Ethio-Somali

Judge Abuye Ayalw has joined EPPF Fighter to fight against this evil dictatorship

Date: 25 February 2009

EPPF is working effectively throughout Ethiopia through its existing network base to involve Ethiopians from all walks

of life and to fight against this TPLF Tyranny to keep Ethiopia as one.

On February 2009 one of Ethiopian judge Abuye Ayalew from Ebilet Regain court, south of Gondar have joined EPPF

front line to fight against the TPLF dictatorship, with the language that TPLF understand, through the Barolo of the

gun.

For the past six years Abuye Ayalw has been work as a Judge. While he was still in Ethiopian Abuye Ayalw have been

involved within EPPF network to organizing various activities.

Now Judge Abuye Ayalw have decided to put down his pen and paper and packed up the gun to fight and free

Ethiopian people from this political, economical, social tangle of our country and to help established a concrete unity,

justice, democracy and equality for the Ethiopian people.

To watch Judge Abuye Ayalw story and other interviews, who joined recently the front line of EPPF please keep on

visiting EPPF website http://www.eppfonline.org.

Unity is a power

EPPF

By Peter Clottey Washington, D.C 25 February 2009

The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) is accusing the Ethiopian government of committing genocide against the people of the Ogaden region. The group said it would not relent in its effort to expose what it described as the nefarious activities of the Meles Zenawi government in the region. This comes after Ethiopia recently barred international journalists from the area, saying that the area is not safe. But the liberation group sharply disagreed and promised to tell the world about the need for an independent investigation into what the group said are the ongoing atrocities allegedly being committed by the Addis Ababa government. Abdirahman Sheikh Mahdi is a leading member of the liberation group. He was here in our VOA Washington studio after meeting US congressmen. Sheikh Mahdi tells reporter Peter Clottey that there should be a holistic approach towards resolving the insecurity situation in the Ogaden region.

“As you know, there is a big problem in the Horn of Africa and one of the problem areas is what is happening in the Ogaden region. So, our mission is to bring international attention to the calamities that are happening in Ogaden. There is a big fight between the Ethiopian government and the Ogaden Liberation Front. The Ethiopian government is abusing the people in Ogaden and there is an economic blockade, there is a massacre and there is actually an active genocide going on there. So, we came to the United States to highlight that issue and to meet relevant actors in international politics,” Sheikh Mahdi noted.

He said international organizations have expressed their concerns about the difficult situation in the Ogaden region despite claims by Addis Ababa to the contrary.

“Both the United Nations and the International Human rights organization and the NGO’s (Non-Governmental Organizations) in the area have already ascertained that there has been serious human rights violations in Ogaden. And the response of the Ethiopian government was to shut the doors and ban all NGO’s journalists from going there. So, what we are saying is if Ethiopia is telling the truth, why doesn’t it allow independent international journalists to go there and verify what we are saying? That is the reason why we believe the Ethiopian government is lying about what is going on in Ogaden,” he said.

Sheikh Mahdi said there is a long history involving the surrounding countries who have fought over the Ogaden area for a long time.

“First of all the people in Ogaden are Somalis and the place is almost as large as Somalia. The population there is about six million and the population about Somalia is about eight million and the area is almost the size of Somalia. So, it is a whole territory it is not just a small region and because of history and because of the circumstances that have happened in the Horn of Africa during the 19 century Ogaden became separated from the bigger Somali nation,” Sheikh Mahdi pointed out.

He called for international help towards finding a lasting solution to the ongoing problems in Ogaden.

“So, the issue of Ogaden if it is to resolved, we believe it cannot be divorced from the greater Horn of Africa problem because Somalia and Ethiopia have been at loggerheads because of Ogaden. So, the whole Horn of Africa needs a comprehensive solution. You cannot solve the problem there by piece meal. So, we believe that the international community should give as much attention to the problem in the Ogaden the same given to Somalia or may to Darfur or to other parts of the region,” he said.

Sheikh Mahdi said there was need to give residents of the Ogaden region the right to determine what their future should be.

“The Ogaden National Liberation Front does not dictate what the people of Ogaden want. The people of Ogaden want self-determination and they have the right to choose whatever they want. They can choose to be state and they can choose to be part of any other nation in the area. But what we are saying is that let the people of Ogaden be given the right to decide what they want. Nobody can force them to choose what they don’t want and what they don’t want is very clear. The way Ethiopia is treating them and the way the Ethiopian government is dealing with them that is what they don’t want,” Sheikh Mahdi noted.

He called on Ethiopia to allow for international mediation to resolve the problems in the Ogaden.

