Ogaden Online Editorial

For months, the current autocracy in Addis Ababa and its affiliates have told anyone within an earshot that there were thousands of ‘foreigners’ in Somalia. The foreign force element was hammered home to anyone who would listen or had a sympathetic ear. Even the UN Somali arms monitoring committee was fooled to include in its last report that there were among others, two thousand Ereterians, present in Somalia.

Now that the same Ethiopians who concocted the foreign forces fiction have illegally occupied the Somali country, the world is yet to see a shred of evidence of even ten dead foreigners, whatever their nationality might be. Where have the thousands of the supposed foreigners gone? Or have they simply vanished into thin air? Why is no journalist putting these questions to the Ethiopian architect of the Somali invasion and occupation Mr. Meles Zenawi?

Of course there have been mutterings from Zenawi and his Somali minions such as Hussien Aidid and Mr. Buba, members of the Ethiopian backed ‘Somali’ transitional government, about foreigners captured or killed in the Somali occupation. When pressed for evidence though, they, Zenawi and his Somali minions, failed to provide either a captured ‘foreign’ fighter or the passport of one dead foreigner.

To reduce the current heat by Western governments asking Ethiopia to provide evidence of foreigners, and in a desperate act of evidence gathering it is reported that Ethiopian soldiers in many parts of Somalia have now been instructed to find Somalis with foreign passports. It is said that the Somalis with foreign passports are to be arrested, and arraigned in front of the world press, the very few that have so far ventured into chaotic Somalia, as evidence of the presence of ‘foreign’ elements in Somalia.

The Ogaden Online Editorial Board cautions the world community not fall for Zenawi’s machinations yet again. Countries, such as USA, Great Britain and Canada for example, whose Somali citizens have moved back to Somalia prior to the Ethiopian occupation should not assume, without firm evidence to the contrary, that every Somali in Somalia who now wants to leave Somalia is a former Union of Islamic Courts, UIC, fighter or sympathizer, as Ethiopians would want the world to believe.


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Ogaden Online Editorial
Jan 22, 2007