Ogaden National Liberation Front
The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) welcomes the decision of the United Nations to resume humanitarian activities in Ogaden which had been halted due to the blockade imposed by the Ethiopian regime led by the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF). Despite this welcome announcement, it remains to be seen whether the TPLF regime will allow the United Nations to operate in a free and unfettered manner in Ogaden. The TPLF regime is still unjustly paranoid of international humanitarian organizations as demonstrated by the fact that it continues to deny the ICRC access to the Ogaden.
It is indeed an unfortunate irony that the same innocent people the United Nations intends to resume feeding continue to be killed by the TPLF regimes armed forces as they execute their genocidal policy in Ogaden. As such the ONLF also calls upon the United Nations to expedite the constitution of the UN fact finding team to investigate human rights abuses in line with the recommendations made by the recent humanitarian assesment mission to Ogaden.
It is only through a four pronged approach of lifting the ban on international journalists, protecting civilians from the regimes armed forces, resuming and increasing humanitarian assistance and seeking a comprehensive political settlement to the Ogaden conflict through an internationally mediated dialogue that the plight of the people of Ogaden can be best addressed.
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EDITOR’S NOTE
Ethiopian Review would like to express heartfelt solidarity with the brave ONLF fighters. Every time you carry out military operations, every time you destroy Woyanne targets, you are helping bring an end to the Woyanne murderous regime that is brutalizing and terrorizing the people of Ogaden, the people of Ethiopia and the people of the whole Horn of Africa region.