From: Biniam Haile \(SWE\) (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Wed Jun 03 2009 - 18:02:56 EDT
Press Release Ogaden National Liberation Front. Oil Exploration in the
Ogaden
Posted by miharbi on June 03 2009 12:45:54
Press Release
Ogaden National Liberation Front
Oil Exploration in the Ogaden
The Ogaden National Liberation Front has ascertained that certain
multinational Oil corporations are intent on exploiting Ogaden fossil
fuel resources in alliance with the current Ethiopian regime that is
committing genocide and War Crimes in Ogaden. Currently certain
companies are clearing of all vegetation an area equal to 1600 sq. Km.
in Cagarweyne and Miir-Khalif near Wardheer, displacing thousands of the
nomadic population and destroying the scarce vegetation in a vulnerable
ecology. Besides destroying the livelihood of the rural population in
the affected areas, these companies are filling the coffers of this
regime and financing its criminal activities in occupied Ogaden. This in
turn has encouraged the regime of Meles Zenawi to undertake a scorched
earth policy in the Ogaden and commit genocide in the Ogaden. The sites
these companies operate at are guarded by mechanised Ethiopian Army
troops who make fortifications and forcefully evict the local population
by killings, rape, detention and destruction of property. Thus these
companies are accomplices to the Ethiopian regimes crimes and are
directly involved in the on-going genocide in the Ogaden.
Furthermore, in order to accommodate these immoral and gluttonous rushes
for Oil in Ogaden, Ethiopia killed, raped and illegally detained
thousands of Ogaden civilian and imposed economic and aid blockade at a
time of when there was a full blown draught in the Ogaden.
Ethiopia is violating both International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights and Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Ogaden. These rights
had been enshrined in the UN Charter and international laws since the
end of World War II and have benefited many colonised and oppressed
nations of the world; however, they have deliberately been deprived of
the Ogaden people. Today Ethiopia is denying the Ogaden people their
right to life and development while both the UN and the AU are turning a
blind eye. Furthermore the current regime in Ethiopia is bent on further
usurping their natural resources, and these multi-national companies are
party to this heinous crime perpetrated against a colonised stateless
people.
Since ONLF has persistently warned these unscrupulous multinational
companies and their governments, it is very clear that they are not only
manifestly disregarding the plight of the Ogaden people but are actively
participating in the violation of the Human and Political rights of the
Ogaden people, the Ogaden National Liberation Front has been left no
alternative but to take all measures necessary to protect the
inalienable rights of the Ogaden people.
Ogaden National Liberation Front
http://www.onlf.org/news.php?readmore=37
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