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The world is a body that we as man live in and we as man have been giveing charge of this great dominion this Holy body we call Earth. This is why we should care about the enviorment in places like Mozambique,Zimbabwe and Rwanda.These are Nations by name but first these Nations are body parts of the earth created by the grace of God.We are all children of God tide to this planet we call Earth We must understand my brother’s what we do to the earth in one place will triger a reaction in another.When our planet is sick we all feel her paine. We as Man have become the virus of our planet Earth through our ignorance we have become as a cancer to Earth spreading and killing her one part at a time.However ignorance is the substance of all ill it to can be overcome but first we have to admit to what we do not know this is the the only way to defeat ignorance and to heal all who would other wise perish from ignorance. Then and only then could we start the healing process that may save this planet that has given so much to our father’s, father mother’s, mother, children’s, children of all this planet body parts we as man call nations. Mozambique,Zimbabwe and Rwanda are names that we as Man placed upon this Great body of life we call Earth. Man (NKJV Holy Bible Genesis 1:26-31) Then God said,”Let Us make man in our image,according to our likeness;let them have dominion over the fish of the sea over the birds of the air,and over the cattle,OVER ALL THE EARTH over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”We must heal all the Earth starting today if we are to call each other man then we must do what it is that man was created to do.We must excercise dominion of all the earth we can not afford to treat the Earth in parts we must unite the world an treat her as a whole.My brother God created man to care for the whole Earth.This is why the world should care about the evironment in places like Mozambique,Zimbabwe and Rwanda. Are they not part of this dominion we call earth?I Ordained Archbishop Marcus E.Davis of The Great Commission Ministry call upon man to take action to treat this body we call earth. I now will into this dominion through the name Jesus Christ a Ordained body to be established by the Church,Body of God,Holy Spirit for the protection of all the earth and over every liveing thing that is in the earth.This Holy body shall estabish a Dominion Report that shall be given to all Nations of the earth for the purpose of protecting all liveing things in this one earth while at the same time educateing all men as to the role that he must take throughout the earth as God has Charged man to do in the beginning.

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The most dramatic difference,in terms of U.S.foreign Policy,betweewn a President John McCain and President Barack Obama would be the difference in the approach to dealing with certain Nations.A President John McCain foreign Policy will be based on the actions of the former President of the United States America G.W.Bush. He will not set new Policy instead he will enforce old Policy and ideas this will give Senator McCain the idea of an advantage and a advisor list of associates to help select those that are now dealing with foreign Policy to work in his administration, a cabnet member list that is ready to go just as the former President of the United States America was given all of his staff,foreign policy and issues from his father.McCain foregin policy would be based around conection and research of this curent adminastration.This will be very dramatic to all Nations of the world.A President Barack Obama will have to put together an administration that must be ready to build relationships with the Nations of the world he will have to make a international name for him self as well as pick a Nationsl team of leaders to deal with the crisis faceing the United States America this is the dramatic difference of the two.A President Obama will face a world of leaders who will look foward to speaking to him as a president of the United States America. As a new voice of America President Obama will have to show the world that he nor America has hate against any Nation. His administration must be one that the world will respect but at the same time the world must not see a President Barack Obama or his administration as weak. The leaders of the world must feel that a President Obama can and will forgive all Nations of the world and then he must ask all nations to forgive America.Yes this is dramatic difference in terms of U.S. foreign policy but this is also the dramatic change that the world will look foward to.The Idea of a new United States America Presidential administration foreign policy is an should always a dramatic differece when sized up against a former administration America this type of change is always one that the Nation and the world need. A President Obama must show the world that America can and will change in a dramatic way that will cause wars to stop,international prices to go down,and poverty,lack of health care to become a thing of the past through out the world.A President Obama must use his dramatic difference in foreign policy to set new policy and change not only the United States America but the world.

