Monday, August 17, 2009
The Hague Ruling On The Ethiopia - Eritrean War Will Probably Be Ignored
An international tribunal is to decide what compensation Ethiopia and Eritrea should pay each other for damages inflicted in the 1998-2000 border war.
Monday's decision is the final element in the peace deal that ended the war, which cost at least 100,000 lives.
The Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission at The Hague will provide the two nations with the judgement that lawyers have been working on since March 2001.
Exactly what it says will be made public in a few days time.
Read more ....
My Comment: You would think that after years of conflict and war, these two destitute nations would come to some form of accommodation.
But no .... the bitterness and hatred still exists, and war is always on the horizon.
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