Dear Sir,

I appreciate your comments about the problems that seccession can cause. However, I strongly object to your sentence. Quote - ‘The problem is that often we do not know who is lying and who is telling the truth. All we can say is that there is remotely no good reason for one to attack the other.’ And I would not compare Eritrea to the Regions in Ethiopia. Eritrea has a legal right to be independent – as all post colonial states in the world do.

The conflict between the two countries has primarily got to do with their sovereignty. They both agreed to an independent tribunal to delineate the boundary, and now that this has been finalized, to the chagrin of Ethiopia they have lost a symbolic village to the deciosn, and now they want to renege on a legal agreement. This is something that they are not legally allowed to do. So its not a matter of who is lying or not. It comes down to the basic tenets of law.

Eritrea has a very strong sense of national identity not rivaled by any other country on the African continent. Even Ethiopia, a country that argues that it was never colonilised, does not share this sense of nationhood.

Its important that the what is being written for the general public is as accurate as possible. The lives of many depend on what the outside world perceive.

Many thanks.

Sir, Every body know the Italian came from their country to invade Abyssinia not to Invade Eritrea or creat Eritrea. the Italian simply capture piece of land from Abyssia and used it for lauching to invede Abyssina and they call it what ever they want. By the way are n't we Eritrean the main Abyssinian? Sure We are check the history. The Italian finaly caputer the whole Abyssinia,and after 5 years they defeated WW2.

Thank you.