An Open Letter to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520
Dear Secretary Clinton, Assistant Secretary Carson
Over the past 15 years the Ogaden region of Ethiopia has witnessed an accelerated brutal conflict between the Ethiopian regime and the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), The political instability and the humanitarian crisis in the Ogaden region of Ethiopia has recently evolved in to a full-blown genocide. The Ethiopian government has adopted a policy to systematically depopulate the region. The Males Zanawi regime has fundamentally undermined the political and social stability of the entire Horn of Africa.
The Ethiopian government has done everything in its power to conceal the suffering and massive human rights abuses currently taking place in the Ogaden. The government has isolated the entire Ogaden and has placed an economic and humanitarian blockade, since 2007 it has evicted humanitarian and human rights organizations, such as, Doctors Without Border (MSF), The Red Cross, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and many other non-governmental organizations. Consequently, the Ogaden region of Ethiopia is among the most inaccessible regions in the world, all international media outlets have been banned from getting any information from the region, media organizations such as, The New York Times, Aljazeera, The Guardian and many others have all attempted to get access, but were denied numerous times by the Ethiopian government. Read More