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Monday, 14 June 2010
African and Asian nations are most at risk for genocide, international forum is told By Amiram Barkat
African and Asian nations are most at risk for genocide, international forum is told
By Amiram Barkat
29.01.04
STOCKHOLM - The danger of genocide exists in five countries in Africa and Asia, according to an American expert who yesterday addressed the Stockholm International Convention on the Prevention of Genocide.
Barbara Harp, of the U.S. Center for Conflict Management, said there was a high risk of genocide in Sudan, Myanmar, Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
She told the forum that eight other countries - Somalia, Uganda, Algeria, China, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Ethiopia - were also at risk.
Asked by Haaretz about the dangers in Israel, Harp said that experts at the center did not believe there was a strong likelihood that Israel would carry out genocide against the Palestinians. Some of the central indications for genocide and, in particular, the ideological basis, did not exist in Israel, Harp said.
"Israel behaves badly at times, and even very badly," she said, "but it is a normal country."
Zimbabwe is the most likely candidate
The question of where genocide was likely to take place in the world today was the main concern of the experts at the Stockholm meet. Samantha Powers of Harvard University and the U.S. Center for Conflict Management said that in her opinion, the most likely candidate was Zimbabwe. Most of the experts agreed that at present, the African continent was the most likely breeding ground for genocide.
The international forum concluded its deliberations yesterday with a resolution taken by the 55 participating countries.
At Israel's request, incitement to genocide was added to the phenomena mentioned in the resolution on the prevention of genocide. Israel did not object to the Swedes' request to include Islamophobia alongside anti-Semitism and xenophobia in the resolution.
The Swedish media reported yesterday that the United States and Israel had prevented an initiative to have the resolution include a mention of the International Criminal Court at The Hague as the main body designed to prevent genocide. Israeli delegation sources denied this.
The court was currently studying complaints of genocide in five countries, its chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, told the gathering. He said one of the countries was Congo, but refused to reveal the other names.
Israeli delegates expressed satisfaction with the international forum's outcome. The fact that there was no criticism of Israel at such a large international gathering was unusual, Foreign Ministry official Nimrod Barkan said.
Ministry officials also praised the Swedes for not inviting prominent pro-Palestinian speakers such as Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa.
Israel was especially pleased that Prof. Yehuda Bauer, the academic adviser to the forum, and Dr. Yigael Carmon had been invited as genocide experts.
A call by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to set up a special UN supervisory mechanism to prevent genocide was not included in the final resolution, which spoke in general terms of examining the various options to prevent genocide, including the one raised by Annan.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/african-and-asian-nations-are-most-at-risk-for-genocide-international-forum-is-told-1.112370
SIRAG ARCHIVE
By Amiram Barkat
29.01.04
STOCKHOLM - The danger of genocide exists in five countries in Africa and Asia, according to an American expert who yesterday addressed the Stockholm International Convention on the Prevention of Genocide.
Barbara Harp, of the U.S. Center for Conflict Management, said there was a high risk of genocide in Sudan, Myanmar, Burundi, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
She told the forum that eight other countries - Somalia, Uganda, Algeria, China, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Ethiopia - were also at risk.
Asked by Haaretz about the dangers in Israel, Harp said that experts at the center did not believe there was a strong likelihood that Israel would carry out genocide against the Palestinians. Some of the central indications for genocide and, in particular, the ideological basis, did not exist in Israel, Harp said.
"Israel behaves badly at times, and even very badly," she said, "but it is a normal country."
Zimbabwe is the most likely candidate
The question of where genocide was likely to take place in the world today was the main concern of the experts at the Stockholm meet. Samantha Powers of Harvard University and the U.S. Center for Conflict Management said that in her opinion, the most likely candidate was Zimbabwe. Most of the experts agreed that at present, the African continent was the most likely breeding ground for genocide.
The international forum concluded its deliberations yesterday with a resolution taken by the 55 participating countries.
At Israel's request, incitement to genocide was added to the phenomena mentioned in the resolution on the prevention of genocide. Israel did not object to the Swedes' request to include Islamophobia alongside anti-Semitism and xenophobia in the resolution.
