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Originally Posted by Itse
Eritrea is one of the most repressive dictatorships in the world (same guy in power for 30 years now), with with one of the worst human rights records in the world.
The government basically uses it's own population as slave labor for starters, as anyone between 18-50 is eligible for mandatory national service of indefinite length. Only a few religions are legal to practice at all, others are actively persecuted, imprisoned, tortured etc. I could go on, but basically it's really bad.
It's also a really isolated country, and poor. Comparisons are made to North Korea sometimes.
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It makes me wonder why some of these asylum seekers are apparently supporters of the current dictator and the regime. Like, they support the guy who is basically making the country unlivable for them? Netanyahu had a good point when he said the if you are Eritrean and support the dictator, Israel cannot take their asylum requests seriously.