Names of 36 civilians recently shot to death released

The following are some of the names of those civilians massacred by the Ethiopian regime [Woyanne] troops in Mooyaha village, Ogaden on December 17th 2008. Forty eighty civilians were gunned down in the village center. The area was closed of for several days in order to remove the bodies and eliminate the evidence of a massacre. These people were unarmed. The massacre was a war crime and demonstrates that the people of Ogaden continue to be targeted solely because of their ethnic heritage and their desire for freedom in a systematic and deliberate campaign of terror perpetrated by the Woyanne regime in Ethiopia. The United Nations continues to turn a blind eye to these events and has justified its inability to conduct an “independent investigation” into war crimes in Ogaden on the fact that the Meles regime has not invited them in. The ONLF notes that there is no evidence that the United Nations has even asked to be let in to conduct an “independent investigation” into gross violations of human rights as called for by the UN’s own humanitarian assessment team which visited Ogaden in late 2007.

List of Names Of Those Massacred By Woyanne troops

1. Sheekh Abdi Xaliimo Sh Muhumed
2. Mawliid Sh Abdi Haliim
3. Mohamed Abdi Haliim
4. Aw-Nuur Xaashi C/llaahi
5. Ibraahim Abdi C/llaahi
6. Sheekh C/llaahi Muxumed Kare
7. Muhumed Muumin
8. Qarayare
9. Ali Haydar Ali
10. Abdi Shafeec Hassan
11. Haashi Budul Osman
12. Hassan-Lacag A/llaahi Osman
13. Abdullaahi Shekh Hassan Dayib
14. Mohamed Sheekh Hassan Dayib
15. Daba-Geel
16. Dayr Xandulle
17. Ismail Gannad
18. Mohamed Farah Dheere
19. C/llaahi Badal
20. Arahman Mohamed Sugulle(Baylood)
21. Sandon
22. Mustafe Hassan Mahad
23. C/llaahi Ali Xaamud
24. C/llaahi Imaan Muhumed
25. Ibrahim Dhaga-Cadde
26. Ismail Aw-Dahir
27. Badal Idaan Xuseen
28. Maxamuud Cali Ciise Didhiq
29. Abdirahman (dharjaan)
30. Sheekh Abdullaahi Muctaad
31. Bacallaadh
32. Cumar-Qoofal
33. Geedi Ali Mahad
34. Badri C/llaahi
35. Abdi Hassan Khaliif
36. Ali Abshir

Source: Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF)