Eritrea the NK of Central Asia Turkmenistan and ofc North Korea think they're so mighty and dictatorial USA literally beats them in encarceration rates
A guy my dad works with grew up in Eritrea and was made a child soldier in the civil war at age 13. The good news is he never had to be in combat. He said his small act of rebellion was that he made sure his gun was never loaded
not sure what that would have accomplished, lol. if he got into combat, he would've just... died. that wasn't an act of rebellion, it was an act of stupidity. disarming yourself is not rebellion.
@@cr1tikal_arc"they will kill me if I run, they send me to die for their wars. I however will not be a pawn for them. I will comply and die for them but I will not kill." It was the only act of rebellion he had left. If he lived, he'd have to exist as a slave and he would prefer death.
NK NK of Africa and Central Asia Turkmenistan and Eritrea flexing their propaganda and control over their pop by incarcerating them USA: world incarceration rate? We're number one
I had a classmate from Eritrea, She was 1 of 3 black girls in my high school of 2,000+ kids.... I really wish I knew ANYTHING about this back then, it would have given me reasons to converse with her and build a friendship. But also prob not cuz I was so painfully shy I still would have been afraid of her laughing at me and being annoyed by me 😂😂😂
@@nadil2631 They said something about wanting to avoid conscription to the military and they realised that if they refused they would be tortured, imprisoned or killed. So they meet a soldier who was sympathetic towards them and managed to help them sneak out of the country via sea.
As eritrean who's advocating for change this hits most of the horrible stories that my people are facing, but the most horrifying stories are the underground prisons, no one hardly make it alive to tell the story.
Pew says Eritrea is (+/-)60% Christian 40% Muslim US State Dept says more like 50/50 As an Eritrean, which is closer to the truth? And last, either way, does it matter?
@hillbilly4895 The state department is more accurate. The dictator himself made similar reference to the religion population in eritrea is about fifty fifty pretty much. Having said that a lot have changed in th last 33 years.
As someone who used shipping containers in Iraq (equipment... not people, obviously), if the weather in Eritrea is EVEN REMOTELY SIMILAR to central Iraq, those folks would be facing outright death on a regular basis. I mean, I had to wear gloves just to open and go through the things for any length of time without developing burns on my hands. I can not overstate how dangerous actually living in one of those damn things would be. If it is closed up, you could be dead within hours, even assuming there were holes made to avoid suffocation.
@@ranro7371 Although this has absolutely NOTHING to do with the video or the comment and you seem to get off on carrying hamas's water and invent and spread bull crap, I do have to ask: what's the deal with all the hostages? Were all those women, children, and old folks secretly deadly warriors who were bested in combat by hamas's superior military tactics? Obviously not. Now, on what planet is it ever okay to capture over a hundred civilians and try to use them as bargaining chips to stop a counterattack?
the most annoying shit is that people domestically still like Isaias!!! I argue with my family all the time and they feel like they can't betray him for how he contributed to the independence war. Imagine if Nelson Mandela became a brutal dictator. It hurts but the love for him is still there
@@danshakuimo the funny thing is too, half of my family that is now diaspora didn't even teach their children Tigrinya! thanks to Isaias we are all speaking english in America, Kenya and Canada now!
Not the people domestically but the diaspora who fled during Ethiopian rule, when things were much better despite all the oppression, and who supported the EPLF. These people have no idea what living in Isaias' Eritrea is like, they just care about being able to call themselves Eritreans from the US or Germany or UK or whatever. So long as they have that flag to wave they don't care.
Hi, I'm originally from St-Louise Senegal directly on the other side to Eritrea on the African continent. This video was actually surprising and outstanding to a west African like me as I was very unaware of the political unrest with the active conscription or the drastic dictorial situation this beautiful nation is going through. I remember going to Ethiopia and having a layover there before I went to the Netherlands and I remember seeing an endless stretch of thousands of flag-waving Protestors filling the streets in Addis Ababa. At this time I was confused of what was going on but many people were possibly opposing and challenging the government at the time for the Tigray crisis .Through my perspective, I see all of Africa alike the rest of the world as one beautiful continent filled with kind-hearted people, diversity, scenery, languages, cultures, and traditions. However it is so shameful and disappointing to millions in our continent literally starving and suffering under the corruption and heartless behaviour of the majority of African politicians
It's a leftover from colonialism primarily. Unfortunately, europeans taught your elites how to more efficiently lie, cheat and steal. It's a sad situation all around.
Nabalayo, we plead for the Kenyan people and the existing government to treat well for the brothers who found crossing through the country as they are fleeing what you see, recently they were trying to send back and put them in prison.
You are not alone. I'm a Kenyan as well with no idea about what goes on in Eritrea. We have news from literally everywhere else but this one country is completely unknown to us apart from seeing a few citizens occasionally.
@user-tc7st1kv2n our government now is doing a lot of things citizens disagree with. I am so sorry. And we have no way to vote on this issue. I will do my research to see what citizens can do !
@@likatalikata3823 they don't share news about Eritrea, only propaganda. If they reported consistently about Eritrea they would've been forced to inform us about the positive & negative sides of Eritrean government. And people would see who's really causing harm to Eritrea... But because western countries have an agenda of neocolonialism in Eritrea using really dirty methods of politics, everyone will support the eritrean government if media share the real story of Eritrea. Do you want help do do research or can you use Google and see what countries have been oppressing Eritrea and how they use their power to make eritreans suffer? Or do you want to blame another president like Iraq Libya Syria & Somalia? Wake up please, eritrean government have good intentions and they are doing a good job under the circumstances they've been put under.
Many Africans love the Eritrean dictatorship only reason he insults the west , they can’t see how the Eritreans suffering around the world, no one African country talk about that even Ethiopia they don’t wanna support the ppl, Africans are good at climbing the west , can’t solve African problems.
Honest to God I would watch a video like this from you about every country in the world. Top notch script, top notch editing skills, top notch production, top notch voice over, perfect amount of comedy to keep things interesting, perfect pace in dialogue to keep things comprehensible, MAN GREAT FCKING JOB IS WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY. A+
Good video Hoser! Us Swedes are very familiar with Dawit Isaak, a Swedish-Eritrean Journalist who has been trapped in a metal prison in Eritrea since 2001. I am glad this subject is once again brought up.
I feel like this country was the inspiration for Wadiya in "The Dictator" (it even has the same borders as Eritrea). Also I love how you used a chollima to represent North Korea
Oops, I just made a similar comment except I forgot the fictional country's name. Aladeen, the titular Dictator of the movie himself, is obviously much more inspired by Libya's Gaddafi, however. And the people and culture of Wadiya don't resemble the people and culture of Eritrea at all. But, they definitely located it in place of Eritrea on the map.
My parents left eritrea during the war, seeing as they didn’t know when the war would end, they didn’t want to raise me and my sister. My family back home was glad that we left while we could, only wishing they left themselves. This really sums up my whole country, while im proud of my people, culture, and basically where im from, the government is terrible. Thanks for making the video man.💕🇪🇷🇪🇷
This guy owns the whole country for himself alone. And the whole population is his bodyguard to keep him in power. In return they get nothing. They are brainwashed in the name of nationality, patriotism, and independence from Ethiopia. He is smart I will give him that.
Once dictators get ahold of media and make it state media it’s almost impossible for opposition parties to form. Now that social media is here they can now use that to target protesters and people organizing too making almost the perfect surveillance state. Right after the Arab spring and all those governments fell the Saudis and the UAE invested heavily in Twitter and Elon because they want to read those private messages and can’t have people organizing lol. I’m sure FB is happy to hand over information about citizens too if any dictators ask because they don’t want to lose access to markets. Social media corporations helping dystopian governments control their people is something Orwell would have appreciated had he predicted social media. Twitter has literally become two minutes of hate haha
“Eritrean people are strong and caring. And despite all that we had been through we were brimming with optimism. Our country was on the verge of huge change.” ― Abeba Habtu,
Eritrea and NK: Look at our incarceration rates, FEAR US NK of Central Asia: Turkmenistan: awwsw cute USA biacha where third most populated nation and we beat in incarceration prnct
There’s a large population of Eritrean people living in my neck of the woods. Half of them look like runway models, it’s wild. Good genes and even better cheekbones. It’s so sad their home country is under such distress. I hope Eritrea sees peace and prosperity in our lifetimes.
There was just a massive protest in the Hague in the netherlands where I live about Eritrea. So Thank you for clearing things up Because I havent even heard of this country before
My dad met a guy at his job from Eritrea. He was horrified by the things he was told and asked why America doesn’t help. His reply was that “there’s no oil so why would they care about us?”
@@danielwoods3896 police what? It's all the shit show that your dear country and its friends did to these lands. It's not "police", it's to atone for your sin
Some people need democracy more than others, especially when there's oil available. * I'll just add that this was sarcastic, to prevent any misunderstanding, because we see the obvious, this is an excuse for invaders to steal local resources.
Yeah American politics is only about invading countries with oil which is why Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and Venezuela were annexed in the Great Oil War of 1968. Also the Annexation of Antarctica in 2000 after the final destruction of Festung Neuschwabenland and end to the Antarctic Campaign of WW2.
