Badme – Gebreselassie Woldeabzigi, a 72-year-old Ethiopian, fled his hometown in Badme, a border town of around 2,000 people in May 1998.
It was the start of a two-year war between Ethiopiaand Eritrea that killed an estimated 70,000 people from both sides.
The conflict ended after the two countries signed a peace deal in Algiers in December 2000.
