Conversations with Eritrean Political Prisoners

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In 2001, months after a devastating war with Ethiopia, a wide-ranging debate erupted within Eritrea over the conduct of leadership and the content of government policy, particularly across the 1998-2000 Border War with Ethiopia, which many thought may have been averted. Much of the criticism was once directed on the president, Isaias Afwerki, who refused to enforce a newly ratified Constitution or to allow the formation of political parties or to conduct national elections. This national conversation came to an abrupt halt in September when the federal government arrested its most prominent critics, shut down the private press, and smothered all public political discussion.

This book revisits that debate through interviews with five critics—top government officials and former liberation movement leaders—in a while before they disappeared into the Eritrean gulag. Since then, none has been seen, heard from or accounted for. Nor has any been charged with a crime. As these conversations reveal, the speakers knew what was once in store for them—arrest and indefinite detention. For this reason they spoke with veteran journalist and long-time friend of Eritrea Dan Connell. This book not only opens a essential window onto that seminal moment; it signals the persistence of the dream of a democratic future for a remarkable nation whose promise has yet to be fulfilled.

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