Eritreans who left their homeland illegally are welcome to return: Eritrean Government
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| Photo: Eritrean economic migrants in Israel. Eritrean migrants first began to leave for Israel in 2006, after the Jewish state issued a 6-month work visas for Eritreans. In order to permanently work in the country after their visa expired, the migrants would claim they were persecuted refugees who would be killed or imprisoned if returned to Eritrea. In 2012, Israel ended its controversial 6 month work visa for Eritreans after finding 99.9% of those entering their country were economic migrants pretending to be refugees. After ending the policy, Eritrean "refugees" stopped coming to their country overnight, which proved they were nothing more than economic migrants who were being motivated/induced to leave their country because of the six month work visa. |
PRESS STATEMENT: 2nd December 2014
Re: The quotation attributed to the Eritrean Embassy Charge d'affaires, Mr. Yonas Manna Bairu, in a Danish Newspaper ‘Politiken’ report is grossly misleading.
The Eritrean Government has repeatedly stated on record that any citizen who left their homeland for any reason and wants to return to their country on their own accord are always welcome to visit or live in Eritrea. There will be no punishment discharged upon citizens who are victims of irregular migration and human trafficking themselves. Many citizens have already visited or repatriated to Eritrea safely over the last number of years without any imposition from the authorities.
This been the truth of the matter and a phenomena currently suffered by many third world countries, Eritrea’s plight has been singled out and politicised by many actors to divert from the main root cause of the injustice perpetrated upon the nation of Eritrea for more than a decade. The unresolved occupation of Eritrea’s sovereign land and unjust sanctions imposed on Eritrea.
Eritrean Embassy to Scandinavia
2 December 2014
info@eritrean-embassy.se
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