From: senaey fethi (senaeyfethi@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Aug 06 2009 - 12:13:22 EDT
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From: senaey fethi <senaeyfethi@yahoo.com>
Subject: (Al Jazeera) Ogaden the next Darfur? join the conversation by calling the show
To: "dehai dehai" <dehai@dehai.org>
Date: Wednesday, August 5, 2009, 5:55 PM
Al Jazeera: Ogaden the next Darfur? join the conversation by calling this number:
+ 1 202 775 2360
Watch the show live at 2030gmt,4:30 EST, 9:30 London Time.
The Next Darfur?
It’s a separatist war taking place far from media headlines around the world, but the Ogaden conflict has claimed thousands of lives and is being called the next Darfur by some.
Over the past two years the conflict has escalated following the Ogaden National Liberation Front’s (ONLF) attack on a Chinese run oil exploration field that resulted in the death of 74 Ethiopian guards and Chinese workers. Since then, the area has been closed off by the Ethiopian army.
The Ogaden region of Ethiopia lies between Oromia to the west, the Republic of Djibouti to the north, Kenya to the south and the Somali Republic to the east. It’s home to approximately five million people, who are for the most part ethnic Somali nomads.
The armed ONLF resistance began in 1994 when they broached the idea of splitting from Ethiopia. The central government then imprisoned Ogadeni leaders and has since labeled them as terrorists, linking them to Al Qaeda. The Ogadeni allege assassinations, torture and rape at the hands of the Ethiopian solders.
On the next Riz Khan show we look at the ongoing conflict in the Ogaden region. Joining the programme are Fowsia Abdulkadir an independent researcher and human rights activist who testified before the U.S. Congress on the situation in the Ogaden region; Gregory Stanton, founder and president of Genocide Watch and the president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars; and David Shinn, former U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia and co-author of A Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia
You can join the conversation by calling this number:
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.Watch the show live at 2030gmt, with repeats the next day at 0030gmt, 0530gmt and 1130gmt