Backing guerillas on a neighbor's territory is an odd way to "stabilize" it... The only conceivable way you can read it that way is the possibility that Afewerki is wooing the guerillas away from the US and to the negotiating table. Which I suppose is a possibility.

I don't claim to know what Eritrea's Sudan strategy is. I merely raised the question for discussion. Does somebody have a problem with that?

Did you bother to read the Amnesty International page I linked to? Perhaps you missed this paragraph:

Torture
Torture is routinely used as a punishment by the Eritrean security forces for political, military and religious prisoners. They are held incommunicado without charge or trial in military or security prisons. Virtually no medical treatment is provided for torture injuries or any illness contracted in the harsh conditions in the prisons or metal shipping containers where many detainees are held. The judicial or security authorities have never investigated or prosecuted any case of torture, enforced disappearance or death in custody.

Torture methods include being beaten severely and being tied for long periods in painful positions, which is also commonly used against men and women fleeing conscription or for other military offences.

If you make excuses for this shit, you squander your legitimacy to oppose what is going on at Gitmo. Or didn't that occur to you?

Being called an idiot by someone who can't spell the word is too ironic to warrant comment.