A UN investigation reports various crimes committed in Eritrea since 1991, including enslavement, rape and murder.
The Eritrean government have been committing widespread crimes against humanity for the past 25 years, UN investigators said.
The crimes include, enslavement, imprisonment, enforced disappearance, extrajudicial killing, rape and murder, according to the UN inquiry that was released on Wednesday.
One of the main human rights violations is the forced labor of military conscripts.
One witness said that Air Force conscripts were made to work in a plantation that belonged to the Air Force chief. The conscripts were not paid and were sent to detention facilities if they refused to work.
The governement also operates a shoot-to-kill policy to stop people fleeing the country, according to evidence collected by the UN inquiry.
These acts were perpetrated to terrify and control the civilian population, while crushing opposition, the Commission of Inquiry said.
"There is no genuine prospect of the Eritrean judicial system holding perpetrators to account in a fair and transparent manner," Mike Smith chair of the commission said.
So, the Commission of Inquiry recommends that the international community and the International Criminal Court get involved.
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