Archive for: September, 2012

The Malqaqa Massacre Revisited

The Malqaqa Massacre Revisited

In June 10, 2010 Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) issued a press release about a massacre that has taken place in a place called Malqaqa in Ogaden. We listed the names of 40 victims and gave details of how the innocent civilians were hunted down, rounded up, and summarily executed by the Ethiopian army and the Liyuu Police militias. We […]

 
 

A wave of atrocities against villages in Ogaden

A wave of atrocities against villages in Ogaden

”No proper evidence has reached the world until now” The task force that arrested and wounded the Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson in Ethiopia are now accused of widespread abuses in the Ogaden province. Swedish Television’s Africa correspondent Johan Ripås has become privy to further documentation, smuggled out of Ethiopia. The video evidence shows that whole villages have […]

 
 

Ethiopia bans Swedish state television: report

Ethiopia bans Swedish state television: report

According to sources contacted by SVT, the svt.se website has been down in the country since early on Saturday morning. Persson and Schibbye were recently released from Ethiopian prison and SVT is among the news media which have reported on claims that evidence was falsified to secure their convictions on terror charges. “Ethiopia is very uncomfortable with the information that […]

 
 

Assuming a virtue it has not: the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission’s attempt to divert attention from the violation of Human rights in Ethiopia and cover-up the truth

Assuming a virtue it has not: the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission’s attempt to divert attention from the violation of Human rights in Ethiopia and cover-up the truth

September 21, 2012 Shakespeare once said, “Assume a virtue, if you have it not.” The announcement by the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) that it will visit prisons in Ethiopia is tantamount to Shakespearean ‘assumption of virtue’ by the Ethiopian regime intended to divert attention from the horrible condition of the hundreds of thousands of people detained under dubious and politically motivated […]

 
 

Congratulations to the New President of Somalia

Congratulations to the New President of Somalia

The Ogaden National Liberation Front in the name of the Somali people in Ogaden congratulates the new president of Somalia, HE Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. Furthermore, ONLF wishes the new president to succeed in establishing peace, prosperity and an effective government in Somalia that can protect the interests of the Somali Nation. This is could be a new dawn for the Somali people, since it […]

 
 

ONLF welcomes the release of Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson

ONLF welcomes the release of Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson

The Ogaden National Liberation Front welcomes the release of Swedish journalists, Martin Schibbye and photographer Johan Persson, who for the past 14 months have suffered illegal imprisonment in Ethiopiadue to their heroic activities as fact finding journalists. The two journalists were attacked and later detained on July 1st 2011 after crossing into the Ogaden (according to the Ethiopian verdict), in […]

 
 

ONLF Condemns “The Wanton killing of civilians including children in Ogaden by the Ethiopian Army on September 6, 2012″

ONLF Condemns “The Wanton killing of civilians including children in Ogaden by the Ethiopian Army on September 6, 2012″

Press Release September 10, 2012 The Ethiopian Army has wantonly executed extra-judicially and gunned down more than 14 civilians, most women and including an infant and a child in Miir-denbas village of Wardher region on September 6, 2012. The killings targeted closely related family members, including three members of the Guuleed family. All the victims were collected from different parts […]

 
 

Peace talks between Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) and the Ethiopian Government Held in Kenya

Peace talks between Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) and the Ethiopian Government Held in Kenya

ONLF Press Release September 8, 2012 Delegates from the Ogaden National Liberation Front and the Ethiopian government held talks in Nairobi, Kenya on the September 6th and 7th 2012, facilitated by a Kenyan team designated by the President of Kenya, HE Mwai Kibaki. Mr Abdirahman Mahdi, the Foreign Secretary of the Ogaden National Liberation Front, led the ONLF delegation from the […]