From: Biniam Haile \(SWE\) (eritrea.lave@comhem.se)
Date: Thu Aug 27 2009 - 08:21:05 EDT
Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) - News
Statement by the Ogaden Somalia Communities Abroad
Posted by miharbi on August 25 2009 21:27:47
Accomplices of the Ethiopian Army war criminals visits Sweden and the
United Kingdom and met the wrath of the Ogaden Community in both
countries
August 26, 2009
Europe
On August 15,2009 accomplices of the War criminals in the Ogaden headed
by the Ethiopian security agent and head of EPRDF's political
apparatchik in the Ogaden, the so-called ESDP, War Criminal Abdifatah
Abdulahi and his security Chief Abdi Mohamed Iley visited Sweden.
The Ogaden Somali Community immediately notified the Swedish government
and Law enforcement agencies in Sweden and mounted a vigil in the rented
venue planned for the Criminal group to meet the people. Hundreds of
community members congregated around the Hotel this group rented and the
Venue they were planning to hold the meeting. After the Ethiopian
Embassy got wind of the strength and determination of the community to
deal with these War Criminals, it e immediately whisked them to the
Embassy and they were holed up there for three days.
In the meantime, the Swedish police questioned the leaders of the War
Criminals about abuses they had committed against Ogaden Swedish
Citizens.
Finally, after three days of ordeals and constant pressure from the
Ogaden Community the perpetrators escaped in the middle of the night to
Britain, where similar fate was awaiting them. Again, The Ethiopian
Embassy staff immediately whisked them to the Embassy and on Saturday,
the Ogaden Community staged a massive demonstration in Front of the
Ethiopian Embassy in London, UK, where a mounted police had to guard
them. The Ethiopian Embassy invited a few Wayane Sympathizers and
augmented them with members of the Embassy. Later in the afternoon the
Criminals held a teleconference from inside the Embassy to few people
holed up in the Hotel venue where they original planned to hold their
meeting. The Ogaden community in Sweden had arrived there in force and
the perpetrators dared not venture beyond the Embassy walls. Then the
Embassy issued a statement claiming success!
The statements issued by the Ethiopian Embassy in Sweden and United
Kingdom conveniently omitted all these facts and fabricated a nice
speech based on Ethiopian consistent lying about the development,
education and projects planned for the Ogaden people, while in reality
Ethiopia is systematically committing genocide in Ogaden behind an iron
wall. If as the Ethiopian Embassy in Sweden claims, there is any
development in the Ogaden, why bar independent Journalists to visit it?
Just on August 13, 2009 the Ethiopian Army asked the representative of
this group in the town of Gelediid to inform the residents that it would
distribute food aid to the residents of Gelediid and surrounding areas.
The people of Gelediid and surrounding villages congregated in the town
square expecting the food aid. The Ethiopian Army then separated all the
women from the crowd, took them to their camp and systematically raped
them for two days. The War Criminals then released all the women except
three whose whereabouts are still unknown.
In the next statement issued in London, the Wayane's classic colonial
stratagem of divide and rule is clearly exposed. The statement the
wayane propaganda machinery states that people from this clan or that
clan were included in the meeting, an attempt at sowing further
divisions among the Ogaden People.
The challenges mounted by the Ogaden Communities in Sweden and UK speak
loud about the views and sentiments of the Ogaden Communities abroad,
not the baseless statements concocted by the Embassy staffs. The popular
demonstrations in Sweden and London has sent a strong signal to the
Ethiopian Regime of Meles Zenawi and his henchmen, that their days are
numbered and it is a matter of time before they are brought to an
International Tribunal for the crimes Meles Zenawi and his cohorts are
committing against the Ogaden Somali people.
We call upon the International Community to condemn The Meles Regime and
hasten the on-going process of bringing them to justice.
The Ogaden Communities abroad strongly condemns those countries that
disregard the heinous crimes Meles Zenawi is committing in the Ogaden
and are providing him more funds to finance further his rancorous acts
in the Ogaden. History will catch up with you.
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