For Immediate Release
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Ottawa – Concerned Canadian Citizens will hold a press conference, in the Charles Lynch Press Conference Room, on Wednesday July 30th 2008 at 1:30 pm to bring the plight of Bashir Makhtal to the attention of the Government of Canada.
Mr. Bashir Makhtal, a Canadian citizen, has been illegally jailed in Ethiopia and held incommunicado without trail since January 2007. We demand proactive and appropriate measures from our government so as to avert any tragic and catastrophic outcome
We are particularly alarmed with new developments on Makhtal’s case:
▪ On July 9, 2008, Bashir Makhtal was brought to a military court, blind folded, where he was asked to confess to terrorism charges. When he refused to talk until he was allowed first to contact the Canadian High Commission Officers and is lawyer Mr. Makhtal was then given an ultimatum of 12 days to confess, or else;
▪ Subsequently, Bashir Makhtal was brought back to the military court on Monday July 21, 2008, where he was finally granted permission to meet with a Canadian High Commission Official, and was informed that he will be brought back to the military court in two weeks. We are seriously concerned about the fact that Bashir Makhtal, a civilian Canadian Citizen is being tried in a military court in Ethiopia.
In view of the Ethiopian Government’s dismal human rights record and its utter disregard of the due process of law for this case, it is possible that Mr. Makhtal is found guilty of these trumped charges and will face the death penalty without transparent and appropriate court of law.
In light of the foregoing, we want the government of Canada, particularly the Right Honourable Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs David Emerson to understand the seriousness of the situation and use the goodwill of their offices to intervene by demanding that Ethiopia respect international law and conventions. We also demand that Bashir Makhtal be allowed direct access to Consular services, legal representation, and transparent due process at appropriate court of law.
The Charles Lynch Press Conference Room, (130-S Centre Block)
For more information, please contact: Abdikadir Guled at 613-614-5006
Wiifgarow,
The sad events of 1988 still cloud your thinking and judgment towards the Ogadens.
Until that indelible history persists in your mind, we can not debate with you rationally.
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Ogadens & their supporters
So anyone who expresses a different opinion to your clan whining is confused, jaajuus, amhar etc? Alla iskuulkaad cadaaladda ku barateen wacnaayee!
Two things emerged from this story so far: ONLF' utter failure to win hearts & minds of non-ogadens(80% of the pop)and that Ethiopia still has to learn modern systems of open justice. If they have evidence against this man why not show it in open court? What are they hiding except injustice?
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Prayers and hope justice will be served for many who step in wrong doors the wrong time.
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Guys , forgive me , let us not waste any more time on this freak jigjiga man because it is obvious that the swine is full of hatred and it is more likely that his mental health illness was aggravated by the recent successful ONLF operations on the enemy and he chose foolishly to take his anger and frostration on innocent decent human being like brother Bashir .
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Jig....Ethiopian man,
You can write all the nonsense you want in this medium, but remember one thing: ONLF is going to expel your Abyssinian highlanders back to where they came from and liberate Ogadenia. No amount of insults from your kind will undue our JUST struggle for freedom. The land belongs to us, and we are going to reclaim it. In fact, we are going to make sure Oromos get their separate state; Southern People get their State, followed by the majority of oppressed Muslims in Ethiopia. We will see to it that Ethiopia disintegrates into tiny opposing fiefdoms.
We shall then see where Tigrayans and Amharas like you will hide..
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Nonsense!!! Pls get yourself checked.
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Nonsense!!! Pls get yourself checked.
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ONLF Surrogates-
I don't feel sympathy for an ONLF surrogate and ONLF arms dealer.The problem here is your lack of intelligence and your lack of the capacity to understand that if you break the law and you were cought red handed with large catches of weapons, you are either a criminal or a terrorist. The fact that Bashir Makhtal has been a bonnafide ONLF member and the fact that his family are well known ONLF operatives and financiers doesn't his help his cause and chides his second hand cloth business trader reasoning.I can't feel sypathy for any one associated with ONLF because I know them as a bunch of heartless,mindness killers and murderers in our region.
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Jigjiga boy.
You’re lost and confused boy. You can’t help showing your hatred heart can you?
