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• In the midst of all these, the border war between Eritrea and Ethiopia broke out in May 1998. However saddened he was by this new development, Seyoum again went back to the battlefield to cover the event as a writer and photography journalist.

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• for diabetes. With ten other former ministers and liberation war comrades of the President, he has been publicly accused by the President of treason during the border war with Ethiopia - where he was the government's trusted and chief negotiator. But he has not been charged with any offence or presented before a court. Amnesty International considers him a prisoner of conscience as a leader of the

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• new lives elsewhere. Somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 of them came to Britain, fleeing first the long war of independence from Ethiopia, then the 1998-2000 border war. Evidence of the PFDJ fascistic crimes committed against the Eritrean people between 1991 and 2010 is also documented at ehrea.org.

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• According to Saleh, all the problems of Eritrea started when Isaias became paranoid as a result of the border war (“You Might Be a Ghedli Romantic if …”):

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• In 1998 increasing political and economic tensions between Eritrea and Ethiopia led to a two-year border war. The war brought tens of thousands of military casualties and harsh treatment of each country's respective Eritrean and Ethiopian minority communities, including mass forced expulsions. Border tensions remain, but a United Nations military mission is still in place. Conscription of men and

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• al estate’’. It is a story of thousands of Eritrea’s children. It is a story of children born 8 years after Independence, right after the absurd and disastrous border war with Ethiopia. It is a story of children who have no address. All of these children have never known a proper home. They were all conceived and born under tents. Some of them have lost their families, and most have never seen the

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• trean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) and the effective mobilization of the whole adult population in the service of the liberation war effort.[150] Since the border war with Ethiopia ended in 2000, however, increasing numbers of Eritreans—especially youth—voice frustration with the continuing military mobilization and the fact that the democratic transition has been shelved, along with the popul

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• try has become a highly militarised, one party state with severe restrictions over the press, speech, and even movement, particularly in the wake of the bloody border war with Ethiopia from 1998 to 2000.

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• urday. The form ation of the group, including top Islamist leaders, in Asmara this week generated yet more friction between Ethiopia and Eritrea after their border war of 1998 –2000.” [106a] (Reuters report, 15 September 2007). Responding to American accusations that they abetted terrorists in the volatile Horn of Africa, Eritrean officials defended their actions and said that while they w

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• for diabetes. With ten other former ministers and liberation war comrades of the President, he has been publicly accused by the President of treason during the border war with Ethiopia - where he was the government's trusted and chief negotiator. But he has not been charged with any offence or presented before a court. Amnesty International considers him a prisoner of conscience as a leader of the

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• ssays, to ensure his hegemony in the region, ordered the Eritrea Defence Force to occupy Badema on 8 May 1998, which caused the Ethiopian –Eritrean 1998-2000 border war. Despite the fact that Issays provoked the border conflict in May 1998, the following year he received honours from a US group for his leadership skills to end hunger, war and poverty (Visafrica, 1999). This was despite the fa

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• Neutrality or silence in the face of injustice never favors the victim and it is wrong. From Mai-Habar to the border war, the arrest of the journalists and many others I spoke against what I saw to be unjust and unnecessary and proudly sided with the victims. What animates me then and what animates me now is justice. Being on the right side of history is something that I cherish and one that I wan

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• d benevolence. Furthermore, the decision by the Eritrean National Assembly on June 26th, 1998 to protect the rights of Ethiopian civilians in the midst of the “border war” demonstrates the government’s principled stand on the issue of human rights. This should be juxtaposed with the Ethiopian government’s decision to expel and expropriate the property of over 70,000 Eritreans and Ethiopians of Eri

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• Despite a Pyrrhic victory in the 1997-2000 border war with Ethiopia, Eritrea remained a country under siege--from its own government. In April 2002, a boundary commission established under the cease-fire agreement between the two countries gave a ruling favorable to Eritrea. Although the exact boundary between the two countries was still to be demarcated, many of the most intensively disputed area

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• Human Rights Watch. "The situation is growing sharply worse." At the root of the unrest is the government's prosecution of the country's disastrous two-year border war with Ethiopia that caused tremendous suffering for the population, and seriously undermined the country's developmental achievements. "President Afewerki's government is apparently trying to use the world's current preoccupati

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• Kidane began his career in the mid-1990s as a freelance sportswriter in his native Ethiopia. At the outbreak of the border war with Eritrea in May 1998, Kidane was among more than 65,000 people of Eritrean descent who were deported.

