ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s dictatorial regime said on Wednesday a government-Woyanne-funded probe had found no evidence to support reports by a rights group that its military committed war crimes during a campaign against rebels in the eastern Ogaden region. [Woyanne investigating itself? This must be joke of the day!]
Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued two reports in June that it said documented attacks on civilians in the arid region; one based on witness accounts and another on satellite imagery showing burnt-out villages during a year-long military offensive.
Prime Minister dictator Meles Zenawi’s government junta accuses the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) of being terrorists supported by arch-foe and neighbor Eritrea.
It launched the offensive in April 2007 after ONLF rebels attacked Chinese-run oil fields in the region also known as Somali, killing more then 70 people [mostly members of the Woyanne death squad].
But Ethiopia Woyanne, which is a key ally of Washington’s war against terror in the region, said its seven-man -donkey team had proved that the HRW reports were fabricated.
“They found villages untouched that HRW alleged were burnt by Ethiopian National Defence Forces. Many of the names of those allegedly killed proved simply fictitious nor had populations been forcibly relocated,” the team said in a report.
“The investigation also found no evidence to support HRW’s allegations of systematic war crimes or crimes against humanity,” it added. [Even Yammammotto doesn’t buy this story]
The U.S.-based group had accused the government of limiting access to the region and had hit out at Western donors for failing to condemn war crimes on the mainly ethnically Somali people of the region.
But the two-month probe joke found that populations said to have been forcibly relocated were found in their original homes, while people who were allegedly tortured and killed were found alive and well.
Villagers and elders also denied allegations of extra-judicial killings, rape or torture by the security forces, the report said.
“The investigation demonstrated clearly that HRW perhaps unwittingly had allowed itself to be used as a propaganda tool by the ONLF terrorist organization which it has clearly romanticised.”
(Writing by Tsegaye Tadesse and Wangui Kanina; editing by Richard Balmforth)
5 thoughts on “Woyanne investigated itself and found no crime in Ogaden”
Oh yea! “No crimes were committed against the Ogadenis”! Says who? The Weyane thugs – that is who; and we are so stupid we are supposed to believe the report by the pathological liers!
Meles and his TPLF are so stupid and arrogant that they don`t even know how others view them.Nobody believes them for they are shameless liars.The crimes they committed and still happening in Ogaden are well documented.They cann`t hide them.Just last three weeks,they arrested thousands of people in Ogaden and only those who can pay 3000 birr are allowed to go free.Their criminal business is booming in Ogaden.Gone are their claim of fighting the ONLF.Most of their victims are women and the elders in the towns they control.For some reason,the TPLF fired most of their relatively educated stooges-such as the so called president and replaced them with unlettered and former street thugs.
Dear friends,
Those elements that lined up to the barbaric “ethnic politics” of Woyane are paying the price themselves.
First of all, this cheap politics was designed to uplift Woyane to the rank of one-ethnic-Tigre-Dictatorship.
To some extent Woyane has achieved its objectives by doing so.
No single ethnic group was untouched by the evil-doing of Woyanes.
Ogadens, Oromos, Gambellas, Afars, etc. are punished by the guns of Woyanes. Unfortunatelly there are some greedy(Hodam)elements who became the tool of Woyane to humiliate their own people by being bribed of huge amounts of money.
Unless such elements do not stop being tools of Woyane, the suffering of our people will perpetuate.
This is not new for dictators and barbarians. Modern day Hitleits also deny the truth that Adolf Hitler exterminated Jews! They live in a delusional world of their
Yes Abdullah,The TPLF are not fighting the rebels anymore,they are robbing innocent civilians.Indeed,Abdi Iley and Da`ud Amxaar are two war criminals and their only qualification are their cruelty towards the Ogadenis.The Ogadenis do not call them leaders,they are known as the loyal slaves for Meles and cruel overseers.Justice will be done one day and Meles and his shameful stooges will go down in shame.