| O.N.L.F Statement: Exploitation Of Ogaden Oil & Gas Wealth. 6 January 2009 - The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) has stated on multiple occasions that we will not allow the exploitation of the Oil & Gas wealth of our country as long as our people are denied their legitimate rights to self-determination. In that context, the ONLF affirms that if reports that Petronas will resume oil exploration activities in Ogaden are true, this will not be tolerated. |
| O.N.L.F Information Bulletin 31 December 2008 (Information Supplement For Dec 20th 2008 Press Statement http://onlf.org/onlfpress2012008.html) The following are some of the names of those civilians massacred by the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) in Mooyaha village, Ogaden on December 17th 2008. In total 48 civilians were gunned down in the village center. The area was closed of for several days in order to remove the bodies and eliminate the evidence of a massacre. These people were unarmed. |
O.N.L.F Statement: Crackdown on Ethnic Somalis In Ogaden & Addis Ababa. 27 December 2008 - Following the massacre of Ogaden civilians in the village of Mooyaha near the town of Ararso 50 Km north west of Dhagahbur, Ogaden, on the 17th of December 2008, the Ethiopian regime has launched a major military operation, consisting of both ground and airborne troops estimated to be about three brigades in the regions of Jigjiga, Nogob, and West of Dhagahbur. |
| ONLF Statement on Massacre In Mooyaha Village, Ogaden. 20 december 2008 - The Ethiopian regimes army has carried out a wanton massacre in the village of Mooyaha near the town of Ararso 50 Km north west of Dagahbur, Ogaden on the the 17th of December 2008. |
 Somalia: War Crimes Devastate Population. (Nairobi) - Dec 09,2008 - All parties in the escalating conflict in Somalia have regularly committed war crimes and other serious abuses during the past year that have contributed to the country's humanitarian catastrophe, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today
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ONLF Statement. 7 December 2008 - The Ethiopian regime has deployed six combat helicopters to the Ogaden based in the city of Qabri-Dahar. These helicopters began assault operations on Dec 5th with sorties still ongoing. |
Press Release Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF)
6 December 2008 - The Shebelle media Network published today a claim by the Al-shabab group operating in Southern Somalia in which they stated that they have attacked ONLF forces in the Lower Jubba province of Somalia near the Kenyan border. |
The Ogaden National Liberation Front Statement
The Ethiopia Government Denial of War Crimes: A shoddy attempt at deceiving the international community. 28 Nov 2008 - The Ethiopian government’s response regarding Human Rights Watch’s report on War Crimes perpetrated by the Ethiopian Army against the Ogaden Somali civilian population is a weak and shoddy attempt at trying to subvert the truth and deceive the international community about the Zenawi regime’s crime in the Ogaden. |
Ginbot 7 rejects TPLF's self-exoneration of war crimes. Nov 29, 2008 - Ginbot 7 Movement for Freedom and Justice  rejects the claim made by the regime in Ethiopia that no war crime took place in the Ogaden region.On June 11 this year, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) had issued a report supported by satellite photos that accuses Meles Zenawi's regime in Ethiopia of rampant war crimes, including the burning of villages, mass execution of civilians, rape, torture, and blockade of food in the Ogaden region. |
UN officials to investigate fraud reports at refugee agency. Nov 28, 2008 - Two UN officials are investigating fraud reports in their resettlement and registration operations.The officials from the UN Inspector General Office in Geneva visited the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) offices in Westlands, Nairobi, to investigate alleged registration of Kenyan Somalis posing as refugees. The registration targets refugees from Ogaden region in Southern Ethiopia. |
| Disputing HRW's Irrefutable Facts with TPLF Propaganda. Nov 28, 2008 - Back in June 2008 this year, the internationally recognized human rights organization known as the Human Rights Watch (HRW) published the most detailed, first hand account of the type of atrocities and genocide carried out by the Ethiopian regime against the Ogaden civilians throughout Ogaden. |
Open Ogaden to independent investigation Government Report Criticizes Human Rights Watch Findings. Nov 27,2008 - (New York, November 26, 2008) – The Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs published a 47-page critical report today responding to Human Rights Watch's June 2008 report, "Collective Punishment: War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity in the Ogaden area of Ethiopia's Somali Regional State" |
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Ethiopia Challenges Rights Group on Ogaden War Crimes Allegations. Nov 27, 2008 - Ethiopia is challenging a Human Rights Watch report that accuses Ethiopian soldiers of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during a counterinsurgency campaign in its eastern Somali region. As we hear from correspondent Peter Heinlein in Addis Ababa, a team of Ethiopian investigators has issued a counter report charging the U.S.-based rights group with making false allegations based on flawed methods. |
| ONLF STATEMENT ON AMERICAN ELECTIONS. 5 November 2008 - On behalf of the people of Ogaden, the Central Committee and Executive Council of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) wishes to express our profound congratulations to the people of the United States of America on the occasion of the election of President-Elect Barack Obama. |
| Ogaden rebels claim clashes with government troops in southeast. Text of report by Ethiopian opposition Radio Freedom audio website on 4 November Last week several battles took place between ONLA [Ogaden National Liberation Front] fighters and Ethiopian colonialist troops. Our correspondent in the Ogaden [all places in southeastern Ethiopia] reports that a total of 28 lethargic colonialist soldiers were killed and 41 others were wounded. The battles took place as follows |
| The US presidential rivals have spent a hectic final day of campaigning criss-crossing the country in a last push for votes in key states. Nov 05, 2008 |
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| Republican John McCain, trailing in opinion polls, started early in Florida and was to finish in Arizona. He urged his supporters to fight on to victory. Democrat Barack Obama, at his last campaign rally in Virginia, told voters he had one word for them: "Tomorrow." |
| Barack Obama Elected 44th U.S. President. Nov 04, 2008. Democrat Barack Obama has been elected the next president of the United States, according to CNN, winning 338 electoral votes so far compared with 163 votes for his rival John McCain, CNN reports. |
| Protestors at US State Department call foul on Ogaden. October 27, 2008 (WASHINGTON) — More than 100 Ethiopians rallied Friday at the U.S. State Department, protesting U.S. support for Ethiopia’s government and alleging human rights violations against civilians and systematic repression of ethnic Somalis in the Ogaden region. |
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Subcommittee on Africa Chairman Donald Payne calls The Ogaden and Somalia "The Forgotten Tragedies " Oct 24, 2008 - Tenth District Representative Donald MPayne, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs' Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, |
| issued the following statement today: "Innocent civilians continue to suffer in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia. |
ONLF Statement Welcoming The UK's Decision To Withhold Aid To The Ethiopian Regime. 18 October 2008 - The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) welcomes the announcement by the Minister for International Cooperation of the United Kingdom, Mr. Douglas Alexander, that Britain will withhold future aid commitments to Ethiopia due to the Ethiopian regimes obstructions of such aid. |
| British minister withholds aid as Ethiopia hides famine victims. October 18, 2008 - Britain is to withhold future aid commitments to Ethiopia over concerns that its Government is obstructing efforts to help millions at risk of famine in the drought-stricken Somali region in the east of the country. |
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Convention
on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
Adopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of the United Nations General Assembly
on 9 December 1948.
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Ogaden National Liberation
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The
critical events at Obala, Northern Ogaden, and the
successful operation carried out by the ONLF, bring the
West in front of a most challenging predicament:
