High profile members of
the Central and the Executive committees, ONLF Bureaus Staff
and the regional coordinators of Ogaden National Liberation
Front (ONLF) held simultaneous meetings in January 2013
in Cape Town, South Africa; Frankfurt, Germany, and Minnesota,
USA, for the purpose of evaluating the 2012 achievements,
obstacles encountered and assessing the Horn of African
and International developments.
The Frankfurt meeting was chaired by the chairman of ONLF
Adm. Mohamed Omar Osman, the Minnesota meeting was chaired
by vice-chairman of ONLF Dr. Mohamed Ismail Omar and the
Cap town meeting was chaired by the head of Social and Diaspora
affairs of ONLF Mr. Mohamed Abdi Yassin.
Besides that, the ONLF conferences looked into the current
situation and the genocide that is taking place in Ogaden
perpetrated by TPLF regime. After extensive discussions
the delegates acknowledged that the struggle of the Ogaden
people for their rights has made significant achievements
despite Ethiopian government all out attacks and violations
of the political, human and rights of the Ogaden people
and the silence of the international community.
Furthermore, the ONLF officers discussed how to enhance
the struggle against the TPLF regime in Addis Ababa and
galvanize liberation of Ogaden and decided to: