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Twenty-six years ago today, the border war between Eritrea and Ethiopia began after the Ethiopian
army led by the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) killed nearly eight Eritrean soldiers near Ethiopian-occupied Eritrean 
Badme. This attack by Meles Zenawi caused the 1998 border war.Twenty-six years ago today, the border war between Eritrea and Ethiopia began after the Ethiopian army led by Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) killed nearly eight Eritrean soldiers near Ethiopian-occupied Eritrean Badme. This attack by Meles Zenawi caused the border war.
100,000s of people died, thousands of Eritrean women were raped by the Ethiopian
TPLF army in Eritrea, 100,000 Eritreans were deported from Ethiopia by Meles Zenawi/TPLF (Ethnic cleansings).According to US ambassador Shin, Meles was heard saying during the Ethiopian-Eritrean border war that he said Eritrea and Ethiopia will be united again.
And General Tsadkan, the former Ethiopian
army general who waged the war against Eritrea, said that he believed that the port of Assab belonged to Ethiopia. General Tsadkan also led the TPLF during the 2 years long Tigray war. former Ethiopian general/TPLF official General Tsadkan who led the invasion on Eritrea in 1998 advised Meles Zenawi to invade Eritrea and seize the Assab port
We Eritreans will never forget the crimes committed by the Ethiopian army under the tyrant Meles Zenawi in Eritrea.
Ethiopia/TPLF wanted to dissolve Eritrea as a state after they invaded Eritrea. They wanted to capture the Eritrean-Assab port. But they failed and they were punished for every crime have committed against the Eritrean people.
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According to several historical sources, on 6 May 1998 Ethiopian troops shot Eritrean soldiers near Badme. This incident provoked a heavy military response from Eritrea, soon matched by Ethiopia, which quickly escalated into war. Source: Globalsecurity.org https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/eritrea.htm
Former US Secretary for African affairs Herman J Cohen: ‘Meles started the war‘
According to leaked conversation of UN official Joseph Legwaila (by Julian Assange’s Wikileaks), Ethiopia/TPLF hesitated to withdraw from Badme because it would have made Ethiopia appear as the instigator& aggressor of the 1998-2000 Ethiopia-Eritrean border war.
Ethiopia cannot accept Badme as Eritrean territory, Legwaila explained, as doing so would compel Ethiopia to recognize that it was the aggressor when entering Badme during 1998 hostilities.
Wikileaks: https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/05ADDISABABA3725_a.html
Letter of the Ethiopian American development council to President Joe Biden (2021) : ‚cross border conflict with Eritrea in the late 1990s instigated by the TPLF.‘
Field Marshall Berhanu Jula of the Ethiopian army about the 1998-2000 border war: In 1998 TPLF leaders ordered us to attack Eritrea & then told the world Eritrea attacked Ethiopia https://x.com/Sanpaulo888/status/1717919069326778385?s=20
Discrete diplomatic efforts failed to defuse the Eritrea-Ethiopia crisis as it was building up in 1997-98. After a series of armed incidents during which several Eritrean officials were murdered near the disputed village of Badme , the Eritrean army rolled into the area with a large mechanized force and took the village. Shortly afterward, Ethiopia , claiming it had been invaded, declared “total war” on Eritrea and mobilized its armed forces for a full-scale assault.
Eritrea/Ethiopia War Looms - FPIF
The latest State Department call for progress in the stalled Ethiopia-Eritrea peace accord--issued this week and coming on the heels of similar expressions of concern by European diplomats last week--is welcome news for those fearing the renewal of war. But it doesn't go nearly far enough.
fpif.org
In May 1998, there was a border dispute between the local Tigrayan militia and Eritrean soldiers near Badme. Some Eritreans were killed. They returned in force and drove the Ethiopians out. https://web.archive.org/web/2008121...in-this-insane-and-destructive-war-714305.htm
