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  • @OBFYT
    @OBFYT  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

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    • @franciscoacevedo3036
      @franciscoacevedo3036 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      1:25 USA beating the "3 North Koreas" one for Africa and one for Central Asia in !mpr1sœnment PER CAPITA says a lot about the so called land of the free

    • @carkawalakhatulistiwa
      @carkawalakhatulistiwa 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Only Eritrea and usa tax people overseas

    • @hmidoknow
      @hmidoknow 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      it directs me to the site

    • @-guy113
      @-guy113 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      "No I don't think I will"

    • @aurelaurel8222
      @aurelaurel8222 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Very beautiful woman 👩 Eritrea 🇪🇷

  • @boburiinchankludho
    @boburiinchankludho 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1698

    I thought the thumbnail map was showing Vietnam and was confused as to why it was imprisoning its citizens

    • @lostdanger37291
      @lostdanger37291 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

      me too man

    • @mildlydispleased3221
      @mildlydispleased3221 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +151

      Imprisoned in Nike and Samsung factories.

    • @tempejkl
      @tempejkl 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

      @@mildlydispleased3221Samsung is in South Korea mate. Also, Bangladesh is where the real sweatshops are

    • @mildlydispleased3221
      @mildlydispleased3221 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +133

      @tempejkl Most Samsung products are made in Vietnam and sweatshops can be found in many countries mate. Get your facts right before spewing bollocks.

    • @nullc0ntext
      @nullc0ntext 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      Vietnam literally only a couple places above it in the list.

  • @medio-litro
    @medio-litro 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +598

    In the Sacha Baron Cohen movie "The Dictator", the fictional country of Wadiya was depicted with Eritrea's borders. The fact that Eritreans would be better off under Aldeen than Afwerki is really saying something.

    • @nathanseper8738
      @nathanseper8738 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +88

      Ouch. That is a weirdly accurate statement. At least the Supreme Grocer gets you food once in a while.

    • @mgntstr
      @mgntstr 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Supreme grocer supplied by western super-nationals. Fuck these UN deals.

    • @Hot_Sky
      @Hot_Sky 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

      you know I thought Wadya is just fictional country that made for the movie, but after watch this I realized it was a real country, just the name of the country is what changed.

    • @HermitKing731
      @HermitKing731 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Yet in the movie the country is a very Arab country With very Arab looking people.

    • @borrusiamartinez2647
      @borrusiamartinez2647 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I thought it was Kazakhstan lol

  • @Omer1996E.C
    @Omer1996E.C 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1104

    As an Ethiopian, I want to tell you that the Ethiopian government wants to reconquer Eritrea, or any nearby coastal country.
    IDK, but in the last week, our whole media is just talking about our "legitimate right for sea border" and today there was a minor military parade accompanied by the PM, I just expect the Ethiopian government to start a new war soon, and we're sick of wars honestly. This is a new ambition of this prime minister, along with his extravagant palace project and land confiscations programs
    Edit: I'd like to reunite with Eritrea, almost our everything is similar, food, culture, language, clothes, traditions, economics, etc... But I'm skeptical about a war, especially with the fact that the Eritrean government will force its all population to war, that'd be a major humanitarian catastrophe

    • @Blex_040
      @Blex_040 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

      Many points of this sound really simliar to North and South Korea

    • @mgntstr
      @mgntstr 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I think the general populace, the unpromoted shills, the unpaid "Influencers" would all A fucking Agree.

    • @poetryflynn3712
      @poetryflynn3712 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

      Doesn't Ethiopia have a really bad civil war going on simultaneously though?

    • @der6409
      @der6409 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      It's just a lil bit of death, get out there soldier, win those beaches back.

    • @Nogoodalvarez
      @Nogoodalvarez 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The same thing in countries like Guatemala, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Honduras, Suriname and the United States are corrupt countries with human rights abuses with potential political violence, police brutality and war crimes in the Americas.

  • @wolfpeeing
    @wolfpeeing 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +214

    As a Central African I hope Eritrea gets better, at school our professors talked about the situation there. I hope both of our countries the CAF and Eritrea get better. 🇨🇫❤🇪🇷

    • @timinator900
      @timinator900 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      As an Ethiopian-American, I pray the same fate. In fact, I'm hoping there'd be peace among both Ethiopia and Sister Eritrea. My parents were born and raised in Ethiopia and escaped due to tensions going on between Ethiopia and the TPLF under Meles Zenawi's administration.

    • @Western_Decline
      @Western_Decline 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The U.S. oppresses Eritrea, let’s get the story straight.

    • @booradley6832
      @booradley6832 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I know Africa is doing pretty well right now but I really hope they(meaning various countries where this is an issue currently) manage to get the high level corruption under control. The entire continent is poised to explode in economic opportunities and living standards, it would be a real shame to have some particularly bad people at the top stifle that for everyone.
      rooting for you guys.

    • @carkawalakhatulistiwa
      @carkawalakhatulistiwa 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@timinator900 Only Eritrea and usa tax people overseas

    • @urgardista
      @urgardista 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It won't. The whole world is going downhill.

