How this country imprisons (nearly) its entire population 

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I thought the thumbnail map was showing Vietnam and was confused as to why it was imprisoning its citizens

In the Sacha Baron Cohen movie "The Dictator", the fictional country of Wadiya was depicted with Eritrea's borders. The fact that Eritreans would be better off under Aldeen than Afwerki is really saying something.

As an Ethiopian, I want to tell you that the Ethiopian government wants to reconquer Eritrea, or any nearby coastal country. IDK, but in the last week, our whole media is just talking about our "legitimate right for sea border" and today there was a minor military parade accompanied by the PM, I just expect the Ethiopian government to start a new war soon, and we're sick of wars honestly. This is a new ambition of this prime minister, along with his extravagant palace project and land confiscations programs Edit: I'd like to reunite with Eritrea, almost our everything is similar, food, culture, language, clothes, traditions, economics, etc... But I'm skeptical about a war, especially with the fact that the Eritrean government will force its all population to war, that'd be a major humanitarian catastrophe

As a Central African I hope Eritrea gets better, at school our professors talked about the situation there. I hope both of our countries the CAF and Eritrea get better. 🇨🇫❤🇪🇷

I had a heart attack as a Vietnamese when I saw the thumbnail.

“You might assume only North Korea could commit such horrific human rights violations against their own people” Pol Pot basically turned his whole country into one giant concentration camp

I met Eritrean refugees while living in Thüringen, Germany. They had clearly been through some shit and were quite withdrawn, but we would play beach volley together. Over time they would begin to open up more and did hear some horrific tales from Eritrea. It's just inhumane.

Your video sheds some light to the disastrous situation of my country. As a person who grew-up there it has a long-term impact on me, and the regime is quite happily ruling with an iron fist. Thank you for making this video!

I have a friend that escaped Eritrea to France in 2020, sadly his father couldn’t

Respect, it's hard being worse than Nord Korea

I went to high school with a girl who moved here to Michigan from Eritrea with her parents and brother when she was a little kid. She went on to work in govt assistant type positions in Washington D.C. so she is more successful than I'll ever be. Adversity can really create courage and strength!!! I just wish there weren't literally 2,000+ kids in my school so it would have been easier to get to know her.

videos like these make me feel grateful for all that my country has been providing.. Life is so hard for the citizens of these countries 😢

I had 2 friend from Eritrea when I was in high school in 2019. Kinda crazy that they were in my school considering what you are saying.

Im not a dictator so im no expert but if you made your country nice to live in wouldn't less people WANT to leave? Could save a fortune on surveillance...

I went to school as a kid with Eritreans, some of the nicest people ever.

There were over 580,000 Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers abroad as of the end 2021, and “the overwhelming majority cited the indefinite national service as the principal reason they fled the country,” according to the May 2022 report of the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea. Not 76000

its weird if you tilt it at an angle it looks like vietnam

Man, I can't believe this Isaias Afwerki guy overthrew Admiral General Aladeen and changed the country's name from Wadiya to Eritrea. 😂I loved it when Admiral General Aladeen arrived in NYC on a camel. Eritrea has a neat flag! The green stands for the agriculture and livestock of the country. Blue stands for the Red Sea and its marine wealth. Red for the bloodshed in the struggle for independence. The yellow wreath symbolizes peace and Eritrean unity. The outer wreaths have 15 leaves on each side, representing the 30 years it took to get independence. There are six leaves total in the center, and the leaves are split into three, with one side representing the 9 ethnic groups of the country and the other side for the 9 national languages. The country's emblem features a camel surrounded by an olive wreath. The camel was the beast of burden used during the war of independence from Ethiopia to transport supplies and goods, and was seen as being instrumental to the movement's success by Eritrean nationalists

Meanwhile the UN appointed Eritrea to the human rights council in 2022. This is why I wonder if we should take the UN seriously

I think all of us lose perspective from time to time. I know I am guilty of it but I can drag myself back to reality. As an American, I know my country is far from perfect, but videos like this remind me how lucky I am.

Thanks for reporting on this, I had no idea how deeply the repression was

tankies be like: "nah, but it aint that bad tho"

Ex italian colonies try not to be the worst place imaginable challenge:

I never understood how Ethiopia didn't just take the whole south cost of Eritrea. Eritrea is basically split in half by the Eritrean Highlands, leaving just 1 road to link with the north of the country. Ethiopia can easily walk in through vast flat desert, destroy that single road and the south is cut off and easily taken, giving Ethiopia precious access to the sea.

i would say something about obf accepting a sponsorship by a garbage time sucking game filled with discord mods and no lifes but thank you for making a video on an under reported inhumane prison state that most people don't know much about

I saw Eritrea's map and if you look carefully, it will be like an incomplete Vietnam map haha.

