December 8, 2005
Everything to lose
Today's (London) Times has a strongly worded editorial (op-ed) on the growing tension on the Ethiopian/Eritrean border.
Everything to lose...A return to war would be disastrous. The Horn of Africa is one of the poorest parts of the world. Drought and natural disasters have aggravated the mismanagement and tyranny of past dictatorship. The two-year indiscriminate slaughter across the barren frontier, an African version of 1914 trench warfare, cost an estimated $1 million a day, and set back hopes for a generation. This must not happen again.
In totally unrelated news, the jourmalists arrested after the violence are starting to receive their sentences.
Posted by aheavens at December 8, 2005 5:40 AM