The Xukko Cina ( Dokuhina) Youth Movement Statement on the process of genocide and ethnic cleansing against Afar Ethnicity in Dankalia region, Eritrea

Afar Region, Samra, Ethiopia
On June 1, 2020
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Since 1991, the Eritrean dictatorial sectarian regime has systematically abused, imprisoned and tortured the Eritrean people in general and in additon to that displaced Afar peoples in Dankalia in particular, and Dankalia has been suffering for 29 years between the absence of freedoms and systematic displacement to the gradual implementation of demographic change, and a vivid example when watching Eritrean TV when it broadcasts national events, In Assab and other Afar cities, the demographic change is most evident and appear clearly, in meetings and celebrations, as the traditional ambiguity of the highlanders and Tigrigna Ethnicity hangs over the scene.

However, this time, the repressive sectarian occupational regime in Asmara started to accelerate its criminal plans by legitimizing the genocide, citing precautionary measures of preventing the outbreak of the Corona virus COVID19, although the region did not record any confirmed infection with the Corona virus, and the Eritrean Ministry of Health announced that the country freed of Corona virus infections after the recovery of 39 cases . Whereas, the regime closed the land and sea ports from the region for two months ago and prevented entering any food from the sources of supplies that were from Djibouti and Ethiopia.

The statement of Red Sea Afar Human Rights Organization, stated that the regime closed the land and sea borders without taking any preventive measures and precautionary measures from the repercussions of these. The global crisis make the residents, and citizens of the region under a suffocating siege and a systematic plan that puts their facing an unknown fate that threatens their lives in this isolated and besieged area by the ruling regime in Asmara, the even, before the Corona crisis, the regime was exposing them forcibly to displacement and leave their lands.
Therefore, what was stated in the statement of RSAHRO and the hashtag that engulfs social media sites by Afar activists, Eritreans and their sympathizers from the Sudanese, Ethiopians, Djiboutians and Somalis, indicates the seriousness of the catastrophic humanitarian situation that the Afar people go through and calls for urgent intervention from International community, humanitarian organizations and countries in the region The Eritreans, in their different ethnicity, political organizations, civil society organizations, and the Afar ethnicity from its different nationalities, political organizations, elders, elders, and sultans in three countries.

Consequently, we, Afar youth in Afar Region, Ethiopia, condemn in strong terms the Eritrean criminal and starving measures and appeal to the parties concerned.

First, we call International community to assume its legal and moral responsibility towards genocide occurring in the front of the world’s seeing and hearing that the Afars in Eritrea struggle with death due to the man made starvation and famine by a sectarian regime that seeks to exterminate the Afar race from its land which is the land of its ancestors, and replace another race in its land by practicing all kinds of Crimes, which are war crimes in every sense of the word, and therefore we call on International community, the United Nations, the Security Council, the European Union, the Asian Union, the African Union, and all international organizations to intervene immediately in accordance with international, humanitarian, and human rights law because what happens in Dankalia puts the world in the form of powerlessness in front of the fascist and apartheid racist oppressive. Therefore, the regime that that challenges international community and violates international laws, norms, and covenants must be brought to an end by holding accountable and saving humanity from his crimes. You are facing a historical moral and human legal test.

We appeal to the Sister country United Arab Emirates to exert pressure on the regime and provide aid and food to our people, and we heard at the end of April 2020 AD the head of your forces stationed at the UAE military base in Assab provided (food and health equipment) but unfortunately this gesture was rejected by the head of the Eritrean army and the local administration of the Eritrean government in Assab, knowing that the government earns hundreds of millions of dollars from you in exchange for leasing assab port to you for the military base and strategic port without any benefits or returns to the people of the region and therefore we appeal to Crown Prince His Highness Prince Muhammad bin Zayed to use his influence and provide assistance to our people, and it is the moral and religious responsibility, also, we would like to appeal the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and all Islamic countries to extend a helping hand and move at an International level to save Muslims who are subjected to genocide.

We request the Ethiopian federal government to assume its moral and human responsibilities imposed by the neighborhood, and we call on the Prime Minister, Dr Abiy Ahmed, to invest his distinguished relationship with the Asmara regime and President, Isaias Afwerki, to alleviate the stifling siege imposed on the Afar people, who is our body and our flesh, and to provide immediate food support to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe that will put everyone in front of black history.

We call the Djibouti authorities and Afar officials in the government, officials headed by Honorable Prime Minister Abdoulkader Kamel, to bear their moral and Ethnic responsibilities.  We know that they couldn't practice direct pressure, due to absence of strong diplomatic relationships, but we appeal you to make international diplomatic and media efforts to show what is happening against you as Afar in the other geographical area.

We request the Afar region's Administration , headed by His Excellency President Hajj Awal Araba, bear their customary, political, moral, humanitarian, and national responsibilities, and we call on His Excellency and his government officials for urgent political action and pressure on the federal government and urging the federal government and Honorable Prime Minister to use the distinguished relationship with Asmara regime to stop the regime, which is their ally from Committing a massacre against our brothers, but against us, yes, and in such extraordinary cases, the artificial borders doesn't make sense, therefore, call for work to open the borders and allow food supplies to enter from the Afar region in Ethiopia to the afflicted Dankalia, which is on the edge of a humanitarian catastrophe due to famine starvation, and we note that

great responsibility relies on the Afar region leadership, considering that the region is the only entity that represents the whole of Afar ethnicity, regardless of their geographical presence, and for this we remind the Honorable President of the Region, Hajji Awal Arba, Ethnicity responsibility, even if it is not constitutional responsibility that rely on he and his ministers, and we strongly stress that we with you in all the efforts that you will make, and we call all Afar in general, and youth in particular, to bear the historical responsibility in this critical juncture by leaving different, paving the rows and unifying efforts to focus on efforts to save our people in Dankalia, and it must be taken into account that the Afar ethnicity is going through a very critical and articulate period in an area that anticipated to geopolitical changes that are difficult to predict outcomes, and which requires concerting efforts and prepare for all possibilities.

Finally, we call both Red Sea Afar Democratic Organization, which is fighting the armed struggle, and the Eritrean Afar National Congress, which is fighting the political struggle, to leave your political differences, by setting a national charter uniting your ranks, and exerting maximum efforts by investing your relations with all regional and international organizations to save our people from catastrophe, and systematic genocide.