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Eritrea accuses Ethiopia of aggression as tensions between the two neighbors escalates
The Eritrean government said Friday that the attack on its military outposts by neighboring Ethiopia was meant to divert attention from a border dispute between the two countries.
Ethiopia said Thursday it carried out a ground assault on the outposts because Eritrea was training “subversive groups” that carried out attacks inside Ethiopia.
No details about the military operations or any damage or casualties have been released.
“It is patently clear that the Ethiopian regime could not have unleashed such a flagrant act of aggression with such audacity without the protection and succor of the United States in the Security Council,” said Eritrean Foreign Affairs Minister Osman Saleh.
Eritrea routinely accuses the United States of overlooking abuses by Ethiopia, a key U.S. ally in the region in its war against terror.
“The government of Eritrea, urges for the umpteenth time, the U.N. Security council to shoulder legal and moral responsibilities and to take appropriate measures to rectify acts of aggression against Eritrea’s sovereign territories and to ensure justice and the respect of the rule of law,” he said.
Osman said such attacks have been going on for the last 10 years and Thursday’s assault was meant to divert attention to the fact that Ethiopia occupies Eritrean territory. Ethiopia and Eritrea fought a border war from 1998 to 2000.
