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Ethiopia says it will work with UN to send food aid into rebel region
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 20 - 09 - 2007


Ethiopia said it will work
with the United Nations to ensure human rights are
respected in the country's volatile east after a U.N. team
found evidence of «serious violations, according to AP.
A U.N. fact-finding mission traveled from Aug. 30 to Sept.
6 to the Ogaden region, where the government is trying to
quell a decade-long insurgency by the Ogaden National
Liberation Front. The rebels, along with several aid and
human rights groups, say the military has burned villages
and blocked aid and trade into the region.
The government denies those accusations.
Late Wednesday, the U.N. team called for another,
independent investigation into the region.
«The mission received reports and direct accounts of
serious violations of human rights, including substantive
protection concerns for the civilian population,» a
statement from the delegation said. «It is the mission's
views that these reported human rights concerns require
independent investigation.»
The government responded with assurances that humanitarian
needs will be met.
«The Ethiopian government will ensure the humanitarian
needs of the people in the region,» the state-owned
Ethiopian News Agency reported Wednesday night. «The
government also assured the U.N. humanitarian assessment
mission that prompt action will be taken to ensure adequate
food supply and health services in the area.»
The ONLF dramatically escalated its insurgency in April
when it attacked a Chinese-owned oil exploration field,
killing 74 workers. Until then, it only made occasional
hit-and-run attacks on government troops.
Since the rebels' April attack, the army has intensified
its counterinsurgency operations.
The rebels echoed the U.N.'s calls for an independent
investigation, saying «war crimes indicative of an
unfolding genocide continue in Ogaden.»


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