The SAWA Defence Training Center is a
military academy in the
Gash-Barka region of
Eritrea
Eritrea ( ; ti, ኤርትራ, Ertra, ; ar, إرتريا, ʾIritriyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia ...
. It is where the
Eritrean Defence Forces (EDF) recruits and national service conscripts are sent for
basic military training. Since 2003, all local secondary school pupils have been required to attend their 12th grade at an institution proximate to the SAWA center in order ensure that they meet their mandatory national service obligations.
In August 2019,
Human Rights Watch reported that the students have been fleeing from the country to avoid training at the Sawa camps, where they are subjected to systematic abuse, torture, harsh working conditions and punishments, and also paid insufficiently.
See also
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Education in Eritrea
References
Educational institutions with year of establishment missing
Gash-Barka Region
Military academies
Military of Eritrea
Schools in Eritrea
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