Eritrea's bishops have called for a comprehensive truth and reconciliation plan to be set up and urged that hate speech be banned in the effort to achieve peace. The plan should include "the establishment of a national commission entrusted with the campaign for truth and reconciliation, with clear and precise objectives and methods of work," the bishops said in an April pastoral letter. An estimated 80,000 people are believed to have been killed between 1998 and 2000 during a fierce border conflict. The bishops said that "as religious leaders" they are always "available to offer our contribution, if requested, when useful or appropriate." Once a province of Ethiopia, Eritrea voted to separate in 1993 after a violent, decades-long independence struggle.

Source: Ethiopian News May 01, 2019 14:26 UTC