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ONLF shift to armed insurgency, 1994

Disillusionment with federal autonomy led the ONLF to launch an armed insurgency seeking self-determination.

What happened

In 1994, disillusionment with Ethiopia's federal arrangement led the ONLF to launch an armed insurgency seeking self-determination for the Ogaden region.[1]

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    Claim: Growing disillusionment with Ethiopia's federal arrangement, political exclusion, and government repression led the ONLF to launch an armed insurgency in 1994, shifting from its initial autonomy-within-Ethiopia approach toward seeking self-determination, in some characterizations amounting to independence, for the Ogaden region's roughly eight million predominantly ethnic-Somali residents. This bundle does not narrate the insurgency's military course in detail.

    • Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) (Council on Foreign Relations) link, 1994 insurgency shift and objectives section. Source record

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