I will use Google translate
And Carl bildt is Swedens foreign minister, he is also the Chairman of Lundin Oil, a swedish Oil company in the Ogaden.
My friends in the Ogaden was tortured for oil
I've thought a lot about the things that Carl Bildt said in Almedalen earlier this year that the Foreign Ministry advised against travel to the Ogaden. It's a recommendation for tourists. But to say that if journalists are weird. And now it's so that the Ethiopian government not only forbids journalists from entering the territory in the Ogaden, not Human Rights Watch and other human rights organizations allowed into the area. That of course means that the government has something to hide.
I have roots in the Ogaden, where Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye arrested. I understand more than the Ethiopian government and oil companies want to hide what goes on there.
My own family fled long ago. But since I have my roots there, I am interested to hear what those who fled from there recently has to say about what is going on now.
Take for example my friend, Istahin, who fled in 2009 from one of the area's largest cities, Qabridahare. She says that when the oil companies from the West began to get that moved people from areas where it was thought that there might be oil or natural gas. People did not live and their homes burned down. Everything got worse after the Chinese oil workers killed in the area in 2007.
Self Istahan was beaten and imprisoned because the military suspected that she had contacts with the ONLF, the Ogaden National Liberation Front. They had no proof, but she was imprisoned at least in almost a year and then fled from the country.
Her cousin who lived in a village outside the city could never escape. He was murdered because he was accused of being a member of the ONLF, also without proof. After he killed the soldiers strip him down in the trailer hitch to a car. The body was dragged behind the car throughout the hour-long ride into town and dumped there for all to see.
Cousin's skin had peeled off and body parts had been loosened during the voyage. His body was displayed to deter others from cooperating with the rebels.
Similar events occurred even before the oil companies came to the neighborhood. In 2005, was dragged about twenty young men out of prison in the city. They were stripped of everything except my underwear and executed in the middle of town. People heard gunfire and ran to the spot to see what happened. Then the soldiers shot at them and several more people died. This Istahin saw with my own eyes.
She kept herself to get in trouble when it happened. For those who showed no emotion before the dead were themselves suspected of sympathy for the rebels. When she saw the dead began Istahan to cry. She must therefore be hidden from the soldiers who noticed her tears and looked for her to arrest her.
The oppression was thus even before the oil companies invested in 2006. What has happened is also known among those who live or have relatives in the Ogaden. I do not know if that made a CSR survey for Lundin Petroleum bill ever talked to people from the neighborhood. But did it so they should have heard of this event in 2005 and other similar events.
Therefore, I find it very strange that the Foreign Minister expressed himself as he did. It was one of the dumbest things I've heard.