The Swedish media reported yesterday that the United States and Israel had prevented an initiative to have the resolution include a mention of the International Criminal Court at The Hague as the main body designed to prevent genocide. Israeli delegation sources denied this.
The court was currently studying complaints of genocide in five countries, its chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, told the gathering. He said one of the countries was Congo, but refused to reveal the other names.
Israeli delegates expressed satisfaction with the international forum's outcome. The fact that there was no criticism of Israel at such a large international gathering was unusual, Foreign Ministry official Nimrod Barkan said.
Ministry officials also praised the Swedes for not inviting prominent pro-Palestinian speakers such as Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa.
Israel was especially pleased that Prof. Yehuda Bauer, the academic adviser to the forum, and Dr. Yigael Carmon had been invited as genocide experts.
A call by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to set up a special UN supervisory mechanism to prevent genocide was not included in the final resolution, which spoke in general terms of examining the various options to prevent genocide, including the one raised by Annan.
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/african-and-asian-nations-are-most-at-risk-for-genocide-international-forum-is-told-1.112370
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Somaliland Genocide - Humanrights Defenders
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"During the recent civil war, the former socialist dictatorship deliberately destroyed all written documents that it could in the territory that is now the Republic of Somaliland. In particular, this includes all local copies of the many reports and proposals prepared by international organizations on the technical situation and opportunities in this new Republic. The new Government is currently working with practically no written documentation about its own Country, as well as without the technical information that it requires for its normal functions.".( ref: Project Proposal, for creating a National Library in the Republic of Somaliland Davies Consulting GmbH)
- For the last 44 years, Somaliland history have been lost, erased from the world map, manipulated by the so called intellectuals of Ex-Somalia and all the books taken from International libraries and burnt so that no one can trace them. However, knowledge can not be erased from mankind's natural book the brain. The Intellectuals of Somaliland will defend the history of Somaliland by the Pen. No more would we allow our history to be manipulated and distorted right in front of our eyes. We must preserve our history so that our future generations know their history and culture. Thanks to the pioneers of the Internet that helped us build our nation in a unique way.
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See also:
"During the recent civil war, the former socialist dictatorship deliberately destroyed all written documents that it could in the territory that is now the Republic of Somaliland. In particular, this includes all local copies of the many reports and proposals prepared by international organizations on the technical situation and opportunities in this new Republic. The new Government is currently working with practically no written documentation about its own Country, as well as without the technical information that it requires for its normal functions.".( ref: Project Proposal, for creating a National Library in the Republic of Somaliland Davies Consulting GmbH)
Response by Ibrahim Hassan Gagale to Aden-Adde - The Initiator of North-South Polarization
Response by Ibrahim Hassan Gagale to Aden-Add. A Gentleman of Somalia Aden-Adde: The Initiator of North-South Polarization
This article, Aden-Adde: A Gentleman of Somalia, was recently posted on Hiiraan Online and written by Omar Mohamed. There is a Somali proverb which says, “An old woman sheltering from rain thinks that everybody else is having the same rain.” Mr. Omar failed to shy away from misinterpreting the political and social realities in former Republic of Somalia during Aden-Adde`s eight year-old presidency (1960-1967). He is either hypocrite who purposefully covers up Aden-Adde`s serious, political blunders in his era, or he is naive who does not have any idea of the history of his polarizing presidency in the 1960s thinking that he was a great president for all. Distorting historical facts is unconscionable as any irrational bias approach on fateful moments of history of a society of an era ignores the oppressed and promotes the oppressor- Here the North and the South in 1960s.
When Mr. Aden Abdulle Osman (A Southborn, Mudulood) assumed the presidency of former Republic of Somalia in 1960, which was created from a union of two newly independent, equal states emerging from former British Somaliland Protectorate and Italian Somalia, every one expected that the premiership belonged to the North without challenge, and that the top cabinet and armed forces posts would be shared fairly. Unfortunately, Aden-Adde immediately treated the North as an ordinary region of the South like Mudug or Benadir, denying its people of their legitimate share of the union government by awarding premiership and other top civilian and armed forces positions to the South. He failed to understand that the North became independent state before the South (North: June 26, 1960, South: July 1st, 1960), that late president of Somaliland, Mr. Mohammed Haji Ibrahim Egal, was its first prime minister, that the North initiated the union of the two new countries, and, for these reasons, the North deserved legitimate, fair share from the union government.
