Ethiopia says killed 13 rebels crossing from Somalia -ONLF

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1197026.htm

ADDIS ABABA, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Ethiopia said on Friday its army had killed 13 rebels and caught other commanders of an eastern separatist movement after they crossed from Somalia.

Separately, Kenya announced the capture of 45 members of a another Ethiopian rebel group operating in the south, while an Ethiopian general who defected to Eritrea was quoted as saying he plans to take up arms against Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.

The captured members of the eastern Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) -- a movement of ethnic Somalis fighting for independence -- confessed they were armed and trained both by Eritrea and Somali Islamists, a regional official said.

"They were sent into Ethiopia to create insecurity," Abdu Ahmed Arab, deputy head of security and justice for Ethiopia's Somali region, told reporters.

"The Armed Forces killed 13 and captured many other top officials of the rebel Ogaden National Liberation Front, in an operation launched at eradicating rebel groups who cross into the country from neighbouring Somalia."

He gave no figures for possible Ethiopian casualties during Wednesday's clash in the remote and arid region.

Addis Ababa's long-time foe, Eritrea, denies it supports rebel groups in Ethiopia, saying that accusation is an excuse for internal repression by Meles' government.

Somalia's Islamists, who came to the fore in June when they took Mogadishu and other southern towns including one near the Ethiopian border, have also denied backing Ethiopian rebels.

"LANGUAGE OF FORCE"

In north Kenya, authorities said they caught at least 45 members or sympathsiers of another small Ethiopian group, the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), operating on the border.

Vincent Okioma, district commissioner for the northern Kenyan region of Moyale, said the suspects were rounded up in the last five days in joint Kenyan-Ethiopian operations on both sides of the border.

"Security patrols will last for the next two months to search for and repatriate OLF rebels, and make Kenya a safer environment," Okioma added to Reuters.

A dissident Ethiopian general who defected this week to neighbouring Eritrea, along with scores of soldiers, was quoted on Friday as saying that he would be joining the OLF to fight for his Oromo people's rights.

"Our first hope was to bring about a change in Ethiopia to bring about peace and for the peoples to live in equality, including the Oromo people," Brigadier General Kemal Gelchu told the BBC from Asmara, explaining his defection.

"But the last year's experience is war, not peace. Our hopes were dashed and that's why we went out," he said, referring to accusations of internal repression and killings in Ethiopia.

"The language they (the Ethiopian government) understand is force and we're going to challenge them by force." (Additional reporting by Samual Sambat Sam in Moyale)

[The_Patriot]

Ciidamada Itoobiya oo Dad Shacab oo u Dhashay Beesha Mareexaan ONLF Ahaan u Laayey
Laacdawaco, 8/11/2006 - Ciidamada dowlada Itoobiya ayaa tuulada Laacdawaco oo ku taal xuduuda Deegaanka Somalida Ogadenya uu la leeyahay Jamhuuriyada Somaliya waxey ku laayeen dad ka soo jeeda beesha Mareexaan iyagoo u maleynayey ONLF meesha joogta.

Geerida dadkan oo nin ka soo jeedo deegaanka Quote:
Cabudwaaq
ee gobolka Galguduud ee Somaliya uu u xaqiijiyey warsidaha Wabishabeele, ayaa sheegay in geeridu ay tahay ilaa dhowr iyo tobon qof, isagoo intaa raaciyey in dhaawac isne toban ku dhaw lageeyey magaalada Cabudwaaq.

Ninkan ayaa inoo xaqiijiyey inay dhamaan dadkan yihiin dadkii dagnaa tuulada Laacdawaco oo ay ONLF shaqo ku laheyn.

Ninkan ayaa Wabishabeele u sheegay in dadkan goor habeenimo ah raasas ooda looga qaaday iyadoonan waxba la weydiinin.

Dhanka kale, dowlada Itoobiya ayaa wakaalada wararka ee Reuters u sheegtay inay xuduuda ku dishay ilaa 13 askari oo ONLF ah oo ka soo talaabayey xuduuda Somaliya iyo Itoobiya, dadkan oo hada sida cad ah dad shacab ah oo ka soo jeedo beesha Mareexaan oon wax shaqo ah ku laheyn ONLF.

Maymuun Yusuf
Wabishabeele.com
Muqdisho

[Lord Diplock]

If it is true, then it is bad news for us, but still the helgeen continues

[COSTA]

Well the Mareexaan in Kilinka 5aad should start fighting with their ONLF
brothers

[QansaGabeyle]

COsTA, the onlf is a clan movement and from what I know, none ogadenis are not allowed to become part of it. besides this incident took part on the somali side of the border. these habeshi kunts are voilating international laws wallahi. It is time to raise money for my people to arm themselves to the fu cking teeth wallahi. They should not have put down their arms in a place like that.........

[Lord Diplock]

[quote="COSTA"]Well the Mareexaan in Kilinka 5aad should start fighting with their ONLF
brothers[/quote]

the funny thing is other somalis qabiils dont support the ONLF and still get treated badly by the Tigrays.

our somalis brothers like Marexaan, Bidhiyaan MJ and Dhulos in Werder province should support the fight against the enemy.

The same goes for the hawiyes in Mustahil and Ferfer districts of Godey province.

The issaqs of Gashaamo distict (Dhagaxbuur province)

the somali clans of the big jigjiga province (Absames, Gerri Jaaso and Dir clans).

The ONLF need the support of this clans if EVER we're to be free of the Ethiopian shackles .