The Ogaden National Liberation Front Salutes SORTU and the Basque people. The Formation of SORTU is an important milestone in the Basque people's struggle for exercise of right of Self Determination and democracy. ONLF calls for the peaceful resolution of the Basque conflict.

The Ogaden National Liberation Front representing all the democratic and progressive forces of the Ogaden fully supports the rights of the Basque people to freedom, dignity and peace. The Ogaden people and the Basque people are not new to each other and had supported the causes of both peoples and all oppressed peoples of the world.

The Ogaden National Liberation front firmly believes in the rights of all nations to self-determination. ONLF supports and is an ally to all oppressed people struggling to achieve their right of self-determination and restoration of the sovereignty

The Somali people under Ethiopian occupation is undergoing very difficult period. The Ethiopian government, which is getting aid from international imperialism, is conducting scorched earth policies in Ogaden, violating the human, political and economic rights of the people. Thousands are in detention and hundreds are routine killed, raped and imprisoned by the Ethiopian Army and security forces with impunity, while Ethiopia gets more aid, the more it kills the Somali people in Ogaden. Multinational oil corporations are collaborating with the Ethiopian government that is displacing hundreds of thousands from their land and making them disinherited and refugees in the neighboring countries.

Finally ONLF, welcomes the support and cooperation of all progressive and democratic forces and will further its relationship with SORTU and the progressive alliance of the world.

Gora SORTU
Victory to the Basque people's quest for freedom
Victory to the Ogaden people's quest for freedom
Victory to the oppressed masses of the world
Long live the solidarity and alliance of the progressive forces.

Ogaden National Liberation Front
February 23, 2013