Hey im from chad and i live in Saudi Arabia i have many friends from Eritrea and they are very polite and funny to hang with i wish to your country the better ❤
My country ,Somalia, supported Eritrea's independence back in the day when we could actually help. It is sad that our countries are in a sad situation. Wishing all the best to our nations🇸🇴❤🇪🇷
My friend is eritrean, and talked about how her grandma visited her. Now im confused😭😭 Shes a pretty normal girl, and always talks positively about her country, “im from eritrea!” “Im drawing the eritrea flag” etc. i wouldnt have ever guessed it’d be like this😭
Don't get confuse the majority of negative comments here are from North Ethiopians -tigray. They all start by saying as an Eritrean or that they left Eritrea few years ago this and that which is lie, are neighbors pretending to be Eritreans traveling by mass to Europe, the Middle East and else where.
you clearly don't know what it was like before independence. Independence is much better than having foreign armies massacre you just because you are a different ethnic group.
@@go-gogodlike6179 the fateful decision Washington made years ago. To be a caesar or a cincinatus, Americans can thank their lucky stars that the founding fathers were well learned people and chose the example of cincinatus
My old manager was from Eritrea. He escaped in the middle of the night through fields and swam a river and managed to reach Ethiopia and then eventually the US. He got a job and earned enough money to rescue his entire family.
I work with refugees from Eritrea, and here's how I know it completely sucks. When you do an interview to immigrate into my country, on average it takes 4 hours, sometimes up to 8, and there's probably about a 20% chance you get rejected. The Eritreans I spoke to had a 20 minute interview and so far I haven't met one that didn't get accepted. Basically anyone from Eritrea, Palestine, and Afghanistan are automatically accepted. If you are competing with current Palestine and Afghanistan then obviously the place sucks. Another thing is when you speak to refugees from these countries they always say point-blank it is a horrible shithole, whereas if it's a half-decent country they will be more wishy-washy about their criticism and maybe even have some good things to say.
@@yonasberhane7385 I don't do the interviews so it doesn't really matter what they tell me. I work with immigrants and the system but I'm not an officer. Many of them do tell me how good their country is and that I should visit. For the ones that are dangerous though they tell me as much.
Bright and early for a brand new video from Hoser. I still find the dozens of different governments, cultures and events in different parts of Africa interesting all from the north near Egypt and Morocco to Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa. *Great video again though Hoser always a great day when you upload and Happy Holidays to all!*
@@GUNUFofficial oh and don't forget - their (now former, he's been replaced by his son) leader also shot a bunch of targets... on a bike... with a revolver... and hit the bullseye every time!
Don't forget that he also randomly renamed all the days of the week and required everyone to follow those names he made up. He also put a golden statue of himself in almost every town and gave himself the title Turkmenbashi (father of all turkmen).
@@driskoll127 discount Atatürk. And his successor is equally crazy. Caucasian dictators are in general fucked in the head, there was that Kazakh guy that named the capital(previously named Astana, kaz. "capital") after himself
Another problem is that, SO MANY PEOPLE (especially the older generation) are STILL loyal to him because they see him as the man who brought Eritrea independence! Like my mom has a framed picture of him next to mine💀
😂😂 dude that’s what gets me mad have been in the army even spend some time in the shipping container luckily not for long and all my unties got framed picture of this demon
My high school mathematics teacher was from this country. Never knew it was this bad. Really glad to hear he left this country and because somewhat successful, especially in education, and also as he was such a nice guy too.
I had an uncle thst fought in the Eritrean 30yr war as a mercenary. He had a lot of incredibly graphic Polaroids, and made it sound like hell on earth for anybody involved.
@@kzcciynkif you look at the map of “wadiya” in the film it’s the borders of Eritrea just renamed to a fake country for the film. But I agree the dictator guy sounds and acts more like gaddafi than isais
@@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986it was 90% a Gaddafi parody , so many references to him, from the 1972 Olympic massacres, UN speech 2009, « what is the question » , the way he dressed speak etc, the fact many ppl told him to leave « free wadiya » (the Libyan rebels called themselves the free Libyans) etc …
I had a coworker who fled from eritrea, she told me parts of her story and that was already awful. Seeing this video I now truly understand the horror of her past. She is such a sweet woman, I'm beyond glad she can have a better life now.
When I visited my cousins in Asmara back in 2012 I gave my cousin a cracked version minecraft on a USB stick, but he needed to update java on his laptop to run it so we went to the internet cafe and began updating. they asked us why and we told them to run minecraft and then they got mad at us and made us delete it LOL
@@abdullahaanawalehyeah lol we were young and didn’t realize minecraft wasn’t allowed. They still let him update Java though! I think the Internet cafe staff were more worried about themselves getting in trouble than us doing something we weren’t supposed to because they did not question us on how we got Minecraft.
As a swiss, who knows a lot of Eritrean brothers and sisters, my best wishes to you. I wish you freedom, in Switzerland and in your home country as well!
Switzerland? Is there a country Eritreans are not in? Eritreans really need to take advantages of the freedoms and opportunities they enjoy in host countries and conduct a globally organized political and economic campaign against the despotic regime so the diaspora can finally return and breath freedoms under a government of their own for once.
As a swiss, i see them actually celebrating their current government. They are not an asset to society. And we have to pay because their country sucks and they have to do harsh military service.
You didn't mention how Eritreans living abroad literally fight each other in the many European countries they now settled in. In Sweden, Switzerland, France, Germany, you see two camps, pro-regime and anti-regime. Clashes ensue with dozens injured. It's not as unanimous as NK's case (although it's not quite unanimous there either).
in Canada and Israel too. the pro-regime group have recently started saying the two sides fighting abroad are actually Eritrea vs. Ethiopia (complete bullshit) bc they can't fathom anti-regime Eritreans ever existing and simply don't want to take responsibility for the fighting.
I don't know why we tolerate shit like this. Send money back? Out. Fighting? Out. Crime? Out. Support the regime? 1-way ticket back to shanty town. We are not the world's 24/7 kindergarten.
@@user-uq6pd1nv1j Complete rubbish. Do you mean the Tigrigna and their countrymen from Eritrea against the Tegaru from Ethiopia? But even than, the main aggressors are pro-Isayas Afeworki Eritreans and opposition Eritreans.
@@anomonyous Maybe pay attention since the people instigating aren't always Eritreans some are Ethiopian who have real reasons to do so (prior in the past Eritrean festivals were peaceful and this has never really happened on scale like this even the western media points this out themselves that it seems out of nowhere) (Tigrayan TPLF supporters) who are anti goverment because of the whole Tigray war are mainly the ones starting the conflict because they lost the war againt the Ethiopian goverment with Eritrea's involement their spite can only be directed to the diaspora rather than against the government in Eritrea or the Ethiopian goverment so this happens. They come to ruin events that have nothing to do with the goverment because they are anti-Eritrea and openly dislike that the people are celebrating their traditions and country making the false equivilence tha they are all Isias supporters. Its like if Israeli people were celebrating their culture but then palestinians came in to fight them during their events because of the Apartheid issue back home and the the Israeli were demonized as the aggressors of the situation. You even see some of them cheering on social media when these events are shut down by western officals like "yes that is what they deserve for supporting genocide".People make the assumption that everyone going to these events in the diaspora love the government (which I'd say isn't true because many families ran away from the country in the first place for a better life elsewhere) or something rather than actually going there to celebrate their traditions, music and culture once in a while (like maybe 2 times out of the whole year). Most of these countries also don't even properly check these so called "Eritrean refugees" and it wouldn't be hard for them to mix us up (we speak almost the same language and we are both black so who cares no difference to them". But it isn't to say all of them aren't Eritrean because there is definitely some who are against the goverment and sick of this dictatorship & end up taking it too far but I wouldn't say they are realistically the majority. Don't believe me even after saying this. The flag you see these people holding up when arriving these events to cause fights isn't even the proper current Eritrean flag (its the old flag back when Eritrea was federated under Ethiopia back in 1952). Why would actual Eritreans be raising this flags when it exists to undermine our soveriegnity that our ancestors and maybe even their relatives would have died for. The flag itself is a colonial reminder since being occupied by the british then being forced into a federation with a country that then just decided to annex the whole country. 'The first flag of Eritrea was officially adopted on September 15, 1952, the day British authorities relinquished control over the area and four days before the Ethiopian-Eritrean Federation became effective. Its light blue background was to honour the flag of the United Nations (UN), which had assisted the country to self-government. In the centre was a wreath of two olive branches surrounding an upright branch, coloured green; these also suggested the UN flag. On December 23, 1958, the Eritrean flag was replaced by that of Ethiopia, which annexed the nation in 1962. About the same time, a liberation struggle was begun; after 1975 it was led by the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF).' Photos of protesters . dims.apnews.com/dims4/default/805dd6c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/3725x2483+0+0/resize/599x399!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F18%2F9e%2Fb2d955f754c81299a5d6fa59f608%2F2ee14ae66c5d45f19724e45dd3df105e
@@anomonyous Yet your country support TPLF. Laughable. I hope your not American because that is the country that supported the TPLF regime which as we know killed and caused how many issues in the whole horn african region. You don't get to put your hands in the mud then complain that your hands are dirty now.
