Ethiopia and Eritrea: Human rights issues in a year of armed conflict

Index Number: AFR 04/003/1999
Date Published: 20 May 1999
Categories: Africa

This report examines allegations of human rights violations against Eritreans in Ethiopia and Ethiopians in Eritrea. It covers indiscriminate or deliberate bombings of civilians; displacement and ill-treatment of civilians; the denial of access to prisoners of war to the International Committee of the Red Cross; arbitrary detention, and the mass expulsions of Eritreans from Ethiopia and the removal of their Ethiopian citizenship.