Your lack of sympathy for Bashir is not so surprising from people like you because you are wayane puppet.
Obviously you an issue with ONLF but keep ONLF out of this….this is about an innocent man who is being detain for no reason and did not commit any crime.
Bashir has all the support and love he needs and doesn’t need your pettiness.
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jijiga man?
Interesting. He can't even write the name of the city Jigjiga correctly, yet he wants to lecture us about ONLF and the fate of this man, Bashir Makhtal, and why he was rendered.
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Jigjiga man or may i say jaajuus man,
Do not try to impose your twisted system of morality on us when all you do is incite hatred and anemsity between brothers and sisters in the region and i can read your dirty mind which is intoxicated with clan ideology and jelousy . Now if you want to criticise ONLF and it is operations in the region rightly or wrongly than you are entitled to do so but to have a go at an innocent brother who has not been convicted of any crime shows your lack of sensitivity towards others .
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ILKACAS
SXB ISKA DAA SHAQSI AAD CAYDO
LUGA BUUR INUU YAHAY INA ADEERKAY MANA OGALI IN
WAX LAGA SHEEGO SIDA KUWII OOGA HOREEYEY AAN LOO CAAYIN
AAN UDACAYNO BASHIIR IN ILAAHAY KA SII DAAYO XABASHIDA
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jigjiga man
This man is innocent and was caught in the Kenya Somali border, hundreds of miles from the etho border and a place where he could not carry any weapon.
Regarding the ONLF issue, weather you put them in prison or not, they are men with a cause and they are there right in your face. They will get you and your likes one day.
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Ina Makhtal-Let him rot in Jail. He deserves what he got.He was an ONLF surrogate and arms dealer.You can say all you want you onlf surrogates and the few you have misled, but,you get what you sow.He was cought red handed with large catches of weapons. can you explain to the world what he was doing with arsenal of weapons? was he dealing these weapons like the second hand clothes that you alleged he was trading?. The problem is that ONLF surrogates have lied so much that they now believe their lies and stupidly enough,they think the rest of us dump enough like them!!!Every onlf member,supporter and financier who has blood in their hand will sooner or latter get what they deserve.
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Ilkacas
raqba ku rageed, si fiican ayaad u dhigtay walaashey
ha warwarin waa u imanaynaa Zenawi iyo ina yeey iyo
wixii la mid ah insha allaah.
it's just matter of time.
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A young promising Somali man languishing in Ethiopian prison!!! And what are his Somali brothers doing instead of fighting to free him? Slaughtering one another!!! Vry sad!!!
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Ilkacas ifkaaga caano lagu qabay! Ducadaada Amiiiiiin!
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"Waxaan la booyiyoon beerka la hayaa,
barbaartii tolkay baa bahalku bililiqaystay,
cid u bareerta oo baacsata lawaa, ee Bashiirow ina adeer
boqorkii ilaah baa ku badbaadin."
Ogadenia way xoroobi ee Nacaska luga buur ha la arko meesh Malabsade Melez ka
soo saaro. "Raqba ku Raggeed."
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May almighty allah free our brother Bashir
Amiin,revenge is due
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Mahare ,
I have always doubted your name which sounds Tegrey though i don't give a monkey where you hail from . But now iam not so sure about your intelligence for all you can think of is Saudi something when an innocent ( till proven otherwise ) man's life is on the line .
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nomadic1 do we have a goverment?
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So far the Cana*dian Government didn't care for this guy
and the child so*ldier Omer Kh*adr. But I heard through the gr*apevine
that this guy was an a*rms sm*uggler and when he got Mogadishu back in 2006
he brought huge supply of all kinds of we*aponry for the ON*LF via U*IC channels, god help him.
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Bashiir Makhtal must be released unconditionaly rite now
this is my advise to you retarded,paranoed Zenawi.
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Where are his Saudi brothers and why are the "infidals" engaged in his plight.
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Our people are suffering everywhere. Unfortunately, we dont have a strong gov that will excert pressure on Ethiopia to release him.
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Brother Bashir, iam sure Allah has answered our prayers and you will be freed soon Insha alah !
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We pray for you Bashir that in Allah's will be be free from soon and return to your family.
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