Poem in living Memory of Dr Dolaal

Dearest Brothers ONLF,
I really felt my heart broken. I know Dr Dolaal very well and had several discusions, various communications, telphone chats about the plights of our nations. His loss remains immessurable and his legacy lives with us forever. We raise his anthem and slogan untill we see our nations liberated.

Poem in living Memory of Dr Dolaal
By Kambata Xoola, Sidama National


O!! Ogadenia, O!! Ogadenia the land of heroes,
You’re dynamic land -whose people’s heroism,
Draws the attention of the global nations,
Whose resistance shaken barbaric Abyssinians,
Please listen to me your ears wide open!!


Tell me what tragedy has unfolded,
Explain to me why bad news has been rumoured,
Don’t hid from me if you have explanation,
Tell me why you have allowed this to happen,
To your ultimate hero a pride to his nation!!


O!! you hero; an icon of freedom struggle,
Whose principle was indefatigable,
Whose intellect was formidable,
Whose purpose was liberating its people,
You ultimate hero Ogaden Somali Dolaal,
Your enthusiasm was eternal and
remains between us active and alive!!


Though why, let me ask you why you hero?
Why death for you before you see your peoples freedom?
Why eternal rest for you before you achieve you Objectives?
Why death for you who’s inspiration to all?
Why have you decided to remain silent
While your people needs you more?
Why did you allow your enemies to rejoice?
Why didn’t say ‘no’ to the death angels?
Why did you make us feel in the middle of desert?
Why did you go away bearing the burden of the nation
at this needy time?


I know your indefatigability and heroism
I know your unshakable believe in your people’s liberty
That doesn’t surrender to defeatism!!


Yes, you have dreamt day and night seeing your people free
You have envisaged this in your decry
Yet you given-in before that all,
My heart goes with you forever dearest comrade Dolaal!!


Yet I believe that your fellow country men and women,
Will raise your slogan to free your land,
To uphold your undying courage and principles,
Your determination and heroic resistance spirits,
That’s shaken the foundation of the colonisers,
Until the enemy is made to learn appropriate lessons!


O!! Yes, O! Yes, I truly swear!
I remain appreciating your principles and values,
I announce your slogan to the global nations,
The sufferings of your nation and other peoples,
Under the Abyssinian brutal colonisers,
With strong conviction and courage
to continue to teach lessons the brutalisers!!


But, but still I argue unequivocally that,
Death is ultimate death for those who have already dead,
Death is curse for those who have already surrendered,
Death is eternal for those who torture defenceless,
Death is punishment for those who brutalise helpless!!


Yet, you have passed away to live eternally,
You left us with living memory and immortal legacy,
You thought us how to defend our freedom and liberty,
You have produced hundreds of millions to stand against brutalizers,
To punish those who torture and massacre your people,
To expose their hidden secrets and
Democracy decorated ugly faces,
You remain in every ones all round lives,
Although the shock about your sudden-rest forever reverberates!!


Therefore, Sincerely,
I send you a living greetings and swear not to surrender,
I solemnly promise to be your principles defender,
With your people and the others subjugated nations,
We shall bring an end for Abyssinian occupiers!!
We promise to keep your dream alive,
By making your spirit amongst us survive!!
By making you heroic resistance amongst us survive!!


With deepest Condolences in Living Memory of Dr Dolaal,
(On behalf of the Sidama nation)
By Kambata Xoola, Sidama National

Oil Exploration in the Ogaden

The Ogaden National Liberation Front has ascertained that certain multinational Oil corporations are intent on exploiting Ogaden fossil fuel resources in alliance with the current Ethiopian regime that is committing genocide and War Crimes in Ogaden. Currently certain companies are clearing of all vegetation an area equal to 1600 sq. Km. in Cagarweyne and Miir-Khalif near Wardheer, displacing thousands of the nomadic population and destroying the scarce vegetation in a vulnerable ecology. Besides destroying the livelihood of the rural population in the affected areas, these companies are filling the coffers of this regime and financing its criminal activities in occupied Ogaden.
This in turn has encouraged the regime of Meles Zenawi to undertake a scorched earth policy in the Ogaden and commit genocide in the Ogaden. The sites these companies operate at are guarded by mechanised Ethiopian Army troops who make fortifications and forcefully evict the local population by killings, rape, detention and destruction of property.
Thus these companies are accomplices to the Ethiopian regimes crimes and are directly involved in the on-going genocide in the Ogaden.

Furthermore, in order to accommodate these immoral and gluttonous rushes for Oil in Ogaden, Ethiopia killed, raped and illegally detained thousands of Ogaden civilian and imposed economic and aid blockade at a time of when there was a full blown draught in the Ogaden.

Ethiopia is violating both International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Ogaden. These rights had been enshrined in the UN Charter and international laws since the end of World War II and have benefited many colonised and oppressed nations of the world; however, they have deliberately been deprived of the Ogaden people. Today Ethiopia is denying the Ogaden people their right to life and development while both the UN and the AU are turning a blind eye.
Furthermore the current regime in Ethiopia is bent on further usurping their natural resources, and these multi-national companies are party to this heinous crime perpetrated against a colonised stateless people.

Since ONLF has persistently warned these unscrupulous multinational companies and their governments, it is very clear that they are not only manifestly disregarding the plight of the Ogaden people but are actively participating in the violation of the Human and Political rights of the Ogaden people, the Ogaden National Liberation Front has been left no alternative but to take all measures necessary to protect the inalienable rights of the Ogaden people.

Ogaden National Liberation Front