Yemane Abselom's Blog

The following video is from 2007 -- 5 years after the Algeries Agreement.  It is astounding that nothing has changed 5 years later (10 years after the agreement was signed).  --- Youtube description of video follows --  The Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi & TPLF refuses to accept the UN sponsored Hague verdict - the FINAL and BINDING Algiers agreement between Eritrea and Ethiopia. And now are in the process to invade Eritrea under a false pretext. In this video clip: After having announced full acceptance of the verdict, and for a little while danced with joy in the streets of Addis, with their Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin holding a press conference to tell the world that "the decision was fair and legal -- that sanity had won over insanity, and that the rule of law had prevailed over the rule of the jungle" they called upon the international community to obligate Eritrea to accept the decision as final and binding and further called upon the commiss...

In May 1998, Ethiopian troops fired and shot on an Eritrean platoon   on routine duty along the border town of Badme killing several of its  members. The Eritrean government's response was one of patience and a  resolute determination to resolve the matter peacefully. However, the  minority led Ethiopian government's response was a declaration of an  all out war on Eritrea under the pretext that Eritrea had invaded  undefined Ethiopian territory that later was concocted as "Badme and  its environs". The minority led Ethiopian government had hoped a war  with Eritrea would give it the legitimacy it had failed to achieve  domestically through its divisive and ethnocentric governance.  After a catastrophic bloodshed, the case went for arbitration to the  Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague, the highest court of  arbitration in the world. The independent boundary commission that  was setup with the consent of the ...