BREAKING NEWS Ethiopia 'ready for Eritrea war'

[Hiiraan boy]

Ethiopia 'ready for Eritrea war'
Ethiopian soldier along Eritrean border
Ethiopia is strengthening its defence every day, Mr Meles said
Ethiopia's prime minister says he is strengthening his army in preparation for an attack by long-time foe Eritrea.

"Our defence forces have the capacity to deter aggression and to repulse it if it occurred," Meles Zenawi told MPs.

Eritrea has yet to comment. The two neighbours fought a border war from 1998-2000, in which hundreds of thousands of people were killed.

They back rival sides in Somalia and there had been fears that they could clash there through local proxies.

United Nations peacekeepers are monitoring a buffer zone along the border but Ethiopia has long accused Eritrean troops of infiltrating the zone.


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We believe the ruling was wrong, we still believe it is wrong, but we accept the ruling even though it is wrong
Meles Zenawi
Ethiopia prime minister

How brothers fell out

Under the deal to end their war, an independent boundary commission ruled on where the countries' border should lie in 2002.

It awarded the town of Badme to Eritrea but Ethiopia has not handed it over.

Mr Meles told parliament that he did not agree with the border ruling but said he accepted it.

"We believe the ruling was wrong, we still believe it is wrong, but we accept the ruling even though it is wrong."

Eritrea wants the international community to put more pressure on Ethiopia to comply with the ruling but has not commented on Mr Meles' statement.

In November 2006, the commission gave the rivals a year to physically demarcate their border or risk having it set for them.

[The_Patriot]

the better

[sadwiil]

I love Eritrea.

Ethiopia last week accepted the UN resolution to give Badme to Eritrea. After Ethiopia said Eritrea could have the Badme (which is the main town of that disputed area) Eritrea rejected Ethiopias acceptance.

Eritrea knows that Ethiopia only handed it over because for now they have to much problems on thier hands and does not have the time or the effort to deal with Eritrea.


Viva ONLF
Viva Eritrea
Viva Somali Mujahadiiin
Viva Alliance of Freedom and Democracy and the rest of freedom fighter in Ethiopia. We will destroy this regime from the inside.

[paidmonk]

Xabash on Xabash violence.

[S_lander-boy]

The Somalis and Eritreans are natural born Fighters the Eritrean army is well organized good trained equipped with modern weapons and they are ready History tells us Ethiopia cannot win wars against foe that is well Organized that has modern weapons and a heart to FIGHT history tells us Ethiopia only wins wars from a powerfull foe by foreign assistance such as America russians cubans good example Somalia when it was a powerhouse in east africa in 77s if it wasnt for the Russians and Cubans who intervene we would have March all the way to addis ababa and not only conquer the Ogaden region but the whole of Ethiopia.

[Luq_Ganane]

Actually, Isayas Afwerki has been planning to overthrow meles zenawi for years now. His plan is to incite as much dust as possible, to ignite another border war in cooperation with all the opposition of Eithipia, so as to put too much pressure on Meles, and forcing him to step down. Believe it or not this even showed up in the Kismayo situation, as Meles wanted no part in making more enemies in Somalia (sorry dhabayacos). This is a well coordinated plan by Isayas afwerki to overthrow meles, and meles is now feeling the heat.

[yourboy]

we eritreans are very much like you somalis. we are both fierce battle tested fighters. this is not a enemy's enemy is my firend type of relationship. this is an understanding on the part of the eritrean leadership that eritrea cannot be stable if its neighbors are not stable with governments that represent the people. east africans have been scarred by years and years of violence and inshallah, things will change in the near future. as an eritrean, i believe there are conspiracies acting against both the somalis and eritreans becuase we are socialist-minded sub-saharan african nations that believe in self reliance. self-reliance scares the US and other nations becuase it spread influence all around africa--"if eritrea and somalia become self-reliant then so does the rest of africa." = the US loses.

Like most eritreans, I dont hate the US, I just dont want them exploiting us like they do the rest of africa and like our slave ethiopians brothers. ethiopians, like all people in the horn are good people, but they always have the worst freaking govts that are mainly composed of opportunist elites.

for all of you that say issayas afwerki is a conspiring all the chaos is the Horn are straight fools. look at his history. look at how humble him, his family, and his ethic group lives. there many issayas afwerki-like minded individuals in eritrean government and thats why im confident in eritrea's future.

about the border war and meles' recent statements, he is playing a game with the media. there is no such thing as "accepting" the border ruling. it was a final and binding judicial ruling that needs no accepting but rather implementation on the part of the third party (UN,US,EU, and other gaurantors). most people dont understand this and keep spinning eritreans in circles. eritreans are PhD's in international conspiracies agaisnt our nation. Eritrea doesnt simply call out the US because it thinks its an evil country, it does so becuase it is the US's job to gaurantee and oversee the implementation of the final and binding ruling. instead they do the exact opposite, they create road blocks in implementation and they supply ethiopia with arms and cash. what the f***!!!!!

my family members are on the front lines becuase of this coward in addis ababa and mekele. the TPLF will be brought to justice. The EPLF taught them how to shoot guns, trained them, armed them and brought them to power with the agreement that they would share power with other ethiopians......but nooooo. they decided to stab us the back and one day they will be brought to justice.

just like eritreans marched to addis ababa to remove mengistu, we will march to addis again to remove meles. we should have finished them off in 2000 when we slaughtered half of the their entire army like sheep (unfortunately, the poor oromo peasants). For the entire border war eritrea was on defense agianst the illegal ethiopian invasion but in 2000 when their army was practically decimated after the failed port of assab offensive, our number one general "wuchu" had given message that he had broken ethiopian lines and was ready to invade ethiopia through the tigray region (meles' region). but like the little puppets that they are, they yanked the strings of their puppet masters and asked for help. America suddenly wanted eritrea to come to table for peace. its the same old story with these ethiopian cowards. lies, lies, lies... by the way you will never see the truth so long as the western press vilifies eritrea in the media with half truths and lies.