Stand Up & Speak up for Free Ogaden

National and International Protest Against Tax-Dollars Indirectly Funding Genocide in the Ogaden & the Illegal Humanitarian Blockade in Ogaden.

Members of the American and Swedish Ogaden Diaspora community will be staging a protest on Wednesday, September 7th 2011, in Minneapolis MN, San Diego CA, Los Angeles CA, Fargo ND, Denver CO, Stockholm Sweden... and many other places..

This protest will be held throughout the world on September 7th as part of an international effort to call attention to the genocide being committed in the Ogaden Region.

Furthermore, the U.S. currently provides millions of dollars of long-term humanitarian aid to Ethiopia, however, the government of Ethiopia is not demonstrating genuine willingness to help alleviate this humanitarian crisis. Instead the Ethiopian regime is using international aid, to commit heinous crimes against humanity in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia. Millions of people in the Ogaden region are facing the worst humanitarian crisis in the world and the international community and the international media has ignored the plight of the Ogaden people for far too long.

The protesters demand that the U.S. government compel the Ethiopian regime to open the Ogaden region to independent organizations, including humanitarian ones, to assess and monitor the serious humanitarian situation.

The ongoing conflict in the Ogaden has had a devastating impact on innocent civilians. The government of Ethiopia has taken series of steps to clampdown on opposition forces, including use of force and human rights violations. The State Department's 2010 Report on Human Rights Practices in Ethiopia detail incidences of human rights abuses committed by Ethiopian security forces and government sponsored militias known as Liyuu Bolis.

We are demanding the U.S. government and the international community to take immediate action in dealing with the human and humanitarian crisis taking place in Ogaden.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Ogaden
• Oromia
• Somali
• Ethiopia
• ONLF
• Somali Region
• Human Rights
• Genocide
• africa
• kenya

[Soomtu]

@ogadenqueen about your reply to gobanimodoon. This is about religion. why else would ALL Somalis suffer at the hands of Uncle Sam ever since the savage europeans landed on our lands? He (Uncle Sam) is the Lord of the Flies (Xabasho & their ilk), spreading his disease of death and destruction through them over us. He is the one we need to be free from & raise awareness of, then naturally the flies (xabasho & their ilk) he raised due to the Bible will fall down!

Ha noolaadto JWXO!

[TheSomalia154]

@zethiopia YOU FORGET 1977 HOW WE FUCKED YOU R FUCKIN UGLY LEARN HISTORY B4 YOU TALK,,,,,I WILL KILL YOU IF I SEE YOU MONKEY

[zethiopia]

@TheSomalia154 MY POINT IS...if you wanna fight ? why don't you go and fight instead writing comments on you tube and let others killed each other for you.THANK GOD I AM ETHIOPIAN!

[Ultimateviewer134]

I don't see any gain the Ethiopian government would receive by killing innocent civilians , if there is , someone please explain to me that's why I don't believe in any genocide over there .

[yaya99ification]

@zethiopia LOL i mean, im sure a handful are claiming Minnesota as part of Somalia. ahah theyre just too funny!

[yaya99ification]

@somalipower100 Why would be the reason for Ogaden to join Somalia?b/c the people Somali are peaceful? b/c everyone gets along despite the fact that they all speak the same language? b/c it has a booming economy? WHY! You people speak the same language & all have the same culture yet you guys can't come together to do anything right.

I strongly feel that if the people of Ogaden feel as though they want to join Somalia, then the closest thing to that would be to hop on a plane and go there! 

[Samantar10]

@TheSomalia154 Troll stop pretending to Somali you fucking filthy Afro american.

[TheSomalia154]

@zethiopia I'M SOMALI YOU ARE LAIR HORN AFRICA BELONG WHITE SOMALIANS' YOU ARE ETHOPIANS GO BACK TO WEST AFRICA BECOUSE YOU DONT LOOK LIKE ME GOOOOOO BACK N MOVE HORN AFRICA......

[zethiopia]

@somalipower100 to tell you the truth, most Somali are happy their country destroyed especially the women. Cause they got a better life than somali. seriously as African we should try our best to be the best of everything instead of creating non stop war.i know you live peaceful life where ever you are ,but please don't let those poor people killed each other for your entertainment

[somalipower100]

Northern kenya and Eastern Ethiopian belongs to somalis the people who live there for centuries are somali they speak somali Therir muslim and They look like us But no somali really talks about norther kenya because the somalis there learned to speak swahili and they have no problem calling themselves kenyans. kenya is a good country and the somali have rights and we have business there but the ogaden somalis are suffering in ethiopia inshallah one day my somali people will join somalia again