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Jeremy Clarke
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In a news article, Poor Eritreans increasingly joining gold rush (Feb 03, 2010), reported by Jeremy Clarke it was reported that the poor of Eritrea are participating in the gold rush. Outwardly, this gives an impression of a magnanimous government and equally magnanimous companies willing to share their wealth with the poor of Eritrea. But anyone who knows this totalitarian regime knows that this wouldn’t last long. This is a regime that has been expropriating fertile farmlands from peasants and pastoralists at an alarming rate and confiscating food products from peasants at a time of famine. It was only biding its time. Given the presence of Western workers in these areas and the image problem that it has in the outside world at a time when the UN has imposed sanctions on it, it was searching for ways it could stop these small ventures without attracting much attention. There was no doubt that sooner or later it would resort to its brutal ways to terrorize these poor souls. One effective way of stopping that would be to apprehend anyone who strays into these areas and send them to the military service, irrespective of whether they have gone though that service or not.