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Human Rights For All

A REPORT PREPARED
BY
THE OGADEN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE
(OHRC)
JANUARY 22TH, 2004. GODEY, OGADENIA

CONTENTS

Abbreviations

OGADEN: DOWNTRODDEN AND DISENFRANCHISED PEOPLE 5
RECOMMENDATIONS AND APPEALS 6
1. INTRODUCTION 8
2. BACKGROUND 9
3. HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES 12
A. Extrajudicial Executions 12
B. Forced Disappearances 15
C. Crime of Rape and Child Molestation 17
D. Political Imprisonment 20
E. Torture And lll- Treatment 26
Torture Methods 30
F. Other Abuses 30
4. HIV/AIDS epidemic and Ethiopian Government's responsibility 33
5. Elections and Political Instability 35
6.Linguistic Discrimination and Cultural Suppression 46
7. Clan and ethnic conflicts 47
8. RECURRENT DROUGHT 49
9. Local Humanitarian Organizations
ANNEXES
CLASSIFIED LISTS OF VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES 56
I. Summary Executions 56
Il. Disappearances 58
III. Crime of Rape and Child Molestation 59
IV.Detention, Torture, III- Treatment And Looting 60

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