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OLF says it blew up train carrying war materiel

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    A press release by the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) said on Tuesday that it had blown up a train transporting military supplies from Djibouti to Addis Ababa. It said it carried out the attack at midnight on 27 May near the town of Dire Dawa in Harberge province, some 400 km east of Addis Ababa. The statement said the locomotive was put out of action and all the
    materiel destroyed. It said the Ethiopian government had turned down all attempts to find a political solution to the conflicts in the country; consequently the OLF had the legitimate right to continue its struggle in all forms. It accused the government of using Oromo conscripts as "mine sweepers and cannon fodder" in the war with Eritrea, as part of a clear genocide against the Oromo people.

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