I had a work colleague from Eritrea, he fled with his whole family in 1991 and came to Germany. He described the country as "hell", many of his family members starved to death and were tortured to death. His family came to Germany, the whole family learned the language as quickly as possible, he caught up on his education and integrated excellently. He retired in 2022. He vowed never to set foot in Eritrea again.
Clearly an exceptional example. Good for him. It'll be interesting to see what attitude his children have, however. Once these people feel safe in "new" country , they complain ( protest violently) that their country of origin deserves more and the rest of the world is letting 'that country" down.......or they're being discriminated against, etc. etc...................
@@EriAdey please dont respond to this idiots! Because I can confirm to you that this youtube channel was paid handsomely by TPLF's Digital Woyane in diaspora who have stashed billions of dollars in foreign bank account and their job is to constantly find social media influencers with large number of subscribers so they can get their misinformation and disinformation about Eritrea to the widest possible audience. TPLF's Digital Woyane have heavily invested in this type of propaganda in the belief it would bring about favourable situation for them in Eritrea. They are dreamers!! and highly toxic as this youtube Channels that serve their propaganda
Really enjoying these newer videos. Always curious to see which animals hoser chooses to represent each country! Curious to see a video on Guyana given what's been going on in the news
Wow great work, as usual. Although I knew those people had their fair share of difficulties, I didn't know the situation was THAT bad. Thanks for shedding some light on that part of the world. I hope they make a great recovery as soon as possible. Additionally, can you please make a video about Syria? I'm curious and wanna know your take on it.
I complain a lot about the state of Canada, but videos like this do put our issues into perspective. It does make you a little bit proud that we take in people from places like this and give them a better life. I would like to see this same compassion for the destitute domestically though.
Also think about this though: any moderately powerful democratic state, Canada qualifies, could overthrow the government of Eritrea and enforce democracy, greatly reducing the misery there. A dozen countries could have independently done this at any time in the past two decades, but it has never even been expressed as a possibility that entire time. If there is one thing that unites all the democratic countries of the world it's that they don't want to fight to spread that democracy.
@@korakys and risk disturbing the geopolitics of that region? There are other nearby countries that would not be happy with that idea. And it's not as simple as just "enforce democracy". Look how Afghanistan went for the US. Not to mention that lives would have to be spent for something that would only drain resources of the country that did it. There are so many factors to consider for an outrageous idea like that. This is such an ignorant comment honestly.
My dad worked with a guy who was a former Eritrean freedom fighter who was then forced to seek refugee status after independence due to the brutal authoritarian regime
I work in a refugee reception center in Belgium where I do the legal procedure. I never heard of this country before having a lot of refugees from Eritrea. The people are always so polite and friendly
I went there recently and it has gotten much worse. They turn off the electricity to remind them who is in power and make the people’s main focus on their day to day living rather then than the abuse they are facing. Now most of the routes to get out are closed (smuggling) and a lot of my family has been separated from one another because of this. It is crazy to think that my family could have been stuck there if we hadn’t been separated and taken the risks. But the culture is amazing, especially the food and tea, and the beaches. If things get better I recommend going.
Turkmenistan is definitely Central Asia's North Korea. After independence from the Soviets, its first leader was Saparmurat Niyazov, who called himself "Turkmenbashi" or "leader of the Turkmen". Among the things he did, he put his face everywhere like on vodka, renamed a city after himself, renamed the months of the year (like April/Aprel to Gurbansoltan after his mother, November/Noýabr to Sanjarafter the last leader of the Seljuks, and February/Fewral to Baýdak for the flag), closed all hospitals outside Ashgabat to force people to go there, and made people read his book the Ruhnama, basically his book of opinions that all Turkmen had to agree with. If you want to drive, you had to pass a test about the Ruhnama. He even had a statue of himself that rotated so that it would ALWAYS face the Sun, to symbolize that his era was the golden age! Yeah, he was insane. Interesting facts about Eritrea, the land of what's now Eritrea was once the Kingdom of Aksum! The Kingdom of Aksum was made up of what's now Eritrea, northeastern Sudan, northern Ethiopia, northern Djibouti, and even extended to Yemen at its height! Its capital was Aksum in what's now Ethiopia's Tigray for centuries before it was relocated to Kubar around 800 AD. The kingdom existed from approximately 100 to around 960 AD, growing from the proto-Aksumite Iron Age period around the fourth century BC to achieve prominence by the first century AD. Adulis, which is what's now Zula in Eritrea, was an important port as this port allowed it to be the major power on the Red Sea. As the Kingdom of Aksum became a major power on the trade route between Rome and India and gained a monopoly of Indian Ocean trade, it entered the Greco-Roman cultural sphere. In fact, both Eritrea and Ethiopia's names are of Greek origin, with Eritrea coming from the Greek name for the Red Sea, the Erythraean Sea! The name Eritrea was formally adopted in 1890 by the Italians. Regarding the UN deciding to have Eritrea be a part of Ethiopia, it was supposed to be a federation that would last ten years and then Eritrea would be allowed to become its own nation. So Eritrea was supposed to be granted independence, but of course the Ethiopians didn't want this. For those who don't know about the ELF split, Idris Muhammad Adam and other Eritreans founded the ELF as a primarily Pan-Arab movement in Cairo. Over the course of the 1960s, the ELF was able to obtain support from Arab countries such as Egypt and Sudan as the Arab countries wanted full control of the Red Sea. However, tensions between Muslims and Christians in the ELF along with the failure of the ELF to ward off Ethiopia's 1967-1968 counter offensive internally fractured the ELF, causing it to split. By the mid 1970s, the ELF and the Eritrean People's Liberation Front were the key liberation movements in Eritrea. The EPLF ultimately overtook the ELF as the primary Eritrean independence movement by 1977, and the ELF was subsequently defeated in 1981. When they finally won independence, they combined the EPLF flag and the wreath and olive-branch (used by the ELF) derived from the autonomous flag to create the current Eritrean flag.
my childhood best friend was eritrean. i believe her parents escaped the country before she was born. i never learned about her parents story because i was too young but she was a really cool kid. extremely intelligent and hardworking. i think she ended up going to an ivy league college. i had no clue that eritrea was such a militant and dangerous country
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
Well that’s not what’s happening here. One of the first parts of the video shows that the press is decidedly more free in Eritrea, albeit not good by any means
Great insightful video. I’m a Kenyan in the US and my best friend here is an Eritrean whose whole family is still back home. I’ve heard a lot of stories of what he had to go thru and it makes it sound like my hard times in Kenya were a joke. I pray for change
I'm Kenyan, never knew much about Eritrea apart form hearing of people running away from time to time. I still remember a whole soccer team disappearing on a trip to Kenya. Your video has made me connect the dots and is very informative. Thank you.
The government actually forced the Eritrean men's national team to pull out of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers out of fear all the players would flee and seek asylum. (They probably would have tbh). Just shows how bad the situation is
I have met my own share of people from Eritrea here in US. Also, the ethopian restaurant is actually run by Eritreans. I wonder are there actual ehiopians in US and what do they think of Eritrean who have immigrated here.
Ethiopian here. Eritreans are exactly how you mentioned them (running an Ethiopian restaurant while not - according to them - being Ethiopian). Eritreans claim so loudly that they are different from Ethiopia while leeching every aspect of who they are and their culture from Ethiopia. Contrary to what Eritreans will inevitable say in the comments, they are the ones who started war with Ethiopia several times in both recent and distant history. Historically they let in the Italians, the Ottomans, the Egyptians, the Mahdists etc etc. In recent times they initiated the war with the DERG and the war with the TPLF in 1998. Today they are known all over Africa as being some of the biggest human and drug traffickers on the continent. Contrary to what these Eritreans will say, there are several dozen Eritrean refugee camps in Ethiopia (including Tigray), and Eritreans live in great numbers in the capital. The main differences between Ethiopians and Eritreans are twofold. 1. despite current situations, Ethiopians are not ashamed of who they are, and 2. Ethiopians do not think anything less or more about Eritreans that they wouldn't think about any other Ethiopian. Just because your younger brother wants to fight you constantly doesn't make him any less your blood, any less your family, irrespective of what he would like to believe about himself. So ya Eritreans are delusional and generally miserable even when they are fortunate enough to live abroad.
@@menelikjegna As person who hails from landlocked nation of Nepal, i have special place for Ethiopia who is also landlocked like Nepal. You guys are from the ancient civilization.
I would assume some of the Eritreans who fled especially earlier one might be Ethiopian loyalists, since surely they would be the first on the new Eritrean government's hitlist. Or maybe they are business savvy and know that more people know about Ethiopian food than Eritrean food.
I mean, the one time I met an Eritrean they didn't seem to care who was or wasn't Ethiopian and frankly if the person isn't knowlegable about their own history or culture I wouldn't be surprised if they thought they were just the same people, which really they mostly are similar. I'm guessing the younger generations aren't as attached to their Eritrean identity compared to their parents who are immigrants.
