Mohamed Sirad Dolal
| Mohamed Sirad Dolal | |
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| Foreign Affairs Secretary of ONLF | |
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In office 1998–2004 |
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| Preceded by | Abdirahman Mahdi |
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| Born |
Template:1955-2009 Qabri Dahar, Ogaden |
| Nationality | Ogadeni-British |
| Alma mater | Somali National University London School of Economics University of Leeds |
| Occupation | Academic Political Activist |
Dr. Mohamed Sirad Dolal was an academic and a member of the central committee and executive council of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), a liberation movement in Ogaden determined to free its homeland from Ethiopia.
Dr. Mohamed Sirad Dolal was born and raised in Qabri Dahar, Qorahay Province, in the Somali region of Ogaden, which is occupied by Ethiopia.
He completed his formative education in his birthplace of Qabri Dahar. He graduated from Medhane-Alem High School in Harar in 1972. He also earned Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree from his undergraduate studies at the premier Somali National University (SNU) in Afgoye, Somalia. He later went onto graduate school, where he earned a Master of Arts (MA) degree at the London School of Economics (LSE) in England in 1991 and finally received a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) at the University of Leeds in Leeds, England.
In 1973, he started work at Water Authority Agency. He left the work in June 1977, when the Ogaden War erupted in the region, at which time he joined the then Ogaden independence standard-bearer movement – Western Somali Liberation Front (WSLF). He was wounded in 1978 in a battle at Goray, a village close to Jigjiga, where he almost lost his right hand.
During his stay in Somalia, he was regularly involved in efforts to free Ogaden from yoke of Ethiopian colonization and occupation. He also was a college lecturer and practicing social science researcher, who had frequently undertaken field trips across Somalia from Baydhaba to Bossasso, Kismayo to Mogadishu.
On January 17, 2009, Dr. Dolal’s life was brought to an end, when he was again wounded, captured alive and executed along with several of his colleagues by Ethiopian Army in Dhanan, Ogaden. The Ethiopian regime paraded his lifeless body and danced around it in celebration of the occasion. The Addis Ababa regime saw the assassination of Dr. Dolal as a major victory in its war against the liberation movement and Ogaden cause. The regime later denied releasing his body to his family for burial and to this day remains that way.
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