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• ed that it would respect a decision by the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission which required the government to pay Ethiopia US$12.6 million in damages over the border war of 1998 to 2000.

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• ing on the Voice of America that Eritreans were grief stricken when the government started officially informing families about the martyrs of the Ethio-Eritrea border war. The government media was disseminating a different version of the people’s reaction stating that the parents and family members welcomed the news with cheers and jubilation. Mr. Solomon was arrested incommunicado in a shipping c

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• destabilize neighboring states by arming rebel groups and for having attacked Djibouti. Relations with Ethiopia remain strained 12 years after the end of a border war between the two countries. Ethiopia occupies territory that a Boundary Commission, established by the parties’ armistice agreement, awarded to Eritrea, a decision that Ethiopia has ignored. A United Nations Security Council (Secu

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• ation is just as hopeless. Malnutrition and diseases are rampant. Their homeland is at war with all its neighbors namely Ethiopia, Sudan and Yemen. A recent border war with Ethiopia alone has consumed over 20,000 people and millions of dollars worth of it’s meager resources. These youngsters are part of an increasing flow of new post independence asylum seekers from Eritrea to various countr

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• y him in the “Martyr’s Cemetery” does not mean anything. As we disclosed in the “Martyr’s Database” which we published following the 1998-2000 Eritrea-Ethiopia border war, it is very common for the government to name as “martyrs” even soldiers that it had executed. It can also deny the honor of “martyr’s cemetery” even to Eritreans with long contribution to the revolution, as was the case with Tah

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• Eritrea says that national service is necessary due to a "no war, no peace" situation with neighbouring Ethiopia following the 1998-2000 border war that killed 70,000 people.

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• s have not been postponed and will take place as scheduled in December 2001.” ** UNMEE repots that hundreds of unclaimed bodies from the Eritrean-Ethiopian border war still rot in the divide area between the armies of the two countries and asked both parties to bury their dead.

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• inite National Service derived from this bizarre idea. Having recreated the mieda environment to its minutest details in today’s Eritrea after the self-induced border war, they are now relieved to see that their life-negating “values” have finally gained some currency on the ground: self-sacrifice, martyrdom, self-reliance, perseverance, etc. From Asmara to Sahel, then back to Asmara; this cir

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• command of his / her leader, he / she should face a military action. Even today this behaviour is exercised in the battle field. The evidence is the recent border war with Ethiopi a. The only difference to the past is that today an individual is not chosen but a unit or units ( ‘ganta’ in Tigrigna) as a whole. One ‘ganta’ has three units. Each unit has 16-20 members. Three units make up one

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• in perpetual dislocation Even though the task of keeping the Eritrean masses in perpetual dislocation has been going on since independence, it was with the border war that Shaebia found the perfect environment for its most nefarious task: to recreate the mieda environment in modern-day Eritrea. As noted above, half of the task needed to perpetually dislocate teghadelti was done by the mere fac

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• dependence was meant to offer, they reverted back into the only thing they had been familiar with for decades: they offered the nation more of ghedli. With the border war, after recreating the Sahel environment to its minutest details, it was time to wrap this hidri all over again and pass it over to the new generation ominously named “Warsai”. This was the first generation to suspect that, after

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• opia says it has completed its troop withdrawal from Eritrea in accordance with a United Nations -sponsored agreement to end the border war. [24] (Conflict with Ethiopia) April The Eritrean government an nounces that its forces have pulled out of the border zone with Ethiopia - a key provision of the peace agreement signed between the two countries. [24] (Conflic

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• aturday. The formation of the group, including top Islamist leaders, in Asmara this week generated yet more friction between Ethiopia and Eritrea after their border war of 1998–2000.” [76a] (Reuters report, 15 September 2007). Responding to American accusations that they abetted terrorists in the volatile Horn of Africa, Eritrean officials defended their actions and said that while they would

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• In 1998 increasing political and economic tensions between Eritrea and Ethiopia led to a two-year border war. The war brought tens of thousands of military casualties and harsh treatment of each country's respective Eritrean and Ethiopian minority communities, including mass forced expulsions. Border tensions remain, but a United Nations military mission is still in place. Conscription of men and

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• Eritrea and Ethiopia fought a brutal 1998-2000 border war that killed some 70,000 people, and tensions between the two foes remain high, with Addis Ababa saying last month [June] it was beefing up its forces for a possible invasion.