I'm an Ethiopian, born and raised in America. Here's what I'll tell you. Since as long as I could remember, I've known Eritreans as childhood friends or family friends. A majority of them spoke the same language as my parents, Tigrinya. They also practiced the same Christian denomination, Tewahedo Orthodox. However, a lot of them are fervently nationalistic. Some even to the point of irrationality, praising the dictator that runs the totalitarian state today. Those who love Isaias Afwerki see him as the hero he was but is not today. Here's the other thing, and this is not an opinion but historical. There are many groups of people in this region of Africa. Some extend to other countries. The Eritreans I knew are, historically speaking, the same ethnic group as me. They make up the majority in Eritrea. In Eritrea they're called the Tigrinya, and in Ethiopia they're called the Tigrayans. I am a Tigrayan. They essentially follow the same customs, system of kinship, attire, music & arts, etc. In short, you couldn't tell the difference between them without their flags. But due to the incompetence of past warlords, monarchs, and European colonialists, the Tigrinya speakers slowly split into two groups. Colonialism, the 30 Years War, the 1998 Border War, and the Tigray War cemented that. Now most of the people on both sides of the border don't like each other, some even wanting revenge for atrocities committed during these wars. It's also good to note that in the ancient and medieval past, parts of Eritrea and Ethiopia were societally bound by a common Ethio-Semitic Christian highlander identity, also known as the Habesha. This may explain why some Ethiopian Restaurants are owned by Eritreans, due to the common Habesha cuisines. In conclusion, my feelings towards the Eritreans are mixed. I hate the ones who praise their dictator because they are, in my eyes, supporting violence and misery. I feel sorrow for the ones who flee and are subject to human trafficking. And I love the ones who are against tyranny. But these people, specifically the Tigrinya people, are like family. No matter how much I may hate some of them, it's hard to turn my back on family.
I watched this video 4 months ago. Just found out one of my mechanic coworkers fled from Eritrea in the 90s. He's awesome and works his body to the bone for his children and knows life could be a whole lot worse.
Fun fact: in the Sacha Baron Cohen movie "The Dictator", the fictional country that the title character was the ruler of was shown on the map as located in Eritrea (same borders and everything, just a different name), lol. Despite the actor being white and pretending to be Arab, lol. He even called another African "Sub-Saharan", as if Eritrea wasn't part of Sub-Saharan Africa.
@@Anverse-14 I was confused for a second when you said "SBC", but yeah, his characters (including Aladeen, Borat, and Ali G, and probably Bruno, too) often say racist things.
@@MatthewTheWanderer It's funny that he uses it in order to prank bigots by basically confirming their bias and ignorance of the others by acting like a complete degenerate. The lowest kind of comedy in anything. It's the kind of racism that self-professed white liberals enjoy. Imagine him on a blackface and prank some rural alabaman by acting like an African cannibal.
I am glad someone like you has explain very clearly and honestly what the Eritrean people facing under the regime of Isas and his henchmen for the last 30 years without mercy even on his comrades fighters. I born and raised early 1960 in a city 3 hours walk from the village of Eritrean miltry struggle founder the leader Hamid Awati .
I was only really aware of Eritrea because of a list of "countries with major religious persecution" and I was a bit confused why I hadn't really heard of them otherwise. Absolutely wild video, man
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hi hoser im a big fan im glad i caught you on your newest upload, plz plz plz make a video about malawi plz
Eritrea the NK of Central Asia Turkmenistan and ofc North Korea think they're so mighty and dictatorial USA literally beats them in encarceration rates
The Eritrean government took the phrase ‘a military with a state’ very seriously.
Eritrea is Africa’s Prussia
Pakistan moment
@@Mshi-
yea just without the enlightenment absolutism, or even basic merit system
But i felt as if it was emenating transphobia
@@JamesWagner-vv9iz tell this to somebody 20 years ago and see if they know what you're talking about
A guy my dad works with grew up in Eritrea and was made a child soldier in the civil war at age 13. The good news is he never had to be in combat. He said his small act of rebellion was that he made sure his gun was never loaded
Yeah that's jebha elf not the current leaders they had a big war Ur fathers friend was jebha they used child soldiers Cs they was losing the war
not sure what that would have accomplished, lol. if he got into combat, he would've just... died. that wasn't an act of rebellion, it was an act of stupidity. disarming yourself is not rebellion.
Really must have been traumatizing for your father
@@cr1tikal_arc"they will kill me if I run, they send me to die for their wars. I however will not be a pawn for them. I will comply and die for them but I will not kill."
It was the only act of rebellion he had left. If he lived, he'd have to exist as a slave and he would prefer death.
@@cr1tikal_arc He refused to be a tool for killing. That's a pretty meaningful way to rebel in such situation.
I am Eritrean and i left home 10 years ago,just wanted to say you nailed it to 99%. You did your homework. Much respect for that.
What would you say the 1% mark was for?
@@AbolishTheInternet I am going to guess that the 1% off was toning things down so that YT wouldn't make the video demonetized.
Any cool unique to Eritrea things you can think of? Anything from childhood? These more isolated nations are fascinating.
Care to share if Eritreans abroad pay their taxes back home? (I'm guessing they do not lol)
Hello! are people allowed to leave freely? that is good, at least!
I once met a girl and her family who told me the story of how they escaped Eritrea. It was really sad and depressing.
NK NK of Africa and Central Asia Turkmenistan and Eritrea flexing their propaganda and control over their pop by incarcerating them
USA: world incarceration rate? We're number one
I had a classmate from Eritrea, She was 1 of 3 black girls in my high school of 2,000+ kids.... I really wish I knew ANYTHING about this back then, it would have given me reasons to converse with her and build a friendship. But also prob not cuz I was so painfully shy I still would have been afraid of her laughing at me and being annoyed by me 😂😂😂
tell us the story!
Tell us tell us
@@nadil2631 They said something about wanting to avoid conscription to the military and they realised that if they refused they would be tortured, imprisoned or killed. So they meet a soldier who was sympathetic towards them and managed to help them sneak out of the country via sea.
As eritrean who's advocating for change this hits most of the horrible stories that my people are facing, but the most horrifying stories are the underground prisons, no one hardly make it alive to tell the story.
What kind of transformative change do you want to happen in Eritrea?
@heruy8274 a change that is geared towards, equality, respect for the constitution, rule of law, and above the respect for humanity.
As a Russian who've read memoirs of GULAG prisoners, - I understand.
Pew says Eritrea is (+/-)60% Christian 40% Muslim
US State Dept says more like 50/50
As an Eritrean, which is closer to the truth?
And last, either way, does it matter?
@hillbilly4895 The state department is more accurate. The dictator himself made similar reference to the religion population in eritrea is about fifty fifty pretty much. Having said that a lot have changed in th last 33 years.
Thank you for the education. Hopefully one day we will see a free, peaceful, and fair Eritrea.
As someone who used shipping containers in Iraq (equipment... not people, obviously), if the weather in Eritrea is EVEN REMOTELY SIMILAR to central Iraq, those folks would be facing outright death on a regular basis.
I mean, I had to wear gloves just to open and go through the things for any length of time without developing burns on my hands.
I can not overstate how dangerous actually living in one of those damn things would be. If it is closed up, you could be dead within hours, even assuming there were holes made to avoid suffocation.
@@ranro7371 jesse wtf are you talking about
The weather in Eritrea is nowhere near Iraq, I’ve been there multiple times and it never gets above 80 degrees
@@ranro7371 Although this has absolutely NOTHING to do with the video or the comment and you seem to get off on carrying hamas's water and invent and spread bull crap, I do have to ask: what's the deal with all the hostages? Were all those women, children, and old folks secretly deadly warriors who were bested in combat by hamas's superior military tactics? Obviously not. Now, on what planet is it ever okay to capture over a hundred civilians and try to use them as bargaining chips to stop a counterattack?
It was transphobic in some ways to be honest
@@JamesWagner-vv9iz what does that have to do with anything
the most annoying shit is that people domestically still like Isaias!!! I argue with my family all the time and they feel like they can't betray him for how he contributed to the independence war. Imagine if Nelson Mandela became a brutal dictator. It hurts but the love for him is still there
He's like Rob Mugabe on crack to me. At least he wasn't forced anyone to be conscripted.
"If it wasn't for Isaias we would all be speaking Amharic!"
@@danshakuimoexactly what they say
@@danshakuimo the funny thing is too, half of my family that is now diaspora didn't even teach their children Tigrinya! thanks to Isaias we are all speaking english in America, Kenya and Canada now!
Not the people domestically but the diaspora who fled during Ethiopian rule, when things were much better despite all the oppression, and who supported the EPLF. These people have no idea what living in Isaias' Eritrea is like, they just care about being able to call themselves Eritreans from the US or Germany or UK or whatever. So long as they have that flag to wave they don't care.
Well researched. I have some Eritrean students so it's nice to learn more about the situations they fled.
