The Forgotten People: Eritreans in the World's Eyes
| Abstract | As the world watches the current crisis in Kosovo unfold through intensive daily media coverage, particularly by major networks in the US and Europe, one can only wonder why the same attention is not given to the crises in Africa. The military intervention by NATO allied forces, including the United States, to avert Milosevic’s genocidal campaign towards the Kosovo Albanians, can only be characterized as an exclusive European mission to resolve Europe’s problem. This is not, by all means, to subvert or undermine the suffering of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo but to give some perspective as to how the super powers are responding to other similar crises in the world. Today, any crime against humanity, in any part of the world, regardless of this nations political or economic interest, should not be tolerated. Most Americans, perhaps most of the world, do not know about the mass genocide that took place in Rwanda and the civil war in the Southern Sudan that has left more than a million and half people dead. And now we can add to this list, the recent border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea that has emerged into a full-scale war. The most recent conflict (using the most sophisticated hi-tech weapons) has already claimed thousands of lives while world superpowers are watching si-. | |||||||||
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