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• by the weight of her jewellery, now all gone. Victoria Bernal (2014) also briefly refers to the Eritrean women who were raped by Ethiopian soldiers during the border war. All the abuse and rape of Eritrean women during the border conflicts happened because the Ethiopian government failed to take effective measures to prevent the rape of Eritrean women by Ethiopian soldiers in the towns of Senafe,

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• niversities. For the first time in the year 2006, the University of Asmara has produced 49 Master Degree holders. However, the uncertainty resulting from the border war with Ethiopia has had a negative, or certainly a constraining, effect on many of the university’s development aims. Conclusion Lack trained manpower is one of the major hindrances to rapid socio-economic transformation of

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• Through this campaign, the national service was extended indefinitely enabling the government to avoid mass demobilization following the ceasefire in the 2000 border war.

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• to demobilization ceased, as government members openly stated fighters would serve in the military as long as they saw fit. And yet outside of the short-lived Border War with Ethiopia and Isaias’ failed attempts to bait Sudan and Djibouti into war, there has been unequivocally no need for an agro-active military. Unless, of course, that agro-active military was being used as proof of a looming th

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• But, after the border war, Durue's relationship with Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki - a longtime ally - grew adrift.

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• Shewit’s father was a martyr who was killed during the 1998 -2000, border war with Ethiopia. His mother, who became disabled during the war for Eritrea’s independence had been dependent on Shewit for day-to-day support.

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• he logistics department and worked there till 1993, and then I was demobilized. While leading my ordinary life and working for a construction company, as the border war between Eritrea and Ethiopia broke out in 1998, I was ordered to join the 16th military intelligent unit of regiment 161. I, then, served as an expert of Information and Cartography in various military sections up to 2004. Furt

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• haracterized Eritreans who had lived in Ethiopia. Deportations of Eritreans from Ethiopia were one such mechanism of differentiation. Between 1998, when the border war began, and 2000, when both countries signed a cessation of hostilities agreement, approximately seventy-five thousand Eritreans and Ethiopians of Eritrean origin were deported from Ethiopia (Human Rights Watch 2003).2 The war and

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• SE, 1. You are from TIGRAY, like Hagos, an Agame, who has been living in San Jose, Ca. USA, for the last 24 yeas & who use to claim being an ERITREAN until the border war started, who posts MILLION messages a day against ERITREA on this "ERITREAN FORUM" in different nick names. 2. A legitmate Eritrean who disagree who the present policies of the Eritrean Government, but fails to defend Eritrea whe

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• Eritrea and Ethiopia fought a brutal 1998-2000 border war that killed some 70,000 people, and tensions between the two foes remain high, with Addis Ababa saying last month it was beefing up its forces for a possible invasion.

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• evidence is the recent border war with Ethiopia. The only difference to the past is that

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• Somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 of them came to Britain, fleeing first the long war of independence from Ethiopia, then the 1998-2000 border war with its former overlord, and now the twin evils of political and religious repression.

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• lly of the EPLF in the war against the pre-1991 Ethiopian military regime of Mengistu Haile Mariam, the two countries fought a senseless, but extremely bloody, border war in 1998, which ended with a cease-fire but no permanent resolution. Tensions also exist between Eritrea and Sudan, with the governments of both countries supporting armed opposition groups in the other.

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• Part of the “border war” between Eritrea and Ethiopia has been attributed by some analysts to the Ethiopian government resenting the PFDJ’s treatment of it as a “junior partner.” Is the Ethiopian government seeking a “junior partner” in Eritrea and, if so, is that a formula for durable and sustainable relationship?

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• egy.Let us perfect the equality and the union of each other. PFDJ's "tyranny" is conditional (not natural or permanent), it is only a continuation of the ET-ER border war.Work with us (not with our enemies)we will work with you. Try peaceful means first. Let us talk on the maximum freedoms each of us could enjoy within a democratic ER republic.

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• 58I.e., Ethiopia must give Eritrea the control of Badme village and other territories granted to Eritrea by the Eritrean-Ethiopian Boundary Commission. On the border war and subsequent peace agreement, see Negash and Tronvoll (2000); Nystuen and Tronvoll (2008). due process of law’ (Art. 17.1). If detained, the detainee ‘shall be brought before a court of law within 48 hours of his arrest [...