Where are you from. Please take care my brothers and sisters ❤❤
Hi, I'm originally from St-Louise Senegal directly on the other side to Eritrea on the African continent. This video was actually surprising and outstanding to a west African like me as I was very unaware of the political unrest with the active conscription or the drastic dictorial situation this beautiful nation is going through. I remember going to Ethiopia and having a layover there before I went to the Netherlands and I remember seeing an endless stretch of thousands of flag-waving Protestors filling the streets in Addis Ababa. At this time I was confused of what was going on but many people were possibly opposing and challenging the government at the time for the Tigray crisis .Through my perspective, I see all of Africa alike the rest of the world as one beautiful continent filled with kind-hearted people, diversity, scenery, languages, cultures, and traditions. However it is so shameful and disappointing to millions in our continent literally starving and suffering under the corruption and heartless behaviour of the majority of African politicians
i feel your pain
It's a leftover from colonialism primarily. Unfortunately, europeans taught your elites how to more efficiently lie, cheat and steal.
It's a sad situation all around.
Womp womp
I felt as if some parts were transphobic in some ways or another
@@JamesWagner-vv9izwhat
As a Kenyan this is news to me. Shame on my ignorance. Thank you for the information
Nabalayo, we plead for the Kenyan people and the existing government to treat well for the brothers who found crossing through the country as they are fleeing what you see, recently they were trying to send back and put them in prison.
You are not alone. I'm a Kenyan as well with no idea about what goes on in Eritrea. We have news from literally everywhere else but this one country is completely unknown to us apart from seeing a few citizens occasionally.
@user-tc7st1kv2n our government now is doing a lot of things citizens disagree with. I am so sorry. And we have no way to vote on this issue. I will do my research to see what citizens can do !
@@likatalikata3823 they don't share news about Eritrea, only propaganda.
If they reported consistently about Eritrea they would've been forced to inform us about the positive & negative sides of Eritrean government. And people would see who's really causing harm to Eritrea...
But because western countries have an agenda of neocolonialism in Eritrea using really dirty methods of politics, everyone will support the eritrean government if media share the real story of Eritrea. Do you want help do do research or can you use Google and see what countries have been oppressing Eritrea and how they use their power to make eritreans suffer?
Or do you want to blame another president like Iraq Libya Syria & Somalia? Wake up please, eritrean government have good intentions and they are doing a good job under the circumstances they've been put under.
Many Africans love the Eritrean dictatorship only reason he insults the west , they can’t see how the Eritreans suffering around the world, no one African country talk about that even Ethiopia they don’t wanna support the ppl, Africans are good at climbing the west , can’t solve African problems.
Honest to God I would watch a video like this from you about every country in the world. Top notch script, top notch editing skills, top notch production, top notch voice over, perfect amount of comedy to keep things interesting, perfect pace in dialogue to keep things comprehensible, MAN GREAT FCKING JOB IS WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY. A+
I am just leaving comments to first shower your with praises and also to let RUclips algorithm now, more like this please!!🔥
Trust me, you don't need to watch such untruthful videos like this un 💯
Good video Hoser!
Us Swedes are very familiar with Dawit Isaak, a Swedish-Eritrean Journalist who has been trapped in a metal prison in Eritrea since 2001. I am glad this subject is once again brought up.
SINCE 2001!!
He's well cooked pulled pork by now
Have they confirmed this person still being alive? I need to look this up.
Thank god it’s a metal prison! Imagine one build out of candy!
“Swedes”. Youre probably middle eastern lmao
I feel like this country was the inspiration for Wadiya in "The Dictator" (it even has the same borders as Eritrea).
Also I love how you used a chollima to represent North Korea
I was like, I never knew the national animal of Korea was a Pegasus!
Oops, I just made a similar comment except I forgot the fictional country's name. Aladeen, the titular Dictator of the movie himself, is obviously much more inspired by Libya's Gaddafi, however. And the people and culture of Wadiya don't resemble the people and culture of Eritrea at all. But, they definitely located it in place of Eritrea on the map.
@@danshakuimo Yeah, I thought that was weird, too. Has he shown North Korea before? If so, has it always been shown as a Pegasus?
Likely a coincidence. Admiral General Aladeen was likely based on Muammar Gaddafi, with his female bodyguards, flamboyance, and ultranationalism.
That was some of the funniest movies i have ever seen
What a video..am eritrean and this is an absolute truth you did your homework in every detail
God bless you, I hope you have a safe life now. Merry Christmas
I think the best western video done on Eritrea. Even learned new things. (fled when i was 6)
My parents left eritrea during the war, seeing as they didn’t know when the war would end, they didn’t want to raise me and my sister. My family back home was glad that we left while we could, only wishing they left themselves. This really sums up my whole country, while im proud of my people, culture, and basically where im from, the government is terrible. Thanks for making the video man.💕🇪🇷🇪🇷
This guy owns the whole country for himself alone. And the whole population is his bodyguard to keep him in power. In return they get nothing. They are brainwashed in the name of nationality, patriotism, and independence from Ethiopia. He is smart I will give him that.
They are not brainwashed Eritrea is filled with spys who jails anyone who goes against him
And That’s why I’ll never go to Eritrea
My goal in life.
Once dictators get ahold of media and make it state media it’s almost impossible for opposition parties to form. Now that social media is here they can now use that to target protesters and people organizing too making almost the perfect surveillance state.
Right after the Arab spring and all those governments fell the Saudis and the UAE invested heavily in Twitter and Elon because they want to read those private messages and can’t have people organizing lol. I’m sure FB is happy to hand over information about citizens too if any dictators ask because they don’t want to lose access to markets.
Social media corporations helping dystopian governments control their people is something Orwell would have appreciated had he predicted social media. Twitter has literally become two minutes of hate haha
“Eritrean people are strong and caring. And despite all that we had been through we were brimming with optimism. Our country was on the verge of huge change.”
― Abeba Habtu,
Eritrea and NK: Look at our incarceration rates, FEAR US
NK of Central Asia: Turkmenistan: awwsw cute
USA biacha where third most populated nation and we beat in incarceration prnct
@@franciscoacevedo3036No need to incarcerate people if your whole country is a Jail
@@luisss3929 Florida: North Ko-who? Irann?? CUBA??? We lock up enough every year that folks here can’t legally participate in our elections🤣
@@franciscoacevedo3036 and what's other similarities between North Korea and Eritrea? Well it was once colonized by 2 Axis powers. 🤑
@@franciscoacevedo3036 I mean the entire country is literally a jail so I don't think that matters.
There’s a large population of Eritrean people living in my neck of the woods. Half of them look like runway models, it’s wild. Good genes and even better cheekbones.
It’s so sad their home country is under such distress. I hope Eritrea sees peace and prosperity in our lifetimes.
True, most I've seen are tall and slender with great cheekbones. They've all been so nice and hardworking too, they really deserve better.
Amen
Good genes? Lol
Doubt it
No, theyre Incredibly unattractive like 90% of all Africans , it's just reality
There was just a massive protest in the Hague in the netherlands where I live about Eritrea. So Thank you for clearing things up Because I havent even heard of this country before
I’m from Eritrea, thank you for been the voice for the “voiceless” of my people‼️👏👏👏👏👏🙏🏾
Lie
@@signefurax933 womp womp
@@signefurax933wompity
how is he being voiceless 😂
@@heavent883the commenter is saying that the auther of this video is being a voice for them
Thanks for sharing 😮 I didn’t have any idea of this political system in this country,is soo sad.
My dad met a guy at his job from Eritrea. He was horrified by the things he was told and asked why America doesn’t help. His reply was that “there’s no oil so why would they care about us?”
Literally what possible reason would we have to interfere in Eritrea. Everyone hates us being the world police until they need our help
@@danielwoods3896 police what? It's all the shit show that your dear country and its friends did to these lands. It's not "police", it's to atone for your sin
Why should America intervene? It's not their business
Some people need democracy more than others, especially when there's oil available. * I'll just add that this was sarcastic, to prevent any misunderstanding, because we see the obvious, this is an excuse for invaders to steal local resources.
Yeah American politics is only about invading countries with oil which is why Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and Venezuela were annexed in the Great Oil War of 1968. Also the Annexation of Antarctica in 2000 after the final destruction of Festung Neuschwabenland and end to the Antarctic Campaign of WW2.
As someone from Eritrea, it feels surreal to see how much attentions Eritrea is getting recently.
(i know its because of Ethiopia threatening war)
Hey im from chad and i live in Saudi Arabia i have many friends from Eritrea and they are very polite and funny to hang with i wish to your country the better ❤
are u living there currently?
@@botbat9645 well that is nice to hear.
@@Azafell nope, i live in Norway, i have lived here most of my life now, my family left Eritrea when i was only 8 years old.
My country ,Somalia, supported Eritrea's independence back in the day when we could actually help. It is sad that our countries are in a sad situation. Wishing all the best to our nations🇸🇴❤🇪🇷
My friend is eritrean, and talked about how her grandma visited her. Now im confused😭😭
Shes a pretty normal girl, and always talks positively about her country, “im from eritrea!” “Im drawing the eritrea flag” etc. i wouldnt have ever guessed it’d be like this😭
all eritreans are patriotic
Maybe she’s too young to understand
@@nerdy8644 nah, she talks about escaping with hee family sometimes
@@Theinkflowsv that’s cool. What an adventure
Don't get confuse the majority of negative comments here are from North Ethiopians -tigray. They all start by saying as an Eritrean or that they left Eritrea few years ago this and that which is lie, are neighbors pretending to be Eritreans traveling by mass to Europe, the Middle East and else where.
