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Addis Ababa Djibouti Railway by China Creates Environment Havoc for the Somali people in Shinile Region in violation of The Somali people’s rights.

Addis Ababa Djibouti Railway by China Creates Environment Havoc for the Somali people in Shinile Region in violation of The Somali people’s rights.

The Ethiopia government has commissioned China to build a railway track between Addis Ababa and Djibouti, which is passing through Somali territory under Ethiopia rule. The new railway line is being constructed in a way that is obstructing the free movement of the nomadic people living in the area and their livestock. The railway line is being built on a […]

 
 

Hundreds Protest against Ethiopian human Rights Abuses in Ogaden at Geneva Conference

Hundreds Protest against Ethiopian human Rights Abuses in Ogaden at Geneva Conference

Hundreds of Somali people from Occupied-Ogaden region and ONLF supporters protested against Ethiopian human rights abuses (Ogaden European Diaspora Association-2 )in Ogaden region on Monday march 10th, in front of Geneva compound where the United Nations’ Human Rights Council held its annual human rights hearing conference. The protesters carrying flags that represent an Independence state of Ogaden region and pictures of […]

 
 

The Ethiopian Regional Administration in Ogaden Throws out Of Jail Ogaden 300 Battered and dying Detainees into the streets of Jigjiga

The Ethiopian Regional Administration in Ogaden Throws out Of Jail Ogaden 300 Battered and dying Detainees into the streets of Jigjiga

March 10, 2014 The Ethiopian regional Administration Ogaden released 300 detainees from Jail Ogaden at midnight on March 6, 2014. Since then more than 20 twenty of the released prisoners died within the last three days. The detainees who are battered physical, mentally and morally are composed of young children born in the prison whose parents died while in custody, […]

 
 

ONLF Statement – The Ethiopian Regime falsely Claims reforming the Gestapo-like Liyu police in Ogaden

ONLF Statement – The Ethiopian Regime falsely Claims reforming the Gestapo-like Liyu police in Ogaden

February 17, 2014 The British Government halted last year a support fund to the Liyu police after British media highlighted that the Liyu police committed Human Rights violations in Ogaden. The Liyu- Police is a Janjaweed-style Militia organized trained and armed by the Ethiopian regime in Ogaden. The Ethiopian Army recruited the Liyu Police, by forcing the rural population to […]

 
 

Press Briefing about the state of the ONLF Abductees from Nairobi

Press Briefing about the state of the ONLF Abductees from Nairobi

February 10, 2014 A source inside Ethiopia informed the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) that the two abducted ONLF officers in from Nairobi in 26 January 2014 were seen in a military hospital under going treatment for extensive wounds caused by torture. The source further informed ONLF that the abductee had resisted the torturers attempts to make them accept to […]

 
 

Ethiopia Abducts two ONLF senior leaders From Nairobi

Ethiopia Abducts two ONLF senior leaders From Nairobi

January 27, 2014 The Ethiopian security abducted Mr Sulub Ahmed and Ali Hussein, two senior ONLF leaders from Nairobi yesterday afternoon. The leaders, who were members of the ONLF negotiation team, were in Nairobi for a proposed third round of talks. This is not the first time that the Ethiopian government has acted in an unethical and uncivilised manner by […]

 
 

Ethiopian Army are Displacing the Rural Population in Ogaden

Ethiopian Army are Displacing the Rural Population in Ogaden

ONLF Press Release December 30, 2013-12-29 The Ethiopian regime has ordered its Army in Ogaden to displace the rural population from large tracts of the Ogaden grassland by burning traditional pasture rich areas in order to clear the land for oil exploration. The Ethiopian Army has so far torched large tracts near the following towns: 1.     Shilabo  – between Jeexdin (CALUB) Gas oil field […]

 
 

Press Release The Ethiopian Regime Using Liyu Police has Massacred Civilians in Mustahil District

Press Release The Ethiopian Regime Using Liyu Police has Massacred Civilians in Mustahil District

December 12, 2013 The Ethiopian regime intensifying its scorched earth policies in Ogaden has unleashed its Liyu Police militia on the civilian population in Mustahil district of Shebelle region of Ogaden. During the last two days hundreds of civilians were either killed or wounded in and around Mustahil. Thousands has been uprooted, some seeking refugee inSomalia. Details will be released as […]

 
 

ONLF Press Release – December 4, 2013Committing Genocide against the Somali People will not Legitimise the Fake Ethiopian Constitution nor Facilitate Oil Exploration in Ogaden

ONLF Press Release – December 4, 2013Committing Genocide against the Somali People will not Legitimise the Fake Ethiopian Constitution nor Facilitate Oil Exploration in Ogaden

For the last three months the Ethiopian regime has turned the Ogaden into large torture chamber, instructing its soldiers to terrorise the civilian people in Ogaden by extra-judicial killings, rampant rape and detention of thousands in order to prepare the so-called Nationalities celebration day, which is used as show case for to probe up its lame claim that the Ethiopian […]

 
 

The Ethiopian government theatrics about Al-Shabab threat and closure of the Somalia border.

The Ethiopian government theatrics about Al-Shabab threat and closure of the Somalia border.

ONLF Press Release The Ethiopian government has declared that it has heightened security inside the Ogaden and the Somali border on the pretext of Al-Shabab threat. This declaration is a calculated ruse to misguide the international community, which is intended to camouflage the massive campaign of detentions and harassment it is conducting in the Ogaden against the civilian population in […]