Dokument #1171404
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
Information regarding the conscription of
political prisoners into the army is currently unavailable to the
IRBDC. However, according to a report by the Department of State,
forcible conscription of young males into the army by both the
government and the rebel forces exists (111). Those who tried to
evade conscription in 1988 were allegedly shot. In January 1987,
the then chairman of the Eritrean Liberation Front-Popular
Liberation Forces (ELF-PLF), Osman Saleh Sabbe claimed that about
70,000 young Eritreans had fled their country to evade conscription
in the Ethiopian army (Degenhardt (101).
Bibliography
U.S. Department of State. Country
Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1989, Washington: U.S.
Government Printing Office, 1989, pp. 111 & 116.
For more information regarding
conscription, please find the attached excerpts from the following
documents:
-Response to Information Request No. 4359.
-U.S. Department of State. Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices for 1988, Washington: U.S. Government Printing
Office, 1989, pp. 109.