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Blaming the Victim for Propaganda and Political Gains |
Right off the bat, the Ogaden Editorial
Board, OEB, condemns the bombings in Jig
Jiga where Ogaden civilians, forced to
attend a political ceremony, which has no
meaning to these poor citizens, have lost
their lives.
Without proper investigation and lacking a
single shred of evidence, the misinformation
ambassador and advisor to the head of the
autocracy, Mr. Bereket Simon claimed that
ONLF is the ‘culprit supported by Eritrea’.
It is incredulous how this prevaricator and
purveyor of Ethiopian propaganda had quickly
come up with a scapegoat for what local
sources have attributed to a competition,
which escalated to a physical confrontation,
between two camps within the so-called local
administration.
In the past month and half, it has been an
open knowledge in Jig Jiga that a rift has
developed between the head of the so-called
local administration Mr. Abdullahi Hassan
Lugbur and his security bureau head Mr. Abdi
Ileeye. The source of the conflict is said
to the head of the Ethiopian military based
in Jig Jiga.
Because of the indiscriminate detention
campaigns carried out by Mr. Ileeye and his
security minions against the Ogaden
citizenry, the head of the Ethiopian
military in Jig Jiga sees Mr. Ileeye as a
more ‘capable’ individual who can deal with
the Ogaden citizenry as per the Ethiopian
military’s machinations. Mr. Lugbur on the
other hand has his friends in the head of
the Ethiopian autocracy office in Addis
Ababa.
Reports from credible sources within the
Ethiopian military in Jig Jiga attribute
today’s bombings in Jig Jiga as an attempt
on the life of Mr. Lugbur so that the
Ethiopian military can nominate Mr. Ileeye
as the ‘interim’ successor to Mr.Lugbur.
Instead of carrying out proper investigation
to find out the source of this bombing which
turns out to be within the so-called local
administration and
the Ethiopian military personnel in Jig Jiga,
the misinformation minister without
portfolio Mr. Bereket has conveniently
blamed the victim in this incident i.e. the
Ogaden citizenry represented by ONLF.
Mr. Bereket’s propaganda also blamed Eritrea
which fits nicely with the recent Ethiopian
campaign to deflect people’s attention from
Ethiopian failures both in Ogaden and
Somalia by pointing the finger at an out
side source, Eritrea in this case.
Ethiopian gamesmanship aside, the world
community should not allow the Ethiopian
Autocracy to force Ogaden civilians to
gather for political ceremonies yet carryout
indiscriminate bombing of civilians housed
in a stadium with one exit.
What happened in Jig Jiga today is an
organized, extra judicially carried out
killings by the Ethiopian government and its
associated militias for political gains. The
world community should condemn this bombing
and should prosecute the Ethiopian military
and its political masters for massacring
Ogaden civilians for their own political
gains.
editorial@ogaden.com
Ogaden Online Editorial
May 28, 2007 |
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