Majerteen was the Mareehan during Aden-Adde`s administration and, likewise, hijacked and abused the government of the people. Because it was the most arrogant and power-minded tribe in those days in the South, and because it had affinal relationship with the president, Majerteen pressured Aden-Adde to appoint Majerteen prime minister. He bowed to their demand and pressure and appointed Mr. Abdirasheed Ali Sharma`arke ( A Southborn, Majerteen) as the first prime minister of former Republic of Somalia from 1960-1964. He granted other top cabinet ministers and national forces commanders to the South too. He appointed Mr. Abdirizaq Haji Hussein (A Southborn, Majerteen) for minister of interior, Mr. Abdullahi Issa Mohamoud (A Southborn famous politician, Habar-Gidir) for minister of foreign affairs, Mr. Osman Ahmed Roble (A Southborn, Abgaal) for minister of Finance, General Da`ud Hirsi ( A Southborn, Abgaal) for commander of the armed forces, General Mohammed Abshir (A Southborn, Majerteen) for commander of national police force, and so on. The parliament was sham too with the South taking unfair number of seats.
The betrayal and the humiliating denial, the injustices and the dereliction by the South angered furiously the Northern people, particularly politicians, traditional leaders, intellectuals, business people, and military officers . This deep resentment of the North against the South, influenced young military officers of the North, at the command of Hassan Kayd, to lead the unsuccessful coup d`etat in Hargeisa on December 10, 1961. The main objective of this coup d`etat was to withdraw from the misused union and reclaim Northern sovereignty and independence.
Instead of probing the root causes of the coup d`etat and starting national dialogue for reconciliation, president Aden Abdulle Osman made the second political blunder by transferring Southborn military and teachers to the North (Known as Wallawein in those days) and bringing Northborn military and teachers to the South after the failure of Hassan Kayd`s noble attempt in order to suppress Northern people politically, socially, and educationally for the coup d`etat, thus turning North into a semi-colony occupied by the South, and forcing its people to travel to Mogadisho for all necessities of life that they were supposed to have at home until the proclamation of Somaliland Republic in May 1991 after the victorious liberation of Somaliland by SNM in January 1991.
President Aden Abdulle Osman repeated the same polarizing mistakes for the third time when he appointed Mr. Abdirizaq Haji Hussein (A Southborn, Majerteen) as the second prime minister from 1964-1967. For this extreme southernist vision, Aden-Adde turned his back to the North, stranding it on ground zero and treating Northern People as second class citizens with duties but no rights. He,unfortunately, pioneered the first hostility between North and South, and inflicted the first irreversible political damage on the newly born union. Late President Abdirasheed Ali Sharma`arke (A Southborn, Majerteen, 1967-1969) , who had wider vision than Aden-Adde, saw that the country was heading in the wrong direction and appointed Mr. Mohammed Haji Ibrahim Egal (The Northborn famous politician, Habar-Awal) as the third prime minister of former Republic of Somalia though Siyad`s military take over in October 1969 shortcut his tenure and prevented him from addressing the grievances of the North.
Somalis say, “In a caravan, the last camel follows the foot steps of the first.” Late Somali dictator, General Siyad Barre (A Southborn, Mareehan), being upset with Aden-Adde`s Majerteen-dominated administration and their continued corrupt involvement in Abdirasheed`s government, and benefitting from the unexpected assassination of president Abdirasheed Ali Sharma`arke on October 15, 1969 in las Anod, took over the country grudgingly and kept it under vicious, bloody dictatorship for 21 years (1969-1990). One could contend that the twenty one year-old brutal dictatorship of Mareehan (Oct. 27, 1969 - Jan. 27, 1991), the South-waged devastating wars against the North (1982-1990), and the break-up of the union into Somaliland and Somalia in 1991 were probably consequential chain reaction of Aden-Adde`s political blunders in the beginning of the union because the policy of his successors had continued the dominance of the North by the South. For the thirty years of the union`s age (1960-1990), the South had solely both presidency and premiership (Siyad Barre held both positions together) except the two years that Mr. Egal was prime minister (1967-1969). The North was entertained with symbolic positions, sometimes under surveillance.
