From Toronto and Calgary to Melbourne and London, Eritrean events have seen sometimes violent fights between a repressive regime’s supporters and its opponents
On a freezing morning in Toronto this winter, dozens of Eritrean-Canadians gathered on a plaza in front of City Hall, waving Eritrean flags as they braved the sub-zero temperatures in a bid to save their annual festival.
Passersby might have been puzzled by their pleas for constitutional freedoms and police protection. But it was the latest chapter in a global struggle between rival Eritrean factions – and another sign of how diaspora groups in Canada and elsewhere are becoming the new battleground for the tensions in their home countries.
