Ethiopia describes killing of 19 Sudanese as “minor incident”
July 9, 2008 (ADDIS ABABA) — Ethiopia on Wednesday denied Sudanese accusations it had launched a cross-border attack against a police base killing 19 people, saying “minor incidents can happen.”
“This simply isn’t true,” Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s spokesman, Berekat Simon, told AFP.
On Tuesday, Sudan’s army spokesman claimed Ethiopian forces had attacked a police base 17 kilometres (11 miles) inside Sudanese territory, killing 19 people, including one police officer.
“It is a very long border between the two countries, lots of people cross the border, sometimes minor incidents between locals can happen,” Berekat said.
The Sudanese army spokesman provided no reason for the attack in the Jabal Hantub area of Gedaref state, which lies on the northern part of the long international border.
Berekat said both countries enjoyed good relations. “We maintain good neighbourliness. We don’t know why they are accusing us,” he said.
(AFP)
Mr Famous Big_Logic_Boy
Ethiopia describes killing of 19 Sudanese as “minor incident”
I think news should be presented to Koul of jonglei none us has any connection to this.
Deng Gai
Ethiopia describes killing of 19 Sudanese as “minor incident”
Hey! Mr beshir,where are you with your NIF? or did you not get the language that you normally speak from your Ethiopian counterpart of always refering every thing to as a minor incident.why is your government funny always of sponsoring terorism. e.g aggression against C.A.R,Chad,Eriteria and now the Ethiopia in which you harbour the governor of the Asosa which ran away in ethiopia due to your political motivation and that is why the Ethiopia hit back, so do not cry to the international community over the attack.