It's an example of people fought for their independence to get themself even more doomed.
you clearly don't know what it was like before independence. Independence is much better than having foreign armies massacre you just because you are a different ethnic group.
Personally I think the lesson is that great commanders don't make great politicans.
@@go-gogodlike6179 the fateful decision Washington made years ago.
To be a caesar or a cincinatus, Americans can thank their lucky stars that the founding fathers were well learned people and chose the example of cincinatus
@@go-gogodlike6179 Some of them actually do, but usually not the ones in 3rd world countries.
@@go-gogodlike6179 isaias wasnt even a great commander
Right as I was thinking about Eritrea, you post this. Wild.
I think about Eritrea often
My old manager was from Eritrea. He escaped in the middle of the night through fields and swam a river and managed to reach Ethiopia and then eventually the US. He got a job and earned enough money to rescue his entire family.
I work with refugees from Eritrea, and here's how I know it completely sucks. When you do an interview to immigrate into my country, on average it takes 4 hours, sometimes up to 8, and there's probably about a 20% chance you get rejected. The Eritreans I spoke to had a 20 minute interview and so far I haven't met one that didn't get accepted. Basically anyone from Eritrea, Palestine, and Afghanistan are automatically accepted. If you are competing with current Palestine and Afghanistan then obviously the place sucks. Another thing is when you speak to refugees from these countries they always say point-blank it is a horrible shithole, whereas if it's a half-decent country they will be more wishy-washy about their criticism and maybe even have some good things to say.
What country is that?
What do you expect from someone who is applying for asylum?
To tell you how good their country is?
They tell you what you would like to hear.
@@yonasberhane7385oh are you an expert in that field and work with refugees? Didn’t realize that and that you know everything.
@@thepragmaticwitch2608 no one knows everything. As a once refugee, I know at least more than you think.
@@yonasberhane7385 I don't do the interviews so it doesn't really matter what they tell me. I work with immigrants and the system but I'm not an officer. Many of them do tell me how good their country is and that I should visit. For the ones that are dangerous though they tell me as much.
Bright and early for a brand new video from Hoser. I still find the dozens of different governments, cultures and events in different parts of Africa interesting all from the north near Egypt and Morocco to Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa.
*Great video again though Hoser always a great day when you upload and Happy Holidays to all!*
I was in Eritrea in 1994, shortly after it gained independence. Afwerki was president. Thirty years later, he's still "president."
Next you gotta cover what is essentially the North Korea of Central Asia, Turkmenistan.
IMO Turkmenistan is much less interesting than Eritrea
@@zachinthehat1they have an eternally burning hole, a leader that used to be a barber, and their leader has a rap.
@@GUNUFofficial oh and don't forget - their (now former, he's been replaced by his son) leader also shot a bunch of targets... on a bike... with a revolver... and hit the bullseye every time!
Don't forget that he also randomly renamed all the days of the week and required everyone to follow those names he made up. He also put a golden statue of himself in almost every town and gave himself the title Turkmenbashi (father of all turkmen).
@@driskoll127 discount Atatürk. And his successor is equally crazy. Caucasian dictators are in general fucked in the head, there was that Kazakh guy that named the capital(previously named Astana, kaz. "capital") after himself
Real ones know Eritrea as Wadiya ruled by Admiral-General Aladeen 🔥🔥🔥
Fr thoo💥✌️✌️
I dont get it 😅
@@KartingRulesit’s from a movie called “the dictator”
Lmfao 😂😂😂 I’m Eritrean and I think he’d be a better leader for us
@@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986Love that Film !!!!
Wow I had no idea, those poor people. Thanks for another good video Hoser.
Another problem is that, SO MANY PEOPLE (especially the older generation) are STILL loyal to him because they see him as the man who brought Eritrea independence! Like my mom has a framed picture of him next to mine💀
Even for older Eritreans living abroad
That is so creepy and I dislike people who worship their governments like if they are God. They sound like the North Koreans and MAGA
Oh my goodness. Free your mom.
😂😂 dude that’s what gets me mad have been in the army even spend some time in the shipping container luckily not for long and all my unties got framed picture of this demon
💀💀💀💀💀💀
If you ever feel your life sucks, remember how people live in Eritrea.
And north korea
@@Idkwhattonamethis-vr7ceDon’t forget Haiti, Yemen, Somalia, the DRC, and Afghanistan.
Nah, your life still sucks but you don't have a shitty country to blame for it
@@RedCommunistDragon If you ever feel your life sucks, remember the Global South.
I remember but it still sucks
My high school mathematics teacher was from this country. Never knew it was this bad. Really glad to hear he left this country and because somewhat successful, especially in education, and also as he was such a nice guy too.
I had an uncle thst fought in the Eritrean 30yr war as a mercenary. He had a lot of incredibly graphic Polaroids, and made it sound like hell on earth for anybody involved.
Wait That's cool didnt know there were mercenaries. Under which flag did he fight for?
Wow...spot on. You have every detail correct. Not many ppl are aware of the small country history and it's current crisis.
The same Eritreans that say nothing is wrong with Eritrea are the same ones who ran away and most likely can’t even come back.
It's called brainwash
I loved Eritrea’s portrayal as Wadiyah in The Dictator
Isnt it supposed to be Libya
@@kzcciynkif you look at the map of “wadiya” in the film it’s the borders of Eritrea just renamed to a fake country for the film. But I agree the dictator guy sounds and acts more like gaddafi than isais
@Osamabinladen2630 failed authoritarian state stands with another failed authoritarian state
@@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986it was 90% a Gaddafi parody , so many references to him, from the 1972 Olympic massacres, UN speech 2009, « what is the question » , the way he dressed speak etc, the fact many ppl told him to leave « free wadiya » (the Libyan rebels called themselves the free Libyans) etc …
There's a guy from Eritrea that I get as a Lyft driver sometimes. I decided to look up Eritrea once and from what I've read he fled for good reason
I had a coworker who fled from eritrea, she told me parts of her story and that was already awful. Seeing this video I now truly understand the horror of her past. She is such a sweet woman, I'm beyond glad she can have a better life now.
When I visited my cousins in Asmara back in 2012 I gave my cousin a cracked version minecraft on a USB stick, but he needed to update java on his laptop to run it so we went to the internet cafe and began updating. they asked us why and we told them to run minecraft and then they got mad at us and made us delete it LOL
Haha you should've lied. Say it was to access a book or something like that.
@@abdullahaanawalehyeah lol we were young and didn’t realize minecraft wasn’t allowed. They still let him update Java though! I think the Internet cafe staff were more worried about themselves getting in trouble than us doing something we weren’t supposed to because they did not question us on how we got Minecraft.
Perhaps they knew about the Uncensored Library map? 🤔
@@_jpg nah it was definitely for a dumber. less thought-out reason than that, and also, this was before that existed I think.
That seamless split at 2:07 looks really cool well done
I'm pleasantly surprised. What a fantastically accurate journalistic analysis of Eritrean politics and society.
no it is not
@@heavent883How so
Great video but the best part was saving the ad read til the end.
As a swiss, who knows a lot of Eritrean brothers and sisters, my best wishes to you. I wish you freedom, in Switzerland and in your home country as well!
Switzerland? Is there a country Eritreans are not in? Eritreans really need to take advantages of the freedoms and opportunities they enjoy in host countries and conduct a globally organized political and economic campaign against the despotic regime so the diaspora can finally return and breath freedoms under a government of their own for once.
As a swiss, i see them actually celebrating their current government.
They are not an asset to society. And we have to pay because their country sucks and they have to do harsh military service.
@@heruy8274 its a well structured plan to destroy european homelands by sending migrant wave after migrant wave
@@heruy8274 It was communist Vietnam that liberated Pol Pot's Cambodia by invading it. That's what it'll take to remove a dictator like that.
@anakitty0 Une camarade suisse et anarchiste de surcroît, je n'oublierai jamais ce que la Suisse m'a apporté. Merci encore pour votre fabuleux pays.
You didn't mention how Eritreans living abroad literally fight each other in the many European countries they now settled in. In Sweden, Switzerland, France, Germany, you see two camps, pro-regime and anti-regime. Clashes ensue with dozens injured. It's not as unanimous as NK's case (although it's not quite unanimous there either).
in Canada and Israel too. the pro-regime group have recently started saying the two sides fighting abroad are actually Eritrea vs. Ethiopia (complete bullshit) bc they can't fathom anti-regime Eritreans ever existing and simply don't want to take responsibility for the fighting.
I don't know why we tolerate shit like this. Send money back? Out. Fighting? Out. Crime? Out. Support the regime? 1-way ticket back to shanty town. We are not the world's 24/7 kindergarten.
@@user-uq6pd1nv1j Complete rubbish. Do you mean the Tigrigna and their countrymen from Eritrea against the Tegaru from Ethiopia? But even than, the main aggressors are pro-Isayas Afeworki Eritreans and opposition Eritreans.