“First of all we are telling the Addis Ababa government that bloodshed, African bloodshed has no value. So, far you have been believing in the rule of the gun, but what we propose to you is to stop that and accept internationally mediated negotiated peace process that have no conditions and which is run by credible international mediators,” he said

Wararka naga soo gaarayaa woqooyiga Itoobiya gaar ahaan magaalooyinka Gonder, Bahirdaar iyo Gobolka Gojam oo dhamaan ka tirsan ismaamul Goboleedka Amxaarada ayaa sheegaya in uu halkaas ka taaganyahay kacdoon dini oo u dhaxeeya Muslimiinta iyo masiixiyiinta  iyo kacdoon kale oo ay  wadaan ardayada  ay ku diidanyihiin kaligii taliye Meles Zanawi.

Magaalada Gonder  iyo Gobolka Gojama

Wararka naga soo gaaraya waxa ay sheegayaan in uu ka taaganyahay goboladan dagaal u dhaxeeya Muslinimiinta iyo masiixiiyiinta. Gaar ahaan magaalada Gonder waxaa dhowaan lagu xirixirey dhalinyaro aad u farabadan oo muslimiin ah iyagoo lagau eedeeyeey in ay aflagaadeeyeen geedka ay caabudaan Kirishtaanka ee loo yaqaan TAABOOT. Dahalinyaradan oo wakhtigaas ka soo baxay misaajidka ku yaal magaalada Gonder ayaa waxaa xabsiga u taxaabay ciidanka loo yaqaan Booliska fadaraaliga. Magaaladan oo ay horeyba xiisada aad u kacsan ay ka aloosneeyed ayaa waxaa hadda laga soo sheegayaa in Kirishtaanka oo taageera buuxda ka heleya  ciidanka fereraaliga  ay  muslimiinta ugu hanjabeen in ay ku soo biiraan diinta kirishtaanka ama ay ka guuraan gobolada Amxaarada. Sida oo kala waxaa Gobolka Gojam laga soo sheegayaa in xiisadii ka kacdey magaalada Gonder ay saameeysey  weeyn ku yeelatey oo uu ka socdo dhaqdhaqaaq ama kacdoon u dhaxeeya muslimiinta iyo masiixiyiinta.

Kacdoonka u eg mid diimeed hase ahaatee ah isku dirida Muslimiinta iyo Kirishtaanka boqolaal sno wada deganaa  waxaa ka dambeeyaan ciidanka nabad sugida ee Wayaanaha. Waxaana hadda socda in la ugaarsado Muslimiinta iyada  oo la hubeeynayo Amxaarada degen degmada Armachew si ay u xasuuqaan  Muslimiinta madaama magaalada Gonder dadka degen ay boqolkiiba sideetan in ka badan ay yihiin Muslimiin. I

Bahir dar iyo Jaamcadaha kale

Sidoo kale wararka naga soo gaaraya  Jaamadda Bahir dar iyo Jaamacadaha kale sida tan ku taala magaalada Gonder ardeyda dhigata waxa ay wadaan kacdoon ay kaga soo horjeedaan taliska wakhtigiisa uu dhamaadey ee kaligii taliye Meles zanawi. Warku wuxuu intaas ku darayaa in jaamadaha ku yaal ismaamulka Amxaarada lagu xiri-xirey boqolaal ardey oo ka soo horjeestey taliska Meles zanawi.

20th Feburary 2009 

Heavy Fighting between armed forces of the Ethiopian regime and the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) has occurred in the area around the cities of Fik and Degah Bur over the last 5 days. Over 140 Ethiopian troops and associated militia have been killed as a result of these engagements.  The ONLF had a combined casualty total of 29 troops killed and a dozen wounded during the course of these operations.  The casualty figures heavily favored our forces due to the nature of our operations; In particular, surprise attacks and ambushing enemy military convoys. The area around Degah Bur is now completely in the hands of the ONLF as is the area around the city of Fik. These operations in the vicinity of Degah Bur and Fik are a direct response to the massacre of nearly 48 civilians in the town Moyaaha in December 2008 and the more recent killing of over 50 civilians in the town of Mulli in the Shinile area.

Ethiopian troops have now deployed armed helicopters in response to ONLF military operations in the region. However, the pilots of those helicopters target civilians and livestock instead of engaging our ground forces directly in an effort to avoid ground fire yet still discharge their payload. Ethiopian helicopter pilots often do this in Ogaden out of fear of their commanders should they return to base with a full payload of munitions.

The ONLF will continue and intensify these military operations. We will target all of the regimes military units who enter Ogaden without exception.

Ogaden National Liberation Front

Military Command Center (MCC)