Puntland authorities hand ONLF officials to Ethiopia

[SecretAgent]

GAROWE, Somalia Apr 25 (Garowe Online) - Authorities in the self-governing region of Puntland, in northern Somalia, arrested and handed over to Ethiopian intelligence services ranking officers of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), informed sources confirmed to Garowe Online.

Abdinur Mohamed Soyan and Dhire Oof, both members of the ONLF Central Committee, were arrested by Puntland Intelligence Service (PIS) agents on April 22 at a hotel in Garowe, the capital city of Puntland.

The sources said Mr. Oof, who has been living in Puntland for some time, came to Garowe to visit his wife.

His compatriot, Mr. Soyan, came to Puntland to follow up on the death of a relative inside a jail in the Gulf of Aden port city of Bossaso, the region’s commercial hub.

An independent inquiry by Garowe Online discovered that Mr. Soyan’s relative was wounded earlier this month by PIS agents, who raided his home and arrested him for yet-unspecified reasons.

The wife of Mr. Soyan’s late relative was also wounded during the raid, according to reliable sources in Bossaso.

The relative had been living in Bossaso for 13 years and was employed as a loader of trucks leaving the port of Bossaso and delivering goods to the Ogaden, a Somali-inhabited region in eastern Ethiopia.

Traditional elders in Bossaso were successful in helping release Mr. Soyan’s wounded relative from jail briefly, but the sources said PIS agents raided his home for a second time and placed him back in jail.

It was learned that Mr. Soyan’s wounded relative later died in incarceration from gunshot wounds sustained during the first PIS raid, according to well-placed sources who did not wish to be named in print.

Mr. Soyan reportedly was en route to Bossaso, where he planned to protest against the brutal killing of his late relative and check up on the condition of the victim’s wounded wife and the children he left behind.

According to a Web site statement from the ONLF, both officials arrested by Puntland regional authorities were “unarmed political figures and posed no threat to the security of Puntland.”

The ONLF online statement alleged that the two officials – Mr. Soyan and Mr. Oof – were interrogated by PIS agents in Garowe before being transported in the personal car of Puntland Finance Minister Mohamed “Gaagaab” Ali to the Ethiopian border, where Ethiopian intelligence officers awaited.

But Farah Abdi Dorshe, Puntland’s deputy security minister, categorically rejected the accusations against the region’s Finance Minister, saying that no ONLF officials were handed over to the Ethiopian government by Puntland authorities.

A Puntland government source said Somalis from the Ogaden region who were secretly working with Ethiopian intelligence played a key role in the arrests of the ONLF political officers.

Since the 1990s, the ONLF has been fighting for the self-determination of Somalis in the Ogaden, a region wracked by conflict and poverty and neglected by Addis Ababa for decades.

The Ethiopian government considers the ONLF a terrorist organization
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[saacJabshee]

wallahi this is sad. it shows ethios have their finger wrapped round all somali mamuls. its disgusting how they would hand over a SOMALI to the amhars like they were nothing. walle faroole will meet ilahaay iska daa. its not just faroole its all somali political heads. simply servants nothing more. these guys will kill or hand over any somali to the ethios simply to see the ethios smile and say thank you. i hope allah has no mercy on them when time finally comes. but allah is all forgiving still. ive heard so many horror stories from this 'PIS' agency.

[EEGA9]

^ Ha is daalin sxb this is news from 2008, this fella is trying to spark some fitna.

[Titanium]

Riyaale deported ONLF. Faroole deported ONLF. Guelleh deported ONLF. Muqdisho never deported ONLF but in fact support them. But in return, they hate Muqdisho. They hate Muqdisho's guts. They prefer to love the people that deport them and hate the people that support them.

Strange world we live in

[EEGA9]

Don't put the conflict brewing there and the Jubbaland conflict in the same context. Ras Kambooni and Ahmed Madoobe defended mogadishu from Ethiopia yet Mogadishu has decided to label him as an enemy today, your working against the interests of his administration so its only right he defends himself.

[Titanium]

And Muqdisho rebels killed thousands of Ethiopian army scum in 2006 and sent them back in body bags for the people of Ogadenia as a present. You are safer and more welcomed in Muqdisho than anywhere else in Somalia (outside of your areas in Somalia of course). There is no risk of deportation. Hassan Sheikh will not phone in the Ethiopian Army. It's unfortunate things went sour. We will continue to support your struggle on our end

[EEGA9]

This is all a political conflict which began with Sharif and Gaandi falling out over Jubboyinka before this there wasn't much conflict. Jubboyinka is among a few places this clan can live with their extended kin without facing any backlash from those around them so let Hassan Sh make peace and normalize relations with madoobe so the south can move forward.

[KartiHaween]

wallahi this is sad. it shows ethios have their finger wrapped round all somali mamuls. its disgusting how they would hand over a SOMALI to the amhars like they were nothing. walle faroole will meet ilahaay iska daa. its not just faroole its all somali political heads. simply servants nothing more. these guys will kill or hand over any somali to the ethios simply to see the ethios smile and say thank you. i hope allah has no mercy on them when time finally comes. but allah is all forgiving still. ive heard so many horror stories from this 'PIS' agency.

You mean hand over a MUSLIM. It is against our deen to hand over muslims to non muslims, no matter how big or small the crime they have committed is. May every Somali who has done that to their fellow muslim go to the deepest depth of hell.

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