Ogaden rebels urges UN probe over human rights violations
Press Release
August 11, 2007 — The fact that international journalists and human rights groups are now banned from entering Ogaden coupled with the expulsion of the ICRC on baseless grounds should be a clear warning sign to the world that yet another preventable African catastrophe is unfolding in Ogaden. Continued war crimes against our people valuing oil over human lives requires immediate international intervention coordinated by the United Nations in the form of a fact finding mission.
We are confident that the findings of such a mission will warrant holding Melez Zenawi and senior members of his regime personally responsible for war crimes in Ogaden.
If the Zenawi regime has nothing to hide in Ogaden it should immediately end the ban on international journalists and allow immediate United Nations verification of our claims. It should also overturn the expulsion of the ICRC.
Laughable claims by the Zenawi regime that they have killed hundreds of ONLF fighters does not change the fact that our forces are largely intact, operational and effective. As such, the Zenawi regime must be clear that oil exploration will not be allowed in Ogaden as long as our people are denied their legitimate rights.
Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF)
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Ogaden rebels urges UN probe over human rights violations
ogaden has remainded backward an undeveloped for last 15-16 years schools are militry garisons and hospitals are closed the main twho roads are rough and resently cracckdown there is nothing to eat the only survivors are rely on camel milk the war crime committing ethiopian soldiers are contuining please international commutity we need immidiate intervenantion you can investigate i am sure that you will get more evidence i am ogaden born student leaving abroad inable to go home for security issues