Archive for: July, 2012

Foreign Affairs Bureau – Ogaden National Liberation Front

Foreign Affairs Bureau – Ogaden National Liberation Front

Commentary- Regurgitating Lies to Refute Facts: the Ethiopian Regime’s Hysterical Rants against HRW’s Ben Rawlence and ONLF 29/07/2012 For a long time now it has been the strategy of the dictatorial regime in Ethiopia to counter credible reports of human rights abuses by questioning the methodology used by Human Rights organisations to obtain their information. The regime refuses human rights […]

 
 

Declaration The Peoples’ Alliance for freedom and Democracy (OLF, ONLF, SLF and some candidates of AFD)

Declaration The Peoples’ Alliance for freedom and Democracy (OLF, ONLF, SLF and some candidates of AFD)

The aforementioned peoples’ alliances of Ogaden Somalis, Oromo, Sidama and the new candidates of AFD: After deliberating on the current situation in Ethiopia and carefully observing the level of struggle against the current regime and the apparent confusion created by the sudden disappearance of Meles Zenawi, the “strong man” ruling Ethiopia for the past twenty one years; Being apprehensive of […]

 
 

The illegal detention and dehumanization of Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson

The illegal detention and dehumanization of Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson

press Release – July 1, 2012 One year ago, the Ethiopian army shot and then illegally detained Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson, two Swedish journalists who went to Ogaden in order to investigate and report on the role of Lundin Oil in the gross human rights abuses committed by the Ethiopian Army against civilian agro-pastoral population. The Ogaden National Liberation Army considers the two journalists […]