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Broadcasting Ethiopian Mass Murderous Intentions |
June 15, 2007
Nearly a year ago, the head of the Addis
autocracy Mr. Zenawi announced to the world
that his illiterate and poorly paid soldiers
were instructed to attack Ogaden National
Liberation Army, ONLA. As he put it at the
time, the objective was to ‘conduct military
sweeps’ whatever that meant.
On June 11th, exactly ten months later,
Zenawi was at it again telling the world
community through a press conference that
[he] launched a political and military
operation to try to contain the activities
of the ONLF (Ogaden National Liberation
Front) in the region.
What Mr. Zenawi does NOT tell the world is
that what he termed in two thousand and six
a ‘military sweep’ and he is now terming
‘political and military operation’ is the
launching of a mass murder campaign intended
to exact maximum casualties on the Ogaden
civilians.
He knows full well that his unmotivated
soldiers are no match for ONLF or ONLA whose
soldiers are better trained, motivated, and
more knowledgeable on the Ogaden terrain.
However his target was in
August 2006
and again is in
June 2007
the Ogaden civilians whom he had murdered in
the thousands since the last campaign.
Prime example of this being the case is the
fact that in the 2006 campaign, ONLF not
only rebelled successfully any Ethiopian
military attempt to dislodge them from
Ogaden but they even succeeded in
killing
twenty six of the highest ranking
military officials who were leading the
misnamed ‘military sweep’ campaign including
its head one general Mulugeta, a close
relative of Mr. Zenawi.
Since there is no longer talk of a ‘sweep’
in Zenawi’s parlance but a more modest
containment strategy shows that he, Zenawi,
and his minions have come to the conclusion
that ONLF is here to stay militarily in
Ogaden. His main objective now is the
execution of mass detentions, as is already
seen throughout Ogaden, coupled with mass
rape, maiming and extra judicial killings of
the Ogaden citizenry.
Even though the Addis autocracy knows that
its planned activities are mass murder
camouflaged as a ‘crack down’, it, Addis
autocracy, is hoping that exacting maximum
revenge on the Ogaden civilians is the only
hope it has left to somehow pressure ONLF to
cease its military activities.
Zenawi and his clique in Addis Ababa have
made their murderous intentions known to the
world community through a press conference.
They have already started executing their
plans with mass detentions, extra judicial
killings of some of the detained, and
political assassinations of even some of
those who work for them, as seen in JigJiga
bombing recently, in the hope of creating
clan conflicts within the Ogaden Somalis.
It is a fact not lost to the Addis Clique
that every rule in international law
prohibits the use of civilians either as
shields or as a conduit to force one’s enemy
to cease and desist. What Zenawi and his
Addis autocracy have announced and have
started to execute is mass murder of Ogaden
civilians. It t is about time that the world
community come to the aid of the Ogaden
civilians.
Press conferences and political
pronouncements aside, Zenawi and his clique
should be brought to The Hague as world
criminals. They should be made accountable
for their mass murderous policies and the
execution of these policies against the
helpless Ogaden populace. Let us not watch
while another Rwanda unfolds in front of our
eyes.
editorial@ogaden.com
Ogaden Online Editorial
June 15, 2007 |
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