Barack Obama addresses the Democratic convention

Barack Obama addresses the Democratic convention.



To Chairman Dean and my great friend Dick Durbin; and to all my fellow citizens of this great nation;

With profound gratitude and great humility, I accept your nomination for the presidency of the United States.

Let me express my thanks to the historic slate of candidates who accompanied me on this journey, and especially the one who travelled the farthest - a champion for working Americans and an inspiration to my daughters and to yours -- Hillary Rodham Clinton. To President Clinton, who last night made the case for change as only he can make it; to Ted Kennedy, who embodies the spirit of service; and to the next Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden, I thank you. I am grateful to finish this journey with one of the finest statesmen of our time, a man at ease with everyone from world leaders to the conductors on the Amtrak train he still takes home every night.

To the love of my life, our next First Lady, Michelle Obama, and to Sasha and Malia - I love you so much, and I'm so proud of all of you.

'Turmoil'

Four years ago, I stood before you and told you my story - of the brief union between a young man from Kenya and a young woman from Kansas who weren't well-off or well-known, but shared a belief that in America, their son could achieve whatever he put his mind to.

It is that promise that has always set this country apart - that through hard work and sacrifice, each of us can pursue our individual dreams but still come together as one American family, to ensure that the next generation can pursue their dreams as well.

That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors -- found the courage to keep it alive.


America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.

We meet at one of those defining moments - a moment when our nation is at war, our economy is in turmoil, and the American promise has been threatened once more.

Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder for less. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching your home values plummet. More of you have cars you can't afford to drive, credit card bills you can't afford to pay, and tuition that's beyond your reach.

These challenges are not all of government's making. But the failure to respond is a direct result of a broken politics in Washington and the failed policies of George W. Bush.

America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this.

Compassion

This country is more decent than one where a woman in Ohio, on the brink of retirement, finds herself one illness away from disaster after a lifetime of hard work.

This country is more generous than one where a man in Indiana has to pack up the equipment he's worked on for twenty years and watch it shipped off to China, and then chokes up as he explains how he felt like a failure when he went home to tell his family the news.

We are more compassionate than a government that lets veterans sleep on our streets and families slide into poverty; that sits on its hands while a major American city drowns before our eyes.

Tonight, I say to the American people, to Democrats and Republicans and Independents across this great land - enough! This moment - this election - is our chance to keep, in the 21st century, the American promise alive. Because next week, in Minnesota, the same party that brought you two terms of George Bush and Dick Cheney will ask this country for a third. And we are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight. On November 4th, we must stand up and say: "Eight is enough."

Now let there be no doubt. The Republican nominee, John McCain, has worn the uniform of our country with bravery and distinction, and for that we owe him our gratitude and respect. And next week, we'll also hear about those occasions when he's broken with his party as evidence that he can deliver the change that we need.

But the record's clear: John McCain has voted with George Bush ninety percent of the time. Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time? I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to take a ten percent chance on change.

The truth is, on issue after issue that would make a difference in your lives - on health care and education and the economy - Senator McCain has been anything but independent. He said that our economy has made "great progress" under this President. He said that the fundamentals of the economy are strong. And when one of his chief advisors - the man who wrote his economic plan - was talking about the anxiety Americans are feeling, he said that we were just suffering from a "mental recession," and that we've become, and I quote, "a nation of whiners."

'Discredited philosophy'

A nation of whiners? Tell that to the proud auto workers at a Michigan plant who, after they found out it was closing, kept showing up every day and working as hard as ever, because they knew there were people who counted on the brakes that they made. Tell that to the military families who shoulder their burdens silently as they watch their loved ones leave for their third or fourth or fifth tour of duty. These are not whiners. They work hard and give back and keep going without complaint. These are the Americans that I know.

Now, I don't believe that Senator McCain doesn't care what's going on in the lives of Americans. I just think he doesn't know. Why else would he define middle-class as someone making under five million dollars a year? How else could he propose hundreds of billions in tax breaks for big corporations and oil companies but not one penny of tax relief to more than one hundred million Americans? How else could he offer a health care plan that would actually tax people's benefits, or an education plan that would do nothing to help families pay for college, or a plan that would privatize Social Security and gamble your retirement?

It's not because John McCain doesn't care. It's because John McCain doesn't get it.

For over two decades, he's subscribed to that old, discredited Republican philosophy - give more and more to those with the most and hope that prosperity trickles down to everyone else. In Washington, they call this the Ownership Society, but what it really means is - you're on your own. Out of work? Tough luck. No health care? The market will fix it. Born into poverty? Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps - even if you don't have boots. You're on your own.

Well it's time for them to own their failure. It's time for us to change America.

Paying the mortgage

You see, we Democrats have a very different measure of what constitutes progress in this country.

