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ONLF Press Release December 22, 2011 The Ogaden National Liberation Front condemns with the strongest possible terms the unjust conviction of the two Swedish Journalists that entered the Ogaden to investigate the Human Rights abuses perpetrated by the tyrannical regime of Meles Zenawi. This heinous act is a clear and unequivocal intension by the Ethiopian regime to frighten and terrorize […]
October 26, 2011 From Mid-October, the Ethiopian Army has started forcefully relocating thousands of families in the rural areas around Obole where the Chinese Company, PetroTrans, is conducting illegal oil exploration. The Ethiopian Army is rounding up all adults and detaining them in few designated villages around the road between Jigjiga and Degahbur, leaving behind their children and livestock unattended […]
Statement : October 17 2011 The Ethiopian regime of Meles Zenawei is going to charge Matin Schibbye and Johan Perrson tomorrow in A Kangaroo Court in Addis Ababa on a trumpeted charge of Terrorism. The regime has set up an elaborate program of manufacturing false and concocted ‘evidence’ after their ill-trained solders in Ogaden shot the unarmed Journalists in Ogaden. […]
9 October 2011 The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) strongly condemns the brutal and barbaric terrorist attack against innocent civilians in Mogadishu which resulted in the death of over 100 people, mainly students, this past Tuesday. This attack by the enemies of the Somali people and nation demonstrates the extent to which those forces determined to prevent peace, progress and democracy in Somalia are willing to go. The perpetrators of […]
Press Release October 2, 2011 For the last few weeks, there had been an outbreak of cholera in Korahe region (qabri-daharre) of Ogaden. The Ogaden National liberation Front health officer of the region has reported more than 50 fatalities. The conservative estimate of the people affected by the Cholera is about one thousand and the situation is critical. The health […]
Tuesday, 13 September 2011, UNPO and the Society for Threatened Peoples will co-host an event at the 18th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. This event, titled Oppression in the Ogaden: Human Rights in Ethiopia’s Somali Region, will be held in the Palais des Nations from 11:00 – 13:00. The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) and […]
8 September 2011 The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) strongly condemns the charging of Swedish journalists Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye with terrorism by the Ethiopian regime on the 7th of September 2011. charge these journalists with terrorism represents a gross miscarriage of justice and as such these charges should be dropped immediately. Charging Mr. Persson and Mr Schibbye […]
September 1 2011 Ogaden National Liberation Front Brigades from the Ethiopian Army in Ba’bili, Jigjiga, Degahmadow and Degahbur have launched a joint attack against ONLF forces on the 30th of August, after the Ogaden National Liberation Army (ONLA) pushed back Elite troops from the Prime Ministers Special Forces who were trying to escort a Chinese team to Obole oil […]
Press Release August 24 2011 The recently publicised deal between China, Ethiopia and the Northern Somalia regional administration of Hargeisa regarding building a refinery in Berbera port of Somalia, a gas pipeline for Ogaden Gas and Oil, and a proposed road through Ogaden Somali Territory is a pipe dream that will not go beyond the drawing boards of those who […]
Press Release August 20 2011 Assassination of an Ogaden Community leader in IFO refugee Camp in Kenya An assassin has shot Mr Abdirizak Mohamed Abdi (Tiba), a community leader from Ogaden under the protection of the UN and the Kenyan government in IFO refugee camp in Kenya on August 19 2011 at noon. Mr Abdi was fifty years old. He […]
