Ethiopia: Ogaden Regional President and Vice President Are Under Investigation in Human Rights Abuses in Ogaden Region EnglishEthiopia: Ogaden Regional President and Vice President Are Under Investigation in Human Rights Abuses in Ogaden Region Photo File: Left, The President Abdi Mohamed Omar, Right, Vice President Abdulaahi Yusuf Werar By Ahmed Abdi (Ogadentoday Press)- The Ogaden Regional President,Abdi Mohammoud Omar known as Abdi Ilay and his Vice President Abdullahi Yusuf Werar better known as Abdullahi Ethiopia are under investigation for alleged human rights abuses, a human rights activist, and former Civil Servant defector,Abdullahi Hussein,who smuggled out over 100-hours of filmed evidence notified the Ogadentoday Presss Mohammed Farah Wednesday night. In the report is mentioned that the Regional President and his Vice President were associated with acts which constitute a crime against humanity in which the film shows,Villagers rounded up and burnt their villages to the ground,before they had been demised,a large number of civilians were arbitrarily arrested,detained,tortured,gang-raped,and extra-judicially killed and that these measures were systematically targeted against members of one particular tribe as a party of a deliberate policy targeting members accused of ONLF-Sympathizers,he said. Liyuu Police Members During his stay at Kenya,Mr. Hussein was at risk from the Ethiopian authorities,following his escape from the region and smuggling out the evidence of rape,killings itc.But Swedish Embassy to Kenya granted an asylum and gave him a visa to enter a secure country,Sweden. The details were first reported in the Swedish News Agency TT on Wednesday. The investigation began after a lawyer at the International Commission of Jurist, Stellan Gärde, handed over the films to Swedish Prosecutors. Chief Prosecutor, Krister Petersson,tells TT that additional people will now be questioned.According to Petersson there is a vast amount of material that needs to be gone through,the report said. According to Ogaden News Network,The Rights Groups such as Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International,and Genocide Watch have been reporting the human rights violations committed at Ogaden Region,but this is the first time an International Criminal Prosecutors are conducting an effective investigations. The Films are alleged to contain evidence of torture and abuse,The Swedish Radio Reported. Regional Commentators believe that the investigation will likely to be brought in front of Justice all those involved in the Genocide including in the Ethiopian Generals such as General Abraham and Alias Quarter who are a close ally of the President Abdi Ilay. A fresh civilian killings was reported by the Somalilandsun, one of the leading Regional websites citing a source from Ogadentodey Press. Ethiopian Government made very difficult for Journalists and writers about the region to enter into the region to cover what is going on freely. The Only way to receive the news is to send calls to the people on the ground. The Oil-rich Ogaden Region borders Djibouti, Kenya and Somalia and many of its residents are ethnic Somalis. The region was Italian and British-colony, but in 1954, Britain handed over the region secretly to Ethiopia, a decision rejected by the Ogaden Somali population who have since fought for full independence.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 06:34:49 +0000
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