Documentation for Weyane Militia/ TPLF Militia/ Tigray People's Liberation Front Militia
June 13, 2008
The Guardian
Ethiopia's government has committed extensive war crimes and crimes against humanity during a brutal counterinsurgency campaign in the remote Ogaden region, a report says today.The government invoked a military crackdown with civilians forced to join local militias to fight the ONLF. […]
The worst of the abuses appear to have taken place between June and September last year, although arbitrary detention and severe restrictions on trade and movement are ongoing. Civilians got just days’ notice to leave small villages and pastoralist settlements for designated towns.
March 24, 2009
BBC Monitoring Africa
Reports […] confirm a widespread revolt within the recently deployed weyane [Ethiopian government] militias throughout Ogaden [in southeastern Ethiopia, where government forces are engaged in fighting against rebels of the Ogaden National Liberation Front, ONLF].
[…] reporters on the ground as well as reliable sources within the weyane militia leadership hierarchy in Ogaden all agreed that there is a widespread rebellion within the weyane militia ranks.[…] Instead of targeting the whole weyane militias deployed throughout Ogaden, the Tigrayan regime in Addis Ababa is said to have ordered the arrest of the leaders of the militia revolt.
July 7, 2009
BBC Monitoring Africa
Among the dead [on government side] were a number of leaders of the local militias who were doing the reconnaissance for the Ethiopian army.
Dec. 3, 2009
BBC Monitoring Africa
Reliable sources who are closer to the weyane [Ethiopian government] militias indicated that the officer who went on the rampage was the deputy of the weyane militias in Cobosha.
Jan. 26, 2010
BBC Monitoring Africa
It is reported that towards the end of last week, the civilians held an area wide demonstration to protest the recent confiscation by the TPLF militias […]
Eyewitnesses reported that the TPLF militias instead of letting the citizens vent their bent up anger and frustration through the peaceful demonstration started shooting everyone on sight.[…]
There are reports that the TPLF militias have consulted with their bosses in Addis Ababa on what to do next.
April 11, 2010
BBC Monitoring Africa
The Ethiopian regime has for some time now sponsored undisciplined armed militias who routinely wreak havoc in Ogaden and are no doubt responsible for this callous act. […]
The Ethiopian regime has clearly lost control of the local armed militias it sponsors, and ONLF strongly suspects that they have committed this act.
June 12, 2010
BBC Monitoring Africa
Since 18 May 2010, as a continuation of Ethiopian regime's policy of collective punishment of the Ogaden people [found in southeastern Ethiopia], a large contingent of its army had ram-paged in an area of 50 km radius in and around Malqaqa, using several platoons of its trained militia as trackers and informants.
Nov. 25, 2010
BBC Monitoring Africa
[…] the strategy of the ONLA appears to be two fold. First, it is to put military pressure on the weyane militias deployed in the area as to minimize, or eliminate altogether, the extra judicial killings, rape, and the looting that they were lately engaged against the civilians in the area.
[…] forcefully displacing many civilians from their homes in the name of the creation of what was unofficially billed as a more secure military barracks inside the areas inhabited by civilians.
Aug. 12, 2011
BBC Monitoring Africa
Pro-government militias accused of killings, looting in southeastern Ethiopia
[…]weyane militias are reported to have killed and arrested many Ogaden civilians between 20-31 July 2011 in various cities in Ogaden. […]
It is reported by highly placed sources that the militia leadership gave the greenlight for the militias to rob civilians to make sure, as the sources put it, that the militias never run out of supplies.
March 4, 2012
BBC Monitoring Africa
Reports […] confirm a rape spree that was spearheaded by the Ethiopian military and its associated militias deployed in that area
March 21, 2012
BBC Monitoring Africa
The mass detentions and extrajudicial killings follow the recent news that Ethiopia is planning to resettle thousands of Ethiopians in Gode's agricultural zones.
Jan. 20, 2013
BBC Monitoring Africa
[…] is continuing its offensive against Ethiopian army and its associate militia [in Ogaden] where Ethiopian forces are engaged in fighting against ONLF freedom fighters.
Feb. 7, 2013
Liverpool Echo
[…]they carry out their government's edict to centralize the population.
