Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF)
Military Communique
21 October 2007
At 6am local Ogaden time on October 20th a major ONLF military operation involving nearly one thousand ONLF troops near the town of Caado located 25km northwest of Wardheer resulted in over 140 TPLF regime troops killed with many more wounded. The TPLF regime troops were escorting Abay Tsehaye, a senior TPLF official and close confidant of Melez Zenawi.
Abay Tsehaye and a few senior officers escaped by helicopter after all land routes out of the area were blocked by ONLF forces.
Thousands of rounds of ammunition and military hardware including communications equipment were captured by ONLF forces during the operation.
This operation was a direct response to the burning of Caado village recently and the continuing abuses against the people of Ogaden by TPLF regime forces in the Wardheer area.
Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF)
Military Operations Command Center (MOCC)
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EDITOR’S NOTE
To all the brave ONLF fighters, congratulations for a job well done. These Woyanne thugs are terrorizing our people, starving the children, summarily executing the young, raping the women — you are fighting back and that is what brave people do.