tbh it's their fault..Imagine what thoughts was going through the heads of Ethiopian Somalis when Habesha, Orthodox Christian farmers were given independence in 1993 but, Cushitic Nomadic Muslims (them) were not. I can not fathom the amount of rage that they would have endured to see that. Especially now days witnessing how much of a complete shithole Eritrea has become.
Ogaden's circumstances: had terrain advantage as they were close to Amxara region and Addis Ababa. Had support from non-Somali Muslim Ethiopians. Ethiopia was dealing with Eritrean rebellion and civil unrest. Had large number of soldiers. Had USA backing prior to the beginning of the campaign. Had more high tech airplanes. Same religion and tribe...
buuut still lost.
Compare that to Eritreans who: had a country 20 times smaller. Only had backing from Arab countries and small number of soldiers from Somalia. Had to fight 30 years in the bushes. Had much lower population. Had to deal with daily bombings into their cities. Had people of different religions and tribes...
buuuut managaed to win and overcome their struggle.
compare the two.....
How Eritrea managed to keep going for 30 years under those conditions whereas Ogaden didn't even last half of that? That's a good question...lol
Eritrea was already way better than Ethiopis as I described above this post, but Isaias decided to turun into an Ethiopian communist agent and genocide his own people.
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