The war between Eritrea and Ethiopia officially ended in 2000 The 2018 agreement was to resolve border disputes from the peace treaty which had caused occasional border clashes, but no official declaration of war occurred

Why are we citing the Heritage Foundation at all, it was so easy to cite anyone else instead

Wow. I’ve never heard of this country before.

My favorite Eritrea fact is that it is one of two countries that taxes its citizens regardless of where they reside. The other is The United States.

thank you for making this accurate vid about my country and its problems. This subject is very underreported and unknown to many.

Eritrea got their independence from Ethiopia in the first place because the Italians colonized Eritrea starting in 1882 (with Assab and they fought a war with the Ethiopians between 1887 and 1889 to expand) and ruled it until 1941. Conquered by the Allies in 1941, Italian East Africa was sub-divided. Eritrea was made a British protectorate from the end of World War II until 1951. However, there was debate as to what should happen with Eritrea after the British left. The British delegation to the UN proposed that Eritrea be divided along religious lines with the Christians to Ethiopia and the Muslims to Sudan. The UN decided on a federation between Eritrea and Ethiopia in 1952, as a compromise to reconcile Ethiopian claims of sovereignty and Eritrean aspirations for independence. About nine years later, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie dissolved the federation and annexed Eritrea, thus triggering the struggle that lasted three decades. At first, the group fighting for independence was the ELF who got support from Arab countries, however the EPLF became the dominant group after Christians left the ELF due to tensions with Muslim members, and subsequently formed the EPLF and defeated the ELF in 1981. Eritrea got de facto independence in 1991, and official independence in 1993 after a referendum with over 99 percent in support.

Only God can save these people :(. Please God, will you save one person who needs help most today.

Thanks for this informative video. We in free western countries need to see & be made aware of such horrendously evil countries like this to effect change for our fellow brothers & sisters in despotic nations such as this. Without videos & information like this, I nor anyone else would not be aware of the human rights tragedies such as this. Thank you for making this video & thus making so much of the world aware of these tragedies. Big thumbs up & also providing us more fortunate to effect change. Right on!

I used to have a colleague from Eritrea and he would get so angry and emotional and refuse to speak about how he escaped from Eritrea 😢

Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!

Ertrean government literally read 1984 and said "yea this is nice"

maybe it still is easier than to make a run in eritrea when compared to north korea ? ?

>see thumbnail >"That looks like 'Nam!" TIME FOR UNCLE SAM'S REVENGE!

Could you please apply a high pass filter for a cleaner voice? It sounds like you are talking through a wall.

Intentionally misleading thumbnail, nice video, nice graphics

I have never heard of this before.

Man, Iran is also facing the EXACT same problems as Eritrea, specially the mandatory military service (at least 2 years for +18 males), and you have to pay something in the range of 2-5 thousand dollars to the government if u want to leave the borders without finishing military service, the police force infiltrating livelihood of almost the WHOLE nation, many women are hired by human traffickers as Sex workers for neighboring Arab nations. Just like North Korea and Eritrea, Iran's also run by a authoritarian leader since 1989 and only one political party could candidate for elections, while the price of mobile phones are twice as the rest of the world, the usage of the social media is either filtered and impossible to access without VPNs and the so called free medias are also heavily under surveillance by the regime. The government has established a so called "Registration System" to avoid smuggling (but in fact, to collect taxes from importing any product from other countries) and the medium salary of 175 USD (70 million Iranian Rials) compared to the poverty line of 40 million Rials (800 USD) per month, and I'm pretty sure Iran is one of the 6 countries below Eritrea in case of media censorship.

Fun fact: the country in the dictator (wadiya) replaces Eritrea in the map

The Audio is a bit muffled, lots of bass

As a Brazilian, I thought our situation was bad during the american-supported dictatorship. Now I am extremely surprised.

12:35 lemmino background music

I suggest a space-style invasion

North Korea's new tagline: we're not so bad, we're not Eritrea.

As a non-african citizen I am born and raised in the United States but to be very clear what he just said about this country in East Africa I am so sorry for these people I know this one person who escaped this country well I'm not saying I know that person I know she has a Twitter account she's primary famous inside her but I don't know where is she living but you know she's living in the United States and I hope she's realized that she watch this video and see how her country and you never know she will find out if they kidnapped her family or her family friends members from her friends family members other side but do you know it cannot be worse than That and I do believe that everyone deserves to live longer but in Reality anyone could suffer no matter what it is.

the history is pretty interesting the soviet union and cuba got involved

Remember when a country somewhere has a bad reputation, an African country usually has to outmatch them

I thought you were talking about Vietnam, because of the thumbnail.

