Comment: Ethiopian Aggression on the border town of Moyale, Kenya - The Borans of Kenya have been victims of widespread harassment, murder, torture, and detentions without trial and unexplained disappearances at the hands of Ethiopian government soldiers. This recurring incidents have convinced many Boran leaders in Kenya that the Ethiopian agents are after the elimination of Borans both in Kenya and Ethiopia. [Boran Community in the USA, Jan 2001]

SOMALIA: Gunmen attack minister's delegation, MP missing - The fighting was started by Somali and Ethiopian forces led by Abdirazzaq Isaq Bihi who is an Ethiopian ally. [BBC Monitoring Service, Jan 30, 2001]

KENYA: Leaders demand compensation - Moyale leaders want Ethiopia to compensate victims of recent cross-border raids in the area. Youth leader Yusuf Huka Jillo said the community will take the two countries to the International Human Rights Tribunal for arbitration if no compensation is forthcoming. [Daily Nation, Jan 29, 2001]

KEYNA: MPs seek action on Addis - Two ministers from Northern Kenya yesterday called on the Government to take military action against the Ethiopian government following continuous cross-border attacks in Moyale. [Sunday Standard, Jan 28, 2001]

KENYA: Arm our people, Govt told - Moyale leaders yesterday asked the Government to arm the community with guns against invaders from Ethiopia. They urged the Government to sever diplomatic relations with Ethiopia until persistent acts of hostility are stopped. [Daily Nation, Jan 28, 2001]

KENYA: Stop killings by foreigners - Our Government, which sends troops to other countries on peacekeeping missions, has failed to stop the slaughter of its own citizens by the militias from Ethiopia and Somalia. [Daily Nation, Jan 28, 2001]

KENYA: Godana, Madoka to address insecurity - A parliamentary committee has summoned the two cabinet ministers to explain the government's position on the frequent forays into Kenya by foreign militia, particularly from Ethiopia. [Daily Nation, Jan 26, 2001]

Somalia escalates row with Ethiopia -The Ethiopians have a policy of "suppressing, of shooting, of killing [and] of maiming" when it comes to their actions in Somalia. [BBC, Jan 25, 2001]

Seven die in Ethiopian religious clashes - Seven people were killed and 12 others injured in clashes between Christians and Muslims in the eastern Ethiopian town of Harar, an independent weekly newspaper reported on Wednesday. [Reuters, Jan 24, 2001] Note: Efoyta in fact is not an independent newspaper. It is owned and published by the ruling Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF).

SOMALIA: Faction leaders meet in southern town to launch breakaway region - The leaders criticized the UN, Yemen, Sudan, Egypt and Saudi Arabia for not being neutral on Somalia. [BBC Monitoring Service, Jan 23, 2001]

ETHIOPIA: While its army invades and terrorizes Somali and Kenyan citizens, Ethiopia appeals for food aid from the West [PANA, Jan 23, 2001]

SOMALIA: Ethiopian troops kill 5 demonstrators in occupied town - Ethiopian soldiers opened fire on demonstrators in an occupied Somali border town over the weekend, killing five people and wounding 17 others, a Somali government minister said on Monday. [CNN, Jan 22, 2001]

KENYA: Government denies presence of Oromo militia in central district - There are no Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) fighters in Isiolo District, it was clarified yesterday. The DC [district commissioner], Mr John Chege, and Isiolo North MP, Mr Charfano Guyo Mokku termed the claims that OLF men are in the district as baseless. [BBC Monitoring Service, Jan 22, 2001]

KENYA-ETHIOPIA: Expel militiamen, says MP - Assistant Health Minister Gurracha Galgalo wants the Government to take "immediate military action" to kick Ethiopia's militiamen out of Kenya's Moyale District. [Daily Nation, Jan 21, 2001]

Ethiopia's occupation of southern Somalia destabilizing to entire horn - Recent events in the Horn of Africa have clearly demonstrated Ethiopia's blatant disregard for the territorial integrity of it's neighbors and confirmed it's role as the largest threat to peace and stability in the Horn of Africa. [ONLF, Jan 20, 2001]

ETHIOPIA-KENYA: Kenyans arrested by Ethiopia - Spokesman for the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), Lencho Bati told IRIN by telephone that the organisation had sent a letter to the Kenyan government this week in response to events on the Kenyan-Ethiopian border. [IRIN, Jan 18, 2001]

KENYA: Ethiopians hold more Kenyans - Ethiopian militiamen are holding three more Kenyans captive a week after killing 10 others. [Daily Nation, Jan 18, 2001]

KENYA: Release Kenyan soldier, says DC - The government has demanded the release of a Kenyan policeman abducted by militiamen from Ethiopia during last Thursday's Moyale raid. Mr Dulacha Halakhe is allegedly being held at a military camp in Ethiopia. [Daily Nation, Jan 17, 2001]