@@anomonyous Maybe pay attention since the people instigating aren't always Eritreans some are Ethiopian who have real reasons to do so (prior in the past Eritrean festivals were peaceful and this has never really happened on scale like this even the western media points this out themselves that it seems out of nowhere) (Tigrayan TPLF supporters) who are anti goverment because of the whole Tigray war are mainly the ones starting the conflict because they lost the war againt the Ethiopian goverment with Eritrea's involement their spite can only be directed to the diaspora rather than against the government in Eritrea or the Ethiopian goverment so this happens. They come to ruin events that have nothing to do with the goverment because they are anti-Eritrea and openly dislike that the people are celebrating their traditions and country making the false equivilence tha they are all Isias supporters.
Its like if Israeli people were celebrating their culture but then palestinians came in to fight them during their events because of the Apartheid issue back home and the the Israeli were demonized as the aggressors of the situation.
You even see some of them cheering on social media when these events are shut down by western officals like "yes that is what they deserve for supporting genocide".People make the assumption that everyone going to these events in the diaspora love the government (which I'd say isn't true because many families ran away from the country in the first place for a better life elsewhere) or something rather than actually going there to celebrate their traditions, music and culture once in a while (like maybe 2 times out of the whole year).
Most of these countries also don't even properly check these so called "Eritrean refugees" and it wouldn't be hard for them to mix us up (we speak almost the same language and we are both black so who cares no difference to them". But it isn't to say all of them aren't Eritrean because there is definitely some who are against the goverment and sick of this dictatorship & end up taking it too far but I wouldn't say they are realistically the majority.
Don't believe me even after saying this. The flag you see these people holding up when arriving these events to cause fights isn't even the proper current Eritrean flag (its the old flag back when Eritrea was federated under Ethiopia back in 1952). Why would actual Eritreans be raising this flags when it exists to undermine our soveriegnity that our ancestors and maybe even their relatives would have died for. The flag itself is a colonial reminder since being occupied by the british then being forced into a federation with a country that then just decided to annex the whole country.
'The first flag of Eritrea was officially adopted on September 15, 1952, the day British authorities relinquished control over the area and four days before the Ethiopian-Eritrean Federation became effective. Its light blue background was to honour the flag of the United Nations (UN), which had assisted the country to self-government. In the centre was a wreath of two olive branches surrounding an upright branch, coloured green; these also suggested the UN flag. On December 23, 1958, the Eritrean flag was replaced by that of Ethiopia, which annexed the nation in 1962. About the same time, a liberation struggle was begun; after 1975 it was led by the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF).'
Photos of protesters .
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@@anomonyous Yet your country support TPLF. Laughable.
I hope your not American because that is the country that supported the TPLF regime which as we know killed and caused how many issues in the whole horn african region.
You don't get to put your hands in the mud then complain that your hands are dirty now.
I had a work colleague from Eritrea, he fled with his whole family in 1991 and came to Germany. He described the country as "hell", many of his family members starved to death and were tortured to death. His family came to Germany, the whole family learned the language as quickly as possible, he caught up on his education and integrated excellently. He retired in 2022. He vowed never to set foot in Eritrea again.
1991 Eritrea didn't had a president it wasn't a country yet
@@EriAdey what are you on about💀
Clearly an exceptional example. Good for him. It'll be interesting to see what attitude his children have, however. Once these people feel safe in "new" country , they complain ( protest violently) that their country of origin deserves more and the rest of the world is letting 'that country" down.......or they're being discriminated against, etc. etc...................
@@EriAdey please dont respond to this idiots! Because I can confirm to you that this youtube channel was paid handsomely by TPLF's Digital Woyane in diaspora who have stashed billions of dollars in foreign bank account and their job is to constantly find social media influencers with large number of subscribers so they can get their misinformation and disinformation about Eritrea to the widest possible audience. TPLF's Digital Woyane have heavily invested in this type of propaganda in the belief it would bring about favourable situation for them in Eritrea. They are dreamers!! and highly toxic as this youtube Channels that serve their propaganda
Thanks for referencing my substack bud! 😃
Bro i like how u make this so simple to understand, huge +
We are suffering over 35 years
tell the world trouth and right thank you
Dear
That's a long time has your people ever thought of standing up against that monster and rebeling
Really enjoying these newer videos. Always curious to see which animals hoser chooses to represent each country! Curious to see a video on Guyana given what's been going on in the news
he chose the camel for Eritrea because it is a national symbol and is on our passports
@@caleb2050 And yet, I don't recall seeing any actual camels in the video.
I’m half Eritrean half Rwandese and this is p accurate, kinda surreal to see people actually talk about us though
That's harsh. Both countries you're from are ran by dictators...
Rwandese NUTS lmaooo gottem
Cool you are the first Eritrean/rwandes I ever here. ❤️
@@GooseGumlizzardkek
Fascinating. Thank you very much for sharing x
Wow great work, as usual. Although I knew those people had their fair share of difficulties, I didn't know the situation was THAT bad. Thanks for shedding some light on that part of the world. I hope they make a great recovery as soon as possible.
Additionally, can you please make a video about Syria? I'm curious and wanna know your take on it.
I complain a lot about the state of Canada, but videos like this do put our issues into perspective.
It does make you a little bit proud that we take in people from places like this and give them a better life.
I would like to see this same compassion for the destitute domestically though.
Same bro. We are blessed to be Canadian in the grand scheme of things. Makes me feel bad for bitching
Also think about this though: any moderately powerful democratic state, Canada qualifies, could overthrow the government of Eritrea and enforce democracy, greatly reducing the misery there. A dozen countries could have independently done this at any time in the past two decades, but it has never even been expressed as a possibility that entire time.
If there is one thing that unites all the democratic countries of the world it's that they don't want to fight to spread that democracy.
@@korakys and risk disturbing the geopolitics of that region? There are other nearby countries that would not be happy with that idea. And it's not as simple as just "enforce democracy". Look how Afghanistan went for the US. Not to mention that lives would have to be spent for something that would only drain resources of the country that did it. There are so many factors to consider for an outrageous idea like that. This is such an ignorant comment honestly.
@@korakys >canada qualifies
LOL
@@michaelb5119I ain’t feel bad for bitching Canada is shit rn idc
Thank you so much for taking the time to research a country with such a complicated history.
I didn't know that much happened in such a small country! This man deserves millions of subs for making unknown history entertaining.
My dad worked with a guy who was a former Eritrean freedom fighter who was then forced to seek refugee status after independence due to the brutal authoritarian regime
How do u know?
Hi Hoser! Thanks to the algorithm I found your video, clicked on it and i like your style, thank you!
Subscribed! 🎉❤
I work in a refugee reception center in Belgium where I do the legal procedure. I never heard of this country before having a lot of refugees from Eritrea. The people are always so polite and friendly
I went there recently and it has gotten much worse. They turn off the electricity to remind them who is in power and make the people’s main focus on their day to day living rather then than the abuse they are facing. Now most of the routes to get out are closed (smuggling) and a lot of my family has been separated from one another because of this. It is crazy to think that my family could have been stuck there if we hadn’t been separated and taken the risks. But the culture is amazing, especially the food and tea, and the beaches. If things get better I recommend going.
I don't trust you...i live in Djibouti as french and was never able to get a visa...how did u enter ?
@@signefurax933 hes prolly eritrean i dont think they would let french passports in
Well done. I enjoyed this video. Also the camels were my favorite
Been waiting for this one
Turkmenistan is definitely Central Asia's North Korea. After independence from the Soviets, its first leader was Saparmurat Niyazov, who called himself "Turkmenbashi" or "leader of the Turkmen". Among the things he did, he put his face everywhere like on vodka, renamed a city after himself, renamed the months of the year (like April/Aprel to Gurbansoltan after his mother, November/Noýabr to Sanjarafter the last leader of the Seljuks, and February/Fewral to Baýdak for the flag), closed all hospitals outside Ashgabat to force people to go there, and made people read his book the Ruhnama, basically his book of opinions that all Turkmen had to agree with. If you want to drive, you had to pass a test about the Ruhnama. He even had a statue of himself that rotated so that it would ALWAYS face the Sun, to symbolize that his era was the golden age! Yeah, he was insane. Interesting facts about Eritrea, the land of what's now Eritrea was once the Kingdom of Aksum! The Kingdom of Aksum was made up of what's now Eritrea, northeastern Sudan, northern Ethiopia, northern Djibouti, and even extended to Yemen at its height! Its capital was Aksum in what's now Ethiopia's Tigray for centuries before it was relocated to Kubar around 800 AD. The kingdom existed from approximately 100 to around 960 AD, growing from the proto-Aksumite Iron Age period around the fourth century BC to achieve prominence by the first century AD. Adulis, which is what's now Zula in Eritrea, was an important port as this port allowed it to be the major power on the Red Sea.
