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June 29, 2007
There is an organization that calls itself
the Ethiopian Human Rights Council, EHRCO.
One would expect that this organization
would either report all human rights
violations in Ethiopia including Ogaden
where most atrocities take place or indicate
that its mandate does not include the
coverage of human rights violations in
Ogaden.
Throughout its existence, EHRCO has not
reported a single human rights violation
that took place anywhere in Ogaden . Since
this organization reported not one atrocity
among the thousands that took place in
Ogaden, it is reasonable to expect it, EHRCO,
not to side with the current regime in a
case that has nothing to do with human
rights.
The very organization, EHRCO, which did not
condemn, not even once, the brutalities
committed against the Ogaden populace by the
morally bankrupt regime in Addis Ababa
recently put out a press release that all it
did was to rewrite the lies regarding Cobole
put out by the Meles mafia.
Instead of conveniently appearing on the
Ogaden map after the Obole defeat of the
Ethiopian military, NOT a killing of
‘civilians’ as claimed by the Meles mafia,
we wonder where was EHRCO when the city of
Fool Jeex was burnt down?
Where was this organization when entire
Ogaden villages were carpet-bombed recently
in an Ethnic cleansing exercises carried out
by the dictatorship in Addis Ababa? Why is
this organization silent about the current,
ongoing, mass detentions, mass starvations
and extra judicial killings that are taking
place in Ogaden?
The fact that this so-called human rights
organization blatantly used its name to
advance the cause of the Ethiopian
dictatorship in Addis Ababa shows that this
is NOT a human rights organization. This is
an organization that is merely using the
human rights cover to advance the goals and
objectives of the Addis autocracy. Or worse
this may simply be a Meles mouthpiece.
We, the Ogaden Editorial Board, hope that
EHRCO would either indicate clearly that it
does involve itself what is going on in
Ogaden regardless of which side is involved,
or it should report from there, Ogaden,
objectively. Selective, one-sided
condemnation that merely advances the ethnic
cleaning cause of the Addis Autocracy will
only tarnish the name of the organization
while doing nothing for the human rights
cause that EHRCO
was originally created for as we understand.
editorial@ogaden.com
Ogaden Online Editorial
June 29, 2007 |
