From: Biniam Haile \(SWE\) (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Fri Apr 17 2009 - 11:39:51 EDT
Statement On Call For UN Human Rights Investigation of Ethiopian Regime
17 April 2009
The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) strongly supports the call
by Genocide Watch for the initiation of an investigation of the human
rights situation in Ethiopia based on the proprio motu powers of the
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. The ONLF has
maintained for some time that the Ethiopian regime of Melez Zenawi is
engaged in war crimes tantamount to Genocide in Ogaden. The United
Nations own humanitarian assessment team which visited Ogaden in
September 2007 concluded that an independent investigation was warranted
but this recommendation was never acted upon and the details of their
findings with regards to human rights was never fully released.
The United Nations cannot continue to sit by idly as countless innocent
civilians in Ogaden are killed senselessly by the armed forces of
Ethiopia in a deliberate policy aimed at ethnically cleansing the
Somalis of Ogaden from their own land. Should the UN High Commissioner
choose to initiate a human rights investigation, the ONLF affirms that
we will cooperate fully with this effort.
The fact that the current Ethiopian regime has increased its military
budget and is seeking to expand domestic arms production capacity as
reported this week is indicative of the misguided priorities of this
regime even when faced with the stark reality of poverty, recurring
famines and lack of access to education and health services for the
broad masses.
Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF)
http://www.genocidewatch.org/images/Ethiopia090323UNHCHR.pdf
http://onlf.org/onlfpress_Investigation.html
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