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[https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/08/09/they-are-making-us-slaves-not-educating-us/how-indefinite-conscription-restricts by HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH 8/8/19] | [https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/08/09/they-are-making-us-slaves-not-educating-us/how-indefinite-conscription-restricts by HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH 8/8/19] | ||
Since the border war with Ethiopia in the late 1990s, Eritrea’s President Isaias Afewerki and the ruling People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ) have used indefinite national service to control the Eritrean population. Human Rights Watch research finds that many Eritreans have spent their entire working lives at the service of the government in either a military or civilian capacity. This indefinite national service has had a visible and lasting impact on the rights, freedom, and lives of Eritreans. | Since the border war with Ethiopia in the late 1990s, Eritrea’s President Isaias Afewerki and the ruling People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ) have used indefinite national service to control the Eritrean population. Human Rights Watch research finds that many Eritreans have spent their entire working lives at the service of the government in either a military or civilian capacity. This indefinite national service has had a visible and lasting impact on the rights, freedom, and lives of Eritreans. | ||
=====“I couldn’t wear a uniform that symbolizes killing and oppression” – Israeli activist who refuses to serve in the Israeli army===== | |||
[https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2025/03/i-couldnt-wear-a-uniform-that-symbolizes-killing-and-oppression-israeli-activist-who-refuses-to-serve-in-the-israeli-army/ by AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 20/3/25] | |||
Itamar Greenberg is an 18-year-old Israeli conscientious objector who has been repeatedly jailed, and has served five consecutive sentences at Neve Tzedek military prison in Central Israel, for refusing to enlist in the Israeli army after being summoned for compulsory military service. Here he describes why he refuses to serve in the Israeli army. | |||