  • @MustacheCashStash125
    @MustacheCashStash125 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    “You might assume only North Korea could commit such horrific human rights violations against their own people”
    Pol Pot basically turned his whole country into one giant concentration camp

    • @poetcomic1
      @poetcomic1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      And he dreamt up this insane Khmer nightmare while sitting in the cafes of Paris with other radical intellectuals.

    • @arbendit4348
      @arbendit4348 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What horrific human rights violations has North Korea committed other than unsubstantiated claims by western funded "defectors"

    • @jwenting
      @jwenting 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      If a country happy to see North Vietnam invade them (as the Cambodians were) you know things are very very bad there...
      And yes, Cambodia was invaded by Vietnam, but only after the Khmer Rouge invaded Vietnam, kidnapped thousands of people, and burnt down numerous border towns.

    • @Zetheran.
      @Zetheran. 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      To keep you is no profit to lose you is no loss

  • @ClintonBooker
    @ClintonBooker 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    I had a heart attack as a Vietnamese when I saw the thumbnail.

  • @OKingSizeTv
    @OKingSizeTv 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    I met Eritrean refugees while living in Thüringen, Germany. They had clearly been through some shit and were quite withdrawn, but we would play beach volley together. Over time they would begin to open up more and did hear some horrific tales from Eritrea. It's just inhumane.

    • @Bell_plejdo568p
      @Bell_plejdo568p 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes, but what ethopia does is way worse

    • @bang0utsc725
      @bang0utsc725 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@Bell_plejdo568p 🤦‍♂️

  • @aarongebreslasie7677
    @aarongebreslasie7677 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

    Your video sheds some light to the disastrous situation of my country. As a person who grew-up there it has a long-term impact on me, and the regime is quite happily ruling with an iron fist. Thank you for making this video!

    • @zagreus5773
      @zagreus5773 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Did you manage to escape or are you still living there? Sounds very difficult.

    • @aarongebreslasie7677
      @aarongebreslasie7677 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      @@zagreus5773 No, l escaped in 2015, and now living in a safe country. If l was there, l don't think l'll be able to see this video.

    • @zagreus5773
      @zagreus5773 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@aarongebreslasie7677 Congratulations then! Hope you're doing well!
      May I ask how you managed to escape? I'm just curious.

    • @ybarekg9033
      @ybarekg9033 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@aarongebreslasie7677you would have you just didn't know where to look.

  • @alexandregaming8889
    @alexandregaming8889 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    I have a friend that escaped Eritrea to France in 2020, sadly his father couldn’t

    • @sashamoore9691
      @sashamoore9691 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Why don’t they flee to mooslim countries?? No they always flee to civilized WESTERN countries!

    • @littledudefromacrossthestr5755
      @littledudefromacrossthestr5755 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      😔

  • @railfan_neon
    @railfan_neon 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +95

    videos like these make me feel grateful for all that my country has been providing.. Life is so hard for the citizens of these countries 😢

    • @__chinmay__
      @__chinmay__ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Long live Democracy ♥ 🇮🇳 ♥

    • @railfan_neon
      @railfan_neon 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@__chinmay__ Jai Hind 🇮🇳❤

    • @franciscoacevedo3036
      @franciscoacevedo3036 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      1:25 USA beating the "3 North Koreas" one for Africa and one for Central Asia in !mpr1sœnment per Capita says a lot about the so called land of the free

    • @railfan_neon
      @railfan_neon 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@franciscoacevedo3036 and yet more than 8 to 900,000 adults are given citizenship of the US each year!

  • @kayleighgroenendal8473
    @kayleighgroenendal8473 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    I went to high school with a girl who moved here to Michigan from Eritrea with her parents and brother when she was a little kid. She went on to work in govt assistant type positions in Washington D.C. so she is more successful than I'll ever be. Adversity can really create courage and strength!!! I just wish there weren't literally 2,000+ kids in my school so it would have been easier to get to know her.

    • @malcontender6319
      @malcontender6319 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wait till you realize she was a diversity hire and likley no more capable than you or any other average person.

  • @braendo
    @braendo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +192

    Respect, it's hard being worse than Nord Korea

    • @mgntstr
      @mgntstr 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      No. North Koreans live within walking distance of freedom.

    • @Separatist777
      @Separatist777 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +64

      Nord Korea VPN

    • @Separatist777
      @Separatist777 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@mgntstr lol

    • @DominoLarry
      @DominoLarry 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Pledging allegiance to the flag every morning, for example

    • @rastkobubic4009
      @rastkobubic4009 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Wait untill you hear prisoner ratio compared to USA 💀

  • @cxngo8124
    @cxngo8124 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    I had 2 friend from Eritrea when I was in high school in 2019. Kinda crazy that they were in my school considering what you are saying.

    • @iamsomeone8175
      @iamsomeone8175 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      not really… the majority of the eritrean diaspora r descendants of migrants that left the country before the dictatorship came to power and/or when it was under italian (and technically british) rule

    • @cxngo8124
      @cxngo8124 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@iamsomeone8175 they were immigrants that had arrived a year before.

    • @abubekernurahmed8263
      @abubekernurahmed8263 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@iamsomeone8175Not really I have seen a lot people who fled when I was in the refugee camp in 2011. I remember there was 3 camps with over 50,000 people.