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Ethiopia: Army Commits Executions, Torture, and Rape in Ogaden

Donors Should Act to Stop Crimes Against Humanity

”(Nairobi, June 12, 2008) – In its battle against rebels in eastern Ethiopia’s Somali Region, Ethiopia’s army has subjected civilians to executions, torture, and rape, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today. The widespread violence, part of a vicious counterinsurgency campaign that amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity, has contributed to a looming humanitarian crisis, threatening the survival of thousands of ethnic Somali nomads.”

These widespread and systematic atrocities amount to crimes against humanity. Yet Ethiopia’s major donors, Washington, London and Brussels, seem to be maintaining a conspiracy of silence around the crimes. Georgette Gagnon, Africa director at Human Rights Watch

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”The 130-page report “Collective Punishment: War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in the Ogaden Area of Ethiopia’s Somali Regional State,” documents a dramatic rise in unchecked violence against civilians since June 2007, when the Ethiopian army launched a counterinsurgency campaign against rebels who attacked a Chinese-run oil installation. The Human Rights Watch report provides the first in-depth look at the patterns of abuse in a conflict that remains virtually unknown because of severe restrictions imposed by the Ethiopian government.”  
 
“The Ethiopian army’s answer to the rebels has been to viciously attack civilians in the Ogaden,” said Georgette Gagnon, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “These widespread and systematic atrocities amount to crimes against humanity. Yet Ethiopia’s major donors, Washington, London and Brussels, seem to be maintaining a conspiracy of silence around the crimes.”  
 
”Human Rights Watch researchers located and interviewed more than 100 victims and eyewitnesses to abuses, as well as traders, business leaders, and regional government officials located in neighboring Kenya, the semi-autonomous region of Somaliland in northern Somalia and in Ethiopia. The research, largely carried out between September and December 2007, was further supplemented with satellite imagery that confirmed the burning of some villages. In chilling accounts, witnesses and victims described to Human Rights Watch nightly beatings with the barrel of a gun, public executions, and the burning of entire villages.”  
 
”The report describes the army’s response to the April 2007 attack by the rebel Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) on a Chinese-run oil installation in Obole that killed more than 70 Chinese and Ethiopian civilians. During the peak of the army’s counterinsurgency campaign from June to September 2007, witnesses described how Ethiopian troops forcibly displaced entire rural communities and destroyed dozens of rural villages; executed at least 150 civilians, sometimes in demonstration killings to terrorize those communities suspected of supporting the ONLF; and arbitrarily detained hundreds of civilians in military barracks where they experienced beatings, torture, and widespread rape and other forms of sexual violence. Thousands of civilians fled the conflict-affected areas for neighboring countries. Some of the patterns of violence are ongoing, and Human Rights Watch believes its findings represent only a fraction of the actual abuses.”  
 
”Ethiopian authorities also stepped up their forced recruitment of local militia forces, many of whom are sent to fight against the ONLF without military training, resulting in large casualty rates.  
 
The rebel ONLF has also been responsible for serious violations of the laws of war, including the summary executions of Chinese and Ethiopian civilians during the April 2007 attack on the Obole oil installation and killing suspected government collaborators, which are considered war crimes.”  
 
”Many civilians living in the conflict zone are nomads who must move to fresh grazing areas and regional markets to sell their livestock. Since mid-2007, Ethiopian forces have imposed a series of measures aimed at cutting off economic support to the ONLF, including a trade blockade on the war-affected region, restricted access to water, food and grazing areas, confiscation of livestock and trade goods, and obstruction of humanitarian assistance. In combination with the drought produced by successive poor rains, this “economic war” is threatening the lives of thousands of civilians, yet many of them lack access to food aid due to government manipulation of food distribution.”  
 
“The government’s attacks on civilians, its trade blockade, and restrictions on aid amount to the illegal collective punishment of tens of thousands of people,” said Gagnon. “Unless humanitarian agencies get immediate access to independently assess the needs and monitor food distribution, more lives will be lost.”  
 
