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Eritrea’s government is guilty of committing crimes against humanity since independence 25 years ago, with up to 400,000 people “enslaved,” and should face international justice, a United Nations probe said. The UN Commission of Inquiry on human rights said the government of President Isaias Afwerki, in power since 1991, was guilty of systematic enslavement, forcible conscription, and other abuses. According to the UN, around 5,000 Eritreans risk their lives each month to flee the nation where forcible army conscription can last decades. “We probably think that there are three to four hundred thousand people who have been enslaved,” chief investigator Mike Smith told journalists in Geneva.
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