We measure progress by how many people can find a job that pays the mortgage; whether you can put a little extra money away at the end of each month so you can someday watch your child receive her college diploma. We measure progress in the 23 million new jobs that were created when Bill Clinton was President - when the average American family saw its income go up $7,500 instead of down $2,000 like it has under George Bush.


I think about my mom, who raised my sister and me on her own while she worked and earned her degree

We measure the strength of our economy not by the number of billionaires we have or the profits of the Fortune 500, but by whether someone with a good idea can take a risk and start a new business, or whether the waitress who lives on tips can take a day off to look after a sick kid without losing her job - an economy that honours the dignity of work.

The fundamentals we use to measure economic strength are whether we are living up to that fundamental promise that has made this country great - a promise that is the only reason I am standing here tonight.

Because in the faces of those young veterans who come back from Iraq and Afghanistan, I see my grandfather, who signed up after Pearl Harbour, marched in Patton's Army, and was rewarded by a grateful nation with the chance to go to college on the GI Bill.

In the face of that young student who sleeps just three hours before working the night shift, I think about my mom, who raised my sister and me on her own while she worked and earned her degree; who once turned to food stamps but was still able to send us to the best schools in the country with the help of student loans and scholarships.

'My heroes'

When I listen to another worker tell me that his factory has shut down, I remember all those men and women on the South Side of Chicago who I stood by and fought for two decades ago after the local steel plant closed.

And when I hear a woman talk about the difficulties of starting her own business, I think about my grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for promotions because she was a woman. She's the one who taught me about hard work. She's the one who put off buying a new car or a new dress for herself so that I could have a better life. She poured everything she had into me. And although she can no longer travel, I know that she's watching tonight, and that tonight is her night as well.

I don't know what kind of lives John McCain thinks that celebrities lead, but this has been mine. These are my heroes. Theirs are the stories that shaped me. And it is on their behalf that I intend to win this election and keep our promise alive as President of the United States.

What is that promise?

It's a promise that says each of us has the freedom to make of our own lives what we will, but that we also have the obligation to treat each other with dignity and respect.

It's a promise that says the market should reward drive and innovation and generate growth, but that businesses should live up to their responsibilities to create American jobs, look out for American workers, and play by the rules of the road.

Ours is a promise that says government cannot solve all our problems, but what it should do is that which we cannot do for ourselves - protect us from harm and provide every child a decent education; keep our water clean and our toys safe; invest in new schools and new roads and new science and technology.

Our government should work for us, not against us. It should help us, not hurt us. It should ensure opportunity not just for those with the most money and influence, but for every American who's willing to work.

That's the promise of America - the idea that we are responsible for ourselves, but that we also rise or fall as one nation; the fundamental belief that I am my brother's keeper; I am my sister's keeper.

That's the promise we need to keep. That's the change we need right now. So let me spell out exactly what that change would mean if I am President.

Workers' tax cuts

Change means a tax code that doesn't reward the lobbyists who wrote it, but the American workers and small businesses who deserve it.

Unlike John McCain, I will stop giving tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, and I will start giving them to companies that create good jobs right here in America.

I will eliminate capital gains taxes for the small businesses and the start-ups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow.


Washington's been talking about our oil addiction for the last thirty years, and John McCain has been there for twenty-six of them

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95% of all working families. Because in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle-class.

And for the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, I will set a clear goal as President: in ten years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East.

Washington's been talking about our oil addiction for the last thirty years, and John McCain has been there for twenty-six of them. In that time, he's said no to higher fuel-efficiency standards for cars, no to investments in renewable energy, no to renewable fuels. And today, we import triple the amount of oil as the day that Senator McCain took office.

Now is the time to end this addiction, and to understand that drilling is a stop-gap measure, not a long-term solution. Not even close.

As President, I will tap our natural gas reserves, invest in clean coal technology, and find ways to safely harness nuclear power. I'll help our auto companies re-tool, so that the fuel-efficient cars of the future are built right here in America. I'll make it easier for the American people to afford these new cars. And I'll invest 150 billion dollars over the next decade in affordable, renewable sources of energy - wind power and solar power and the next generation of biofuels; an investment that will lead to new industries and five million new jobs that pay well and can't ever be outsourced.

America, now is not the time for small plans.

Now is the time to finally meet our moral obligation to provide every child a world-class education, because it will take nothing less to compete in the global economy. Michelle and I are only here tonight because we were given a chance at an education. And I will not settle for an America where some kids don't have that chance. I'll invest in early childhood education. I'll recruit an army of new teachers, and pay them higher salaries and give them more support. And in exchange, I'll ask for higher standards and more accountability. And we will keep our promise to every young American - if you commit to serving your community or your country, we will make sure you can afford a college education.

Paid sick days

Now is the time to finally keep the promise of affordable, accessible health care for every single American. If you have health care, my plan will lower your premiums. If you don't, you'll be able to get the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves. And as someone who watched my mother argue with insurance companies while she lay in bed dying of cancer, I will make certain those companies stop discriminating against those who are sick and need care the most.

