January 2002 News and Information
Articles/References
Why full fledged war looms or appears to be imminent between Ethiopia and Eritrea?
War under whom leadership and for what objectives and end?
War for whose advantage or benefit?
 By Nuway Teccola
"Is it a war to restore sovereignty of the Ethiopian state or is it for show up so that the prime minister Meles prove himself that he is not only the best in conniving and devising traitorous schemes but he is also qualified field-marshal to command and direct battle fields like Napoleon Bona-Parte of France.For what ever reason the war might be unleashed under the Bonapartist, still Ethiopia is a loser in terms of its sovereignty, human resources, economy, territorial integrity, even the continuation of the Ethiopian state is at stake? "
The Dismemberment of Ethiopia: The U.N. and Boutros-Boutros Ghali
By Professor Teccola Hagos December 24, 2001 PART ONE I.
Ethiopia's Territorial Integrity Is Inextricably Linked to the Red Sea
By: Dr. Ghelawdewos Araia

Open Letter to The Boundary Commission
By Belai Abbai (August 6, 2001)
The regime of Meles Zenawi Crime upon Ethiopia and Ethiopians:
Reality checklist
Who Is Meles Zenawi?
Meles Zenawi led regime dismissed all concerns and kept a blind eye to all these injustices committed by the EPLF. In 1991, EPLF regime deported thousands of innocent Ethiopians empty-handed after their possessions have been confiscated.
An interview Meles gave to the Ethiopian TV
"In 1991, soon after Eritrea won militarily the thirty-year war of struggle, about 100,000 Ethiopians are believed to have left Eritrea. Ethiopia, in retrospect, is accusing Eritrea for deporting that many Ethiopians in 1991. The issue was raised at the time. But, as you can read from the interview given below, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia is defending Eritrea for the action it took at the time."
Ethiopia's Struggle for Survival: From Where to Where?
By Bereket H. Mikael, July 30, 2000
"While the TPLF-EPRDF regime continued to destroy the country's defence forces including the navy and the airforce, the EPLF regime extended its invisible arm into Ethiopia ever since it controlled Asmara in 1993. Eritreans controlled key economic installations as well as military and security institutions.
Claim Over The Lost Territories And Related Security Concerns To Ethiopia
By Taddese Brhan WIC Aug 21,2000
"Ethiopians again find themselves in darkness on the current peace talks. Their expectations of bringing this war to a final conclusion were dashed, first when the Ethiopian army was suddenly ordered to turn back from the verge of a complete victory, and second upon hearing the statement by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and his government affiliates on the territory and port of Assab."
Returnees say whereabouts of many Ethiopians in Eritrean unknown
Axum, August 13, 2001 (WIC)
FACTS OF THE CASE:
"Ethiopian security forces raided university campuses in a deadly attempt to quell student protests. On 11 April 2001, Ethiopian security forces attacked students who were holding a protest at Addis Ababa University."
Ethiopia: Government Attacks Universities, Civil Society
(New York, May 10, 2001) Ethiopian security forces have used excessive force in dealing with student protests and are using the protests as an excuse for cracking down on all government critics, Human Rights Watch charged today.
Walta Information Center (WIC): the Trojan horse of Melles?
"We have affirmed that Mr. Melles has no respect for the rule of the law. Your misdeeds are too many to list but I would like to bring your attention to the following assumption."
The Graziani Massacre and Consequences
Benito Mussolini - The Father of Illegal Eritrean Territorial Claims Against Djibouti and Ethiopia
Ethiopia and Eritrea – Under notice from the US
Horn of Africa: al-Qaida regroups?
Le Monde Diplomatique
Sudan and Somalia are likely to be on Washington's list of world terrorist targets, and it could also launch military operations in the Horn of Africa, where al-Qaida's links are well-established, although little known. by JEAN-LOUIS PENINOU

Commentaries/Critiques
In Defence of Ethiopia
The February 2002 verdict in the Hague
By Samuel Fasika
"Indeed it has. That is why they both look forward for the month of February 2002 as an expectant couple. It will be the birth of a full-fledged nation called Eritrea that was in the making by Mr Issayas and Ato Meles group for the last thirty years. In Ethiopia it will be remembered as a day of infamy, of betrayal by those in power, and a day when a poisonous seed for further destruction is planted."
"The Meles leadership has proved that it won't rest until the demarcation delimitation process is resolved in favour of Issayas. It does not even seem to care about its survival as a government once this task is fulfilled."
Speak now or forever hold your peace!
By S. Tafesse (December 20, 2001)