  • @jessetucker1606
    @jessetucker1606 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    I went to school as a kid with Eritreans, some of the nicest people ever.

    • @recoil53
      @recoil53 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I took some engineering classes with an Eritrean, back in the 90's. Good guy, eventually moved to another state to be close to his kid.

    • @hello-friend990
      @hello-friend990 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Have a local bar run by Eritreans with a few regulars from their country. Agree they're very nice people. They don't deserve this

    • @bastiaan7777777
      @bastiaan7777777 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I lived in Eritrea. Most horrible people ever.
      Your personal opinion does not reflect everyone.

  • @robmeagher2443
    @robmeagher2443 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +51

    Im not a dictator so im no expert but if you made your country nice to live in wouldn't less people WANT to leave? Could save a fortune on surveillance...

    • @thefirm4606
      @thefirm4606 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Aaaand that’s why you’re a comment on YT and not an authoritarian regime leader… 😂😂

    • @Miss_Twilight
      @Miss_Twilight 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@thefirm4606😭😭😭

    • @cashewnuttel9054
      @cashewnuttel9054 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      Because:
      - that's: hard work,
      - they're selfish,
      - they don't care,
      - they just use the position to become king and queens,
      - they want all the money their country makes to themselves.

    • @ajc-ff5cm
      @ajc-ff5cm 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      The country that most closely mirrors this IMO is Saudi Arabia. They're an absolute theocratic monarchy run under strict religious laws, but they do invest in infrastructure and pay their citizens when needed to keep them happy. (See the Arab Spring or COVID).

    • @skywatchers9675
      @skywatchers9675 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Your job there is to join army and give free labour your whole life .. there's no leaving military . It's slavery

  • @darijus4094
    @darijus4094 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

    There were over 580,000 Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers abroad as of the end 2021, and “the overwhelming majority cited the indefinite national service as the principal reason they fled the country,” according to the May 2022 report of the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea. Not 76000

    • @jonnielsen4564
      @jonnielsen4564 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      stop the boats to europe

    • @Urkelsam12
      @Urkelsam12 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Out of that 580,000 applicants, only 76,000 were actually Eritreans. The rest were mostly northern Ethiopians, and some Sudanese, Yemani, and various west Africans that did not get approved due to fraud and impersonating as Eritreans.

    • @darijus4094
      @darijus4094 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@Urkelsam12 dawg or they are fucking Eritreans

    • @themasterMi7
      @themasterMi7 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@Urkelsam12 it's true, in europe alot of Northern Ethiopian were caught by migration because of impersonating as eritrean.

    • @Findgod222
      @Findgod222 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Urkelsam12glad to see Europeans actually realizing this. Many Ethiopians and other Africans pretend to be Eritreans to get to Europe, it’s not fair for the actual Eritreans.

  • @flamingkitsune2792
    @flamingkitsune2792 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    its weird if you tilt it at an angle it looks like vietnam

  • @robbonabbo
    @robbonabbo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Ex italian colonies try not to be the worst place imaginable challenge:

    • @lionelgideom
      @lionelgideom 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Libya would agree

    • @bastiaan7777777
      @bastiaan7777777 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      New York agrees.

    • @heavent883
      @heavent883 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      all ex italian colonies are in the worst situation

  • @jennadaniels3463
    @jennadaniels3463 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Meanwhile the UN appointed Eritrea to the human rights council in 2022. This is why I wonder if we should take the UN seriously

  • @iandhr1
    @iandhr1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    I think all of us lose perspective from time to time. I know I am guilty of it but I can drag myself back to reality. As an American, I know my country is far from perfect, but videos like this remind me how lucky I am.

    • @saldownik
      @saldownik 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Don't just enjoy your luck, maintain it.

  • @Eikenhorst
    @Eikenhorst 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

    I never understood how Ethiopia didn't just take the whole south cost of Eritrea. Eritrea is basically split in half by the Eritrean Highlands, leaving just 1 road to link with the north of the country. Ethiopia can easily walk in through vast flat desert, destroy that single road and the south is cut off and easily taken, giving Ethiopia precious access to the sea.

    • @momo-cchi5978
      @momo-cchi5978 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      Been asking myself this exact same question for years. Hell, Ethiopia could even exploit the fact that the Red Sea province is predominantly ethnically Afar so they easily annex it and incorporate it into their own Afar region. They could technically pull that same stunt with Somalia and Djibouti, but I, an ethnic Somali, shudder at thought of inviting 15 million Somalis into my country. 😩🤷🏾

    • @echo5935
      @echo5935 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@momo-cchi5978are you suggesting that ethiopia invade somalai?? Traitor. Ethiopia will never take somalia if it even dares they will never see the light of fay again

    • @echo5935
      @echo5935 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And now your sanctioned

    • @rocinante4488
      @rocinante4488 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      I’m pretty sure that desert is a very inhospitable place. Marching a modern army across a roadless, unpopulated desert would be quite the logistical feat. And then once it has reached a coastal city, how to maintain its supply lines? Ethiopia would have to airdrop in supplies, make caravans across the desert, or rely on some other country to ship in supplies via sea. All the while Eritrea could just easily send its troops down the highway from its capital heartland. Maybe capturing just the city of Aseb would be doable as there is a road leading there from Ethiopia. I don’t know if that road is good enough to be used by tanks and heavy trucks or if the port of Aseb is a deep water container ship port that would be worth taking

    • @sergeantskrtskrt9594
      @sergeantskrtskrt9594 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Afar Depression.

