The Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front (ARDUF), a rebel organization which has been fighting against the anti-Ethiopia regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and the Eritrean regime of Isaias Afewerki for many years, warned in its statement issued on September 20, 2003 that all foreigners who would set foot on Afar soil to carry out a divide and demarcate the Afar people and territory would be held responsible for any consequences.
“Our twin enemies – Shaebia (Isaias Afewerki’s) and Woyane (Meles Zenawi’s) – have been, under the auspices of the United Nations, carrying out illegal acts of brigandage against our people. Let the whole world know that ARDUF is reiterating its firm stand as it did in 1990, 1991, 1993 and 2000 that it is not only opposed to the illegal act of dividing our Afar people and demarcating our soil under the guise of “border demarcation” between Ethiopia and Eritrea, but also ready to render any demarcation exercise ineffective,” ARDUF underscored.
ARDUF has been fighting the Eritrean regime of Isaias Afewerki and the masked Eritrean agent of Ethiopia, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, since both anti-Ethiopia leaders helped Eritrea break away from Ethiopia in 1991, thus annexing Ethiopia’s Red Sea littoral, which left Ethiopia landlocked.
ARDUF is one of 15 Ethiopian opposition parties that formed the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces (UEDF), an opposition grouping which has vowed to remove Meles and reverse all agreements signed between Meles and Isaias.