Now is the time to help families with paid sick days and better family leave, because nobody in America should have to choose between keeping their jobs and caring for a sick child or ailing parent.

Now is the time to change our bankruptcy laws, so that your pensions are protected ahead of CEO bonuses; and the time to protect Social Security for future generations.

And now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons.

Now, many of these plans will cost money, which is why I've laid out how I'll pay for every dime - by closing corporate loopholes and tax havens that don't help America grow. But I will also go through the federal budget, line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work and making the ones we do need work better and cost less - because we cannot meet twenty-first century challenges with a twentieth century bureaucracy.

And Democrats, we must also admit that fulfilling America's promise will require more than just money. It will require a renewed sense of responsibility from each of us to recover what John F. Kennedy called our "intellectual and moral strength." Yes, government must lead on energy independence, but each of us must do our part to make our homes and businesses more efficient. Yes, we must provide more ladders to success for young men who fall into lives of crime and despair. But we must also admit that programs alone can't replace parents; that government can't turn off the television and make a child do her homework; that fathers must take more responsibility for providing the love and guidance their children need.

Individual responsibility and mutual responsibility - that's the essence of America's promise.

Iraq

And just as we keep our promise to the next generation here at home, so must we keep America's promise abroad. If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that's a debate I'm ready to have.


John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives

For while Senator McCain was turning his sights to Iraq just days after 9/11, I stood up and opposed this war, knowing that it would distract us from the real threats we face. When John McCain said we could just "muddle through" in Afghanistan, I argued for more resources and more troops to finish the fight against the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11, and made clear that we must take out Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants if we have them in our sights. John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives.

And today, as my call for a time frame to remove our troops from Iraq has been echoed by the Iraqi government and even the Bush Administration, even after we learned that Iraq has a $79 billion surplus while we're wallowing in deficits, John McCain stands alone in his stubborn refusal to end a misguided war.

That's not the judgment we need. That won't keep America safe. We need a President who can face the threats of the future, not keep grasping at the ideas of the past.

You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq. You don't protect Israel and deter Iran just by talking tough in Washington. You can't truly stand up for Georgia when you've strained our oldest alliances. If John McCain wants to follow George Bush with more tough talk and bad strategy, that is his choice - but it is not the change we need.

We are the party of Roosevelt. We are the party of Kennedy. So don't tell me that Democrats won't defend this country. Don't tell me that Democrats won't keep us safe. The Bush-McCain foreign policy has squandered the legacy that generations of Americans -- Democrats and Republicans - have built, and we are here to restore that legacy.

As Commander-in-Chief, I will never hesitate to defend this nation, but I will only send our troops into harm's way with a clear mission and a sacred commitment to give them the equipment they need in battle and the care and benefits they deserve when they come home.

I will end this war in Iraq responsibly, and finish the fight against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. I will rebuild our military to meet future conflicts. But I will also renew the tough, direct diplomacy that can prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and curb Russian aggression. I will build new partnerships to defeat the threats of the 21st century: terrorism and nuclear proliferation; poverty and genocide; climate change and disease. And I will restore our moral standing, so that America is once again that last, best hope for all who are called to the cause of freedom, who long for lives of peace, and who yearn for a better future.

Patriotism

These are the policies I will pursue. And in the weeks ahead, I look forward to debating them with John McCain.

But what I will not do is suggest that the Senator takes his positions for political purposes. Because one of the things that we have to change in our politics is the idea that people cannot disagree without challenging each other's character and patriotism.

The times are too serious, the stakes are too high for this same partisan playbook. So let us agree that patriotism has no party. I love this country, and so do you, and so does John McCain. The men and women who serve in our battlefields may be Democrats and Republicans and Independents, but they have fought together and bled together and some died together under the same proud flag. They have not served a Red America or a Blue America - they have served the United States of America.

So I've got news for you, John McCain. We all put our country first.


We may not agree on abortion, but surely we can agree on reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies in this country

America, our work will not be easy. The challenges we face require tough choices, and Democrats as well as Republicans will need to cast off the worn-out ideas and politics of the past. For part of what has been lost these past eight years can't just be measured by lost wages or bigger trade deficits. What has also been lost is our sense of common purpose - our sense of higher purpose. And that's what we have to restore.

We may not agree on abortion, but surely we can agree on reducing the number of unwanted pregnancies in this country. The reality of gun ownership may be different for hunters in rural Ohio than for those plagued by gang-violence in Cleveland, but don't tell me we can't uphold the Second Amendment while keeping AK-47s out of the hands of criminals. I know there are differences on same-sex marriage, but surely we can agree that our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters deserve to visit the person they love in the hospital and to live lives free of discrimination. Passions fly on immigration, but I don't know anyone who benefits when a mother is separated from her infant child or an employer undercuts American wages by hiring illegal workers. This too is part of America's promise - the promise of a democracy where we can find the strength and grace to bridge divides and unite in common effort.

