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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | The People the World Forgot: The United Nations and Eritrea |
Author: | Pateman, Roy |
Year: | 1990 |
Periodical: | Horn of Africa |
Volume: | 13 |
Issue: | 3-4; 14 #1-2 |
Period: | July-December |
Pages: | 26-37 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Ethiopia Eritrea |
Subjects: | separatism UN nationalism Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Politics and Government |
Abstract: | The Eritrean struggle for independence provides an object lesson of the inadequacy of the UN. There are few other cases where the UN has so systematically avoided its responsibilities and shown its weakness than in its inability (or unwillingness) to bring peace to the Horn of Africa. This article examines ways in which the UN might play a role in the vital task of bringing peace, stability and justice to the Eritreans. It also indicates the almost insurmountable hurdles Eritreans will have to negotiate in their attempts to be heard. The author argues that the Eritrean case can be reopened in the UN. With this aim, the Eritreans could attempt to interest the members of the UN Special Committee on Decolonization, or initiate a discussion of human rights violations at the UN Third (Human Rights) Committee by raising the enormous refugee problem. However, at the same time the author cannot see a great deal of benefit accruing to Eritrea by resorting to the United Nations at this stage of the struggle for self-determination. Ref. |