The people of former Republic of Somalia had the credit of the democracy in those days despite Aden-Adde`s shortcomings to rule the country fairly. It was a fact that president Aden Abdulle Osman was not a dictator and respected the term of the presidency but, being overwhelmed by Majerteen`s greed for power and money and putting this subclan`s interest before the interest of the nation, he committed divisive, political blunders against the North that made him a divider, not a unifier. He was neither strong nor courageous because he was unable to stand up to the tribalistic, corrupt demands of Majerteen that turned the whole country into a club of their own like Mareehan did in their heydays of Siyad`s regime. Aden-Adde was politically gentleman for the South, not for the North. He might seem democratic, moral president to the outside world but that was not the case in the North whose people were politically, socially, and economically victimized by his administration`s imbalance of power. Based on these historical facts, the legacy of president Aden Abdulle Osman is and will be: THE INITIATION OF NORTH-SOUTH POLARIZATION.
Somalia never admitted that it committed injustices and atrocities against Somaliland and its people (22 years of injustices, 1960-1982, and 8 years of atrocities, 1982-1990), and that is the kind of union Somalia is really crying for today too. Somaliland people deserve no another nominal union of injustices and atrocities. That is the painful history of the disastrous union and the root causes of Somaliland`s withdrawal from it.
Written: Ibrahim Hassan Gagale, USA.
e-mail: Ibrahim_hg@yahoo.com
Date: January 24, 2004.
SIRAG ARCHIVE
This article, Aden-Adde: A Gentleman of Somalia, was recently posted on Hiiraan Online and written by Omar Mohamed. There is a Somali proverb which says, “An old woman sheltering from rain thinks that everybody else is having the same rain.” Mr. Omar failed to shy away from misinterpreting the political and social realities in former Republic of Somalia during Aden-Adde`s eight year-old presidency (1960-1967). He is either hypocrite who purposefully covers up Aden-Adde`s serious, political blunders in his era, or he is naive who does not have any idea of the history of his polarizing presidency in the 1960s thinking that he was a great president for all. Distorting historical facts is unconscionable as any irrational bias approach on fateful moments of history of a society of an era ignores the oppressed and promotes the oppressor- Here the North and the South in 1960s.
When Mr. Aden Abdulle Osman (A Southborn, Mudulood) assumed the presidency of former Republic of Somalia in 1960, which was created from a union of two newly independent, equal states emerging from former British Somaliland Protectorate and Italian Somalia, every one expected that the premiership belonged to the North without challenge, and that the top cabinet and armed forces posts would be shared fairly. Unfortunately, Aden-Adde immediately treated the North as an ordinary region of the South like Mudug or Benadir, denying its people of their legitimate share of the union government by awarding premiership and other top civilian and armed forces positions to the South. He failed to understand that the North became independent state before the South (North: June 26, 1960, South: July 1st, 1960), that late president of Somaliland, Mr. Mohammed Haji Ibrahim Egal, was its first prime minister, that the North initiated the union of the two new countries, and, for these reasons, the North deserved legitimate, fair share from the union government.
Majerteen was the Mareehan during Aden-Adde`s administration and, likewise, hijacked and abused the government of the people. Because it was the most arrogant and power-minded tribe in those days in the South, and because it had affinal relationship with the president, Majerteen pressured Aden-Adde to appoint Majerteen prime minister. He bowed to their demand and pressure and appointed Mr. Abdirasheed Ali Sharma`arke ( A Southborn, Majerteen) as the first prime minister of former Republic of Somalia from 1960-1964. He granted other top cabinet ministers and national forces commanders to the South too. He appointed Mr. Abdirizaq Haji Hussein (A Southborn, Majerteen) for minister of interior, Mr. Abdullahi Issa Mohamoud (A Southborn famous politician, Habar-Gidir) for minister of foreign affairs, Mr. Osman Ahmed Roble (A Southborn, Abgaal) for minister of Finance, General Da`ud Hirsi ( A Southborn, Abgaal) for commander of the armed forces, General Mohammed Abshir (A Southborn, Majerteen) for commander of national police force, and so on. The parliament was sham too with the South taking unfair number of seats.
