Eritrea, two Eritrean refugees have already been murdered and several others injured. Others are hiding - underground with no food, water, and medical supplies (Human Right Concern Eritrea: February 26, 2011).

The real and imminent current danger faced by our Eritrean nationals in Libya - is very grave and frightening.  Therefore, we are calling upon and serving our urgent appeal to:

·         All humanitarian organizations, particularly those that do currently have presence in Libya to help ensure the safety of our nationals, provide them with the necessary assistance, up to including – in coordination with other government agencies, arranging ways and means for their safe evacuations, and

·         All humane and peace loving democratic world governments, particularly those that do currently have Embassies and nationals in Libya; and as a result, are on the process of evacuating their citizens, to also extend a helping hand and ensure that the safe evacuations of our nationals do take place as part of, or are inclusive with those of their nationals.

Finally, we wish to conclude by extending our gratitude to all those humanitarian organizations, and/or governments that are actually involved in providing assistance on the ground for all those people currently stranded in Libya - irrespective of the origin of their nationalities.

To: guterres@unhcr.org          United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)

CC:         International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

CC:         Amnesty International and human rights watch

CC:         Amnesty International in USA

CC:         Amnesty International in UK

CC:         USA UNHCR

CC:         UAE UNHCR

CC:         UNHCR Representation in Yemen

CC:         UNHCR Representation in Canada

CC:         UNHCR Representation for Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific

CC:         UNHCR Representation in the United Kingdom

CC:         UNHCR Representation in Egypt

CC:         UNHCR Representation for Austria and Germany

CC:      UNHCR Regional Representation for Southern Europe, Italy

CC:         African Union