Yes. please give me your e-mail and I will make sure you talk to the young lady. She can come; but only if the UNHCR helps here. Or instead Write to me at moogedahas2008@yahoo.com

Ridwan is in Nairobi.

Even though a child refuses to go to sleep because of the every-day-ear-deafening gun shots he hears, through his compassionate mother’s sweet soothing, singing, and coaxing, he goes to a sound sleep, but suddenly, the Woyanne soldiers who do not care about the welfare of the Ogaden children fire their guns randomly into the quiet villages, and the child wakes up, sits in the middle of his bed, and begins searching for his mother whether she is alive or dead instead of taking care of himself. How heavily it would be for a small child to take the responsibilities of his family by himself! It is indeed heart breaking to hear the predicaments of the Ogaden children rarely through the news; rarely, because the Woyanne regime does not allow any news media to go to the village of Quorile and report to the world the human tragedies taking place there. Through its modern satellites, the United States may know what is happening in Ogaden: the indiscriminate killings, the village-burnings, and the burying of people alive, but it has refused to expose to the world the criminal activities of the Woyanne soldiers.

If the United States cares, I’m sure it does, about the survivals of the Ogaden’s children, it has the absolute power to stop Meles Seitanawi from deracinating the Ogaden race from the rest of the Ethiopian people and from adding new terrorists, new hatreds to the old ones. The United States supplies the weapons and teaches the Woyanne army how to use them on the Ogaden civilians directly or indirectly. Indeed, this eighteen years old girl, Ridwan Hassan Sahid, is a living eye witness to the indiscriminate killings of her people, my people, your people – the Ogaden people – the Ethiopian people – by this undisciplined, immoral army, composed of the fanos and the shiftas (hooligans) of the Woyanne regime.

During this delightful Easter Holiday, the Pope is praying for peace, the children of the Christian West are gathering artistically decorated eggs, but the children of Ogaden are gathering the dead bodies of their mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters on this desert land of Ogaden.

Please, America stop supplying guns to Meles the dictator, instead send some decorated or undecorated eggs to the children of Ogaden, and that is the true meaning of Easter: to make peace, to make people happy wherever they are, to tell the good news that Christ Jesus has defeated death. In the same way, let us tell the children of Ogaden that Meles’ explicit atrocities will be, one day, exposed to the world, and you will be free again, and you are going to drive your cattle, your sheep, your goats, and your camels, singing your own beautiful songs on this pleasant land of yours – Ogaden.

It is your ignorant right to side with the Weyane and its American supporters, but please don’t make a fool of yourself by not admitting the crimes that has been perpetuated against innocent people by your ** heroes and blame people like Elias who is just trying to tell it like it is. I wish there were more Elias’ and I can assure you there wouldn’t be any more wars in Ethiopia or Eritrea.

shame to minale.

Shame on Bush, as you said; but also shame on those who are silent about it all.