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• ical progress.32 The government relies on similar justifications for never having held multi-party elections initially scheduled for 1997.33 The 1998-2000 border war with Ethiopia Eritrea’s relations with Ethiopia remained relatively close for the first few years after independence. But by 1997 there were increasing tensions over economic and currency issues and disputed pockets of the un-

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• She tells Ferrero that to stay in Eritrea would almost certainly mean being recruited into Eritrea's army to fight a protracted border war with Ethiopia. To avoid conscription, girls have three choices, she says. They can get married very young, commit suicide or flee the country. Hermon chose to flee.

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• Then comes a time, after the disastrous border war with Ethiopia the Eritrean government due to its own weakness and mistakes found itself alienated and vulnerable.

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• existence between the people in the Horn of Africa. Can you imagine what could have been prevented in the horn of Africa, with his absence, at least the recent border war with Ethiopia could have been averted and Democratic Eritrea could have been realized without much bloodshed.

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• the command of his / her leader, he / she should face a military action. Even today this behaviour is exercised in the battle field. The evidence is the recent border war with Ethiopia. The only difference to the past is that today an individual is not chosen but a unit or units (‘ganta’ in Tigrigna) as a whole. One ‘ganta’ has three units. Each unit has 16-20 members. Three units make up one ‘gan

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• eab said Isaac was involved in a “conspiracy” by a group of Eritreans “to facilitate” an invasion of the country by archfoe neighbor Ethiopia during the bloody border war between the two countries.

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• anking government officials who had publicly criticized President Isayas Afewerki’s leadership and called for democratic reforms in the wake of the 1998-2000 border war with Ethiopia. Simultaneously, the government closed all private newspapers and arrested their editors and publishers. None of those prisoners has been charged or brought to trial. The government ignored two judgments from the

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• d by the crippling legacies of colonialism, economic marginalization, and armed conflict. That bright future quickly dissolved as the combined pressures of a border war with Ethiopia in 1998 and structural disadvantages facing the new state coalesced in a devastating downward spiral of increasing national isolation and political repression. Although the active conflict with Ethiopia ended in 200

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• who had been refugees during the 30-year Eritrean liberation war prior to Eritrea's independence from Ethiopia in 1991, and those who had fled during the later border war with Ethiopia from 1998 to 2000. Other Eritrean refugees fleeing persecution since independence up to now are unaffected. In addition, people in the two affected categories of the cessation are also given the right to have any in

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• Issays, to ensure his hegemony in the region, ordered the Eritrea Defence Force to occupy Badema on 8 May 1998, which caused the Ethiopian –Eritrean 1998-2000 border war.

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• remain a government monopoly. Key International Actors Eritrea’s government has few allies. Relations with Ethiopia remain hostile following the 1998-2000 border war and Ethiopia’s failure to implement an international boundary commission’s ruling awarding disputed territory to Eritrea. Eritrea has been under United Nations sanctions since 2009 because of its support for armed Islamic insu

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• That year, my family and I were among the estimated 75,000 Eritreans who were deported from Ethiopia at the start of a two-year border war, followed by a protracted cold war that ended this year in a formal declaration of peace. Twenty years have passed since that conflict uprooted thousands of families like mine. But the costly antipathy between Eritrea and Ethiopia goes back much further. During

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• She tells Ferrero that to stay in Eritrea would almost certainly mean being recruited into Eritrea's army to fight a protracted border war with Ethiopia. To avoid conscription, girls have three choices, she says. They can get married very young, commit suicide or flee the country. Hermon chose to flee.

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• African Union Heads of State Summit in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, in January 2011. Eritrea and Ethiopia have been bitter enemies since Eritrea began a border war in 1998. The bitterness continues partly because of animosity between the leaders of the two countries, and partly because Ethiopia refuses to vacate land that a neutral boundary commission, whose decision both countries agreed w

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• rmy members." Some 25,000 Eritreans are sheltering in Ethiopia, he said. Relations between the two Horn of Africa nations are at their lowest since a 1998-2000 border war killed 70,000 people. Eritrean officials were not immediately available to comment. (Reporting by Tsegaye Tadesse; Editing by Daniel Wallis)

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• new lives elsewhere. Somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 of them came to Britain, fleeing first the long war of independence from Ethiopia, then the 1998-2000 border war. Evidence of the PFDJ fascistic crimes committed against the Eritrean people between 1991 and 2010 is also documented at ehrea.org.

