WSLF and ONLF

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I want to write an article about WSLF and ONLF.

 

I heard WSLF was defeated by Ethiopia after ****** War and ONLF began its war against Ethiopia in 1994.

 

 

An ONLF article:

 

http://www.somaliaonline.com/community/showthread.php/26558-Facts-About-******-s-ONLF?highlight=wslf

 

Upon completion of this ideology, the ****** witnessed the birth of the ****** National Liberation Front (ONLF) on August 15th 1984 Almost immediately, the movement was dismissed as no threat by Ethiopia and looked upon unfavorably by Mogadishu. The first target for the ONLF was to systematically seek out all disgruntled members of the WSLF who had grown weary of outside domination and who were not blinded by Socialist ideologies. [1] The recruitment process was both slow and dangerous. In the capital of Somalia, Mogadishu, were many young and educated WSLF sympathizers lived was fertile ground for recruitment. Yet it had to be done delicately so as not to tip of the expansive intelligence network of the Barre regime. Going more smoothly was the recruitment of students from ****** sent to Arab capitals for education under a scholarship program largely set up as a request by Somalia to Arab governments.

 

What did come as a surprise, at least to the authorities in Addis Ababa, was the winning of 84% of the seats in the regional assembly by candidates fielded by the ONLF. It soon became clear to the government of Ethiopia that they were dealing with a new player in ******, one which could not be said to be controlled by Somalia and as such was free to take it’s own path. While Ethiopia felt no military threat from the ONLF, they did regard the ideology presented by the ONLF to be dangerous. Ethiopia had not foreseen that an organized political movement would emerge from ****** which was able to demand that Article 39 of its constitution guaranteeing the right of nations to self-determination be implemented.

 

THE BEGINNING OF AN ARMED STRUGGLE

The ONLF had several things going for it in 1993 and early 1994. The first was that it had succeeded in forming and promoting a clear philosophy among it’s rank and file which had swelled following the collapse of the Somali government. The second was that since it had not been engaged in armed conflict with the Ethiopian government, years of focusing on indoctrination and recruitment had paid off.

The public was agitated in ******.

 

The article says:The war began in 1994.