MOGADISHU,10 December 2009 (Somalilandpress)-The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) has strongly condemned the cowardly bombing of a medical students’ graduation ceremony in Mogadishu on 3 December 2009.

In a statement they issued, the group described the attack against medical school graduates, their parents, instructors and government officials was nothing less than an act of terrorism aimed at squashing the aspirations of those who intended to dedicate their lives to treating their fellow Somalis, according to the statement.

“This attack is, indeed, a national catastrophe for the people of Somalia, and the ONLF extends its deepest sympathies on behalf of all the people of Ogaden [in southeastern Ethiopia, where government forces are engaged in fighting against ONLF] to the families of all the victims of this evil act” Says the statement.

The statement also says that the perpetrators of this act are clearly enemies of the Somali people, their way of life and their hopes for a better future. It describes them as enemies of the reconstitution of a strong Somali state, national reconciliation, peace, progress and democratic governance.

Founded in 1984, The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) fights seeking autonomy for the ethnically Somali Ogaden region.

Abdinasir Mohamed
Somalilandpress
abdinasir4@gmail.com
Mogadishu-Somalia

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  2. Every decent person or organization should condemn the barbaric, cowardly, and un-islamic act that recently took place in the graduation ceremony in Mogadishu.

    Whoever committed such a despicable crime is both ungodly and devoid decent human feeling.

    ONLF, like others, is right to condemn this horror and it is good that they shared the saddness with the relatives of the deceased and the Somali people.

  3. Condemn of not, they are not doing any better. ONLF is against Alshabaab since their clashes in Southern Somalia but one thing for sure is they would never condemn if that didn't happen.

  4. Condemn of not, they are not doing any better. ONLF is against Alshabaab since their clashes in Southern Somalia but one thing for sure is they would never condemn if that didn't happen.

  5. OG,
    What are you trying to say here?. Are you implying that ONLF has been in bed with the cancerous and ungodly Al-Shabaab?.

    For your information, when others did not read accurately the intentions of their sister oganization, Al-Itihad Al-Islami, ONLF cleansed them in the early 1990s.

    ONLF’s beef with Al-Shabaab has nothing to do with South of Somalia. It has everything to do with the plain fact that Al-Shabaab is in Horn to practise an alien faith, are agents of foreign hand, and are bent to push their unacceptable doctrine into everyone’s throat.

    Except for few brainwashed and lost individuals, and others who are there for their own interest of making money, no one in their right mind would welcome and support them!

    Hope you look things through the right prism without being influenced by your biased package.