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• were in a war for 30 years that resulted in Eritrea’s independence from Ethiopia, causing even thicker tensions between the two that eventually led to a 2-year border war between 1998-2000. During this time many people died causing Eritreans to cross the border to escape danger and seek asylum in Ethiopia, specifically in the Shimelba refugee camp. Because of the political tensions, it is now ille

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• of the loss of prestige is associated with his almost-nightly bar-room brawls, which are commonly-known in Asmara, and his performance during and following the border war with Ethiopia. Two of his most famous fights were with Alamin "wedi Gereweyna" Mohammed Said, a boyhood friend; and Naizghi Kiflu, his former security chief. The incident with �wedi Gereweyna� happened on November 3, 20

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• were in a war for 30 years that resulted in Eritrea’s independence from Ethiopia, causing even thicker tensions between the two that eventually led to a 2-year border war between 1998-2000. During this time many people died causing Eritreans to cross the border to escape danger and seek asylum in Ethiopia, specifically in the Shimelba refugee camp. Because of the political tensions, it is now ille

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• n Eritrea. However, UN and human rights sources reported that an estimated 10,000 people were yet to be resettled who had been displaced during the 1998-2000 border war between Eritrea and Ethiopia over the contested Badme region. “There were no major conflicts between Eritrea and its neighbours in 2009, although tensions over regions on the borders with Ethiopia and Djibouti remained and cou

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• prosperity. The International community was convinced that an African renaissance was on the making. All these visions were shattered when in 1998 a senseless border war erupted between Eritrea and Ethiopia. This war claimed the lives of over 100,000 on both sides, while more than 70, 000 Eritrean and Ethiopians of Eritrean origin living in Ethiopia were deported and one million Eritreans were in

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• “Explaining the Unexplainable: the Ethiopia-Eritrea Border War.” Presented at the Bonn Seminar on the Eritrean-Ethoipian Border Conflict, March 19-21, 1999.

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• ple fled Eritrea, taking refuge in neighbouring countries, such as Sudan, Yemen, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Europe, US, Australia etc. Again, during the border war with Ethiopia in 1998 – 2000, approximately 356 000 peoples were forced to leave the country and became refugees. More than 310 000 people were displaced within the country, mainly the Afar and the Kunama Ethnic Minority Groups (

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• fore May 1998, the first four cohorts in the service were demobilised after eighteen months as required by law. 4 However, everything changed when in May 1998 a border war broke out between Eritrea and Ethiopia (see Jacquin-Berdal & Plaut 2005; Lata 2003; Negash & Tronvoll 2000). Not only did the government remobilise those who had been demobilised, but most nationals who were drafted after May 199

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• SE, 1. You are from TIGRAY, like Hagos, an Agame, who has been living in San Jose, Ca. USA, for the last 24 yeas & who use to claim being an ERITREAN until the border war started, who posts MILLION messages a day against ERITREA on this "ERITREAN FORUM" in different nick names. 2. A legitmate Eritrean who disagree who the present policies of the Eritrean Government, but fails to defend Eritrea whe

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• oups. Scores of Kunama have 3 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | SEPTEMBER 2011 been arrested because they are suspected of supporting Ethiopia during the 1998-2000 border war between the two countries. Travel in Eritrea is strictly controlled. National service conscripts cannot travel within the country without specific authorization. Except for high-level government and party officials, travel o

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• n its relentless effort to find an enemy to justify its existence as a distinct entity. Another way of looking at this phenomenon is to see how it has used the border war as a rare opportunity not to be passed by, the same way Jebha did with the Falul uprising, to reassert its old identity. This is what I wrote before on this subject matter:

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• nsions like we have it with all our neighbors. It was our colonial power; we were forcibly annexed to it for 30 years. The legacy of the liberation war and the border war after liberation has left deep injuries that arehealing with time. Our current brutal dictatorial regime that is oppressing us can not be entrusted to forge good relations with Ethiopia or with our other neighbors. It is in the i

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• rsecution from Eritrea's Coptic Orthodox government. About a quarter belong to the Kunama tribe, a minority group that sided with Ethiopia during the 1998-2000 border war between the two countries.

