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	Badme and the Ethiopian-Eritrean conflict: back to square one
		The fate of one place in particular is eagerly awaited: Badme, the village where it all began on 6 May with an armed incident between Eritrean and Ethiopian militia, followed by a violent incursion on 12 May 1998 by Eritrean troops to avenge the death of some of their soldiers and of a high-ranking officer.
		Badme thus became a highly symbolic place, and whoever would be accorded it under the EEBC decision would carry the day and be perceived as the ultimate victor of the war.
		Several Badme civilian residents were killed and abducted, and before retreating in the wake of the Ethiopian offensive of February 1999, the Eritrean army largely destroyed the town: the church, the primary schools, the hand pump, the clinics.
	www.addistribune.com /Archives/2003/05/23-05-03/Badme.htm (3919 words)

	Security Council,
		Badme (alternatively spelt Badime, Baduma, or Badame) is the name given to the region that includes the contested territory.
		The writer Margaret Fielding1 says she visited a village called Badme 5km to the west - ie on the Eritrean side - of the "internationally recognised border", by which she means the straight line of the 1902 treaty.
		One thing that is certain is that at least part of the Badme region has in the past 100 years been administered at times from the Eritrean capital, Asmara, and at other times from Mekele, the provincial capital of Tigrai.
	www.globalpolicy.org /security/issues/ethiopia/99-07-23.htm (1024 words)

	Badme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Badme is a town in the Horn of Africa that is the focus of a territorial dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia.
		The town of Badme was ceded by the TPLF (the predecessor of the EPRDF, Ethiopia's currently ruling party) to the EPLF (the predecessor of the PFDJ, Eritrea's ruling organization) in November 1977.
		The Sudan Tribune reported that during January 2005, Badme inhabitants were registering to vote in the May Ethiopian elections.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Badme (333 words)

	Badme and Zalambessa
		On 13 April 2002 an independent panel of Judges at the Permanent Court of Arbitration based in The Hague declared the disputed town of Zalambessa was in Ethiopia.
		They are unable to comment on the new boundary but confirm Badme is located around 3 kilometers outside of the 25-kilometer buffer zone known as the Temporary Security Zone that separates both countries.
		But they say the references to Badme in the ruling are affected by the small change to the border by the commission, effectively shifting the Eritrean claim back, a few kilometers to the west of the controversial “Yirga Triangle” area.
	www.addistribune.com /Archives/2002/04/26-04-02/Badme.htm (1112 words)

	The Demarcation Watch: Badme, The symbol of conspiracy in Eritrean politics
		Badme and it’s environs was liberated from Ethiopian occupation by ELF during the national army struggle.
		As an outcome of the dialogue, "a memorandum of agreement" was signed by the two leaders of the organizations leaving the outstanding positions to the final stage of the revolution.
		Camouflaging the peace process:- Badme has never been the cause of enmity of the two regime in Ethiopia and Eritrea, but they preferred it to be as the camouflaged reason of their conflict.
	www.awate.com /artman/publish/article_4375.shtml (3319 words)

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		And now war-ravaged Badme is once again at the heart of controversy, prompting fears of renewed, unwanted conflict between the two neighbours.
		The scale and cost of reconstruction work in and around Badme - some US $2 million - and plans to increase the numbers living in the town reinforce their determination not to give ground.
		Although the land in Badme is fertile, it has few mineral deposits and water is scarce.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=33890 (885 words)

	CNN - Eritrea reports heavy fighting with Ethiopia - February 24, 1999
		Ethiopia launched a ground offensive on Tuesday along the Mereb-Setit front near Badme in an attempt to recapture land occupied by Eritrea last May. The thrust was preceded by a day-long artillery barrage and backed by Ethiopian warplanes.
		Fighting on two other fronts east of Badme died down by Wednesday, leaving Badme the only focus of the conflict, according to the Eritrean government spokesman.
		Badme is around 170 kilometers (105 miles) southwest of Eritrea's capital, Asmara, and 650 kilometers (405 miles) northwest of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/africa/9902/24/ethiopia.eritrea.01/index.html (485 words)

