UN General Assembly
1982

stuttered heavy casualties and considerable damage has been caused to property in those areas of my country which have been attacked. 249. Ethiopia has attempted to spread the fiction that its forces are not responsible for this naked act of aggression against Somali territory. However, the recorded statements of deserters and prisoners, along with captured documents in Russian and Amharic, substantiate beyond any shadow of doubt that it is the Ethiopian army which has undertaken the large-scale aggression mounted against my country. 250. The use of T-55 tanks, MIG-23s, armoured personnel carriers and heavy artillery, much of them new and complete with Soviet operation manuals dated 1982 and bearing Ethiopian military insignia is indisputable evidence of Ethiopia's direct responsibility for its invasion. 251. It is ironic that the major Ethiopian air base at Gode in occupied Ogaden. from which Ethiopian planes make their murderous attacks on the Somali population, is the same airport which the Ethiopian regime requested the United Nations, through a report of the Secretary-General of 12 September 1980,8 to finance and