Am 20. June more than went to Kassel 50 people on the street, to commemorate the Eritreans who died in the War of Independence. The call said: “We remember the victims of the war, to the innocent, who were persecuted, and to those, who disappeared without a trace.”
As a result of the Italian colonization of East Africa, 1961 to 1991 Eritrean guerrilla organizations against renewed occupation by Ethiopia. The Ethiopian army committed massacres against the Eritrean rural population. It is estimated that around 1,000 people died on the Eritrean side 60.000 Soldier:inside and 90.000 civilian:within.
The border area between Eritrea and Ethiopia is still contested today. Eritrea is considered an authoritarian regime without a constitution or parliament. After school, young people must at least 18 Do military service for months. Tens of thousands of Eritreans have fled in recent years because of long prison sentences and torture for refusing military service:inside to Germany.