“OGADEN: ETHIOPIAN GOVERNMENT FORCES: MASSACRE, DISPLACE AND STARVE OUT THE CIVILIAN POPULATION WITH IMPUNITY.”

Speakers :

Abdulkader Sulub Abdi
International Coordinator, Ogaden Human Rights Committee (OHRC)

Abdullahi Mohamed
General Coordinator, Ogaden Communities in Europe

Wednesday, 8th August, 2007 11h00 to 12h30

« La Pastorale » Route de Ferney 106, Genève

Since its foundation, on 13 June 1995, the Ogaden Human Rights Committee (OHRC), has carried out extensive investigation of the human rights situation throughout the Ogaden, and has documented gross human rights violations, including illegal imprisonments, mass arrests without charges or trials, enforced disappearances, torture, rape, extrajudicial killings, abduction, forced labour, hostage-taking, systematic religious and racial persecution, dispossession and widespread looting by the Ethiopian government security and armed forces. On the occasion of the release of the Ogaden Human Rights Committee’s annual report on human rights situation in the Ogaden.

The OHRC invites you kindly to participate in its press conference.

For further information about OHRC, please visit our website: www.ogadenrights.org

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