A Victory for the Tyrannized Ogadenis: a UN Office in Ogaden

With Darfur in mind, and following a flood of recent, revelatory publications, the UN took the decision to show a greater concern for the “Ethiopian Darfur in the making”. After several months of horrendous experience, involving extrajudicial killings, massive arrests, imprisonment of thousands of innocent people, and deliberate obstruction in the delivery of humanitarian aid and food supplies, the development is expected to ease the disastrous situation in which Abyssinian dictator Meles Zenawi plunged Ogaden.

The UN secretary general has clashed with the Pakistani ambassador to the UN over President Pervez Musharraf’s imposition of emergency rule.

 

Ambassador Munir Akram complained that Ban Ki-moon was meddling in Pakistan’s affairs by saying the country should return to democratic rule.

But after meeting Mr Akram, Mr Ban repeated his concerns.

He joined Pakistan ex-PM Benazir Bhutto in saying Gen Musharraf should resign as army chief and hold elections.