"Beyond any reasonable doubt, the Meles leadership has proved that it won't rest until the demarcation delimitation process is resolved in favour of Issayas. It does not even seem to care about its survival as a government once this task is fulfilled."
Petition to the Border Commission of the UN
To Ann K. Cooper: Executive Director CPJ [Committee for the Protection of the Rights of Journalists]
Paying lip-service to democracy
By Amaha Belay (December 14, 2001)
"Many people had given their dear lives so that the citizens of this country would enjoy the opportunity to exercise their basic human rights without any intimidation, imprisonment, persecution and execution. Many people had the vision that in place of the dictators whether imperial or military would come an accountable, responsible, transparent and participatory system. All the above wishes and dreams have been demolished by the government of Meles Zenawi.
TISJD Official Position on the Border Demarcation and the Algiers Agreement between Ethiopia and Eritrea
By Tigrians International Solidarity for Justice and Democracy (TISJD)
December 10, 2001

Ethiopia at Stake: The crime being plotted behind the official news
By Gebrehiwot Baikedagne
"All said, Ethiopia is at stake. There is no difference between Prime Minister Meles and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki but one. As Isaias loves to death to establish himself as an undisputed regional power through the use of force and build Eritrea at Ethiopia's expense, Meles strives to consolidate Eritrean sovereignty by resorting to more subtle ways of fragmenting and weakening Ethiopia while holding a firm grip on power by means of the gun."
Opposition a Blessing to Ethiopia
By Berhane Gidey
"Let me to start with go to some vile and vulgar articles, which appeared on some Websites, whose ulterior motives were nothing more than creating confusion and putting wedge among the people of Tigray. They were formulated in an obsolete and clumsy way that one can ignore them without any reply or notice as flimsy arguments."...
"The prime objective of these people is to disrupt the unity of people so that we get caught in a small-village-mental-malady and forget the bigger cause-the cause to fight tyranny and dictatorship. Those who are day and night fighting to expose the undemocratic rule of Meles and his henchmen organized or otherwise, don’t feel discouraged and never give up. Opposition to dictators has never been tolerated in the history of mankind and is a welcome blessing to Ethiopia."

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"In the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, the most blatant and open attack against Ethiopia was spearheaded by Egypt starting with Ali Mohammed, followed by Ismail Pasha, then Gamal Abdel Nasser and on to the present leader Mubarak. Buotros Ghali, a nominally Coptic Christian, in the best tradition of his familyÂ’s service to Moslem leaders of Egypt, ......."
"....WoldeAb Wolde Mariam, the ex-President of the Eritrean Labour Unions, was given a special radio program as part of Radio Cairo to broadcast into Eritrea his vehemently anti-Ethiopia diatribe. Incidentally, WoldeAb is from Axum, Tygrie, with a violent hatred of Shoan Amharas that drove him to extreme views. People who claimed far superior indigenous family root to "Eritrea" finally pushed him out of power in the skirmish within the liberation movement." Prof. Teccola Hagos, has put at our disposal highly valuable and extensively-researched documents that directly address Ethiopia's national interests-- / The Dismemberment of Ethiopia: The U.N. and Boutros-Boutros Ghali
By Professor Teccola Hagos (December 16, 2001)

"Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God." Psalms-68:31
TISJD calls on all Ethiopians to save nation from border demarcation scandal
"The Ethiopians are proud of their three thousand years of independence since King Ethiopius built the obelisks at Axum in 1050 B.C., they have succeeded in repelling invasions over centuries that produced an African consciousness - that is cemented even today. The Eritreans on other hand are proud of their subjugation by the Italians. The Ethiopians are proud of their country that was ancient in the days of King Solomon and Queen Sheba, that was Christian centuries before Emperor Constantine accepted Christianity, that its empire at one time included the whole of Arabian peninsula and even the pharaohs of Egypt. The Eritreans, well, you guessed it. While most Africans went a long way to erase the influence of European colonialism, the Eritreans adopted most of them; their use of European calendar and European way of telling time are testimonies. One wonders why they keep speaking an Ethiopian language (Tigrigna) and use Ethiopian alphabet? Maybe that's next to go?" Anatomy of a Conflict: The Prognosis By Ian James and Dr. Simon Cohen.

"From the mid-1930's, a combination of three factors further contributed towards tthe evolution of what might be called 'Eritrean consciousness'. The first was the growing racist ideology which began to draw a distinction between the Eritreans who were fortunate enough to be under the civilizing umbrella of Italy and the inhabitants of the Ethiopian empire." (Pollera, 1935, Negash 1987)."The Origin of Eritrean Psychological Confusion

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