I know there are those who dismiss such beliefs as happy talk. They claim that our insistence on something larger, something firmer and more honest in our public life is just a Trojan Horse for higher taxes and the abandonment of traditional values. And that's to be expected. Because if you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from.

You make a big election about small things.

And you know what - it's worked before. Because it feeds into the cynicism we all have about government. When Washington doesn't work, all its promises seem empty. If your hopes have been dashed again and again, then it's best to stop hoping, and settle for what you already know.

I get it. I realize that I am not the likeliest candidate for this office. I don't fit the typical pedigree, and I haven't spent my career in the halls of Washington.

But I stand before you tonight because all across America something is stirring. What the nay-sayers don't understand is that this election has never been about me. It's been about you.

For eighteen long months, you have stood up, one by one, and said enough to the politics of the past. You understand that in this election, the greatest risk we can take is to try the same old politics with the same old players and expect a different result. You have shown what history teaches us - that at defining moments like this one, the change we need doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington. Change happens because the American people demand it - because they rise up and insist on new ideas and new leadership, a new politics for a new time.

America, this is one of those moments.

I believe that as hard as it will be, the change we need is coming. Because I've seen it. Because I've lived it. I've seen it in Illinois, when we provided health care to more children and moved more families from welfare to work. I've seen it in Washington, when we worked across party lines to open up government and hold lobbyists more accountable, to give better care for our veterans and keep nuclear weapons out of terrorist hands.

And I've seen it in this campaign. In the young people who voted for the first time, and in those who got involved again after a very long time. In the Republicans who never thought they'd pick up a Democratic ballot, but did. I've seen it in the workers who would rather cut their hours back a day than see their friends lose their jobs, in the soldiers who re-enlist after losing a limb, in the good neighbors who take a stranger in when a hurricane strikes and the floodwaters rise.

Martin Luther King

This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military on Earth, but that's not what makes us strong. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores.


'We cannot walk alone,' the preacher cried

Instead, it is that American spirit - that American promise - that pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend.

That promise is our greatest inheritance. It's a promise I make to my daughters when I tuck them in at night, and a promise that you make to yours - a promise that has led immigrants to cross oceans and pioneers to travel west; a promise that led workers to picket lines, and women to reach for the ballot.

And it is that promise that forty five years ago today, brought Americans from every corner of this land to stand together on a Mall in Washington, before Lincoln's Memorial, and hear a young preacher from Georgia speak of his dream.

The men and women who gathered there could've heard many things. They could've heard words of anger and discord. They could've been told to succumb to the fear and frustration of so many dreams deferred.

But what the people heard instead - people of every creed and colour, from every walk of life - is that in America, our destiny is inextricably linked. That together, our dreams can be one.

"We cannot walk alone," the preacher cried. "And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back."

America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for. Not with an economy to fix and cities to rebuild and farms to save. Not with so many families to protect and so many lives to mend. America, we cannot turn back. We cannot walk alone. At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future. Let us keep that promise - that American promise - and in the words of Scripture hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess.



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Ethiopia: Who is in fact responsible for the present agony of Ogaden clan?

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The below informative article exhibits overall explanation of the situation in the 5th Region of Ethiopian, and illegal activities of ONLF (Ogaden National Liberation Front).

It focuses on situation of Ogaden tribe inthe region.

Opinion by/Ismail Ahmed

Who is in fact responsible for the present agony of Ogaden clan?

Who is really responsible for the ever growing chasm that exist today between the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) led Ogadenis and the rest of Somali Ethiopians whose vast regions stretch from the Hawash valley in the west and Gasshaamo in the east, where the Ethiopia´s major cities are located?

Does ONLF legitimately represent all Somalis in the autonomous region of Ethiopia?

Would the unilateral declaration of purely an Ogaden liberation front (ONLF) by former Barre´s generals serve as a wakeup call for the rest of Somali Ethiopians to head off any future guerrilla intrusions, and other planned conspiracies that otherwise would have a destabilizing effect in their own regions?

Would the present alliance formed by the non-Ogaden Somalis bring peace and lasting stability to the whole region?

What kind of a person is, in fact, the ONLF leader?

To acquire the necessary humility and the wisdom of understanding the geographical structure and the population distributions of the Somali inhabited regions in eastern Ethiopia, let me take the honour of inviting you to a short sightseeing trip into the main cities. Come with me!