The betrayal and the humiliating denial, the injustices and the dereliction by the South angered furiously the Northern people, particularly politicians, traditional leaders, intellectuals, business people, and military officers . This deep resentment of the North against the South, influenced young military officers of the North, at the command of Hassan Kayd, to lead the unsuccessful coup d`etat in Hargeisa on December 10, 1961. The main objective of this coup d`etat was to withdraw from the misused union and reclaim Northern sovereignty and independence.
Instead of probing the root causes of the coup d`etat and starting national dialogue for reconciliation, president Aden Abdulle Osman made the second political blunder by transferring Southborn military and teachers to the North (Known as Wallawein in those days) and bringing Northborn military and teachers to the South after the failure of Hassan Kayd`s noble attempt in order to suppress Northern people politically, socially, and educationally for the coup d`etat, thus turning North into a semi-colony occupied by the South, and forcing its people to travel to Mogadisho for all necessities of life that they were supposed to have at home until the proclamation of Somaliland Republic in May 1991 after the victorious liberation of Somaliland by SNM in January 1991.
President Aden Abdulle Osman repeated the same polarizing mistakes for the third time when he appointed Mr. Abdirizaq Haji Hussein (A Southborn, Majerteen) as the second prime minister from 1964-1967. For this extreme southernist vision, Aden-Adde turned his back to the North, stranding it on ground zero and treating Northern People as second class citizens with duties but no rights. He,unfortunately, pioneered the first hostility between North and South, and inflicted the first irreversible political damage on the newly born union. Late President Abdirasheed Ali Sharma`arke (A Southborn, Majerteen, 1967-1969) , who had wider vision than Aden-Adde, saw that the country was heading in the wrong direction and appointed Mr. Mohammed Haji Ibrahim Egal (The Northborn famous politician, Habar-Awal) as the third prime minister of former Republic of Somalia though Siyad`s military take over in October 1969 shortcut his tenure and prevented him from addressing the grievances of the North.
Somalis say, “In a caravan, the last camel follows the foot steps of the first.” Late Somali dictator, General Siyad Barre (A Southborn, Mareehan), being upset with Aden-Adde`s Majerteen-dominated administration and their continued corrupt involvement in Abdirasheed`s government, and benefitting from the unexpected assassination of president Abdirasheed Ali Sharma`arke on October 15, 1969 in las Anod, took over the country grudgingly and kept it under vicious, bloody dictatorship for 21 years (1969-1990). One could contend that the twenty one year-old brutal dictatorship of Mareehan (Oct. 27, 1969 - Jan. 27, 1991), the South-waged devastating wars against the North (1982-1990), and the break-up of the union into Somaliland and Somalia in 1991 were probably consequential chain reaction of Aden-Adde`s political blunders in the beginning of the union because the policy of his successors had continued the dominance of the North by the South. For the thirty years of the union`s age (1960-1990), the South had solely both presidency and premiership (Siyad Barre held both positions together) except the two years that Mr. Egal was prime minister (1967-1969). The North was entertained with symbolic positions, sometimes under surveillance.
The people of former Republic of Somalia had the credit of the democracy in those days despite Aden-Adde`s shortcomings to rule the country fairly. It was a fact that president Aden Abdulle Osman was not a dictator and respected the term of the presidency but, being overwhelmed by Majerteen`s greed for power and money and putting this subclan`s interest before the interest of the nation, he committed divisive, political blunders against the North that made him a divider, not a unifier. He was neither strong nor courageous because he was unable to stand up to the tribalistic, corrupt demands of Majerteen that turned the whole country into a club of their own like Mareehan did in their heydays of Siyad`s regime. Aden-Adde was politically gentleman for the South, not for the North. He might seem democratic, moral president to the outside world but that was not the case in the North whose people were politically, socially, and economically victimized by his administration`s imbalance of power. Based on these historical facts, the legacy of president Aden Abdulle Osman is and will be: THE INITIATION OF NORTH-SOUTH POLARIZATION.
Somalia never admitted that it committed injustices and atrocities against Somaliland and its people (22 years of injustices, 1960-1982, and 8 years of atrocities, 1982-1990), and that is the kind of union Somalia is really crying for today too. Somaliland people deserve no another nominal union of injustices and atrocities. That is the painful history of the disastrous union and the root causes of Somaliland`s withdrawal from it.
