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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
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.
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I'm not going to pretend I know what that's about for a fact, but it's easy enough to speculate based on other countries.
First, conditioning / brainwashing. I've read some stuff claiming that despite having a single lifetime leader, it's more a one-party system rather than a cult of personality, but that doesn't really change the fact that when people grow up knowing only one thing, it can be hard to understand that options even exist or that you've been fed a bunch of BS your whole life.
Since Eritrea is super poor and isolated, meaning it's hard to leave, it's possible (PURE SPECULATION) that a disproportionate number of people leaving Eritrea are looking more for better living conditions than political asylum. (Even in dictatorships, not everyone gets persecuted equally. The most persecuted often find it impossible to leave.)
That way you'll have a big portion of Eritrean immigrants who think the problem is just that the country is super poor, not that there's something wrong with the government. If that's what you believe, then sending money back home to the government makes sense.
I can see how that would leave to fights breaking out. One group hates the oppressive government and sees the others as supporting a dictatorship. Other group sees a country in desperate need of financial support, and see the first group as people who would rather see Eritreans starve just because they don't like it's government.