PRESS RELEASE
The Most Human Response
EHDR-UK
- 16 June 2005
They say bad things
happen when good people do nothing. Many people are concerned about the
level of human rights abuse that is occurring in Eritrea, it wouldn’t be
an exaggeration to say that every Eritrean house-hold has now been visited
by one or another form of human rights abuse that is perpetrated by the
Government of Eritrea. However it is also the case that many have thus far
chosen to do nothing.
…many but not all…the
longest demonstration in the world is one way two young
Eritreans have chosen to express their objection to what they saw as
thousands of their people; languishing in unknown detention camps and this
is their contribution to highlighting the suffering by exposing it to the
whole world.
On 15th June 2005 they
will start to walk from the UN headquarters in Geneva (Switzerland) and
will end in Vatican City (Rome, Italy) at the offices of His Holiness Pope
Benedict XVI, where they will petition his holiness, to demand the
establishment of an international Commission that will inspect prisons and
the well-being of prisoners in Eritrea.
EHDR-UK calls on all
Eritreans and friends of Eritrea to rally behind this courageous duo and
offer them support by signing the petition to be presented to Pope
Benedict XVI. Click here
to sign the petition.
Such grief as we have
seen
Could water the
roots
Of a new world dream…
To change the
world
Into something
higher;
That we may
listen to hunger’s
Cry and turn
injustice into a flower.
Ben Okri, 2001
Board, EHDR-UK
info@ehdr.org.uk
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