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The Absurdity of Asking a Slayer to Investigate His
Murderous Regime |
By Editorial
Nov 29, 2007
Now that the gruesome details of the ethnic
cleansing tactics being employed by the
current autocracy in Addis Ababa are slowly
coming out, it is not unexpected for the
Ethiopian prime minister to come out
swinging against the veracity of the
genocidal stories trickling out of Ogaden
with the Ogaden refugees. After all who
expects a slayer, at the level of Mr. Meles
Zenawi, to own up to the military
indiscretions of his minions and militias in
Ogaden.
Coming out to claim that the fact that he
was a former ‘insurgent’ makes him to avoid
carrying out an ethnic cleansing in Ogaden
is quite absurd to say the least. Given the
documented and widely publicized human
rights abuses and genocide reported in
Ogaden, is it not that Zenawi is simply
trying to deflect attention away from the
very public decapitations, mutilations, and
mass execution of innocent civilians that
his poorly paid soldiers have been carrying
out under his orders in Ogaden?
The only thing that is more absurd than
Zenawi’s denials of ethnic cleansing and
genocide is the otherwise impeccable U.N.
humanitarian chief John Holmes asking Zenawi
to investigate the very murders and crimes
against humanity that he has planned and
ordered in Ogaden.
No one in their right mind asks a murderer
to investigate his murders. The mass
displacement, country-wide blockade, public
beheadings, extra judicial killings, and the
actions of the death squads that Zenawi has
unleashed against the Ogaden masses should
be investigated without delay by NOT ONE but
by a panel of multi-UN agencies and human
rights organizations. The Ethiopian regime
should neither have no role nor a say in
these investigations.
When the multi-UN agency panel convenes and
since Zenawi has emphatically denied ‘that
there have been no widespread human rights
violations in the Ogaden, not only because
we believe in the respect for human rights,
but because we know how to fight the
insurgency’ he should be personally held
responsible for all the crimes against
humanity that have so taken place in Ogaden.
Zenawi’s crimes are no less immoral than
those carried out by the Hutu Interhamwe
militias during the Rwandan genocide in
1994. These, Zanawi’s, crimes are no less
wicked and gruesome than those carried out
by Radovan Karadzic and Bosnian Serb
military commander Ratko Mladic.
Why initiate a global search for criminals
like Interhamwe militias, Ratko Mladic, and
Radovan Karadzic while allowing Zenawi to
act like a statesman and even listen to his
diatribes? If crimes against humanity are
one and the same Zenawi and his murderous
regime should be brought to justice instead
of absurdly asking him to investigate his
murderous regime.
editorial@ogaden.com
Ogaden Online Editorial
Nov 29, 2007
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