by Mohamed Ugas Muhumed
According to historians, there is no doubt that people of the Somali regional state, have suffered untold indignities, for the last 150 years, under successive Ethiopian regimes. The Ethiopian Somali was subjected to serfdom and semi-slavery conditions, generation after generation. They have been fighting to get rights as normal human beings throughout the centuries. They still live under Ethiopian rule. Today, 2010, is it possible that Somalis in Ethiopia could have peace and meaningful development under the present ruling regime in Ethiopia?Here is a very brief recent historical background of the Ogaden region. Western Somali Liberation Front(WSLF), under the auspices of Siad Barre, started what they named a war of liberation against Ethiopia. At that time Ethiopia was ruled Col. Mengistu Haile Mariam, another brutal communist dictator. The war began in 1976 and ended in 1978 with the Somalis defeated.
Both Mengistu of Ethiopia and Barre of Somalia were ousted from power in 1991. However, Somali republic disintegrated into anarchy and lawlessness; and Somalis are unable up to the present moment(2010), almost two decades after the downfall of Barre, to re-establish a government. For this reason WSLF which was anyway a proxy of Siad Barre, disappeared from the political radar scope.Read More
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