  • @XYZ_Vu
    @XYZ_Vu 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks for reporting on this, I had no idea how deeply the repression was

  • @survive7771
    @survive7771 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +78

    i would say something about obf accepting a sponsorship by a garbage time sucking game filled with discord mods and no lifes but thank you for making a video on an under reported inhumane prison state that most people don't know much about

    • @nullc0ntext
      @nullc0ntext 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Sponsorblock can help with that.

    • @themageofspace5516
      @themageofspace5516 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      i suppose they gotta make a living somehow

    • @andrewhdz
      @andrewhdz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It would be worse if no one sponsor would be comfortable to support a video that depicts a dictatorship only by the assumption of "would not be nice to support the delivery of bad/horrific news"

  • @_damballah
    @_damballah 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    tankies be like: "nah, but it aint that bad tho"

  • @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un
    @SupremeLeaderKimJong-un 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

    Man, I can't believe this Isaias Afwerki guy overthrew Admiral General Aladeen and changed the country's name from Wadiya to Eritrea. 😂I loved it when Admiral General Aladeen arrived in NYC on a camel. Eritrea has a neat flag! The green stands for the agriculture and livestock of the country. Blue stands for the Red Sea and its marine wealth. Red for the bloodshed in the struggle for independence. The yellow wreath symbolizes peace and Eritrean unity. The outer wreaths have 15 leaves on each side, representing the 30 years it took to get independence. There are six leaves total in the center, and the leaves are split into three, with one side representing the 9 ethnic groups of the country and the other side for the 9 national languages.
    The country's emblem features a camel surrounded by an olive wreath. The camel was the beast of burden used during the war of independence from Ethiopia to transport supplies and goods, and was seen as being instrumental to the movement's success by Eritrean nationalists

    • @9b5a
      @9b5a 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      what are you doing here kim

    • @yanmarle2864
      @yanmarle2864 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      surely you must have some missiles that haven’t been test-fired yet. Shouldn’t you be out there firing them off to see if they work?

  • @jonathanwilliams1065
    @jonathanwilliams1065 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    The war between Eritrea and Ethiopia officially ended in 2000
    The 2018 agreement was to resolve border disputes from the peace treaty which had caused occasional border clashes, but no official declaration of war occurred

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Eritrea got their independence from Ethiopia in the first place because the Italians colonized Eritrea starting in 1882 (with Assab and they fought a war with the Ethiopians between 1887 and 1889 to expand) and ruled it until 1941. Conquered by the Allies in 1941, Italian East Africa was sub-divided. Eritrea was made a British protectorate from the end of World War II until 1951. However, there was debate as to what should happen with Eritrea after the British left. The British delegation to the UN proposed that Eritrea be divided along religious lines with the Christians to Ethiopia and the Muslims to Sudan.
    The UN decided on a federation between Eritrea and Ethiopia in 1952, as a compromise to reconcile Ethiopian claims of sovereignty and Eritrean aspirations for independence. About nine years later, Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie dissolved the federation and annexed Eritrea, thus triggering the struggle that lasted three decades. At first, the group fighting for independence was the ELF who got support from Arab countries, however the EPLF became the dominant group after Christians left the ELF due to tensions with Muslim members, and subsequently formed the EPLF and defeated the ELF in 1981. Eritrea got de facto independence in 1991, and official independence in 1993 after a referendum with over 99 percent in support.

    • @malcontender6319
      @malcontender6319 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "and official independence in 1993 after a referendum with over 99 percent in support."
      So, back to corruption then?

  • @Mologust
    @Mologust 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    My favorite Eritrea fact is that it is one of two countries that taxes its citizens regardless of where they reside. The other is The United States.

    • @saldownik
      @saldownik 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      US you can quit though

    • @bastiaan7777777
      @bastiaan7777777 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Land of the free.

    • @ayadhyist
      @ayadhyist 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I thought Hungary did that as well?

    • @bastiaan7777777
      @bastiaan7777777 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ayadhyist Expatriation Tax. Many countries do so. But: Unlike all other countries with the exceptions of Eritrea and Hungary (with caveats), the United States taxes its citizens on worldwide income, even if they are permanently resident in another country.

  • @diomuda7903
    @diomuda7903 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    I saw Eritrea's map and if you look carefully, it will be like an incomplete Vietnam map haha.

  • @kelvinnkat
    @kelvinnkat 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Why are we citing the Heritage Foundation at all, it was so easy to cite anyone else instead

    • @memesforplebs7341
      @memesforplebs7341 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It will make more sense when in a few years the US govt is trying to warmonger against this random country in Africa. Just trying to create hate of a random place so later down the line they can justify war or smt

  • @KiranKumarBokkesam
    @KiranKumarBokkesam 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I used to have a colleague from Eritrea and he would get so angry and emotional and refuse to speak about how he escaped from Eritrea 😢

  • @ducksareurlords3782
    @ducksareurlords3782 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Ertrean government literally read 1984 and said "yea this is nice"

  • @guydreamr
    @guydreamr 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    North Korea's new tagline: we're not so bad, we're not Eritrea.

