THE SAMARA DECLARATION

23 Signatures
#Human Rights
Target:
HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP
Region:
International

During the PFDJ’s 20 years in power, thousands of innocent and helpless sons and daughters of the Red Sea Afar have been subjected to heinous atrocities of ethnic cleansing through indiscriminate killings, everlasting disappearances, unwarranted detentions and mass expulsion into refugee camps in neighboring countries.

The Red Sea Afar have patiently waited for a change of heart in Eritrea’s ruling elite, while witnessing their livelihoods and ways of life being deliberately re-engineered by the PFDJ to fit the regime’s narrow ethno-centric agenda.

THE SAMARA DECLARATION

We, The Afar people, including the Afar State President, the Afar State Cabinet, the Afar State Officials, the Leaders of Red Sea Afar Democratic Organizations (RSADO), and the Afar Refugees from our homelands in Eritrea, together declare:

1. OUR CONDEMNATION for the Murder, Torture, Rape, Disappearances, Expulsions, Forcible Confinements and Aggression against our Afar People in our ancestral homeland in Eritrea.

2. OUR RESOLVE to join hands with our fraternal nationalities in Eritrea to establish with them in the state of Eritrea, a liberal democratic federation based on the principles of Freedom and Autonomy for all nationality.

3. Our resolve that the constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Eritrea shall now be based upon the following principle:

a. The rule of law;

b. The equality of each nationality;

c. That each nationality shall exercise the right of self-determination in a federated autonomous region;

d. That the rights of freedom of religion, conscience, expression, assembly, equality, mobility, association and liberty shall be guaranteed;

e. That the people of all nationalities shall be secure in their persons, shall be free from arbitrary search, seizure, arrest, detention and charge;

f. That no conviction shall occur except by due process of law;

g. That the judicial branch shall be independent and secure in its tenure;

h. That each nationality shall, through the governments that they freely elect, own and control their lands and resources including surface and sub-surface resources, sea coasts, fisheries and air space and shall enjoy the profits there from.

i. That each nationality shall, through the governments they freely elect, have the right to protect and preserve the vitality of their language, culture, way of life and economy; and

j. That the rights of indigenous peoples and minorities shall be guaranteed and protected.

We, by our names, signatures and marks as set out below, pledge our commitment and resolve to these solemn principles.

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The THE SAMARA DECLARATION petition to HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP was written by Ahmed Y Mohamed and is in the category Human Rights at GoPetition.

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