February 11th 1965
Broadcast on Mogadishu Domestic Service (in Somali)
[FBIS translated] The Syrian minister for Awqar, Abd ar-Rohman al-Kawakidi, has said that the Ethiopian Government with the assistance of Israel is unlawfully massacring the Somali population living in the Somali territory under Amhara occupation. al-Kawakidi recently visited Mogadiscio where he took part in the Moslem conference.
Al-Kawakidi continued: “The Somali people living to the west of the Somali Republic are part of the people of the Somali Republic. They are Moslem people who support their brothers in their feelings towards us. The killing en masse and oppression of the people living in that region by the Ethiopian Government is being done with the assistance of experts on cruelty supplied by Israel. Ethiopia is the biggest agent Israel has in the African continent.”
(Editor’s Note: Mogadiscio in Somali at 1700 reported a cable sent by the Somali minister of state for Somali affairs to the Syrian minister of Awqaf, thanking him for his statement on behalf of the Somali government and peoples)
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