  • @theneccromancer1997
    @theneccromancer1997 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Man, Iran is also facing the EXACT same problems as Eritrea, specially the mandatory military service (at least 2 years for +18 males), and you have to pay something in the range of 2-5 thousand dollars to the government if u want to leave the borders without finishing military service, the police force infiltrating livelihood of almost the WHOLE nation, many women are hired by human traffickers as Sex workers for neighboring Arab nations. Just like North Korea and Eritrea, Iran's also run by a authoritarian leader since 1989 and only one political party could candidate for elections, while the price of mobile phones are twice as the rest of the world, the usage of the social media is either filtered and impossible to access without VPNs and the so called free medias are also heavily under surveillance by the regime. The government has established a so called "Registration System" to avoid smuggling (but in fact, to collect taxes from importing any product from other countries) and the medium salary of 175 USD (70 million Iranian Rials) compared to the poverty line of 40 million Rials (800 USD) per month, and I'm pretty sure Iran is one of the 6 countries below Eritrea in case of media censorship.

  • @cuju-virtuose
    @cuju-virtuose 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    thank you for making this accurate vid about my country and its problems. This subject is very underreported and unknown to many.

    • @koryhardy9594
      @koryhardy9594 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I pray everything gets better for the people of Eritrea 🙏🏻

    • @IRosamelia
      @IRosamelia 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Like myself, it's very hard to believe

  • @joyeternal2314
    @joyeternal2314 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Only God can save these people :(. Please God, will you save one person who needs help most today.

    • @ugwuanyicollins6136
      @ugwuanyicollins6136 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Where is he now sleeping maybe🛌

    • @bigi14
      @bigi14 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      There is no god

    • @bastiaan7777777
      @bastiaan7777777 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      God created this situation.

  • @gabrielalmeida6917
    @gabrielalmeida6917 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +68

    As a Brazilian, I thought our situation was bad during the american-supported dictatorship. Now I am extremely surprised.

    • @brunookami8968
      @brunookami8968 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      why would that be even close to some of the worst regimes ocurring right now lol

    • @Nogoodalvarez
      @Nogoodalvarez 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Guatemala, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Honduras, Suriname and the United States are corrupt countries with human rights abuses with potential political violence, police brutality and war crimes in the Americas.

    • @ItalianIrishguy
      @ItalianIrishguy 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      I hope you're not talking about Boslonairo. He was democratically elected.

    • @davidias9020
      @davidias9020 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      @@ItalianIrishguy Nah, he is talking about 1964-1985 american-supported military dictatorship.
      And yes Bolsonaro (who always openly supported that dictatorship) was democratically elected but he did tried a coup after losing 2022 election to Lula. It only failed because the Army Generals didn't wanted to, because they didn't have same US support this time.

    • @ItalianIrishguy
      @ItalianIrishguy 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Bolsonaro didn't attempt a coup and I supported his brand of Brazilian Nationalism. Now your country has that leftist criminal Lula back in office.

  • @Imightberiding
    @Imightberiding 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Thanks for this informative video. We in free western countries need to see & be made aware of such horrendously evil countries like this to effect change for our fellow brothers & sisters in despotic nations such as this. Without videos & information like this, I nor anyone else would not be aware of the human rights tragedies such as this. Thank you for making this video & thus making so much of the world aware of these tragedies. Big thumbs up & also providing us more fortunate to effect change. Right on!

  • @VinnyNajera-zn7th
    @VinnyNajera-zn7th 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As a non-african citizen I am born and raised in the United States but to be very clear what he just said about this country in East Africa I am so sorry for these people I know this one person who escaped this country well I'm not saying I know that person I know she has a Twitter account she's primary famous inside her but I don't know where is she living but you know she's living in the United States and I hope she's realized that she watch this video and see how her country and you never know she will find out if they kidnapped her family or her family friends members from her friends family members other side but do you know it cannot be worse than That and I do believe that everyone deserves to live longer but in Reality anyone could suffer no matter what it is.

  • @roygoodhand1301
    @roygoodhand1301 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    >see thumbnail
    >"That looks like 'Nam!"
    TIME FOR UNCLE SAM'S REVENGE!

  • @stewart2589
    @stewart2589 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Remember when a country somewhere has a bad reputation, an African country usually has to outmatch them

  • @zakuraiyadesu
    @zakuraiyadesu 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!

  • @eruno_
    @eruno_ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    Eritrea isn't communist. Neither is North Korea.

    • @spicychad55
      @spicychad55 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      NK is about as close to communism, but yes it does allow some capitalism as part of its grey market.

    • @eruno_
      @eruno_ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@spicychad55
      state control of economy isn't communism.

    • @DukeofTxtspeak
      @DukeofTxtspeak 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@eruno_Bruddah, yes it is.

