Abstract
Eritrea emerged as a postwar nation in 1991, but the country does not have an officially declared transitional jus tice policy. However, the government has implemented some drastic semiofficial transitional justice measures that are ham pering transition to democratic governance by perpetuating con tested versions of the This paper examines the politics of memory in postindependence Eritrea with particular emphasis on how the Eritrean Government creates and preserves his tori cal narratives that promote its ideological underpinning and how it obliterates that which does not fit its hegemonic po liti cal agenda. In so doing, the paper builds on Trouillot's (1995) theoretical framework of silencing the past.
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