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Our Friend, Journalist Martin Adler assassinated In Mogadishu!
We just learnt with great shock, the assassination of our friend -journalist Martin Adler. The courageous international journalist, who went to our southern Zone in the late 2005 was gunned down today in the Somali's capital Mogadishu.
According to a colleague, the Swedish national TV is broadcasting this sad news about the assassination of this selfless, determined and courageous professional journalist, his various field trips to many parts of the globe and so on.
Martin was singled out from among two dozens of foreign journalist covering Somalis huge demonstration this afternoon in capital. The assassin killed Martin with several round of bullets, hitting at his chest and managed to vanish among the thousands of marchers.
Among his lifetime's journalistic historic coverage were the Oromo struggle for Freedom, and the noble work of Oromo's vanguard organization the OLF. Of his last works, the Swedish born, late Martin Adler traveled all the way to our Southern military Zone, last year and stayed with our fighters for three weeks. Where upon his safe return, helped to publicize our course in the Swedish and Scandinavian newspapers, Magazines, TV-channels and websites in several languages for well over weeks.
Martin sent an e-mail message during his campaign in the media then, complaining that he was receiving several threatening calls and messages, from peoples who claimed to be Ethiopians, accusing him of ' participating in activities aimed at dividing Ethiopia and undermining the legitimate government of Ethiopia'. We remember telling him that 'those are non other than the Ethiopian regime's agent and they never have tolerance for any independent and different opinion from theirs'. He never looked back!
We have no doubt that this is as usual the work of the TPLF/EPRDF's hit-squad network, which is definitely all over Somalia.
May God bless Martin's soul and give his family the courage at this difficult moment.
ABO - DDA-BB
June 23, 2006
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