Accomplices of the Ethiopian Army war criminals visits Sweden and the United Kingdom and met the wrath of the Ogaden Community in both countries
August 26, 2009
Europe

On August 15,2009 accomplices of the War criminals in the Ogaden headed by the Ethiopian security agent and head of EPRDF’s political apparatchik in the Ogaden, the so-called ESDP, War Criminal Abdifatah Abdulahi and his security Chief Abdi Mohamed Iley visited Sweden.

The Ogaden Somali Community immediately notified the Swedish government and Law enforcement agencies in Sweden and mounted a vigil in the rented venue planned for the Criminal group to meet the people. Hundreds of community members congregated around the Hotel this group rented and the Venue they were planning to hold the meeting. After the Ethiopian Embassy got wind of the strength and determination of the community to deal with these War Criminals, it e immediately whisked them to the Embassy and they were holed up there for three days.

In the meantime, the Swedish police questioned the leaders of the War Criminals about abuses they had committed against Ogaden Swedish Citizens.

Finally, after three days of ordeals and constant pressure from the Ogaden Community the perpetrators escaped in the middle of the night to Britain, where similar fate was awaiting them. Again, The Ethiopian Embassy staff immediately whisked them to the Embassy and on Saturday, the Ogaden Community staged a massive demonstration in Front of the Ethiopian Embassy in London, UK, where a mounted police had to guard them. The Ethiopian Embassy invited a few Wayane Sympathizers and augmented them with members of the Embassy. Later in the afternoon the Criminals held a teleconference from inside the Embassy to few people holed up in the Hotel venue where they original planned to hold their meeting. The Ogaden community in Sweden had arrived there in force and the perpetrators dared not venture beyond the Embassy walls. Then the Embassy issued a statement claiming success!

The statements issued by the Ethiopian Embassy in Sweden and United Kingdom conveniently omitted all these facts and fabricated a nice speech based on Ethiopian consistent lying about the development, education and projects planned for the Ogaden people, while in reality Ethiopia is systematically committing genocide in Ogaden behind an iron wall. If as the Ethiopian Embassy in Sweden claims, there is any development in the Ogaden, why bar independent Journalists to visit it? Just on August 13, 2009 the Ethiopian Army asked the representative of this group in the town of Gelediid to inform the residents that it would distribute food aid to the residents of Gelediid and surrounding areas. The people of Gelediid and surrounding villages congregated in the town square expecting the food aid. The Ethiopian Army then separated all the women from the crowd, took them to their camp and systematically raped them for two days. The War Criminals then released all the women except three whose whereabouts are still unknown.

In the next statement issued in London, the Wayane’s classic colonial stratagem of divide and rule is clearly exposed. The statement the wayane propaganda machinery states that people from this clan or that clan were included in the meeting, an attempt at sowing further divisions among the Ogaden People.

The challenges mounted by the Ogaden Communities in Sweden and UK speak loud about the views and sentiments of the Ogaden Communities abroad, not the baseless statements concocted by the Embassy staffs. The popular demonstrations in Sweden and London has sent a strong signal to the Ethiopian Regime of Meles Zenawi and his henchmen, that their days are numbered and it is a matter of time before they are brought to an International Tribunal for the crimes Meles Zenawi and his cohorts are committing against the Ogaden Somali people.

We call upon the International Community to condemn The Meles Regime and hasten the on-going process of bringing them to justice.

The Ogaden Communities abroad strongly condemns those countries that disregard the heinous crimes Meles Zenawi is committing in the Ogaden and are providing him more funds to finance further his rancorous acts in the Ogaden. History will catch up with you.