In an anti-guerilla war conducted in the country’s Ogaden region, “Ethiopian troops are burning villages, raping women and killing civilians as part of a systematic campaign to drive them from their homes.” Refugees say dozens of villages have been destroyed and have “accused the Ethiopian government of forcibly starving its own people by preventing food convoys reaching villages and destroying crops and livestock.”*
“A former Ethiopian soldier who defected from the army said how he had been ordered to burn villages and kill all their inhabitants. He said the Ethiopian air force would bomb a village before a unit of ground troops followed, firing indiscriminately at civilians. ‘Men, women, children – we killed them all,’ he said.”
The little-known conflict in Ogaden parallels the more widely known war in Darfur. The conflict began when rebels killed scores of Ethiopian guards and Chinese employees at a Chinese-run oil field. The government replied with a harsh crackdown.
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written by abdullahi sijuwi, June 28, 2009
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written by kamil kemal guller, November 02, 2009
summer 2008 l came to eithopia for water wells there is no entry to ogaden region no news or films
this area is banned from the world news
we should alert to the world
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kemal
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written by kamil kemal guller, December 26, 2009
there is no proper documantay on denen .there is only a film made by paulyoung productions.unesco doing nothing in the center un bought so many computers.photocopy machines,fax machines.etc people are hungary and no water eithopian gov should let this area free zone to go and work.
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why they killed the kids and woman pregnant ..i believe that what they call domestic terrorism, is it working? ...yes.............