The Racist Amhara State of Fake Ethiopia Prevents Democratization Across Africa

By: Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis

[ Posted On: 2009-05-05 ]

In eight earlier articles entitled “Shameful and Biased HRW Report to Promote Anti-Eritreanism for Fake Ethiopia’s Amhara Gangsters” (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/100961), “Oblivious of the Abyssinian Tyranny and the Amhara Racism, HRW Wastes Resources on Eritrea” (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/100966), “Eritrean – Iranian Relations: Reason for A Biased HRW Report and Silence on Genocides in Ethiopia?” (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/100967), “Ill-timed HRW Report on Eritrea Helps Forget the Ongoing Genocides in Abyssinia (Fake “Ethiopia”)” (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/101078), “Highly Controversial HRW Report Geared to Shift Focus From Fake Ethiopia, Africa’s Worst Tyranny” (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/101079), “HRW Called to Focus not on Eritrea but on Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia) and Stop Ongoing Genocides” (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/101080), “Demonizing Eritrea Helps Contributing to 14 Genocides Now Perpetrated in Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia)”
(http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/101168), and “Demolish the Racist Amhara Tyranny of Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia), and Eritrea Will Soon Be Democratic” (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/101176), I republished several parts of the controversial and highly ill-timed HRW Report on Eritrea, notably the Contents, the Summary, the Methodology, the Recommendations, the Background, the Human Rights Violations, the Experience of Eritrean Refugees, Eritrea’s Legal Obligations, and Responding to Eritrea’s Crisis.

In a parallel article, entitled “HRW Report and the Anti-Eritrean Hysteria of the Amhara Gangsters – Supporters of Fake Ethiopia” (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/101163), I presented an accurate self-portrait of those among the Amharas who oppose my severe criticism of the racist, colonial fabrication “Ethiopia”, a falsely named state geared to effectuate genocides. I published mails sent and comments composed by readers who reject my Call to HRW to deepen their research and exert their focus on the 14 ongoing genocides that are being perpetrated in Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia).

With the present article, I complete the republication of the Report. In forthcoming articles, I will expand on criticism and investigation of the Report’s purposes. I will also voluntarily publish comments and analyses, denunciations and criticisms by Eritreans and others who find it incredible for the leading humanitarian NGO HRW to waste resources on Eritrea and disregard the aforementioned nations that have been invaded, subjugated and forced to remain within the Amhara Abyssinian (Pseudo-Ethiopian) Hell – until their extinction.

Acknowledgements
http://www.hrw.org/en/node/82280/section/11

This report was researched and written by the Horn of Africa research team in the Africa division of Human Rights Watch. The report was edited by Clive Baldwin, senior legal advisor, and Andrew Mawson, deputy director of the Program office of Human Rights Watch. Bill Frelick, Refugee Policy director, and Heba Morayef, researcher in the Middle East and North Africa division, reviewed sections of the report.

Production assistance was provided by McKenzie Price, associate in the Africa division. Anna Lopriore coordinated photo preparation and Grace Choi prepared the report for publication.

Human Rights Watch would like to thank Dr. Martin Hill for his helpful comments on a draft of the report. We are also grateful to additional experts who requested anonymity but made essential contributions at the research and writing stages.

Above all, we would like to extend our deep gratitude to all of the Eritrean refugees who agreed to be interviewed or otherwise shared their experiences with us in Djibouti, Italy, and elsewhere, sometimes in very difficult circumstances. We recognize just how fearful many of you were about speaking and we hope this report contributes to raising awareness of and alleviating your plight, wherever you are.

Annex: A List of Known Detention Facilities in Eritrea
http://www.hrw.org/en/node/82280/section/12

The following are known detention facilities in Eritrea that have been mentioned in reports about the country and in interviews with Human Rights Watch. This list is not a complete or comprehensive list of Eritrean detention facilities.

Note:

1. Each army division and sub-unit has its own prison i.e. division, brigade, and battalion-level prisons.

2. Each town has various police stations with detention/interrogation facilities i.e. 1st and 2nd police station in Massawa, and stations 1 to 5 (at least) in Asmara.

3. Names are transliterations from the original Tigrinya and Arabic. Transliterations can vary considerably. We use the more common forms.