    • @eruno_
      @eruno_ 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@DukeofTxtspeak
      According to Marx communism is "free association of producers". It's a post scarcity, post capitalist economic system after withering away of the state itself. It's exact opposite of state control.

    • @sylvali1046
      @sylvali1046 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      @@DukeofTxtspeak so the incan empire was communist?

  • @naaat
    @naaat 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    The voice on the video is so blurry

    • @nullc0ntext
      @nullc0ntext 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Fix the mic for real!

  • @hikarikaguraenjoyer9918
    @hikarikaguraenjoyer9918 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Eritrea does not claim to be Communist

    • @redfront6707
      @redfront6707 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Eritrea isn’t communist and has never been communist

    • @asscheeks3212
      @asscheeks3212 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Tbf, USA never claim to be Capitalist either, and Israel claim to be secular.

  • @aqua_mc11
    @aqua_mc11 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Fun fact: the country in the dictator (wadiya) replaces Eritrea in the map

  • @TheMostAwesomeMan2424
    @TheMostAwesomeMan2424 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wow. I’ve never heard of this country before.

  • @DavyTwoHands
    @DavyTwoHands 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    No nukes, no oil, so no help from countries that actually could help.

  • @phnix6242
    @phnix6242 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    JUST SO YOU KNOw:
    Our WHO President is a former Secret Police Chief of Eritrea.
    Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Tigrinya: ቴዎድሮስ አድሓኖም ገብረኢየሱስ, sometimes spelt ቴድሮስ ኣድሓኖም ገብረየሱስ; born 3 March 1965 in Asmara, Eritrea) is an Ethiopian public health official, researcher, and the Director-General of the World Health Organization since 2017.

    • @nickpapadopoulos9978
      @nickpapadopoulos9978 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      If I remember correctly, he was also a minister of health under the bloody Communist Megitsu regime in Ethiopia

    • @Zeyede_Seyum
      @Zeyede_Seyum 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      He is TPLF/EPRDF member not EPLF/PFDJ.

    • @Urkelsam12
      @Urkelsam12 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      You guys are so uneducated. Tedros was born/raised in Asmara, but he’s full tigrayan and top executive member of the TPLF. It just blows my mind that the internet exist and people continue to say lies

    • @zagreus5773
      @zagreus5773 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      WTF are you talking about? He was born in Eritrea when it was still part of Ethiopia and became the Minister of Health of Ethiopia. He was also the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia and then became Director of the WHO. He seems to have archived a lot of good and he never held any office in Eritrea. What are you talking about?

  • @davidstephens189
    @davidstephens189 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I had no idea this country existed.

    • @Hudpix16
      @Hudpix16 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      You should learn more geography

  • @shakilahmed6915
    @shakilahmed6915 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    you have to add bangladesh also....we bangladeshis are going with extrime situations..

    • @BruhBruhson-q4n
      @BruhBruhson-q4n 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Atleast you guys can leave

    • @shakilahmed6915
      @shakilahmed6915 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BruhBruhson-q4n but it needs money to leave what we don't have bro😭😭,,all money is looted by pro indian ruling govt....😭😭,,,we are in trouble like Palestinians... But it is invisible...

    • @いただきます-g5u
      @いただきます-g5u 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@shakilahmed6915would it feel better if your money was looted by a pro Pakistan/pro China government instead?

  • @MahiAviation
    @MahiAviation 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    It’s sad that people only want to talk about humanitarian issues that will get them views (North Korea, etc.)
    Thank you for being different

  • @JeffreyCC
    @JeffreyCC 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Could you please apply a high pass filter for a cleaner voice? It sounds like you are talking through a wall.

  • @ajaxrosso1
    @ajaxrosso1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Can you imagine living in a place like that and just knowing the luxuries much of the world has. The wonders of modern world artificially withheld for one sick man's benefit.

  • @pvpcraft2081
    @pvpcraft2081 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    I’m Eritrean and to be honest, this came as a shock

    • @JimmyM1975
      @JimmyM1975 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Are you living there

    • @pvpcraft2081
      @pvpcraft2081 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      No.

    • @dl5498
      @dl5498 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Were you actually born there?

    • @ybarekg9033
      @ybarekg9033 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@pvpcraft2081he is speaking from a western point of view. Eritrea is against usa with China and Russia and kicked the uk embassy out so the western always hit it with sanctions also un never done nothing but hold space in Eritrea.
      Eritrea is not divided like he is put it on the map either.

  • @zizoushifty1483
    @zizoushifty1483 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good and very informative video, but it was so obvious you just looked up "Africa" for stock footage and used clips that were obviously not Eritrea. It was really distracting for me and hurt the delivery of the video.