Perhaps the best way to see and enjoy some of the breathtaking attractive landscapes is taking the non-express passenger train that leaves every day to Dire Dawa, Ethiopia´s commercial city. As it moves slowly through zigzagging valleys and flatlands, your eyes would catch herds of camels and cattle grazing along the sides of the railways. This is an area where the traditional culture of Somali nomads still remains intact. As the century old passenger-train approaches into the Aware Afdam, a town that lies approximately between Addis Abeba and Dire Dawa for one hour stop, it is welcomed by an army of nomadic children waving their hands to the incoming travellers. The town has all characters that make Somalis different culturally from other Ethiopian ethnic groups. The charming young Somali girls selling fresh camel milk in leather containers on both sides of the railway and Somali nomads men displaying traditional handcrafts gives more colourful attraction to the relatively small market of this rural town. Men with pair of white togas and young men in their traditional dresses are frantically busy beckoning at travellers´ beck and call to sell locally made handcrafts and other souvenirs at a hand down price. Traditional Somali dagger is clearly visible on the hips of every grown up Somali man who reached at the age of manhood. The traditional dagger mounted on the hip is known as "Golxob".But travellers should never try to tamper with Somali daggers. All shops are straddled on both sides of the railway where, everything that reflects Somali culture, from handcrafts to leather praying mats are displayed. The salivating goat meat assails one´s nostrils before he finds himself sitting in one of those small Somali restaurants.

The ageing train that left Addis early morning ends up in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia´s commercial capital. Until 1960s, Dire Dawa was a predominantly Somalian inhabited city. But the growing commercial activities that attracted other Ethiopian ethnic groups have made a flourishing cosmopolitan city. It has been given a unique status of "autonomous city", instead of a region, with equal footing to that of Addis, in line with Ethiopia´s Federal System, thus, losing its a century-old historical name of "Issa and Gurgura Province."

Located midway between Addis Abeba and the tiny city-state of Djibouti at the Red Sea, Dire Dawa has become an important commercial centre since it was founded in 1902.The city expanded gradually when the railway from Djibouti reached the area. Its expansion has resulted largely from trade growth brought by the railroad. Dire Dawa lies in the east of the nation on the Dechatu River at the foot of a ring of cliffs that has been described as "somewhat like a cluster of tea-leaves" in the bottom of a slope-basin

Dire Dawa has become an important cosmopolitan city that handles almost the country´s export-and -import goods through the Djibouti port. Its industrial plants include processed meat, vegetable oil, textile and cement. Its main streets are festooned with bright colours of advertisement signs. Its shopping centres are full with shoppers who usually come from Addis Ababa and other provincial capitals to bring back essential goods to their respective regions. It said Ethiopia without Dire Dawa is not complete. The port state of tiny Djibouti, Ethiopia´s main gateway to the outside world, heavily depends for all its food supplies on Ethiopia which it imports through Dire Dawa. Dire Dawa (dirrir dhaba) is a Somali name which simply means "a place of fighting".

Perhaps our sightseeing trip would be incomplete without visiting the ancient historical city of Harar.Without Harar´s rich agricultural hinterland in which almost variety of fruits, vegetables, coffee and other grains are grown both for local consumption and export, Dire Dawa would never have been Ethiopia´s second largest city. If Dire Dawa is regarded as the Ethiopia´s main artery for expert-and- import goods through the port of Djibouti, then, no doubt, Harar province is also the bread basket of the whole eastern Ethiopia. More than 50% of Ethiopia´s hard currency earning export goods come from these region .There is a clear cut economic interdependency between Dire Dawa and Harar. Their economy would be a synergy to facilitate the overall developments of the whole Ethiopian regions. The two cities are locked into a symbiotic economic relationship. Harar is the main supplier of essentially needed goods to Dire Dawa.

The journey to Harar from Dire Dawa is also perhaps the most fascinating one. Here, all kinds of public transport facilities´ are available, much depending on your own pocket - from luxurious taxis to heavy trucks. After all, Harar is not far away from Dire Dawa.It is only less than a two hour drive by bus. There is a around clock bus service between the two cities that stops at every way-station where passengers, either get off, or buy local products from vendors.

Maintained macadamized highway from Dire Dawa to Harar, provides a delightful journey with numerous panoramic views. As the carefully driven bus ascends on the sneaking Dangago pass, one´s eyes catches the beautiful evergreen mountains decorated with systematically planned terraces on which coffee and khat plants are grown. It reminds me that equally famous of Sheikh-Pass in Somaliland Republic.

The traveller, driving up the meandering road from the torrid lowlands to the cool Harar highlands, passes between mountain ranges divided by narrow valleys, punctuated with wonderful charming scenes. What a beautiful panoramic scenes: - sheer walls of naked rock, lofty slopes wooded to the summit with acacia, eucalyptus, and various types of cactus. The mountainsides are terraced for the cultivation of coffee or other crops. Emerging from the precipitous mountains to the broad level plateau, the road then proceeds through richly cultivated fields of maize, sorghum, and various other cereals. Finally, the bus stops at Lake Adale located on the summit of Dangago mountains .There are huge numbers of trucks at Adale hurriedly waiting for hundreds of tons of khat to be taken to Dire Dawa, where it is exported daily to Djibouti and Somaliland by air. It is in this district where the famous "Awday-khat" chewed by middle class businessmen is grown. The next main town where the bus stops is Alamaya town, at the bank of Lake Alamaya. Alamaya, once Ethiopia´s second largest lake is now shrinking to its bottom, because of the global climate change. It became the victim of global climate change. Excessive amount of water used for ever growing farming lands has also contributed to its dwindling water supply. Once, the lake that supplied the surrounding districts with fresh fish has turned out to be a small pond. The famous agricultural university is located on eastern bank of Lake Alamaya.

