New| Ogaden Human Rights Committee's Press Releases on Addis Ababa Kangaroo Court's sentence of Bashir Ahmed Makhtal |
| BASHIR AHMED MAKHTAL: ADDIS ABABA COURT’S SENTENCE: A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE In June 1963, the Ogaden Liberation Front was founded by Garad Makhtal Garad Dahir, who is Mr Bashir’s grandfather. According to his family Mr Bashir was born, in Dagah-bour, the capital of Jarar region. In his boyhood his town was burned and razed to the ground by Ethiopian government forces, and he witnessed the death of many of his close relatives and clansmen at that time. After the destruction of his hometown, his family like many other Somali-Ogaden families fled to the neighbouring Somalia seeking safe shelter. |
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