	BADME
		Badme was used by the weyanes as a pretext to declare war on Eritrea under the lame excuse that “Eritrea invaded a sovereign Ethiopian territory”.
		One sure way for the demise of the ruling clique in Addis Ababa has been long understood to be for it to embrace peace within itself, with its people, and with its neighbors, particularly with the State of Eritrea.
		Despite the Boundary Commission’s decision that Badme is unconditionally Eritrean territory as ruled in the April 13, 2002 deliberations, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s government continues to insist reversal of the Commission’s decision on the boundary between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
	www.ertra.com /opinion_2002/ande_apr7.htm (1885 words)

	Village boundary dispute threatens Ethiopia peace deal Independent, The (London) - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		An argument over Badme, a mountain hamlet in a barren border zone, provoked the 1998 conflict, which in more than two years of trench warfare claimed at least 80,000 lives.
		One possible solution under consideration is to put Badme under international supervision while the remainder of the border is demarcated.
		Badme has crystallised rivalries between the neighbours, who once fought together to overthrow the Communist dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam in 1991.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20030405/ai_n12686507 (590 words)

	Ethiopia and Eritrea: Returning to war?
		Badme and its surroundings which Eritrea invaded and occupied in May 1998 on the basis of its false claims, its (sic) now been decided by the Commission that Badme and its surroundings belong to Ethiopia.”
		Having played up the importance of Badme, it was no longer plausible to explain that it was not the real issue — although this was clearly the case.
		The references to Ethiopian governmental control of Badme and its environs were insufficient to persuade the Commission that an Ethiopian presence west of the line from Points 6 to 9 would support a departure from the line that had crystallized by 1935.
	www.waltainfo.com /Conflict/Articles/2005/Oct/article4.htm (4044 words)

	Eri24
		Badme has been at the center of dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia — which fought a brutal 2 1/2 year war ostensibly over their 1,000 kilometer (620-mile) border — since an independent boundary commission announced its ruling on the border on April 13.
		The U.N. force is supposed to remain in the region until the commission has physically marked the border, which is expected to begin in August or September.
		The war broke out in the Badme area in May 1998 when Ethiopia accused Eritrean forces of illegally entering the region.
	eri24.com /news955.htm (643 words)

	What and where is Badme?
		The biggest negligence that was displayed by the ETG was that it totally ignored the most sensitive and volatile issue: The western border, Badme and the establishment of the TSZ also on sovereign Ethiopian territory, even when it was a disputed one.
		There is some evidence of policing activities in the Badme Wereda in 1972-1973 and of the evaluation of an elementary school at Badme town.
		Some weeks ago, while the whole Security Council of the UN was touring the region just to feel the emotions of those involved in the "theater", he publicly declared, that he would never accept any ruling that wouldn't hand over territories that are claimed by Ethiopia.
	www.geocities.com /kalayhaweltina/What-and-where-is-badme.htm (2656 words)

	SudanTribune article : Ethiopian settlements in Badme: UN "aware of the situation" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		ASMARA, Oct 28 (AFP) — The United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) is "aware of the situation" concerning possible new Ethiopian settlements in Badme, a town attributed by an independent commission to Eritrea, an UNMEE spokeswoman told AFP on Thursday.
		Badme, the flashpoint of the war, remains under Ethiopian administration.
		The Eritrean government said Thursday that the alleged new settlements showed that the "Ethiopian regime is obviously inviting another round of war", a claim in keeping with numerous hostile declarations emanating from Asmara and Addis Ababa.
	www.sudantribune.com /article_impr.php3?id_article=6212 (296 words)

	The issue never was Boarder or Badme:
		Some even went to the extent of technically siding with the invader by allowing a fertile ground or a “plain sheet of paper” for regurgitations of the enemy’s propaganda, blaming our government for the war, and, intensifying an irresponsible, damaging propaganda that resonates with and caters to our enemy.
		This argument was definitely a step stone to his current standing of rejecting the decision on Badme.
		It is also high time for the international community to wake up to the real nature of Woyane and exert its tools that subdued major nations to obey the rules of law let alone a state that is perpetually on a life support dependent on the donor community.
	www.ertra.com /opinion_2002/petros_sep27.htm (821 words)