Now, we are in Harar; the city we heard about its past historical glory; a city of 90 mosques and minarets´; the city of saints and sheikhs who came from Arabia to spread Islam in east Africa.

Harar is a splendid city in the real sense of the word: the natural beauty of its surrounding evergreen hills from which the endless streams and rivers that carry fertile soils into the lowland farming areas have their sources; its tall eucalyptus trees that cast long shadows over its labyrinthine streets; the white and blue doomed mosques rising high from the old part of the city; the high and wide gates that once defended the city from the invading enemies and the magnificent historical castles that gave Harar its sobriquet as the "Switzerland" of east Africa. The best way to visit the ancient walled party of the city that has five entrance gates symbolizing the five pillars of Islam is, by taking a horse drawn couch, provided one speaks Harari. The city combines the modern and the ancient quarters that is thought to be Ethiopia´s future tourist centre. To explore the historical artefacts of the city, it is advisable that one should see the old buildings in which the colourful wares are still displayed in some of the Hararian homes, the typical Hararian markets and the old museums of traditional Muslim arts. The Hararians are known for their sweeping hospitalities provided that one should speak the Harari, the language that I mastered while I was still a small boy.Harar is a city of peace. Both the local animals and Hararians enjoy the peace dividend. As night falls, both hyenas and the city´s peaceful residents walk together on the narrow alleyways, even sometimes exchanging greetings. Hand-feeding local hyenas are part of the tourist´s attraction. There is an old man who hand-feeds some 50 hyenas every night, treating them like kittens. The "heynaman" is considered as the main tourist attraction of Harar. He inherited the art of communicating with hyenas from his late father.

It goes without saying that Harar was named a UNESCO World Heritage site last year, joining some of the world´s top landmarks as the Grand Canyon in the United Sates, the Great Wall of China and the Acropolis in a Greece. The city is rich in history. It was the first Islamic state in Africa. The first European who set foot in Harar was Sir Richard Francis Burton (1553), the famous British explorer and the translator of "Arabian Nights" into English. He saw a flourishing Islamic city when it was ruled by Amir Nur, the grandson of Imam Ahmed Gurey, whose army reached the Sudan border before he was killed by Emperor Gladios. It had a trade relationship with Awdal kingdom whose capital city was Zeylac in Somaliland, another strong candidate for UNESCO´s World Heritage site.

On our way to Jigjiga, we would like to make a brief stopover at Babile, a town that lies 30Km east of Harar. There´s nothing much to see at Babile as tourists, except the tall natural rocks that lie on top of one another, similar to that of Britain´s ancient Darrington-Stonehenge and the natural mineral waterfalls. The Babilians believe that the natural waterfalls, now under the control of a bottling company in Harar, could cure people suffering from chronic rheumatism. Babile is located on a high ground overlooking the Erer river where, in the evening one could see the illuminating lights of Harar and Fanyaanbiira.It is a groundnut producing district where the Oromo speaking Madigan Somalis and the Nooles were living side-by-side in peace for centuries.Fanyaanbiira, whose residents are mainly the Toljacle and Eto of Oromo, marks the natural boundary between Somalis and their compatriot Islamic Oromo. It is a rich agricultural district known for its quality coffee and variety of grain production.

The other major Somali city that one should need to spend several days in acquainting with local people is Jijiga. Jijiga, the largest purely Somali inhabited city is situated on the foot of Mt.Karamarda, scene of heavy fighting between Somalia and Ethiopian forces in 1977, when the last Somalia´s fascist leader, General Barre invaded the whole eastern Ethiopia which consequently resulted in the immediate collapse of his clan based minority regime. Jigjiga has a unique history, in a sense that it was the place where the first Somali Youth League (SYL) took root in 1948, just before the whole Haud areas were annexed by Emperor Haile Selasse after signing an agreement with then British Protectorate Administration without the consent of Somalis.




Jigjiga has become an important commercial centre ever since Somaliland reasserted its sovereignty in 1991, by withdrawing from the union it entered with Somalia in 1960.Somaliland is an independent nation with recognised borders that it had inherited from the British Protectorate rule on June 26,1960, as the case is for all Africa Union member states. Jijiga´s fast economic development in a very short period of time is largely attributed to its booming trade relationship with Somaliland Republic. Next to Dire Dawa, Jigjiga has until recently become an important transit post for the Ethiopian export and import goods through the port of Berbera at the Red sea. Once, the abandon town of Togwajaale on the border between Somaliland and Ethiopia has now become "a little Hong Kong" in the region. More than 150 trucks carrying transit goods every day pass to and fro through the customs offices, thus, generating a huge amount of revenue for both governments. According to local economists, at least four million dollars change hands every day in Jigjiga.

