Somalia and the Ethiopia Militias That Prey Upon the Impoverished Somali Civilians of the Ogaden Region

As had occurred, earlier this year, when rapacious Ethiopian troops had attacked the Somali settlement of Buuhoodle, the people of the Eastern fringes of the Ogaden region have recently been mercilessly attacked by the very same—and extremely brutal—armed forces of the Ethiopian federation.

As had occurred in Buuhoodle—earlier in the year—the Ethiopian troops had subjected the Somali civilian population of the Eastern fringes of the Ogaden region to a violent reign of terror. Not only had the Ethiopians killed scores of Somali civilians, by means of a chilling series of unprovoked extrajudicial killings, they even managed to steal the property of the poor Somali civilian community that had been shattered by their merciless violence.

The Ethiopians, in their frenzied attempts to kill as many Somali people as possible, had managed to grievously injure many Somali civilians instead. So venal and depraved are the Ethiopian troops, they had insisted—just as they had done in Buuhoodle a few weeks earlier—upon taking the trucks of the Somali settlement in question.

The Ethiopians, in their extreme vindictiveness, had stolen the Somali people's vital means of transport; the Ethiopians had stolen the only motorised vehicles capable of transporting vital supplies to this particularly isolated Somali settlement, which is located in the Eastern fringes of the Ogaden region.

This ghastly policy must end. Nothing can justify this form of state-sponsored terrorism. We, the Somali people, must resist these terrible acts of aggression perpetrated against us by the Ethiopian army and their associated militias. This terrible tactic of removing the transport vehicles—which mostly belong to the impoverished Somali civilians of the Ogaden region—must cease.

With faith, and the help of the Almighty, we shall overcome the consequences of this particulary tragic period in Somali national history.