Name (alternative spelling) / Location / Type of Facility / Comments / Source

Aderser - In/near Adderser: (“Hadishu Ma’asker” or “new camp”) / 25 kilometers from Sawa camp, (see below) / Military camp/training center underground / - / US State Dept. Report 2005, HRW interviews

Adi Abeto (Adi-Abieto) / 10 to 15 kilometers northeast of Asmara off the road to Keren / Main prison for Asmara; also used as processing center to send prisoners elsewhere / - / HRW interviews, Amnesty International 2004, US State Dept. Report 2004

Adi Nefas / Assab / Military detention centre

Adi Qala (Adi Quala or Adi Kwala) / 40 kilometers north of Ethiopian border, off main road from Asmara through Mendefera / Military prison / - / HRW interviews

Agip / Asmara / Police-run facility / - / HRW interviews, Reporters sans frontières

Alla (Ala) / 40 kilometers from Asmara, near Dekemhare town / - / Old prison from Italian days / HRW interviews, Amnesty International, 2004

Assab Front prison also known as “Gimbar” / Assab / Military prison / - / HRW interviews

Baharia Naval Base / Massawa / Military facility / - / HRW interviews

Barentu / Barentu town / Civilian prison / - / HRW interviews

Dahlak Kebir / Dahlak archipelago, islands in the Red Sea / Maximum security / Specifically for “political” prisoners, including those returned from Malta and Egypt / HRW interviews, Amnesty International, 2004

Duarwa / South of Asmara on the road to Adi Quala before Adi Ugri / - / - / HRW interviews

Era Eiro (Eiraeiro) / Filfil-Selomuna area north of the Asmara-Massawa road / Secret jail, not acknowledged by the government / Some of the G15 were reportedly held there / HRW interviews, awate.com

Gedem / Gedem, 40 kilometers south of Massawa / - / The site of forced prison labor for the construction of a naval base / HRW interviews, awate.com

Ghatelay (Ghatielay) / About 40 to 45 kilometers northwest of Asmara off main road to Massawa / Military / Forced labor camp to build a military base there / HRW interviews

Halhalas / Sub-provincial prison 45 kilometers from Asmara (possibly part of Alla) / - / Specifically for those caught trying to cross the border / HRW interviews

Kambo Ndafurstale / In Sanafe town / Military jail / - / HRW interviews

Klima / Near Assab / - / - / HRW interviews

Mai Daga / 45 kilometers south of Asmara (near Decamhare) / - / - / HRW interviews, Amnesty International, 2004

Mai Duma/Dima/Dyma / South of Asmara off Mendefera Barentu road about 10 kilometers. West of Areza. / Military / - / HRW interviews

Mai Srwa / Outside Asmara / Political prisoners and Pentecostal pastors / Shipping containers reported / HRW interviews, Amnesty International, 2005/6

Mai Temenei / - / Military prison / - / Amnesty International, 2004

Metkelabet / Between Massawa and Asmara / Military prison belonging to the 32nd division / - / HRW interviews

Me’eter / Between Nakfa and the coast / - / - / HRW interviews

Nakhura Island / Part of the Dahlak complex of prisons / Maximum security / First established as colonial prison in 19th century to incarcerate Eritrean objectors to Italian rule / HRW interviews

Prima 1+2 / - / Military prison / - / HRW interviews

Camp Sawa In/near Sawa: 6th camp or “Enda Shadushay ” and Abi Masker / Along Sawa river, in far western Eritrea near the border with Sudan, about 10 kilometers south of road midway between Sebderat and Hawashayt / Military camp/training center / Draft evaders, Pentecostal conscripts, and those trying to flee the country / HRW interviews, Amnesty International 2004, awate.com

Sembel / Asmara suburb / Possibly the normal prison of Sembel town, but also mentioned as a place for political prisoners / Inmates mixed: civilians, military, and Ethiopians / HRW interviews, farajat.com

Tehadasso / - / Military / Shipping containers reported / Amnesty International, 2004

Tessenei / Tessenei / Military / - / Amnesty International 2004

‘Tract B’ / Asmara / Military / A former US storage facility near Asmara airport / HRW interviews, Amnesty International, 2004

Tsererat / Asmara / Military / Mainly for EPLF veterans, underground cells / Amnesty International, 2004

Wi’ya/Wi’a/Wieh Including a particular unit called “Enda commando” / Red Sea Coast, about 40 kilometers southeast of Massawa, off road to Assab / Military camp/training center / Enda Commando is a zinc unit above ground / HRW interviews, Amnesty International, US State Dept. Report 2005

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About The Author: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis - is Orientalist, Assyriologist, Egyptologist, Iranologist, Islamologist, Historian and Political Scientist. Dr. Megalommatis, 52, is the author of 12 books, dozens of scholarly articles, hundreds of encyclopedia entries, and thousands of articles. He speaks, reads and writes more than 15, modern and ancient, languages.

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