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The Eritrean National Service: Servitude for the Common Good and the Youth Exodus

The Eritrean National Service: Servitude for the Common Good and the Youth Exodus

Kibreab, Gaim

Hardcover

Series: Eastern Africa, Book 37

African HistoryGeneral Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1847011608
ISBN13: 9781847011602
Publisher: James Currey
Published: Jun 16 2017
Pages: 230
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Gives voice to the conscripts who are forced to serve indefinitely without remuneration under the ENS in a powerful critical survey of its effect from the Liberation Struggle to today.

The Eritrean National Service (ENS) lies at the core of the post-independence state, not only supplying its military, but affecting every aspect of the country's economy, its social services, its public sector and its politics. Over half the workforce are forcibly enrolled into it by the government, driving the country's youth to escape national service by seeking employment and asylum elsewhere. Yet how did the ENS, which began during the 1961-91 liberation struggle as part of the idea of the common good - in which individual interests were sacrificed in pursuit of the grand scheme of independence and the country's development - degenerate into forced labour and a modern form ofslavery? And why, when Eritrea no longer faces existential threat, does the government continue to demand such service from its citizens?

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