Woman holds flag in protest calling for UK to intervene in Ogaden and stop Ethiopia killing in Ogaden and Oromo
Protests outside the ExCeL Centre at Victoria Dock in London's docklands where the G20 Conference was taking place on 2 April 2009. The largest and most vocal group there were Ethiopians protesting about the killing and repression in Ogaden and Oromo. In 2007, the Ethiopian Army began a major campaign in Ogaden against the Ogaden National Liberation Front, a Somali group led by Mohamed Osman, one of several political and military Oromo organisations which aim to establish an independent Oromo state, killing and torturing many Somali civilians and nomads living there. Demonstrating with them were the African People's Socialist Party, founded in the USA in the 1970s and a part of the Uhuru movement, which "is committed to the total liberation of Africa and African People everywhere." The demonstration claimed that the Ethiopian regime is the most brutal in the world and called for an end to British financial support for the Ethiopian war on the people of Ogaden. They also want Ethiopian dictator Meles Zenawi to be tried by the International Criminal Court for war crimes. The other major groups demonstrating there were CND and Stop The War.
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Location: Victoria Dock, Canning Town, London, England, UK
Photo credit: © Peter Marshall / Alamy / Afripics
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