Written: Ibrahim Hassan Gagale, USA.
e-mail: Ibrahim_hg@yahoo.com
Date: January 24, 2004.
SIRAG ARCHIVE
Somaliland's Integrity not for Compromise by M Ghalib, Somaliland Net
S.L Integrity not for Compromise
Jan 18 2004
Jan 18 2004 Hargeisa,Somaliland(Somaliland Net) - A cloud of tension is hovering over Sool region. the nucleus of the matter is based in Las-Anod.. The invasion and occupation of the town is the latest plunder the notorious blood thirsty Majertienia dictator, who has been interfering with Somaliland's territorial integrity for the past seven years.
The government of Somaliland is a democratically elected administration which believes in peace, stability and development. The main reason that Somaliland is dragging its feet in engaging into war with Majertenia is that Somaliland respects human life and is not like Abdilahi Yusuf of whom killing of innocent people is his daily routine.
The killings in Bosaso recently, highlights the fact that Abdilahi Yusuf is already facing an opposition uprising in Majertenia. The Majertenia war lord, who is holding power through the point of a gun, is quite aware of the consequences of war with. Somaliland, but his aim is just to put Somaliland into war so as to wound the hard won reputation of this country in the international arena. The Somaliland government, though peace loving, would not allow any foreign elements to invade its territorial boundaries.
The government was elected to steer the country to prosperity and preserve the dignity and integrity of its people. The government and the populace are ready to defend the sovereignty of their motherland hence secure their borders.
President Rayaale and leading opposition leader Ahmed Mohammed Silanyo's closed door meeting at the Presidency recently and yesterday's meeting by the three national parties, members of the two houses of parliament and top ranking officials of the central government, including the President, clearly indicates Somalilanders solidarity in issues pertaining to their motherland's cohesiveness.
It is childish for the self-declared President of the imaginary Majertenia, which does not exist in any non map in the world, to poke his nose in the affairs of a well established a nation which is sailing towards international recognition. The ill motivated expansion mission depicted by the envy of Majertenia dictator has taken the wrong direction, since Somalilanders would not give away an inch of the land they liberated from the stronger dictatorial regime of the late Siad Barre, the hard way.
Somaliland is willing to secure its borders in peace and is ready for war if it is the only option left. The fact is that Somaliland forces cannot fight in the center of Lasanod and kill their own citizens which is the aim of the Majertenia region and its coward militia who cannot come in the open but stay in the town with aim of using the residents as human shields.
Whether he, Abdilahi Yusuf hides behind the curtain of HARTISM or not, Sool and east Sanaag belong to Somaliland, and will never belong to a non existent country, or come under the rule of a chaotic human butcher who does not value human lives
The three sided meeting held at the Presidency yesterday, emphasizes how Somalilanders, regardless of their political stand, tribe or clan, belong to one nation and motherland's cause comes first. It also shows President Rayaale's willingness to bring on board all parties concern in the country's politics, in issues of paramount national importance. The request by the opposition parties to have regular meetings with the government, and President Rayaale's prompt acceptance, is also a sign of brotherly and cohesive teamwork.
Somaliland is a land of true democracy which is moving forward with the modern world which is contrary to Abdilahi Yusuf's ancient tribal system which no longer exists in any part of this modern technological universe. The Majertenia war lord is moving three steps backwards instead of striving to at least to move a single step forward.
To his populace, Abdilahi Yusuf is not a leader, but a political reject whose time expired in the year 2001 and who is holding grip to the imaginary throne at gunpoint.
The Somaliland government would not let the notorious warlord who is holding the Majertenia people, as hostages of terror, destroying his people in the name of HARTISM Somaliland would strike hard on any intruder. Enough is enough and no mercy would be practiced in kicking the invaders out of our dear motherland.
Posted by M Ghalib, Somaliland Net.
Email: news@somalilandnet.com
Reporter: Siciid Xussen (Sa'eed Yare)
SIRAG ARCHIVE
Jan 18 2004
Jan 18 2004 Hargeisa,Somaliland(Somaliland Net) - A cloud of tension is hovering over Sool region. the nucleus of the matter is based in Las-Anod.. The invasion and occupation of the town is the latest plunder the notorious blood thirsty Majertienia dictator, who has been interfering with Somaliland's territorial integrity for the past seven years.
The government of Somaliland is a democratically elected administration which believes in peace, stability and development. The main reason that Somaliland is dragging its feet in engaging into war with Majertenia is that Somaliland respects human life and is not like Abdilahi Yusuf of whom killing of innocent people is his daily routine.
The killings in Bosaso recently, highlights the fact that Abdilahi Yusuf is already facing an opposition uprising in Majertenia. The Majertenia war lord, who is holding power through the point of a gun, is quite aware of the consequences of war with. Somaliland, but his aim is just to put Somaliland into war so as to wound the hard won reputation of this country in the international arena. The Somaliland government, though peace loving, would not allow any foreign elements to invade its territorial boundaries.
The government was elected to steer the country to prosperity and preserve the dignity and integrity of its people. The government and the populace are ready to defend the sovereignty of their motherland hence secure their borders.
President Rayaale and leading opposition leader Ahmed Mohammed Silanyo's closed door meeting at the Presidency recently and yesterday's meeting by the three national parties, members of the two houses of parliament and top ranking officials of the central government, including the President, clearly indicates Somalilanders solidarity in issues pertaining to their motherland's cohesiveness.
It is childish for the self-declared President of the imaginary Majertenia, which does not exist in any non map in the world, to poke his nose in the affairs of a well established a nation which is sailing towards international recognition. The ill motivated expansion mission depicted by the envy of Majertenia dictator has taken the wrong direction, since Somalilanders would not give away an inch of the land they liberated from the stronger dictatorial regime of the late Siad Barre, the hard way.
Somaliland is willing to secure its borders in peace and is ready for war if it is the only option left. The fact is that Somaliland forces cannot fight in the center of Lasanod and kill their own citizens which is the aim of the Majertenia region and its coward militia who cannot come in the open but stay in the town with aim of using the residents as human shields.
Whether he, Abdilahi Yusuf hides behind the curtain of HARTISM or not, Sool and east Sanaag belong to Somaliland, and will never belong to a non existent country, or come under the rule of a chaotic human butcher who does not value human lives
The three sided meeting held at the Presidency yesterday, emphasizes how Somalilanders, regardless of their political stand, tribe or clan, belong to one nation and motherland's cause comes first. It also shows President Rayaale's willingness to bring on board all parties concern in the country's politics, in issues of paramount national importance. The request by the opposition parties to have regular meetings with the government, and President Rayaale's prompt acceptance, is also a sign of brotherly and cohesive teamwork.
Somaliland is a land of true democracy which is moving forward with the modern world which is contrary to Abdilahi Yusuf's ancient tribal system which no longer exists in any part of this modern technological universe. The Majertenia war lord is moving three steps backwards instead of striving to at least to move a single step forward.
To his populace, Abdilahi Yusuf is not a leader, but a political reject whose time expired in the year 2001 and who is holding grip to the imaginary throne at gunpoint.
The Somaliland government would not let the notorious warlord who is holding the Majertenia people, as hostages of terror, destroying his people in the name of HARTISM Somaliland would strike hard on any intruder. Enough is enough and no mercy would be practiced in kicking the invaders out of our dear motherland.
Posted by M Ghalib, Somaliland Net.
Email: news@somalilandnet.com
Reporter: Siciid Xussen (Sa'eed Yare)
SIRAG ARCHIVE
This is the sort of crime that does not have a statute of limitations
This is the sort of crime that does not have a statute of limitations
http://www.somalilandnet.com/somaliland_voice/graves/mass_graves.shtml
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Floods at the Malka Durduro site in Hargeisa's dry river bed unearthed a series of mounds containing the bodies, half a kilometre (mile) from the main gate of the headquarters of the 26th division of the late President Siad Barre's army.
The finding is the first of its kind and confirms rumours that mass graves existed in the Somaliland capital, but the identities of the bodies and their manner of death remain unclear
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http://www.somalilandnet.com/somaliland_voice/graves/mass_graves.shtml
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