From: Berhane Habtemariam (Berhane.Habtemariam@gmx.de)
Date: Fri Aug 07 2009 - 15:25:36 EDT
VIDEO: The Ogaden conflict - Riz Khan
By <http://www.EastAFRO.com/Post/author/alexmike/> Alex Mike . Aug 7th,
2009
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In Ethiopia a separatist war is taking place far from media headlines around
the world. The Ogaden conflict has claimed thousands of lives and is being
called the next Darfur by some.
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 is home to approximately five million people, who are for the most part
ethnic Somali nomads.
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 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.
Joining the programme to discuss the ongoing conflict will be Fowsia
Abdulkadir, an independent researcher and human rights activist who
testified before the US Congress on the situation in the Ogaden region,
Gregory Stanton, the founder and president of Genocide Watch and the
president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and David
Shinn, the former US ambassador to Ethiopia and co-author of A Historical
Dictionary of Ethiopia.
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