TALKING ABOUT THE ENGLISH AND THE OGADENS
Sheikh Sufi states - The Abysinians read, "Ethiopians" are
always on one side of us, the English on the other. We
(Ogaden tribes) are with the English, and we wish for
English rule. We are your children.
I say that, as a sheep quivers under the blow of a knife,
we, the Ogaden, are quivering under the oppressions of the
Abysinians, who have every year, for the last nine years,
visited us and levied large numbers of sheep, goats, horse,
camels and taken what they liked from us. We have no guns
and are not powerful enough to fight and must submit.
Last season the Abysinians (drove) off all livestock; 990
men, women and children perished. We are Mullahs and we like
to tell the truth."17
The British made use of similar circumstances to gain influence in the area,
including the colonization of the region to the south into the present day
Kenya and Uganda. This expansion had been sanctioned by the Berlin
Conference of 1884/85.18
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