On the week beginning Monday 8 May 2000 the United Nations Security Council sent seven of its ambassadors to Ethiopia and Eritrea, led by the United States ambassador Richard Holbrooke, to try to revive stalled negotiations aimed at resolving the Ethio-Eritrean conflict. This move has become more urgent because a number of governments and NGOs providing relief to the 8 million starving Ethiopians have strongly pointed out that an end to the border dispute would allow them to concentrate efforts more fully on combating the food crises. The reaction by Prime Minister Meles is to inform the world of the decision to end the conflict in a matter of days by war and turn to economic reconstruction immediately. Ambassador Holbrooke got this message loud and clear. The TPLF regime chose an option of barbarism, destruction and killings and the United Nations did not seem at all to bother. Instead the UN hypocritical 72 hours ultimatum to make peace complemented the Meles Plan to finish the offensive within a very short period of time. One would wonder whether the security council or the dominant country in the security council subtly agrees with such dangerous decision. So it was decided so it must be done, sanctioned by an invisible hand, in the early hours of 12 May 2000 few days after the UN delegation left, an invading Ethiopian army crossed the boarder into Eritrea using human waves to occupy a large portion of undisputed sovereign territory. The invasion was not condemned by the UN. UN abrogated its responsibility to the collective security measures when a sovereign nation is invaded, encouraging the TPLF's incredibly ambitious hegemonic dreams of being a regional power. This offensive, coupled with extensive aerial and artillery bombardment of civilian targets in the town of Barentu and the surrounding areas, triggered a large-scale displacement of inhabitants and re-displacement of already displace people in the region. The estimated displaced people from the eastern part of South and southern part of Gash-Bark regions extending up to Barentu is estimated to be hundreds of thousands. The endurance and resilience of the people as they walk from three days to a week without food and water is staggering. The Eritrean government and aid agencies are working frantically to distribute shelter food and water to these innocent victims scattered in vast areas. In these difficult times some governments and NGOs have proved effective in their rescue mission to help the displaced the Italian co-operation has been exemplary.

In spite of all these difficulties the Eritrean people once more are showing a moral courage to stand up for their right. They abandoned their residences temporarily and chose to endure the consequence of extreme hardship inorder to prevail as free and proud people, be it in the bushes, valleys, in the scorching sun and under trees. By the unprecedented decision of the Eritrean population to leave the security of their homes and their determination never to let the invaders brutalise them and humiliate them are injecting a new meaning into the veins of history of bravery and of civilisation. By doing so they averted the killings, humiliation, beatings and other forms of human rights violations which is a characteristic of Ethiopian war legacy against civilians they have subjugated. Today 18 days has already passed and the Eritrean people are intact and the whole population is practically in training camps to turn Eritrea into the grave yard of the invading force as several demonstrations in Eritrea and abroad have chosen as a slogan and they meant it. All the University students men and women after staging a huge demonstration asked the Government to let them go right away to the battle front. They were not allowed but they left for training. In such a context resistance spread through out Eritrea and reflected peoples struggle in their functions and options and organisational structure. Today the army and the people are one and the same. The real battle took place not in the Western lowlands where huge areas were captured ( journalists who entered from the Ethiopian side to the captured Eritrean territory witnessed that it doesn't look as heavy fighting took place. ) but in the South of the country in Zalembessa, Zorana, Adi Keih and Senafe. Non of the battle was won by the Ethiopian army instead the Ethiopian army of human wave suffered defeat after defeat and meat horrible deaths. Ethiopia lost more than 60000 soldiers in the fight. Out of frustration the Ethiopian Government is bombing civilian targets on Sunday 10 o'clock they bombed the power plant in Hirgigo, Massawa on Monday they bombed at the vicinity of the Asmara Airport. The bombing did not stop the Eritrean people to carry on their normal life. They are prepared for more destruction and bombing, they know the situation may worsen before it gets better. More areas may be abandoned but in the end the Ethiopian army if it did not withdraw quickly will be bogged down for a long time and perish in Eritrea.

Melles's Plan to incapacitate the Eritran Army and dictate terms for a peace has failed miserability. The Eritrean defence forces is strong and kicking and will be boosted by the young university students and large section of the population who are on training. Eritrea will prevail. Unlike the expectation of Prime Minister Meles the condition of the famine is aggravated by the invasion. The world will soon learn that the TPLF regime has created an unimaginable human and social calamities. Besides the half a million displaced Eritreans, they have already destroyed the fabric of the families of 60,00 Ethiopian lost in the battle field. Because the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) have stepped up the fighting since the Ethiopian attacked Eritrea, the Ethiopian Government have refused to let aid-agencies come in and help the civil-population in South and south-west Ethiopia and the suffering of the marginalized Oromo population is increasing. This is an indicative of the serious internal problem of Ethiopia which the world preferred to ignore in order to appease the Government of Meles. There is another critical issue concerning the victims of human wave as one foreign journalists identified the unburied Ethiopian bodies, he said, " their features show most of the bodies are those of Ethiopians from the South and south-west of Ethiopia non of them are Tigreans". A regime which behaves in such a sinister manner with other people in Ethiopia has left no room for reconciliation. 15 years of armed struggle by the TPLF failed to alter the manner in which they relate to the societies they are supposed to live with in harmony and equality as Ethiopians. TPLF has already lost the hearts and minds of the Ethiopian people their disastrous style of Governance is becoming transparent to the people of Ethiopia who are intensifying their resistance by the day .