  • @bluedragontoybash2463
    @bluedragontoybash2463 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Here are 30 bullet points summarizing the content:
    1. Title: "How this country imprisons (nearly) its entire population"
    2. The video discusses a secret detention facility in Eritrea, northeastern Africa.
    3. The facility holds prisoners who opposed the government or tried to flee the country.
    4. The existence of the facility became public in 2004.
    5. Hundreds or thousands of inmates are held in overcrowded containers.
    6. Eritrea has been heavily sanctioned by the UN since 2009.
    7. Eritrea is ruled by a one-party government with a communist ideology.
    8. Eritrea has poor rankings in terms of freedom of press.
    9. Eritrea is compared to North Korea in terms of human rights violations.
    10. Movement in and out of Eritrea is severely monitored.
    11. The southern border with Ethiopia is heavily patrolled.
    12. Leaving the country requires proof of military draft duty completion.
    13. Military service is essentially indefinite.
    14. Leaving the country also requires a substantial security deposit.
    15. A UNESCO report in 2021 revealed severe malnourishment in Eritrea.
    16. The mandatory military draft is a major issue in Eritrea.
    17. The draft was initially an 18-month conscription for defense and development.
    18. The draft consists of 6 months of military training and 12 months of service.
    19. In practice, it's much worse, with indefinite extensions.
    20. The national service program effectively controls the lives of young Eritreans.
    21. Conscription starts before the age of 18 in some cases.
    22. Draft dodging is illegal and can lead to arrests and torture.
    23. Few refugees have managed to escape Eritrea.
    24. Escape is made difficult by harsh climate and terrain.
    25. Eritrea's neighboring countries are not ideal options for settlement.
    26. Kidnapping and human trafficking are issues on the Eritrean border.
    27. The Eritrean government employs a range of surveillance techniques.
    28. Social control is maintained through bribery and incentives.
    29. Eritrea is ruled by President Isaias Afwerki.
    30. Eritrea's political repression is a result of Afwerki's rule, and the country remains isolated.

  • @anewwaveanewbeginning3606
    @anewwaveanewbeginning3606 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    As an Eritrean diaspora 🇪🇷 finally!!

  • @turtlebeach3116
    @turtlebeach3116 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    maybe it still is easier than to make a run in eritrea when compared to north korea ? ?

  • @bfolar9622
    @bfolar9622 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Though informative, the video is quite sloppy, taking images from 1984 famine in Ethiopia, footage of people in Lagos Nigeria, and other sub-saharan countries, in fact the majority of footage is anything but of the subject country, Eritrea. Yes it is hard to get footage from the country, but add a disclaimer to that effect rather than potentially face a backlash for slandering other countries by using unassociated footage, that or just create a podcast.
    Good luck though and well done.

    • @saldownik
      @saldownik 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I wondered about this footage. It is indeed dishonest.

  • @eraserboy12345
    @eraserboy12345 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Absolutely sad and heartbreaking. I hope the people of Eritrea experience true freedom soon.

  • @eldonhoward7925
    @eldonhoward7925 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have never heard of this before.

  • @AuthenticDarren
    @AuthenticDarren 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    To think that hundreds of thousands fought and often died for an independence like that.
    Fighting for the freedom to live in Hell.

    • @saldownik
      @saldownik 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If there exist objective evil, this must be close.

  • @dmytropershyn8334
    @dmytropershyn8334 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bro, "don't forget to sign up for a Conflict of Nations - world of global warfare" - feels like a perfect marketing slogan for TH-cam, and yeah, I guess we all have free, life-time, no-withdraw-option super-premium subscription 🥶

  • @JustMe-yr5lw
    @JustMe-yr5lw 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Great video! Heritage foundation is some dogshit think tank though. You can find better sources

  • @gustavjohansson8562
    @gustavjohansson8562 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    12:35 lemmino background music

  • @lmmlStudios
    @lmmlStudios 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The Audio is a bit muffled, lots of bass

  • @davidzindler5858
    @davidzindler5858 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Your audio mix is really bad and muddy.

  • @AndreOAirton
    @AndreOAirton 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Great video as usual, but sources and useful links in the description would be nice

  • @udy12
    @udy12 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I thought that the country with the largest incarcerated population in the world was the USA

  • @Lwazi9999
    @Lwazi9999 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I'm embarrassed seeing my country's flag here

  • @vincienzo
    @vincienzo 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Ok, but fuck the Heritage Foundation as a source for any information, let alone an ranking on freedom and democracy.

    • @socialistrepublicofvietnam1500
      @socialistrepublicofvietnam1500 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      If it is the organization I am thinking of, they probably want America to join Eritrea and North Korea on the rankings 💀

  • @sjoel3982
    @sjoel3982 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sorry, way too many ads in your production..... couldnt finish

  • @Broken_dish
    @Broken_dish 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    the history is pretty interesting the soviet union and cuba got involved

  • @NovikNikolovic
    @NovikNikolovic 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Now talk about how Turkmenistan does the same thing.

  • @rapidthrash1964
    @rapidthrash1964 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I suggest a space-style invasion

  • @MustacheCashStash125
    @MustacheCashStash125 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It’s too bad Africa’s problems don’t get enough attention. Eritrea should get just as much attention about its human rights violations as North Korea and the stuff Leopold II did in the Congo just as much as what Hitler and Stalin did

  • @redfront6707
    @redfront6707 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Omfg this guy can’t go a sentence without saying North Korea, also he says Eritrea has a communist government and it does not and never has.

