Dolal's Assasination The Foreign Office

[Abu-Salman]

Through a close acquaintance, I came to know more about the late Dolal as well as his wife and daughters trauma following his brutal death.

 

How could such a public figure and highly educated British citizen simply disappear, with little official reaction, moreover into a country where the UK is the biggest donor, of all places, with horrible pictures of his murder paraded as sole facts?

 

 

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Family's anguish over father's 'assassination'

 

nlnews@archant.co.uk

26 November 2009

 

THE "assassination" of a Hornsey political activist has not been confirmed almost a year after his suspected death in Ethiopia.

 

Pictures of a body believed to be British citizen Dr Mohamed Sirad Dolal, 54, of Newland Road, were posted on a rebel group's website in January.

 

His family believe he was killed in a contested region of Ethiopia - but have been left in limbo as neither the British or Ethiopian governments have confirmed the death.

 

One of his six daughters, Sagal Dolal, 27, a biomedical scientist, of Newland Road, said: "He was assassinated and they're not telling us anything, they're not even telling us if he's dead.

 

"I'm not satisfied with what the Foreign Office has done. All I want is a confirmation of my father's death and they're not giving it to me."

 

Somali Dr Dolal had lived in Hornsey since 1987 and been a British Citizen since 2003.

 

He was an activist for Somali people in the break-away state of Oga-den which is locked in a struggle for independence from Ethiopia.

 

He last spoke to his family from Oga-den on January 15 and a website loyal to the Ethiopian government published pictures of a body on January 21.

 

"They claimed it was my dad and everybody that saw it says it's him," said Miss Dolal.

 

On a Voice of America radio broadcast in December, her father said his life was in danger from the Oga-den National Liberation Front (ONLF) - a rebel group of which he was a member.

 

"He says that the ONLF are trying to kill him and sabotage the plight of the people," said Miss Dolal. "I think the Ethiopian government was involved. I think they bribed some of them to assassinate him."

 

Hornsey and Wood Green MP Lynne Featherstone is trying to set up a meeting with Foreign Secretary David Miliband. Ms Featherstone said: "I share their frustration at the delays in getting straight answers from the Ethiopian authorities or the Foreign Office. I will stay on the case until it is clear that they have done all they can to get some straight answers for the family."

 

A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "We have seen reports of the death of Mohamed Sirad Dolal. We are providing assistance to his family. We have no further details on the circumstances around his death.

 

 

PS: the afflicted, but otherwise respected, widow's theory engage only herself in the absence of evidence...

[Hamse]

Originally posted by Abu-Salman:

On a Voice of America radio broadcast in December, her father said his life was in danger from the Oga-den National Liberation Front (ONLF) - a rebel group of which he was a member.

 

"He says that the ONLF are trying to kill him and sabotage the plight of the people," said Miss Dolal. "I think the Ethiopian government was involved. I think they bribed some of them to assassinate him."

OMG. did the daughters say the onlf killed her father Sirad Dolal who was one of the best heroes fighting for somali freedom in ethiopia? dad maaha kuwani onlf waa baqti amxaro u adega. umadoda ay jaajuus iyo meles ku layeen.

 

i bet ATT is covering up this scandal.

[cynical lady]

Go and do something constructive will’yah. Seriously, why do you aim to get by vomiting your disapproval and encourage others to voice emotions that lack substance? What would this achieve? Or offer for the families? Or other unnamed victims?

[The Zack]

The late Dr.Dolal has been assassinated by Ethiopian militia at somewhere close to the city of Godey. The Ethiopians actually admitted it and have also shown his passport and other documents their TV. Allaha u naxariisto Dr.Dolal, he is one the few that worked very hard for their country.

 

Having said that I would like to tell this Hamse kid to not comment on the things he has no idea of to score very cheap political shots.

 

This same above article said this:

He last spoke to his family from Oga-den on January 15 and a website loyal to the Ethiopian government published pictures of a body on January 21

but some people are just blind for other reasons.