I had no idea this country existed.

No nukes, no oil, so no help from countries that actually could help.

The voice on the video is so blurry

you have to add bangladesh also....we bangladeshis are going with extrime situations..

Its not tight enough given the number arriving at Lampedusa and migrating to Europe

Great video as usual, but sources and useful links in the description would be nice

It’s sad that people only want to talk about humanitarian issues that will get them views (North Korea, etc.) Thank you for being different

Good and very informative video, but it was so obvious you just looked up "Africa" for stock footage and used clips that were obviously not Eritrea. It was really distracting for me and hurt the delivery of the video.

Know I know why my Eritrean co-worker is so grumpy. This video explains why.

Eritrea does not claim to be Communist

Great video! Heritage foundation is some dogshit think tank though. You can find better sources

Thank you for covering about Eritrea, it’s have the most beautiful people but the dictator just pressed lot people to keep quiet about their lives with fears tactics and having other people lies too the secret police.

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Can you imagine living in a place like that and just knowing the luxuries much of the world has. The wonders of modern world artificially withheld for one sick man's benefit.

Absolutely sad and heartbreaking. I hope the people of Eritrea experience true freedom soon.

Not sure what the way out is

Gosh I never knew this was the situation in Eritrea...it operates like the Stasi.

yeah yeah , out of context as always .... is there by any way you come acrossed what is the reason why the goverement come to act like this toward his own citizens

I literally had no clue this horror was happening in Eritrea. I thought life there would be like in Ethiopia.

The problem: Colonial disinterest. Human nature at full display for all to see.

Sorry, way too many ads in your production..... couldnt finish

Eritrea isn't communist. Neither is North Korea.

Looks extremely similar to modern Russia, no wonder they are friends

These are what might be called prison countries, -nation's run much like giant prisons, a step beyond even totalitarianism. These country's lack basic freedoms of movement or association and have extreme micro management of not only the economy but many aspects of people's private lives. While far more prosperous and with better life quality, in many ways Saudi Arabia and the UAE are similer in their extreme controls, even though the UAE is of course filled with both permanent and temporary foreigners without hope of citizenship but including many who are quite wealthy and choose to live there. Yet the government micromanages to an extreme degree and has almost total control in limmiting ones life to whatever extent they choose. There are basically no rights in practice these country's, only conditional privileges that can be ended at a moments notice. But there are obligations and mandates and loyalty oaths galore, with extreme punishments often to the pont of death to the disobedient, disloyal or merely unlucky!

I thought only north korea dido this

Oh I just assumed you were talking about Gaza

I wonder how many Eritreans favor rejoining Ethiopia? That would probably be an improvement over their current situation. Just think, decades tgey fought for independence from Ethiopia, countless of their people died in that war, and for what!?!? To live in their current shitty situation!?!? They really got had by whoever was behind their secession campaign!!! I bet they were better off under Addis Ababa's rule!!!

NGL, I thought this thumbnail was an image of North Korea that got blown up.

I thought that the country with the largest incarcerated population in the world was the USA

This might possibly be the worst sponsor section ive ever seen on any video

the ad placement is a little... off

i would not use the heritage foundation if i was you not saying i dissagry with there asesment on this im just sayying i would trust a used car salals mans assensent for then thiers.

So this is Wadia?

A living hell

Though informative, the video is quite sloppy, taking images from 1984 famine in Ethiopia, footage of people in Lagos Nigeria, and other sub-saharan countries, in fact the majority of footage is anything but of the subject country, Eritrea. Yes it is hard to get footage from the country, but add a disclaimer to that effect rather than potentially face a backlash for slandering other countries by using unassociated footage, that or just create a podcast. Good luck though and well done.

what why does north korea launch nukes into the ocean ?

why am i seeing the South African flag being carried by their soldiers i hope my country is not complicit in this

I’m Eritrean and to be honest, this came as a shock

I knew it was going to Eritrea but sometimes they score lower in human rights than North Korea.

I'm embarrassed seeing my country's flag here

Now talk about how Turkmenistan does the same thing.

JUST SO YOU KNOw: Our WHO President is a former Secret Police Chief of Eritrea. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Tigrinya: ቴዎድሮስ አድሓኖም ገብረኢየሱስ, sometimes spelt ቴድሮስ ኣድሓኖም ገብረየሱስ; born 3 March 1965 in Asmara, Eritrea) is an Ethiopian public health official, researcher, and the Director-General of the World Health Organization since 2017.

Neat

what country has the most people in prison? oh yeah the us. never mind that doesn't mean anything.

You lost all credibility when you quoted “The Heritage Foundation”

I thought it would be about America and how the states have more people in prison than China and India combined