The report in this video by UK’s Channel 4 TV is about the devastating Woyanne-Eritrea war of 1998-2000 in which Woyanne tribal warlords Meles Zenawi and Seye Abraha carelessly and recklessly sacrificed over 100,000 young Ethiopians to liberate a small piece of barren land called Badme.
The only thing that is NOT factual in the video is that the war was not between Ethiopia and Eritrea. It was a war between Woyanne and Eritrea. Unfortunately, it was Ethiopians who were used as cannon fodders by Woyanne, not the Woyanne army.
In that war, Woyanne military leaders used what military experts call ‘human wave’ –a cruel and inhumane military tactic where tens of thousands of poorly trained soldier are forced to run right into the firing line with no regard to their lives. Those who were retreating in the face of a rain of bullets from the Eritrean soldiers were shot dead by the Woyanne special forces unit called Agazi — an exclusively one-ethnic (Tigrean) army that serves as a praetorian guard for the tribal junta. It is this same unit that had gunned down pro-democracy protesters in 2005 in the streets of Addis Ababa and other cities of Ethiopia.
While sacrificing all these precious young Ethiopian lives for a small, dry piece of land that the United Nations later had asked to be given to Eritrea, the Meles-Sebehat regime gave away thousands of square kilometers of Ethiopia’s fertile land to Sudan without the Sudanese government demanding it.
After getting its butt kicked in Somalia by 3,000 ragtag insurgents, Woyanne is currently preparing for another devastating war with Eritrea. This time, however, the result will be different. The people of Ethiopia will stand with the Eritrean army and bring an abrupt end to the Woyanne era of endless misery and war.