The SAWA Defence Training Center is a

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in the

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region of Eritrea. It is where the

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(EDF) recruits and national service conscripts are sent for

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. 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,

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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.

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