Eritrean Ethiopian Border War-123,000 Ethiopian Troops dead

The American funded and Russian armed Ethiopian military doubled the size of its armed forces to fight in the 1998-2000 war against Eritrea, mobilizing some 250,000 men. Casualty figures reached a massive number of 123,000 Ethiopian soldiers killed, principally in the two major assaults in February-June 1999 and May-June 2000. While Eritrea sustaind 19,000 Casualties in combat.

The final result of the border war came in a court room, where Eritrea was rewarded Badme, (the small town alegidly the war started over) in which Ethopian leaders signed agreeing to the court's rulling but yet have done nothing to keep their end of the bargin. Military experts believe another war may very well brake out do to Ethiopia's carelessness and bitterness towards its smaller, yet, stronger militarily neighbor of Eritrea.

Sources:

http://www.somalilandtimes.net/197/23.shtml

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/mountain1.html

http://ethiopieritrea.byethost15.com/war.htm

http://www.ethiopiafirst.com/news2003/Feb/Shaebia_Outwitted_EPRDF.html

Sources of Casualtie figures: The BBC Monitoring Service reported on April 10, 2001 that 123,000 Ethiopian troops were indeed killed in the two year border war with Eritrea. http://lists.sn.apc.org/pipermail/pol.ethiopia/2001-April/000381.html

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[battleofadwa]

@BahreNeGash

We are not in 2010. Ethiopia and Eritrea rank 3rd fastest growing economies for 2011 after Qatar and Ghana - Economist.

Anyways the only reason as to why Ethiopia and Eritrea as well as other African countries seem to have fast growing economies is because they are coming from the very bottom while everyone else is already developed. But as long as these two countries are run by corrupt leaders (Zenawi and Afewerki) they will never grow in the long run.

[plp1676]

Really learn to feed your people than take pride in your armed forces

[ethios1000]

REHABTEGNAW YE ERTRA HIZB LEMAGNOCH NACHU

[mojo06]

the human wave tactics employed by weyane did not work. and now the Ethiopian people want freedom from Meles. they will not serve weyane again, that much is for sure.

[eliast78]

you can say whatever you want but the winner is Ethiopian.

[54markl]

@TheBen2005 True, they won in the Commission's ruling, but I believe Ethiopia still occupies that land.

[TheBen2005]

@54markl no they won it

[54markl]

But .... Eritrea lost this war? Rightly or wrongly?

[fAlEnPrOdIgY]

Comparing to Ethiopia, Eritrea's military is not as modernized/and or developed as their Ethiopian counterparts.

[masterblaster12000]

i bet these where just white americans, 2000 black and yellow casualtys wherent counted.

i mean Honestly! german news media didnt tell me anything about this war! its bad how europe glorifies the usa while they try to fuck over arab, afro, and asia countrys. but not this time:)

greez from germany! and a word of advice: if usa/russia try to play you against each other its best not to play along(i got an ethopian friend too)

[masterblaster12000]

wow... eritran people are tough! no matter witch info source i look into, the kill/death ratio and the number of pow taken is always badass! looks like one violent clash! but what disturbs me most is not the warfare(lets face it, there is no humanistic war). but the fact that i didnt hear anything about this conflict until i befriended an eritrean veteran recently. on the other hand 3500 yanks dying in their towers was proclaimed the most important thing since ww2!

[vonVince]

The way two of the among world's poorest countries spent millions and millions in a war that resulted in tens of thousands direct casualties and untold member of indirect casualties is - something...