[Video] Meles Zenawi's confession on his ulterior motives towards Eritrea

If you thought the 1998-2000 war was just a border war think again. Meles Zenawi never accepted Eritrea's independence - he just went along with it because he had to (EPLF handheld him to power). He used the border and currency dispute in 1998 to attempt to annex Eritrea. How else can you explain Ethiopia's attempt of annexing Assab in 2000? Or Ethiopia's attempts of annexing other areas within Eritrea that were never in dispute?

“I would point out one thing that was mentioned to me on several occasions on meeting that I had with Prime Minister Meles, which I always found fascinating and I was never able to sort of get from him why he made those statements. But on several occasions during the conflict the 1998 – 2000 conflict, he said “Mr Ambassador ONE OF THESE DAYS WE ARE GOING TO BE BACK TOGETHER AGAIN” and I would try to press on that to find out how is this going to happen? What’s the plan here? He gave no time frame at all and he did not imply it would happen in his life time, but he made that statement on several occasions to me and I found it intriguing but was never able to determine why he though that was going to happen? But I am convinced he BELIEVED IT VERY SINCERELY!” ----- Ambassador David Shinn US Ambassador to Ethiopia 1996 -1999

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