	Embassy of Ethiopia, Washington, DC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The bias implicit in such statements as, “Ethiopia must give up Badme if the rest of the boundary is to be demarcated and the two nations begin to heal their rift,” is surprising.
		Given these facts, the Globe’s statement, “To the 60 million Ethiopians, their Badme victory may partly compensate for the success of the 3.5 million Eritreans in winning independence and for the inability of the Ethiopian Army in the recent war to seize the port of Assab as a link to the sea” is puzzling.
		The Eritreans started the war in 1998 by seizing Badme, only to be pushed back by the Ethiopians after savage fighting.” Incidentally, all, not “most,” of Badme’s residents are Ethiopian.
	www.ethiopianembassy.org /pr110603.shtml (826 words)

	february
		During the engagement at the Badme front the enemy deployed over 40,000 military personnel from three corps, several divisions, hundreds of heavy artillery, around 70 tanks and armoured military vehicles.
		At the Badme front confrontation, Asmara deployed its First Division of the 381st Corps and the Third Division of the 161st Corps, the Office said, adding, that more than 4000 enemy soldiers were killed and injured on this front.
		The full-scale offensive launched on this date by the Eritrean regime at the Badme front was effectively repulsed by the resolute counter offensive measures taken by the heroic Ethiopian defence forces, the Office of the Government Spokesperson disclosed.
	www.telecom.net.et /~walta/chronology/html/february.html (3742 words)

	Eri24 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Zalambessa and Badme - two of the contested areas in the disputed border zone and debated over by the Border Commission - saw some of the heaviest fighting during the bloody two-year war between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
		But despite their final ruling, confusion still surrounds the key village of Badme - where the May 1998 war flared up after a firefight between Eritrean troops and Ethiopian militia.
		The village is also known as Yirga - named after the favourite horse of the former governor of Tigray, Ras Seyoum, where Badme is located.
	eri24.com /news889.htm (1112 words)

	Badme Web Page
		The loss of Badme and Irob would certainly spark a new conflict as the Ethiopian people would not simply accept to be sold out to Eritrea like commodities.
		The young boys tend to their cattle and livestock, the women bathe their infants in the midday sun, the soldiers enjoy the local brew at lunchtime in the bars and cafes.
		It seems Badme's residents are not likely to know officially if they are in Ethiopia or Eritrea until boundary pillars are finally placed along the border.
	members.shaw.ca /tigrai (3594 words)

	What variables are in the “give and take” equation?
		It is a widely known fact that, even though the Eritrean government used the border issue as a pretext to invade Ethiopia, it did so for economic reasons to keep the pre-war status it enjoyed at the expense of the Ethiopian economy.
		Ever since the occupation of the Badme area by the Eritrean army, the word Badme has been a household name in Ethiopia depicting in the minds of Ethiopians both Eritrean invasion and its humiliating defeat with a single blow, only to be followed by the shortsighted Algiers agreement.
		The government can choose to be as diplomatic as it wants on the international arena, but given what is at stake here it needs to be forthright and truthful to the people with regards to any concession of land or otherwise as a result of this initiative.
	www.aigaforum.com /zenbe04-12.htm (664 words)

	FourthDoc
		Even earlier Eritrean leaders had begun to hint that it was actually in 1997 that Ethiopia had encroached the Badme area and that it was only since then that the territory was in Ethiopian hands.
		Is it because Badme was in Eritrea that it had an Ethiopian local, district and municipal government, a judiciary, peasants and local (Kebele) associations, police, a school and health center?
		Eritrean authorities have been communicating with the Badme administration, officially and in writing, since Eritrea's formal independence in 1993 and years before the aggression by Eritrea against Ethiopia, recognizing the administration as a legal local administration of Ethiopia.
	www.telecom.net.et /~walta/conflict/html/fourthdoc_1.html (395 words)