  • @ordinarynet6694
    @ordinarynet6694 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    People should start realizing that Human rights, and International law, Does not interest anyone except European's (And UK if you wanna count them seperate) , sometimes the americans and a small amount of Asian countries. They do not stand in most of Africa, Most of Asia, The middle east, Countries in these regions have been ignoring them completely. They are not international , That is a western lie. I am not against them, i think many of these laws could benefit Humanity as a whole, But calling them International is ignorant western hypocrisy, if you want them to be international, then everyone should be held at these values.

    • @saldownik
      @saldownik 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Correct. They are western values.

  • @rfsl1266
    @rfsl1266 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for covering about Eritrea, it’s have the most beautiful people but the dictator just pressed lot people to keep quiet about their lives with fears tactics and having other people lies too the secret police.

  • @fayzjibril8125
    @fayzjibril8125 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    yeah yeah , out of context as always .... is there by any way you come acrossed what is the reason why the goverement come to act like this toward his own citizens

  • @jKLa
    @jKLa 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    These are what might be called prison countries, -nation's run much like giant prisons, a step beyond even totalitarianism. These country's lack basic freedoms of movement or association and have extreme micro management of not only the economy but many aspects of people's private lives. While far more prosperous and with better life quality, in many ways Saudi Arabia and the UAE are similer in their extreme controls, even though the UAE is of course filled with both permanent and temporary foreigners without hope of citizenship but including many who are quite wealthy and choose to live there. Yet the government micromanages to an extreme degree and has almost total control in limmiting ones life to whatever extent they choose. There are basically no rights in practice these country's, only conditional privileges that can be ended at a moments notice. But there are obligations and mandates and loyalty oaths galore, with extreme punishments often to the pont of death to the disobedient, disloyal or merely unlucky!

  • @decus9544
    @decus9544 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Eritreans would be significantly better off reunified with Ethiopia, they made a terrible mistake choosing to leave.

    • @saldownik
      @saldownik 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Your hindsight is quite good 😆

  • @ronalddykeman9427
    @ronalddykeman9427 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I wonder how many Eritreans favor rejoining Ethiopia? That would probably be an improvement over their current situation. Just think, decades tgey fought for independence from Ethiopia, countless of their people died in that war, and for what!?!? To live in their current shitty situation!?!? They really got had by whoever was behind their secession campaign!!! I bet they were better off under Addis Ababa's rule!!!

  • @kd4n347
    @kd4n347 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This might possibly be the worst sponsor section ive ever seen on any video

  • @benjisuniverse
    @benjisuniverse 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    the ad placement is a little... off

    • @bastiaan7777777
      @bastiaan7777777 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No. I now want to play that game to see how it feels to..... yeah.. do what the game does. in this context.

  • @franckcolomb5579
    @franckcolomb5579 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Its not tight enough given the number arriving at Lampedusa and migrating to Europe

  • @moritz-4742
    @moritz-4742 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Citing the heratige foundation isnt very great tbh

    • @ImARealHumanPerson
      @ImARealHumanPerson 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Commenting a problem without a solution isn't very great tbh

    • @moritz-4742
      @moritz-4742 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ImARealHumanPerson well the solution is not using the heratige foundation as a source.

  • @c.e.robinson1100
    @c.e.robinson1100 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You lost all credibility when you quoted “The Heritage Foundation”

  • @turtlebeach3116
    @turtlebeach3116 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    what why does north korea launch nukes into the ocean ?

    • @iamsomeone8175
      @iamsomeone8175 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      where else are they gonna test it

    • @socialistrepublicofvietnam1500
      @socialistrepublicofvietnam1500 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​​@@iamsomeone8175seoul

    • @turtlebeach3116
      @turtlebeach3116 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@iamsomeone8175 in a spot which was nuked previously and not in the ocean

    • @iamsomeone8175
      @iamsomeone8175 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@turtlebeach3116 what💀 pretty much all nuclear tests ever happen on the countries personal land or in the ocean and north korea is wayyyyy too small to test it on their land so they can pretty much only test in the ocean

    • @turtlebeach3116
      @turtlebeach3116 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@iamsomeone8175 they can test it in china at best beijing idk but the ocean is far to important to be nuked

  • @mochabear88
    @mochabear88 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Not sure what the way out is

  • @toddclean547
    @toddclean547 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Control your audio. I can't hear you. Goodbye.

  • @kevintaylor2525
    @kevintaylor2525 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    what country has the most people in prison? oh yeah the us. never mind that doesn't mean anything.

  • @IRosamelia
    @IRosamelia 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I literally had no clue this horror was happening in Eritrea. I thought life there would be like in Ethiopia.

  • @LazyAndFabulous
    @LazyAndFabulous 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I thought you were talking about Vietnam, because of the thumbnail.

  • @visionofwellboyofficial
    @visionofwellboyofficial 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    DPRK is nothing compared to this.

  • @Darkest_matter
    @Darkest_matter 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ohh I had no idea Eritrea was this bad. I thought they had the usual issues. Unsafe water, everyone is very poor, and no medical supplies

  • @mooncake387
    @mooncake387 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    why am i seeing the South African flag being carried by their soldiers i hope my country is not complicit in this

  • @williamkeitaro8910
    @williamkeitaro8910 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    after watching this i feel sad that north korea isnt alone