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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 […]
ONLF Statement 21-08-2012 The death of the Ethiopian dictator may usher a new era of stability and peace in Ethiopia and in the Horn as a whole. Meles Zenawi’s administration has caused unimaginable suffering to the Ogaden people, far beyond any of his predecessors. He has also played great role in creating conflicts and instability in the Horn of Africa in order […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
June 1, 2012 The Ogaden national Liberation Army mounted several targeted operations against Ethiopian Troops who were conducting punitive campaigns against the civilian population in Ogaden. On the May 31, 2012, in Birqot garrison, the Liberation Army waylaid two Ethiopia Army convoys and killed more than fifty soldiers on missions to commit atrocities against the civilian people the area. On the same day, the liberation […]
31/05/2012 Ethiopian Military Army mass murdered at least 18 civilians including woman and elderly men in Dhaba-Jiriso near Gari-go’an village in Ogaden, arrested another 15 and confiscated livestock. On the Sunday Morning of 27/05/2012 Ethiopian Military Army carried out a previously planned operation against pastoralist community in Dhaba-Jiriso in the vicinity of Gari-go’an Village and they savagely killed at least […]
April 11, 2012 On April 9, 2012, the Ethiopian security forces brought UN security officer Abdirahman Sheikh Hassan in front a kangaroo court in Addis Ababa alleging that he has links with Ogaden National Liberation Front. Mr Hassan has never been a member or even a sympathizer of ONLF. Ethiopia’s behaviour of framing up innocent civilians in having relations with […]
21 Ferbaury 2012 African Rights Monitor-ARM condemns the mass killing in Gunagado and demands donors to pressure Ethiopia to open the Ogaden. Following the rebel’s attack on a Chinese oil site in the Ogaden, the Ethiopian Prime Minister who is also the commander of the armed forces declared on June 9, 2007 “We have launched a political and military operation […]
February 20, 2012 The Ethiopian Army, supported by the Liyu Police, a Janjaweed-like Militia in Ogaden under the direct control Meles Zenawi, is continuing its scorched earth campaign against the Ogaden Somalis. On February 19th, in Gunagado district, the Ethiopian Army and their merciless collaborators attacked farmers in the vilages of Abshir and Madheedh, killing more than 10 farmers, including […]