Border Raids Heighten Tension - Tension continued to mount at the Kenya-Ethiopia border after a band of more than 100 suspected Ethiopian militiamen raided Uran police lines on the Kenyan side at the weekend, the local press reported in Nairobi Tuesday. [PANA, Jan 16, 2001]

Chronicles of Abyssinian Crimes Against Neighboring Nations - There are certain tribes, e.g., in Gimirra, Kaffa, and the Mossongo country, whom the Abyssinians consider specially created for enslavement as the most brutalized of all their subjects. [Unedited Compilations by Idris]

Trouble brewing in Horn of Africa - Only weeks after the signing of a peace deal between Ethiopia and Eritrea, tension is growing between Ethiopia and another of its neighbours. [News 24, Jan 15, 2001]

KENYA: Gunmen shoot woman in ward - Gunmen stormed a hospital on Saturday night and seriously injured an Ethiopian in-patient in apparent revenge for the recent killings in Moyale District. Elsewhere, four people believed to be Ethiopian nationals were dragged from a truck by hundreds of demonstrating residents and beaten. [Daily Nation, Jan 15, 2001]

Kenya: Life In The Shadow Of Bandit Attacks - More than 200 militiamen, in distinctive olive green military uniform, reportedly slipped into Kenya through the Danaba border point from Qadaduma in Ethiopia....They torched homes situated on the eastern part of the trading centre, which has a population of about 10, 000 people. In less than half an hour, more that 40 homes and granaries had been razed. [Daily Nation, Jan 14, 2001]

Somalis Demonstrate Against Ethiopia's Intervention - As the speeches against Ethiopia heated up, the demonstrators burnt to ashes the Ethiopian flag while poets and singers delivered anti-Ethiopian songs and poems. [Xinhua, Jan 14, 2001]

Somalis Protest Ethiopian Presence - ``We ask the Ethiopian government to withdraw its troops from Somalia's soil and stop its supply of weapons and ammunition to (factions) in Somalia,'' [AP, Jan 14, 2001]

Somali leader accuses Ethiopia of trying to help province break away - Somalia's prime minister has accused Ethiopia of sending troops to help a large part of Somali territory secede, fueling instability in the fragmented Horn of Africa nation. [CNN, Jan 13, 2001]

Ten Kenyans killed by foreign bandits - Ten Kenyans, eight of them policemen, have been killed by an Ethiopian militia at the common border. This brings to more than 150 the number of Kenyans killed in similar cricumstances. [Daily Nation, Jan 13, 2001]

Finfinnee shall be Oromia's Capital Forever - The Oromo people, as the indigenous and original owner of the site of Finfinnee cannot accept any proposition which in effect dispossess them. [Metcha and Tulema Development Association]

OLF reports witnessing arms traffic to Somalia - A spokesman for the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) told IRIN on Wednesday that the movement had witnessed Ethiopian troops and weapons passing into Somalia. [IRIN, Jan 10, 2001]

UN to lift Horn embargo - The United Nations Security Council is expected to lift an eight-month-old arms embargo on Ethiopia and Eritrea, despite concerns that such a move could be premature, diplomats said on Tuesday. [BBC, Jan 10, 2001]

Somalia accuses Ethiopia - The prime minister of Somalia's transitional government, Ali Khalif Galayr, has strongly attacked Ethiopia, accusing it of stirring up trouble. [BBC, Jan 8, 2001]

Arms lure not part of Ethiopia-Eritrea deal - US - A top U.S. official who helped broker the Ethiopian-Eritrean peace deal signed last month denied on Monday that the United States had used the lifting of a U.N. arms embargo against the two countries as an incentive. [Reuters, Jan 8, 2001]

US move to end Ethiopia, Eritrea arms ban opposed - Former national security adviser Anthony Lake and Assistant Secretary of State Susan Rice, who brokered the peace accord, had apparently promised Ethiopia to lift the U.N. weapons embargo once it was signed. (Reuters, Jan 7, 2001)

Comment: Limits of Compassion - The clearest expression of man’s inhumanity towards fellow humans can be seen in the horrific pictures of emaciated bodies of refugees forced to occupy human wasteland of destitution.  It is also manifested in the pictures of the disfigured bodies of war casualties. [By Teferi Fufa, Jan 3, 2001]

Chronicles of Abyssinian Crimes Against Oromo People - Unedited Compilations by Idris - Ethiopian unity cannot be achieved by disregard, deception, violence, intimidation, further victimization of the Oromo people and the glorification of Menelik, Haile Sellassie and their contemporaries and ignoring the facts surrounding the creation of the present Ethiopian State.