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• e fled Eritrea, taking refuge in neighbouring co untries, such as Sudan, Yemen, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Europe, US, Australia etc. Again, during the border war with Ethiopia in 1998 – 2000, approximately 356 000 peoples were forced to leave the country and became refugees. More than 310 000 people were displaced within the country, mainly the Afar and the Kunama Ethnic Minority Group

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• ho wrote a letter over dissatisfaction with his dictatorial rule, and they were charged as CIA recruits, a cover-up for his humiliating defeat in the 1998-2000 border war. • In his 13 May 2008 interview with Reuters Issayas again blames a CIA plot for the exodus of Eritrean youth throughout the world. Facts and Evidences about the story of his secret meeting with the CIA and his accusation

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• That year, my family and I were among the estimated 75,000 Eritreans who were deported from Ethiopia at the start of a two-year border war, followed by a protracted cold war that ended this year in a formal declaration of peace. Twenty years have passed since that conflict uprooted thousands of families like mine. But the costly antipathy between Eritrea and Ethiopia goes back much further. During

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• Eritrea’s relations with neighboring Ethiopia and Djibouti remain severely strained. After a bloody border war in 1998-2000, Ethiopia occupies slivers of territory identified by an international boundary commission as Eritrean, including the town of Badme where the war began. President Isaias uses the pretext of “no-war, no-peace” for his repressive domestic policies. Eritrea and Ethiopia both ho

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• niversities. For the first time in the year 2006, the University of Asmara has produced 49 Master Degree holders. However, the uncertainty resulting from the border war with Ethiopia has had a negative, or certainly a constrai ning, effect on many of the university’s development aims. Conclusion Lack trained manpower is one of the majo r hindrances to rapid socio-economic transformation

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• who had been refugees during the 30-year Eritrean liberation war prior to Eritrea's independence from Ethiopia in 1991, and those who had fled during the later border war with Ethiopia from 1998 to 2000. Other Eritrean refugees fleeing persecution since independence up to now are unaffected. In addition, people in the two affected categories of the cessation are also given the right to have any in

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• terference in each other’s internal affairs. This norm of mutual intervention in each other’s domestic affairs has reached unprecedented heights in the post-border war period. Both the Eritrean and the Ethiopian governments are determined to effect regime changes in each other’s capitals in order to replace the incumbents by their own quislings. The Addis Ababa conference was conceived

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• Despite a Pyrrhic victory in the 1997-2000 border war with Ethiopia, Eritrea remained a country under siege--from its own government. In April 2002, a boundary commission established under the cease-fire agreement between the two countries gave a ruling favorable to Eritrea. Although the exact boundary between the two countries was still to be demarcated, many of the most intensively disputed area

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• ic oath by fathering the notorious Dimetros from a nun.], the author rationalizes Isaias’s refusal to implement the ratified 1997 constitution on the 1998-2000 border war with Ethiopia. “Under these circumstances, President Isaias felt it would be difficult to implement the Constitution.” He conveniently forgets the border war was started almost a year after the ratification of the constitution. I

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• In 1998 when the border war between Eritrea and Ethiopia erupted, he, like all his Eritrean brethren, was called for duty and he voluntarily reported. Until the 3rd round was finished and the war settled, he defended [his country] with valour and finished what was expected of him. Since, during that time, everyone found the sufferings and misdeeds that were being committed on the army unbearable,

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• evidence is the recent border war with Ethiopia. The only difference to the past is that

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• Eritrea fought a border war with Ethiopia from 1998 to 2000 which killed 70,000 people on the two sides and occasional clashes have flared up since with both accusing each other of supporting armed rebel groups.

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• After independence in 1993, Eritrea fought a costly border war with Ethiopia in 1998-2000. The United States, the UN, the European Union, and the now-defunct Organization of African Unity were formal witnesses to the 2000 accord ending that conflict. However, Eritrean-Ethiopian relations remain tense due to Ethiopia’s refusal to permit demarcation of the boundary according to the 2002 decision of

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• courageous. But there is this problem of media, critical numbers and time frames. Imagine this kind of stuff coming out in the '90s or even soon after the '98 border war. Top that with more insiders coming out and the media had the license to remain open. Soon after, whoever had 'inside information' could have gone public on the internet. There were opportunities to rein the Eritrean government.

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