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Internally Displaced Persons - A Multifaceted Dilemma

Written by Elizabeth Ferris, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy

Sunday, 18 November 2007

April 27, 2007 — Refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Horn of Africa are a disparate group. Some have been displaced for many years, while others are hoping to soon return to their communities, and still others were forced to flee their homes last week.

The situation of displacement in the region is a dynamic and complicated one. While there is considerable awareness of the situation of those displaced by the violence in Darfur, few people outside the region are aware that there are still Ethiopians displaced from the 1998 Eritrean-Ethiopian conflict – even after the peace agreement was signed almost seven years ago – or that over 150,000 Somali refugees have been living in Kenya for more than five years.

The displacement of people in the Horn of Africa is the human consequence of the conflicts and political repression taking place in the region. It can only be resolved by negotiating and implementing peace agreements. In the meantime, governments in the region have a responsibility to protect those who are displaced, whether they are internally displaced or have fled across borders in search of protection.

Ultimately, of course, the solution for displaced people in the Horn of Africa depends on the establishment of peace, justice, and security. But this is a long-term process and until those conditions are achieved, there is an urgent need to ensure that the basic human rights of the millions of uprooted people in the region are addressed. This is a fundamental responsibility of governments – whether the task is protecting the human rights of one's own displaced citizens or upholding the basic right of all human beings to seek asylum in another country.

Additional Note:

This is what Eritrea want to create. PEACE & Security for their citizen! Securing the Sovereignty of the nation is an essential prerequisite for establishment of Peace, Justice, Security and Development. It´s a Vision of the PFDJ (People´s Front for Democracy and Justice) also known as SHAEBIA (The Eritrean People), Eritrea's ruling political movement.

There is no doubt, PFDJ will succeed as they have succeeded as EPLF (Eritrean People´s Liberation Front). After the holding of a United Nations-supervised referendum on independence there in April 1993, the EPLF, who liberated Eritrea and pivotal in overthrowing the Government of Ethiopia, declared the new nation of Eritrea the following month.

The Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) held its third congress in February 1994. It was in important occasion, a watershed marking the end of military struggle and the start of the political process to fashion the state of Eritrea. The Congress adopted a National Charter depicting the Front's version of Eritrea's future, and sought to define the role of the EPLF in it. The Front renamed itself the Peoples Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), and resolved to become a broad-based political movement, distinct and separate from the state, open to all nationalist Eritreans regardless of social class and political convictions.

With YPFDJ (Young People´s Front for Democracy and Justice) it is clear that Young Eritreans worldwide will not only follow the footsteps of Yekaalo who fought and liberated Eritrea but also will participate active and continue the work of their fathers succesfully.

Additional Content from (ROAPE) Review of African Political Economy

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