After a 30years long war for the liberation from the Ethiopic domain, Eritrea becomes the 53rd African State in 1993 thanks to a popular referendum. Finally, the democratisation process starts... it was supposed to lead to a future of peace and development.
Unfortunately, due to a new and foolish war with Ethyopia once again (1998 - 2000) the constitution and the multi-party system by the means of democratic elections failed and the dictatorship of Isayas Afeworki settled. He governs without any mandate at the moment and with no limits by the Transitory National Assembly which very rarely meets.
The critics against the presidential power became stronger during May 2001 when 15 members of the Central Committee of PFDJ (former ministres, ambassadors and generals) published an open letter in order to request some reforms and exhortating the full application of the constitution, democratic elections, the abolition of the Special Court together with many other reforms.

This is the day which marks the dictatorial turn of the Eritrean Government. Eleven persons among those who signed the open letter together with 18 journalists were arrested. The Eritrean free press was banned. 2,000 students were closed in concentration camps and some of them died. During the following 48 hours the Italian Ambassador was expelled from he country because he delivered to the Eritrean President a protest letter on behalf of the United Europe since he was its official spokesman.

VIOLATION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS

Amnesty International, Human Right Watch, the International Red Cross together with many other similar associations, denounc the violation of the human rights in Eritrea. Arbitrary imprisonments since 1991 (thousands of innocents including political dissidents, journalists, religiuos, students and whole families), prosecutions, tortures, isolations, rapes and forces military service by means of roundups and mass deportations to secret training camps even of minors.

As a consequence of what is happening in Eritrea nowadays, in Italy there is an increase of the migration flow of Eritreans seeking political asylum. Italy answers to such requests with unsuited laws, forced repatriations, inadequate receptions centres and no kind of aknowledgement of any right despite the moral dept towards Eritrea, which was the firstborn Italian colony.
Even if the diplomatic relationship between Italy and Eritrea are likely good, the Eritrean dicatorial Government has now expelled the diplomatic personnel, six Italian NGOs and refuses to give the Visa to the journalists or peolple who expressed their own opinion concerning the violation of the human rights in the country.

At a national level

- Direct relationship with the national, regional, province and town governative institutions concerned
- Detailed research about the commercial relations between the Italian organisations (such as private companies, NGOs, state Institutions at a regional level) and the Eritrean dictatorial Government
- Collaboration with the Italian Refugees Center (CIR) in order to settle programmes to enable the Eritrean people in seeking asylum by the contribution of the lawyers and reserchers of the CNR in Naples
- Collaboration with other associations or organisations concerned in this struggle and participation to all the pacific demonstrations
- Historical research in order to start a program for the demand of the rights of the Ascari, their families and the Italian-Eritrean citizens

- Collaboration with other organisations to make some pressure on the European Parliament, the UN and UA, in order to set adequate measures against the violation of the human rights in Eritrea
- Urging the International Red Cross, Amnesty International and other similar organisations in order to request for an inspection in the Eritrean prisons to verify the imprisonned conditions of all the political refugees.
- To organize in cooperation with other interested organisations a pacific march in USA.