Journey to Independence. (Whenever Ogaden comes to remembrance my eyes drop tears).

“You have to do it yourself; no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.”

Receive warm greetings dear esteemed Readers before I begin the above reiterated title, hopefully this article will be so beneficial, helpful to you, increase your knowledge and at last provide you appropriate information about the region (Ogaden).

(A journey starts from a step) a sayings, the Ogaden struggle of independence had being spontaneously going on so many decades and the people of Ogaden never showed exhausted since those decades.

According to different sources defined independence as the state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self-subsistence or maintenance; direction of one's own affairs without interference.

In our knowledge Ethiopia was amongst the states that never been colonized in Africa due to their role of hypocrisy and creating pseudo- relations (for their interest) with the colonizers of those days And were the part of the Berlin conference where Africa was divided by the big powers.
Ogaden was colonized by England for a certain period, then took over by Italians for almost year later again come under the patrol of England, which later ceded to Ethiopia, Ogaden is one of the five great Somalia (The hargeisa, Djibouti …..e.t.c) but currently recognized as part of Ethiopia where its people deny the claims states that and call themselves ethnic Somalis , who’re originally Somalis and require freedom, so that they live like the rest of the people of the world.

The sunsets or rises everyday people of Ogaden observe the multi-killing carried out entire regions of the Ogaden by the Ethiopia soldiers whose aim to revenge whenever they are beaten (defeated battlefield) by the ONLF they go for revenge hunting innocent civilians, the stories in Ogaden is like lost calves found by hyena and as usual kills one at the time without sympathy .
Therefore the people of Ogaden as I stated above have being searching centuries for an autonomy state but possibly now this days as we heard or seen the media and the maturity of their struggle , we can sense or smack up the colors of Rainbow (independence).

The signs of independence Today, if we take a brief look at the early history records we will be able to evaluate the tangible changes had gained since those decades, what I mean is that today the ogadens had stood up as a nation and learnt from their mistakes.

And the other issues are the capability (quality) & the quantity of the Ogaden national Liberation Front (O.N.L.F) which said or witnessed speedily increasing day per day and untie the chains of colonial.

Some of few signs of independence which hopefully will prevail very soon are :

• The solidarity of Ogadens worldwide – wherever you look at, every angle of this earth your sight will capture the image of unity of the ogadens globally.
• The new upcoming leaders or educators who are extremely stood with their people thin & thick, saying no to colonialism through sharing awareness with their people.
• The availability strong military that can easily control & capable of guiding their territory.
• Before, earlier people were deaf about the situation but at the moment everyday so many websites owned by its people & from international media write about Ogaden & explode the untold stories.

Our ears felt jealous the sound that our ears received from Sudan, where the world granted the Southerners as an autonomy state and left us in perpetual violence although we encourage every human to live in peace, stability and prosperous life but if the world divided a nation of one people, shared same norms, customs and culture , why are they keeping us with wild life (Ethiopia) ,who feed on raw meat.

The International Community

Ogadens have done all possible efforts to liberate their land and up to today yet didn’t stop the gun shots to free their homeland from the filth amharous who invaded in the Ogaden soil.

Up to that point we can say the international community, United nations And all humanitarian organizations had implemented weak approaches to deal with the problematic issues that simultaneously happening in the region, perhaps the crimes records are available but yet it seems the world is turning blind eye into it.

I always criticize the so called human rights bodies which hired to assist the people on the ground and solve the human problems as they appear but do vice-versa to what they’re hired for, it’s really astonishing only few countries benefit what was meant for all.

Conclusion
We urge as Ogadens the international community, ICC court & all that concerned humanitarian aid to take immediate action denounce the daily crimes committed by the Ethiopian soldiers and those associated with them who’re trying to hide the genocide.

The Ogaden reject the Ethiopian way of live and said (we rather die our ways than live yours.)
*The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.*
By: Abdullahi Ahmed (Freedom Hassan)