As the Kingdom of Aksum became a major power on the trade route between Rome and India and gained a monopoly of Indian Ocean trade, it entered the Greco-Roman cultural sphere. In fact, both Eritrea and Ethiopia's names are of Greek origin, with Eritrea coming from the Greek name for the Red Sea, the Erythraean Sea! The name Eritrea was formally adopted in 1890 by the Italians. Regarding the UN deciding to have Eritrea be a part of Ethiopia, it was supposed to be a federation that would last ten years and then Eritrea would be allowed to become its own nation. So Eritrea was supposed to be granted independence, but of course the Ethiopians didn't want this. For those who don't know about the ELF split, Idris Muhammad Adam and other Eritreans founded the ELF as a primarily Pan-Arab movement in Cairo. Over the course of the 1960s, the ELF was able to obtain support from Arab countries such as Egypt and Sudan as the Arab countries wanted full control of the Red Sea. However, tensions between Muslims and Christians in the ELF along with the failure of the ELF to ward off Ethiopia's 1967-1968 counter offensive internally fractured the ELF, causing it to split. By the mid 1970s, the ELF and the Eritrean People's Liberation Front were the key liberation movements in Eritrea. The EPLF ultimately overtook the ELF as the primary Eritrean independence movement by 1977, and the ELF was subsequently defeated in 1981. When they finally won independence, they combined the EPLF flag and the wreath and olive-branch (used by the ELF) derived from the autonomous flag to create the current Eritrean flag.
my childhood best friend was eritrean. i believe her parents escaped the country before she was born. i never learned about her parents story because i was too young but she was a really cool kid. extremely intelligent and hardworking. i think she ended up going to an ivy league college. i had no clue that eritrea was such a militant and dangerous country
#12 on trending! Congrats!
My home country. Thank you for the video
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
Imagine making North Korea look like a safe haven for the free press.
that’s not what’s happening though
Well that’s not what’s happening here. One of the first parts of the video shows that the press is decidedly more free in Eritrea, albeit not good by any means
Bruh what are you talking about smh
If you ever feel like an NPC just remember that 118 people liked this comment
@@tombo416and it’s still going up for some reason… no way people actually think Eritrea is worse than NK, they’re both bad but NK is magnitudes worse
Bro I am from Eritrea and I left the country 6 years ago. You pin 📌 to the point. Thank you for revealing the truth about the failed regime!!!
Great insightful video. I’m a Kenyan in the US and my best friend here is an Eritrean whose whole family is still back home. I’ve heard a lot of stories of what he had to go thru and it makes it sound like my hard times in Kenya were a joke. I pray for change
Thanks for all the awesome content and great videos!!
I just stumnbled upon this vid and I gotta say, well done! Found it super informative and somewhat entertaining
Interesting. I didn't know half the tings in this video. Tanks for sharing
I'm Kenyan, never knew much about Eritrea apart form hearing of people running away from time to time. I still remember a whole soccer team disappearing on a trip to Kenya. Your video has made me connect the dots and is very informative. Thank you.
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I'm glad I found this channel
that's an excellent summarization. I liked the simple yet emerging graphic work.
bro this channel too good
As french living in Djibouti, i tried many years to visit Érythrée and this was impossible...its more easier to visit north Corée
Thank you for being the voice for the voiceless and isolated Eritreans that the world keeps ingnoring.
The sound effects makes me love these videos lol
The government actually forced the Eritrean men's national team to pull out of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers out of fear all the players would flee and seek asylum. (They probably would have tbh). Just shows how bad the situation is
If anyone feels their life sucks, please remember Eritreans have to live this life throughout their life.
Hands down it was the best video you've ever made I wish to see more videos like this in future; god speed bro
I have met my own share of people from Eritrea here in US. Also, the ethopian restaurant is actually run by Eritreans. I wonder are there actual ehiopians in US and what do they think of Eritrean who have immigrated here.
Ethiopian here. Eritreans are exactly how you mentioned them (running an Ethiopian restaurant while not - according to them - being Ethiopian). Eritreans claim so loudly that they are different from Ethiopia while leeching every aspect of who they are and their culture from Ethiopia. Contrary to what Eritreans will inevitable say in the comments, they are the ones who started war with Ethiopia several times in both recent and distant history. Historically they let in the Italians, the Ottomans, the Egyptians, the Mahdists etc etc. In recent times they initiated the war with the DERG and the war with the TPLF in 1998. Today they are known all over Africa as being some of the biggest human and drug traffickers on the continent. Contrary to what these Eritreans will say, there are several dozen Eritrean refugee camps in Ethiopia (including Tigray), and Eritreans live in great numbers in the capital. The main differences between Ethiopians and Eritreans are twofold. 1. despite current situations, Ethiopians are not ashamed of who they are, and 2. Ethiopians do not think anything less or more about Eritreans that they wouldn't think about any other Ethiopian. Just because your younger brother wants to fight you constantly doesn't make him any less your blood, any less your family, irrespective of what he would like to believe about himself. So ya Eritreans are delusional and generally miserable even when they are fortunate enough to live abroad.
@@menelikjegna As person who hails from landlocked nation of Nepal, i have special place for Ethiopia who is also landlocked like Nepal. You guys are from the ancient civilization.
I would assume some of the Eritreans who fled especially earlier one might be Ethiopian loyalists, since surely they would be the first on the new Eritrean government's hitlist. Or maybe they are business savvy and know that more people know about Ethiopian food than Eritrean food.
I mean, the one time I met an Eritrean they didn't seem to care who was or wasn't Ethiopian and frankly if the person isn't knowlegable about their own history or culture I wouldn't be surprised if they thought they were just the same people, which really they mostly are similar.
I'm guessing the younger generations aren't as attached to their Eritrean identity compared to their parents who are immigrants.
I'm an Ethiopian, born and raised in America. Here's what I'll tell you.
Since as long as I could remember, I've known Eritreans as childhood friends or family friends. A majority of them spoke the same language as my parents, Tigrinya. They also practiced the same Christian denomination, Tewahedo Orthodox. However, a lot of them are fervently nationalistic. Some even to the point of irrationality, praising the dictator that runs the totalitarian state today. Those who love Isaias Afwerki see him as the hero he was but is not today.
Here's the other thing, and this is not an opinion but historical.
There are many groups of people in this region of Africa. Some extend to other countries. The Eritreans I knew are, historically speaking, the same ethnic group as me. They make up the majority in Eritrea. In Eritrea they're called the Tigrinya, and in Ethiopia they're called the Tigrayans. I am a Tigrayan. They essentially follow the same customs, system of kinship, attire, music & arts, etc. In short, you couldn't tell the difference between them without their flags. But due to the incompetence of past warlords, monarchs, and European colonialists, the Tigrinya speakers slowly split into two groups.
Colonialism, the 30 Years War, the 1998 Border War, and the Tigray War cemented that. Now most of the people on both sides of the border don't like each other, some even wanting revenge for atrocities committed during these wars. It's also good to note that in the ancient and medieval past, parts of Eritrea and Ethiopia were societally bound by a common Ethio-Semitic Christian highlander identity, also known as the Habesha. This may explain why some Ethiopian Restaurants are owned by Eritreans, due to the common Habesha cuisines.
In conclusion, my feelings towards the Eritreans are mixed. I hate the ones who praise their dictator because they are, in my eyes, supporting violence and misery. I feel sorrow for the ones who flee and are subject to human trafficking. And I love the ones who are against tyranny. But these people, specifically the Tigrinya people, are like family. No matter how much I may hate some of them, it's hard to turn my back on family.
This sounds like some sci-fy movie type of stuff
Its just hard to believe that something like this is actually happening just right now on this world
And nothing is being done about it and thats just disgusting
This is not even half of the problems
100% true information. Keep it up.
Although I already know about this through many videos but not a single one was this lighthearted about it lol
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I watched this video 4 months ago. Just found out one of my mechanic coworkers fled from Eritrea in the 90s. He's awesome and works his body to the bone for his children and knows life could be a whole lot worse.
Fun fact: in the Sacha Baron Cohen movie "The Dictator", the fictional country that the title character was the ruler of was shown on the map as located in Eritrea (same borders and everything, just a different name), lol. Despite the actor being white and pretending to be Arab, lol. He even called another African "Sub-Saharan", as if Eritrea wasn't part of Sub-Saharan Africa.
SBC always been a bit racist but hide it behind “edgyness”
@@Anverse-14 I was confused for a second when you said "SBC", but yeah, his characters (including Aladeen, Borat, and Ali G, and probably Bruno, too) often say racist things.
@@MatthewTheWanderer It's funny that he uses it in order to prank bigots by basically confirming their bias and ignorance of the others by acting like a complete degenerate. The lowest kind of comedy in anything. It's the kind of racism that self-professed white liberals enjoy.
Imagine him on a blackface and prank some rural alabaman by acting like an African cannibal.
@@Anverse-14
Yep, but there is one ethno-religious group he will never touch.
@@MatthewTheWanderer that is the idea and funny thing, he helps to awful people to be "safe" with him so he can show us how awful they are.
Watching this as an Ethiopia, you know a lot man
I am glad someone like you has explain very clearly and honestly what the Eritrean people facing under the regime of Isas and his henchmen for the last 30 years without mercy even on his comrades fighters. I born and raised early 1960 in a city 3 hours walk from the village of Eritrean miltry struggle founder the leader Hamid Awati .
I was only really aware of Eritrea because of a list of "countries with major religious persecution" and I was a bit confused why I hadn't really heard of them otherwise.
Absolutely wild video, man