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Oromo Liberation Front kills soldiers, lays landmines

The Ethiopian rebel Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) has announced that it is laying landmines in southern Ethiopia. In a statement dated 4 February, the OLF claimed at least five army vehicles had been blown up by the mines. It also claimed that six government soldiers were killed on 2 February in an ambush 45 km from Mega town on the road to the Ethiopia-Kenya border town of Moyale. The statement protested Ethiopia’s deployment of “assassins and terrorist squads” to Kenya and Somalia. Press reports in Mogadishu and Oromo political sources say three Oromo activists, possible members of the little-known Oromo People’s Liberation Organisation, were abducted by Ethiopian agents and taken across the border to Ethiopia around 1 February 1999.

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