Jijigans are reaping the fruits of peace in which their traditional leaders heavily invested. Credit goes to three former clan chiefs who laid groundwork for the peace and stability that the Jigjigans are enjoying to day. The three former chiefs, namely Barre Xaashi, Haaji Dool and Qowdhan Mohamud, had signed a peace agreement in the presence of other invited elders and religious leaders which, became since then, a point of references in solving local disputes through dialogue without the interventions of the government of the day. They agreed on an oral declaration of principals to which all clans fully accepted. Qawdhan Mohamoud was a man of vision who is still remembered by the old traditional leaders as a paragon of excellence. But the peace that has been preserved by such wise men of traditional leaders is now at risk of being disturbed by the ONLF.The ONLF´s bombing raid in a fully packed stadium in Jigjiga on May 28,2007, in which three middle school students were killed has raised an alarming bell in the whole region. Since then, authorities have introduced heightened security measures at all sensitive points.

Unless somebody is in a position to see the newly built modern boarding high school for boys and girls of nomadic background in Gaashamo sub-district, I would like to wrap up our sightseeing tour in this vast territory inhabited by majority of non-Ogadens. Gaashaamo, near the border of Somaliland, is a vast territory of thick forest known especially for its camel breeding. It is interesting that local nomads in Gaashamo joined forces by building such a modern high school for their children without outside financial help. The school admits boys and girls of any clan who can afford neglect able annual fees, equivalent to the cost of a she-camel. It is a pilot project that could serve as a model for the rest of nomadic community in the region.

My next stop, which unfortunately has no connection with prospering cities in commerce and agricultural developments that we have seen during our short sightseeing visit, is Fiiq, a dilapidating poor town that rightly belongs to Ogaden clan. I started my journey on 20August 2007.The aim of my journey was to bring back to Dire Dawa my stepmother who suddenly collapsed while visiting her ailing mother. I was accompanied in this trip by my stepmother´s brother who comes from one of dominant sub-clans of Maalinguur. Without his sponsorship, I could have not set a foot in Fiiq.Fiiq is a closed area to non-Ogadens.Finding a non-Ogaden in Fiiq is like finding a needle in a shack. In contrast with other non-Ogaden cities where everybody feels at home, Fiiq is an inhospitable hostile place for other Somalis.

Fiiq is located at the bank of a sandy riverbed .Its extremely a hot place. During the day time when the sun is overhead the reflection that comes from the hot sedimentary rocks hits back one´s face. It is a barren terrain that can not feed its people. A rough and bumpy road is guaranteed for those who want to embark on a trip to Fiiq. An army of knuckle-headed skinny and half naked children make their way to every car that arrives there, with assumption that the long awaited food distribution is ready. What a hustle and bustle to see helpless mothers yanking terribly emaciated children by the arms; and elderly women and old men grapple with gouty diseases in the conspicuous absence of medical treatment. So many faces! So many unsmiling and distressed human faces! There is a sense of despair and hopelessness among the ordinary Ogadenis. This is not a place where one can make a decent life. Prolonged droughts and clan based conflicts have decimated the livestock population that once sustained the livelihoods of the nomads who make up the present inhabitants of Fiiq and its surrounding rocky mountains. The unilaterally imposition of economic embargo by the other Somalis against the Ogadens has also contributed to the sufferings and hardships that the Ogadenis are facing to day.Fiiq is the heartland of ONLF.ONLF draws most of its guerrilla fighters from this region.

The majority of non-Ogaden Somalis in Zone-5 have taken a unanimous decision to severe all kinds of contacts, including trade links, with Ogadenis after about 50 lorries carrying commercial goods were blow-up by ONLF since 2005, because simply the owners of the trucks were Issaq-Ethiopian.The unilatateral imposition of trade embargo by the majority of Somali Ethiopian against all districts inhabited by Ogaden clan has totally isolated the ONLF and its supporters creating a new situation of uncertain future .Barre´s legacy and folly of ONLF leaders have isolated the Ogadens from the rest of their Somali compatriots in Ethiopia. In the Ogaden inhabited region, the use of brain and brawn is regarded as a taboo that should not be practised by men. The culture of receiving alms and handouts from international aid organisations has created a society that became allergic to work and good governance.