	Feature Stories - Controversy over Badme - April 20, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Issayas have requested the commission to clarify its ruling with regard to the town of Badme.
		Badme which was administered by Ethiopia even before the start of the war is still administered by Ethiopia and the resolution of the issue of Badme might be another time bomb.
		The actual demarcation of the border is supposed to start in a few weeks time and more argument and counter-arguments are expected from both sides with tension and potential face-offs looking possible as the issue of Badme is brought to the forefront.
	www.ethiopians.com /BadmeControversy.htm (165 words)

	Tucking away the truth a la shabia
		Plaut as an authority, the BBC echoed Isayas's preposterous lie that the court in the Hague has awarded Badme to Eritrea.
		For an informed person familiar with the area, there is the Badme plain, which is partly Ethiopia and partly Eritrean, and Yirga town which is known as Badme town by the locals is situated directly south of Gongoma hill which is identified by the commissioners.
		It is not worth of your profession nor of your institution's credibility to fall to such a trap, or rather to such "a blind love".
	www.waltainfo.com /Conflict/Articles/2002/April/article6.htm (516 words)

	Border a geographer's nightmare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Badme (alternatively spelt Badime, Baduma, or Badame) is the name given to
		One thing that is certain is that at least part of the Badme region has in
		While the Badme region is the main area of conflict in the war, fighting has
	www.somaliawatch.org /Archivemay/000512101.htm (948 words)

	WorldView Magazine: BATTLE FOR BADME (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Much of the border between Ethiopia and its smaller neighbor to the north is determined by rivers, but around the town of Badme there is only an imaginary line on a map drawn in 1902 by Italian colonial administrators seeking an agreement with an Ethiopian emperor.
		Badme is a small arid region along the western end of that uncertain border.
		One day, the Eritrean ambassador indicated his country might be willing to agree to a change in the sequence of events that could lead to the withdrawal of their troops from the Badme plain.
	www.worldviewmagazine.com.cob-web.org:8888 /issues/article.cfm?id=129&issue=30 (3558 words)

	Eritrea Accuses Ethiopia of Border Violation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Ethiopia last year rejected the boundary commission's ruling that Badme belongs to Eritrea, effectively stopping a demarcation exercise and keeping the exact location of the border in limbo.
		An official with Eritrea's foreign ministry, Ghirmai Ghebre Mariam, told VOA Friday the Ethiopian government, and not individual Ethiopians, is behind the settlements in Badme.
		Ethiopians have to accept the boundary commission's decision which is final and binding, and eventually Badme remains on the side of Eritrea," he said.
	www.voanews.com /english/2004-10-29-voa21.cfm (407 words)

	Ethiopian Review Forum
		Second, if you think Badme is the main reason Isayas is going after Meles, you are a morone (Moron with "e" a la Melkamu).
		I also agree with your observation that Meles and the Badme case had reduced Issayas to one of the most insignificant leaders in the world.
		I am saying the problem of any body who intends to benefit from the threat on our national security is not political; it is a problem of nationality.It is a problem of who is dominant in that party.
	pub13.bravenet.com /forum/1067284318/show/604205 (9352 words)

	Eritrea accuses Ethiopia of massing troops in Badme
		Meanwhile, Brig-Gen Abrahaley Kifle told the Eritrean News Agency that the weyane regime was continuously massing troops and conducting intensive military training and expanding resettlement areas in Badme and its environs.
		Brig-Gen Abrahaley added that the fact that the weyane regime was increasing its military presence in Badme and the remarks made this week by the regime's prime minister in an interview that the choice would be dialogue or war, showed the regime's preparations for war.
		Brig-Gen Abrahaley said though the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission had ordered the weyane regime to remove its settlers from Badme by September 2002, the regime was instead increasing its military presence and resettlement activities in the area.
	www.meskerem.net /eritrea_accuses_ethiopia_of_mass.htm (363 words)

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