• Tesfamichael Giorgio, former member of the ELF-RC, who was said to have been involved in the early contacts between Isayas Afewerki and the CIA authorities inside the American base in Asmara in the early 70's, in which a deal was struck between Mr. Isayas and the Americans, was killed in April 1992 in front of his house in Addis Abeba by EPLF's death squads. He simply knew too much for his own good.
• Abdalla Daud, former member of the Central Committee of the EPLF, was found killed under mysterious circumstances shortly after liberation in Asmara. At the time, the EPLF government claimed alcohol abuse to have caused his death. Some sources say, however, that he was never known to have had alcohol problems in his long service with the EPLF.
• Ammar Alsheik, a journalist in the government radio and broadcaster was found killed in front of his house in 1991. He, too, was simply ignored and buried without adequate inquiry or explanation. Inside sources claim, however, that he is believed to have met his death at the hands of government's thugs as part of the on-going purges within the ruling party.
• Mohamed Muftah, former ELF-RC freedom fighter who went back to his home town Adi Kaieh after liberation to lead a peaceful life, was killed in 1996. He is believed to have fallen victim to the act of terror the EPLF government has unleashed against ELF members.
• Zekarias Neguse, vice chairman of the EDLM, an opposition group based in Ethiopia, was reportedly killed on 31 August 1996 in the Ethiopian town of Dessie. Following his assassination, the suspiciuos silence of his organization about the circumstances of his death had raised the speculation, among other things, that it could have possibly been an inside job.
• Lately, however, the organization has officially accused EPLF'sdeath squads currently roaming Ethiopia freely of the killing, and has come up with more details as well as names of those involved in the assassination.
• Mohamed Ali Said, assistant editor of the government daily Haddas Eritrea, was found killed in the town of Afabet under suspicious circumstances. He served in the foreign relation department of the EPLF in Paris, Beirut and Asmara. Following differences of opinion with the authorities in the 1994 party congress, he was suspended from his post till. He was another victim of the regime's "house-cleaning" campaign.
• Colonel Teklezghi Gulbet, who was in charge of the investigation of suspected corruption cases in the ruling party's Red Sea Corporation management, was found killed in the vicinity of Trungo Bar on Dec 10 1996. It is widely believed that he was silenced when his inquiries started to point at stinking heads higher up in the leadership of the party itself.
• Members of a military unit of the government army were taken from the training camp to Mount Mahkelay in the Western Lowlands and executed. They were singled out as mutineers, and as such a bad example to the new recruits.
• A group of villagers were gathered in a village in Dankalia on 5 May 1996 to mourn the death of their fellow villager when a commando unit opened fire on them. Five were killed and a number wounded. The army units in the area were under order to shoot any gathering insight with the aim of aborting potential protests. Similar incidents have since happened in other parts of the country.
• Higo Ismail and Saleh Ismail were killed by the death squads of the ruling party in Senafe, Akeleguzai. Their bodies were found 2 km. outside the town.
• Ex-members of erstwhile opposition political forces who, after having dissolved their organization had joined the EPLF in the years of 1992 and 93, have been the target of a recent campaign of sweeping arrests and abductions. They have allegedly been suspected of involvement in clandestine political movement against the regime.

They include:
• Mahmmud Dinai, formerly commander of the first division of the
• Eritrean Liberation Army the ELA), and later at the time of his arrest chairman of the Barka Assembly
• Saleh Mohamed Idris( Abu Ajaj) ex-member of the National Council, assistant commander of the First Division of the ELA
• .Mohamed Khier Musa ex-member of the Executive Committee of the NC head of the Worker's office in Keren
• Mahmud Khalid ex-member of the NC and responsible for the Public Relations Dep. in Barka.
• Ibrahim Mohamed Ibrahim Ex-member of the UO and a judge in Agordat Court.
• Mohamed Ali Ibrahim, Mohamed Osman Arei, both former UO members, later functionaries in government departments.
• Mohamed Osman Dayer, Saleh Ismail Bekhit, Raka Asenay all ex-members of the UO were among the earliest victims at the hands of the squads.

Source:http://www.ephrem.org/~ephrem/archives/1999/m4034.html]

• List of some of hundreds of Afars killed by the Eritrean regime

• On 4 of July 1994 the massacre of disabled Liberation War veteran (Akale Senkulan Tegadelti )in Mai-Habar

• In 1996, 148 prisoners were sentence for life prison; 85 prisoners, were sentenced from 10-15 years and another r 135 prisoners were sentence for 8-10 years. all of them were from ADI- QUALA prison. However nobody knows that how many of them are still alive. Some of the prisoners have since died due to the harsh prison conditions. Some of the prisoners have since died due to the harsh prison conditions.
According to two ex-prisoners’ testimonies:In January 1996, Naizgi went to ADI- QUALA prison and 148 prisoners were called to come out of their prison cells, and they were gathered in the prison compound heavily guarded. Then Naizgi started reading the life prison sentence by calling all