Mayal Mahomud is one of the traditional leaders who acts as Fiiq town´s spokesman when it comes to conducting negotiating with other Somali clans.Mayal, in his late 70s, does not hide his hate against Issaqs in Somaliland and Hawiyes in Somalia for bringing down the government of Siad Barre that stood for the welfare of Darood people, regardless where they were. He also equally blamed the Darood Alliance for not fighting to the last drop of blood to keep Siad Barre in power. Addressing me as a temporary hoghenhine (an alien), Mayal told me while pointing his fingers at me, that his son, who was the personal bodyguard of Col.Omer Mallin, the former chief of the navy in Berbera, still remains unaccounted for. As former Barre´s annuitant living in one of Hargeisa´s state owned houses, he vividly remembers how he used to gallivant all over the town in his expensive white safari suits. Intercalating his fingers and slightly stooping his head towards his half-barred knees, he breathed out his feelings, "Siad Barre was a God sent messiah who came to rescue the Darood people from the evil-doers."

If praise and economuim would bring back someone to life, Siad Bare would have resuscitated himself as the president of Somalia. And if hate and curse would destroy people, there would have been no a single Issaq and Hawiye left on the earth. He needs no reminder that recarnating Barre again to life is a world away. While the conversation was in progress in his hut, I overheard a grimalkin swearing that he would cut me into two halves, had I uttered a word about his clan. Such nebbish and jejune remarks are common throughout Ogaden districts .One senses here a whiff of clanism.

It is beyond doubt that there is a sharp contrast between a prosperous and peace loving majority non-Ogadenis and the ONLF led Ogadenis living in a grinding poverty. It is no brain that the ONLF is accountable for the present agony and harsh sufferings that Ogadenis are facing. It has misled its own people with false promise that a government of Ogadenis, by the Ogadenis for the Ogadenis, would soon be in place in the" Ogadenian land" which other Somali Ethiopians have no stake at all, thus, following Barre´s footprints where, a minority clan ruled the whole Somalia through the barrel of a gun.

Lack of traditional leadership, who might possess sufficient will-power to enter peace dialogue with other majority Somalis, is another factor that brought the Ogadenis to all sorts of inhuman sufferings. There is also another group who had become a disservice to their nation. The sons of former ministers and army generals in Barre´s government, who made their way to Europe and USA retaining the ill-gotten gains without redress or contrition, have left their own Ogadeni society in the lurch. The group, which make up the backbone of recently formed Siadist Organisation, is heavily engaged in war of attrition against the Republic of Somaliland whose, success story as a democratic state and its excellent relationship with Ethiopia has become an exemplary for the rest of states in the horn of Africa.

After all, Ogadenis are Somalis; but all Somalis are not Ogadenis.With total obliviousness to the reality on the ground, the Ogadenis have embarked on a campaign of preparedness for conflicts with other Somalis.

It is unfortunate that the navy admiral, who has the blood of innocent civilians on his hand, is holding the reign of ONLF, a terrorist organisation that has created anarchy in eastern Ethiopia, through orgy of violence. Admiral Mohamed Omer was the heart of everything that Barre has done against the people of Somaliland; first in his capacity as chief of the navy, and secondly as the head of mobilization bureau of the defunct Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party. At the behest of Admiral Mohamed Omer, Col. Omer Mualin (Ogaden), the then commandant of the navy in the city port of Berbera was responsible for the massacre of five thousand Issaq civilians in 1988 in Berbera slaughtering them with long knives. The news of the Berbera´s massacre had sent shock waves throughout the world with outright condemnation of all human rights´ organisations which prompted the cutting of economic assistances to Barre´s government by USA and Europe. His blood print is in Berbera. The Admiral was one of the prime architects in mobilizing the Ogaden refugees to massacre the fleeing Hargeisans. He believes in what he calls "Barre´s mythical aura." The man who engineered the Ogaden´s military campaign against the innocent civilians in Hargeisa is now shedding crocodile tears. The Admiral´s personal campaign to form a unilateral government of Ogadens, solely run by the ONLF with an Ogadenian flag and an Ogadenian national anthem in eastern Ethiopia is like building a castle in the air. It is a daydream that would never come true. Instead, he strengthened the hands of non-Ogadens who are united to stand firmly against the ONLF at all costs. This is an area where history is repeating itself.

I am not in a position to drive a wedge between the Ogadens and the majority of Somali Ethiopians. The Ogadenis, like every other society in the world, have every right for peace and decent life – the right to live in peace and security that they desire so much. But they must disassociate themselves from ONLF, a terrorist organisation that brought to them all kinds of misery and woes. Herein lays the problem. They have to make a deceive choice: a choice between ONLF and the rest of the majority non-Ogaden Somalis. The Ogadenis, whose life is intertwined with cumulative effect of long years of droughts and conflicts, need badly to reconcile with rest of Somali Ethiopians. Speaking in one voice is in the interest of all Somali Ethiopians. The ball is now in the courts of the Ogaden. No more red herring; nothing could be further from the truth.

Hoping that logic will prevail in the regions inhabited by the Ogadenian, it´s now time to hang up my sword.

The Writer is Ismail Ahmed from Dire Dewa, Ethiopia