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An ethnic Somali woman herds goats outside the town of Gode in the Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia in January 2006. Journalists have been barred from the remote, isolated region for much of 2007 as the Ethiopian military carries out a shadowy military campaign against a separatist rebel group known as the Ogaden National Liberation Front, or ONLF.
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Mohammed Abdi, 26, was forced into an Ethiopian government militia to fight separatist rebels in the eastern Ogaden region earlier this year. "I was very worried about being killed," said Abdi, a camel herder who had never fired a weapon except for occasional target practice.
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Abdirahman Ali Hashi, 23, was taken by Ethiopian soldiers from his classroom into a government militia earlier this year and forced to fight separatist rebels in the eastern Ogaden region. He is shown here in neighboring Kenya, where is is one of hundreds of refugees who have fled.
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