THE WISDOM FUND: News & Views
CounterPunch
January 24, 2003

The Holocaust in the Horn

by Thomas Mountain

. . . The war known so disengenously as the Ethiopian-Eritrean "border war". The war where the CIA set out to get rid of a pesky little independent role model without generating any bad publicity. Where the little country that got invaded is still blamed for the crimes committed against her.

Where the pretext for the invasion by Ethiopia was supposed to be a "border dispute" that some how got out of hand. That little, resource-poor nation Eritrea, population 3.5 million, supposedly instigated a war with giant Ethiopia, population 60 million, with the largest, best equiped army in Africa?

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