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I believe the Onlf and other rebel groups can overthrow the dictatorial regime in Adis ababa just by doing simple things. I will explain what can be done here.
1.. all the rebel groups in ethiopia should meet possibly in Asmara and discuss ways they can help each other and coordinate attacks. should focus on strenghtening ties and communication, and maybe even troops integrations and single command and control to coordinate attacks.
2... the rebels should focus their strategies on first weakening the regime, by that you need to weaken it economically. financially weak government is weak militarily. How do we weaken it economically? simple, you bring the country to are stand still no movement of products and goods. no movement of products and goods, no business, no business no taxes to government covers. You do this by attacking and burning transport trucks and their cargo, and derailing the only cargo train that brings products to landlocked Ethiopia. Then the government will try to protect the roads and rail lines. they need massive Numbers of troops to do so. now the rebels have diverted some ethiopian troops to non essential non battle related tasks that are costly to the regime and beneficial to the rebels, because now the rebels will have to confront lesser numbers of Ethiopian troops. and the government road and rail line troops will be weak and easily outnumbered.
3....The rebels should focus on flipping the Ethiopian generals and high ranking military official to their side. this can be done by bribing them or promise of high government post when the dictatorial regime is over thrown. If the rebels succeed in flipping are general, they can get massive weaponry with him or valuable military secret that can change outcomes of battles.
4... In every struggle The hearts and minds of the people is crucial to success. let it be the people inside Ethiopia or Outside. propaganda and PR campaign should be launched to make the rebellion "THE PEOPLES REBELLION".
5.. the rebellions should observe the elements {droughts and rainy season} this is crucial to victory or defeat. when there is a drought rebels should seek a place they can get food and water, and continue fighting unabated. We have seen the ONLF nearly destroyed when in a drought the Ethiopian regime burned villages and buried boreholes, and used food as a weapon to starve the rebels to death. This should be avoided with alliance of rebels. when one rebel groups region is in drought they should be allowed to come to another rebel groups land so they can get food and water undisturbed by locals.
6...Oil drilling in Ethiopian should be stopped at any cost and by any means necessary. a rich enemy is a strong enemy. stopping oil drilling in Ethiopia can be done by combination of site attacks and buying TV advertisement in home country of the oil drilling company and even protest at that company's headquaters in their country. that will embarrass the company and make it costly for them to drill for oil in Ethiopia.
7... peoples rights should be respected and human rights violations must be avoided. if the rebels start abusing the people they will lose the support of the people because people will say their is no difference between the rebels and the government.
8...when the regime colapses Ethiopia should be divided into 8 countries immediately.

We have seen how the shameless dictator in Ethiopia meles is commiting genocide against the poor people of the Ogaden, and at the same time he is trying to exploit their God given natural resources. what a shameless moronic, mindless, disgusting, and megalomaniac dictator.
My friends, i am writing this posting on how we can defeat the dictator on Not pulling a single barrel of oil out of Ogaden. I strongly believe that we can prevent this from happening if we become realistic in our approach to this issue and utilise our resources all over the world. We can do many things to prevent greedy oil companies from even thinking about coming to Ogaden to extract oil from the land of the subjugated masses.
what we can do is first we need organisation like the Onlf to spearhead this effort. we also need our brethrens in the diaspora to take a proactive role in this struggle.
the oil companies just want to make a dollar without any hassles, they cannot stand protests and defaming television ads that will portrait their company in a negative limelight.
say, i will use for example petronas, the malaysian company currently seeking to explore for oil and gas in Ogaden. petronas can be discourage if we utilise our large somali population in malaysia to protest in front of the company headquarters in Kuala lumpur, Malaysia to bring attention among the muslim malaysians on how their partly owned government company is wreaking havoc with the help of the dictator meles zenawi on the poor muslim people of Ogaden. We can also buy TV ads on national televisions in malaysia to highlight the inhumane nature of petronas and how it makes money without any consideration of the oppressed peoples plight. Now the ads must show the reality in the ogaden and the people of ogaden must be in them talking about their problems with the regime and the ongoing genocide committed against them by petronas. TV ads are not that expensive, for example in the US it cost about $500 per day on nationally known popular channel. I am sure it's even cheaper in Malaysia.
We can also sue petronas and the malaysian government through their court systems to halt the drilling and compensate the Ogaden people for damages caused against them by the greedy dictator with the help of petronas which is partly owned by the malaysian government. The Malaysian people need to know how their government owned company is helping fund the genocide against a fellow muslim people.
Now this are all pressure tactics that if sustained will cause Petronas to have second thoughts about oil drilling in Ogaden and eventually make it withdraw its commitment to explore for oil in Ogaden. If we can get a moral victory over Petronas, they will withdraw from Ogaden and a victory against Petronas will mean a victory against all other oil companies.
what i have mentioned cannot be done by a single individual or a single organisation, but by a collective determined men and women who are willing to put their money and effort in to ensure that not a single barrel of oil is taking out of Ogaden without the consent of the Ogaden people.
All the tactics i mentioned are not that expensive and if sustained will defeat the dictator and Petronas.
Let's keep the pressure on..