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One Mursi man told Survival International how the process of villagization is destroying his family. ‘The government is throwing our sorghum in the river. It has cleaned up the crops and put them in the river. I only have a few sacks left…We are waiting to die. We are crying. When the government collects people into one village there will […]
Many people opted to defer to the future the controversial issues surrounding the gruesome murder of Dr. Mohamed Sirad Dolal in January2009 in Ogaden by Ethiopian troops, hoping that the truth will finally come out and put this matter to rest. They were not disappointed. Strange as it is, a recently smuggled video material from the personal archives of the […]
1. Humanitarian Crisis in the Ogaden Region Somali region (Ogaden) isEthiopia’s ‘ownDarfur, where government runs war and organized human genocide, and blocks food aid delivery and trade, humanitarian access in the region. Women, children and older people are the most vulnerable groups to suffer abuse and violence and misuse of humanitarian aid in these regions. Ogaden humanitarian crisis is the […]
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 […]
”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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
