This indefinite national service has had a visible and lasting impact on the rights, freedom, and lives of Eritreans.īeginning in 2003, the Eritrean government has forced thousands of young people-male and female-each year to undergo military training before they completed secondary school, with many being conscripted directly from secondary school into national service. Human Rights Watch research finds that many Eritreans have spent their entire working lives at the service of the government in either a military or civilian capacity. Since the border war with Ethiopia in the late 1990s, Eritrea’s President Isaias Afewerki and the ruling People’s Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ) have used indefinite national service to control the Eritrean population.
Former student, now aged 23, who eventually fled Eritrea after completing high school in late 2015 A lot of people think of fleeing the country, but then you see people being arrested and you think about waiting for a better moment. As a student, it’s difficult to live here.
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