”The Ethiopian government did not respond to Human Rights Watch’s requests for access to the conflict-affected area, and has tried to stem the flow of information from the region. Some foreign journalists who have attempted to conduct independent investigations have been arrested and residents and witnesses have been threatened and detained in order to prevent them from speaking out. In July 2007, the government expelled the International Committee of the Red Cross from Somali Region, although it has since permitted some UN and nongovernmental humanitarian organizations to operate, albeit under tight controls.”  
 
”The report also analyzes the Ethiopian government and international community’s responses to the continuing abuses. Ethiopia continues to deny the allegations but has yet to investigate them or hold anyone accountable. Human Rights Watch says that donor governments are failing to demand human rights accountability, despite the substantial economic aid to Ethiopia and its partnership in regional counterterrorism efforts.”  
 
”Western governments and institutions alone, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union, give at least US$2 billion in aid to Ethiopia annually, but have remained silent on the widespread abuses being committed in the Ogaden area. The US government, which views Ethiopia as a key partner in regional counterterrorism efforts, has failed to use its significant leverage, including military aid, to press for an end to the crimes.”  
 
Human Rights Watch called on major donors to press Ethiopia to end the violence and recommended that:  

 

 
“Influential states use many excuses – such as lack of information and strategic priorities – to downplay the grave human rights concerns in Somali Region,” said Gagnon. “But crimes against humanity can’t be swept under the carpet. Donor governments should reconsider their policies on Ethiopia until these abuses end and those responsible are brought to justice.”  
 
Witness accounts from the report:  
 
“The soldiers came to Aleen, after they burned down Lahelow. Then they burned Aleen. We were there at the time. The soldiers arrived and ordered the people out of their homes. They gathered all of the people together. Then the commander ordered the village burned. The commander told us, ‘I have told you already to leave these small villages,’ and then they forced us out. Then they burned down all the homes. The houses are just huts, so it is easy to burn them.”  
– Villager, September 23, 2007  
 
“I was taken away with two men, Hassan Abdi Abdullahi and Ahmed Gani Guled. First, they pulled ropes around the necks of the two men and pulled in opposite directions, and both fell down. They put me in a ditch while they were strangling the other two. One soldier tried to strangle me with the metal stick used for cleaning the gun [by pushing it down on my throat], but I twisted his finger until he released me. Then two other soldiers came and they put a rope around my neck and started pulling. That is the last thing I remember, until I woke up, still in the ditch. A naked body was on top of me, it was Ahmed Gani Guled, who was dead. I couldn’t move out of the ditch until I was found by some women who came to the waterhole.”  
– Ridwan Hassan-rage Sahid, October 30, 2007  
 
“They started beating me with the backs of their AK-47 guns. They hit me once with the gun in my face, and then started beating me. They also hit me with the gun barrel in my teeth, and broke one of my teeth. Then they started beating me with a fan belt on my back and my feet. It lasted for more than one hour. Then they tied both my legs and lifted me upside down to the ceiling with a rope, and kept beating me more, saying I had to confess. For two months, we underwent this same ordeal, being taken from our rooms at night and being beaten and tortured.”  
– Thirty-one-year-old shopkeeper, September 20, 2007  
 
“They wanted to intimidate the rest of us, so they brought the two girls who they said were the strongest ONLF supporters. They made the rest of us watch while they killed the two girls. First they tried to get them to confess, saying they would kill them otherwise. Then they shot both of them with their guns. Their names were Faduma Hassan, 17, and Samsam Yusuf, 18. Both were students.”  
– Student, September 23, 2007  
 
“We have a well in Qoriley which is surrounded by wire. The army has prohibited us from using it, so you have to sneak in at night. All these things have been imposed on us this year. At nighttime, we will try and get some water to store in our houses. But if the soldiers see you are fetching water, they can kill you.”  
– Villager, September 22, 2007  
 
“If [the federal government] followed the law, it would be good, but even the law they’ve created is not being followed.”  
– Former regional court judge, December 5, 2007