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Wide of Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) spokesman Abdirahman Mahdi walking 2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Abdirahman Mahdi, ONLF spokesman:\"At 2:00 pm East Africa local time (11:00 GMT) the Ogaden National...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eLondon - 29 April 2007 \u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) spokesman Abdirahman Mahdi walking \u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Abdirahman Mahdi, ONLF spokesman:\u003cbr/\u003e\"At 2:00 pm East Africa local time (11:00 GMT) the Ogaden National Liberation Front handed over seven Chinese workers and two local workers - one Ethiopian and one Ogaden Somali - to the International Red Crescent Society. They were in good health and we have been told that they have safely reached Dege Habur town and they are all OK.\"        \u003cbr/\u003e3. Cutaway of Mahdi talking on mobile telephone\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Abdirahman Mahdi, ONLF spokesman:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We got information from our Liberation Army headquarters, they told us that they treated the Chinese very well, and the other Ethiopian and Somalis. And they were actually given new clothes so that they will look smart when they reach their destinations. And the commander of the Liberation Army told the Chinese workers that we have nothing against the Chinese people, but the Ogaden territory is our territory. Without our consent nobody can do any business there.\"       \u003cbr/\u003e5. Cutaway of Mahdi talking on mobile telephone\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Abdirahman Mahdi, ONLF spokesman:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Heaven forbid that is against our policy. We will never do that. We don't bargain on human lives. We are looking for our rights so we don't want to deprive the rights of other people. We did not ask for any money. We did not even ask for any conditions. All we say is that we fight for our rights and we will hunt whereever there are Ethiopian government armies. The Chinese (workers) were in the wrong place at the wrong time and actually what happened, what our commanders told (us) this morning was that nine Chinese (workers, who died during the attack) did not actually die from bullet wounds but they died from an explosion. When the Ethiopian Army saw they were defeated they burnt all their ammunitions and that caused a lot of havoc in the area. Our policy is not to harm civilians, we will never bargain on the life of human beings. We took them because of their own reason and we handed them over.\"              \u003cbr/\u003e7. Cutaway of Mahdi talking on mobile telephone\u003cbr/\u003e8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Abdirahman Mahdi, ONLF spokesman:\u003cbr/\u003e\"As for us having ties with Eritrea or not, first of all we are a sovereign people and we have a right to seek help where ever we want. But Eritrea did not give us any covert support or overt support. Eritrea in general supports the peoples' rights all over the world and we are a part of that people who are asking all over the world for support.\"    \u003cbr/\u003e9. Cutaway of Mahdi talking on mobile telephone\u003cbr/\u003e10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Abdirahman Mahdi, ONLF spokesman:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We need a negotiated settlement. We don't see violence as a means, it has been imposed upon us. We ask the Ethiopian government to stop the violence against our people. To think sanely, we are all african brothers, they have to do something about this. They can't just rely on their might and force. Because might and force cannot win over right and justice.\"     \u003cbr/\u003eFILE: Addis Ababa - 25 April 2007\u003cbr/\u003e11. Various of Zhongyuan Petroleum Exploration Bureau building\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of Chinese employee on mobile phone outside building\u003cbr/\u003e13. Various of cars driving in and out of building\u003cbr/\u003eAn Ethiopian rebel group on Sunday released seven Chinese oil workers and two African civilians who were kidnapped when the rebels attacked a Chinese oil exploration facility last week, a rebel spokesman confirmed in an exclusive interview with AP Television. \u003cbr/\u003eAbdirahman Mahdi, a spokesman for the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) told AP Television that \"at 2:00 pm East Africa local time (11:00 GMT) the Ogaden National Liberation Front handed over seven Chinese workers and two local workers - one Ethiopian and one Ogaden Somali - to the International Red Crescent Society.\" \u003cbr/\u003e\"They were in good health and we have been told that they have safely reached Dege Habur town,\" he confirmed.  \u003cbr/\u003eMahdi insisted the Liberation Army had nothing against the workers, the Chinese people or government. \u003cbr/\u003eBut \"the Ogaden territory is our territory. Without our consent nobody can do any business there,\" he added.     \u003cbr/\u003eWhen asked if the kidnapped workers had been ransomed or if any money had exchanged hands, Mahdi quick replied that any such transaction would be \"against our policy. We will never do that. We don't bargain on human life.\" \u003cbr/\u003eThe Chinese (workers) were in the wrong place at the wrong time and actually what happened, what our commanders told (us) this morning was that nine Chinese (workers, who died during the attack) did not actually die from bullet wounds but they died from an explosion. When the Ethiopian Army saw they were defeated they burnt all their ammunitions and that caused a lot of havoc in the area,\" he said. \u003cbr/\u003eMahdi called reports that the people attacking that Chinese company oil field wore Eritrean uniforms, vicious lies.\u003cbr/\u003eHe said the ONLF had no ties to Eritrea, which has a decades-long history of conflict with Ethiopia. \u003cbr/\u003e\"Eritrea did not give us any covert support or overt support,\" Mahdi insisted. \u003cbr/\u003eThe ONFL, which is made up of ethnic Somalis from the eastern Ogaden region of Ethiopia, says it has been fighting for the region's right to self-determination for over 50 years.\u003cbr/\u003e\"We need a negotiated settlement. We don't see violence as a means, it has been imposed upon us,\" Mahdi said. \u003cbr/\u003eMahdi warned the Ethiopian government that \"they can't just rely on their might and force. 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