A Revolution against Somalia’s Assassination Spree is a Must

[NGONGE]

I actually sent the quote below to the website and the boys at Hiiran were good enough to reply. I must confess that I am happy with their reply.

 

Originally posted by NGONGE:

Dear Sir,

 

I fully agree with your recent editorial regarding the assassinations of important Somali personalities. This is unacceptable, intolerable and wrong. When these dark and unknown forces were killing our women and children, we did not like it but hoped that things will get better with time. However, now that they're hunting down our aristocrats we cannot stand by and let it happen no more.

 

The TFG should station at least one fully operational technical outside the houses of all important Somali people. Engineers, humanitarians and foreign visitors should each have at least half a dozen bodyguards.

 

Sir, we are happy to sacrifice our infant children for a better Somalia. We don't like that our women are oppressed and raped but we shall happily grin and bear it. However, when these animals start targeting our aristocrats is when we shall have enough and demand a revolution. How dare they kill ina hebel eyo ina hebel eyo ina hebel? Don't they know this is not how it was meant to be? Only the peasants were supposed to be the cannon fodder. But now that they're killing our aristocrats, we demand a revolution.

 

Come on all ye Somalis, join me in the deafening chant of: SAVE OUR ARISTOCRATS.

This is what they said (and I hope I'm not infringing any copy right rules here):

 

 

Thanks for the note;

 

You were bit sarcastic, but you made important points with regards to defending the vulnerable members of society.

 

This time around we focused on the assassination / murder issue.

 

We agree with you the children women, and elders are the largest victims. We defended

them in the past and we will in the future.

 

Furthermore, If you look the faces of the victims and these are real people - you will know many of them are young, Nasteh, the BBC reporter and the Osman Ali, the UNDP worker, are good examples and they are NOT aristocrats as you seem to repeat.

 

It just beats us why someone will take a contrarian position with regards to an issue as straight forward as denouncing assassination and murder.

[Muslim01]

Wow subhana'allah I completely misread the article.

 

Anyways good call, and brother NG great reply to the article.

[Che -Guevara]

Somalis shot as they hand out aid

 

 

Gunmen in Somalia have shot dead three elders distributing aid in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu.

 

The killings are being linked to a wave of apparently targeted attacks on humanitarian workers.

 

Meanwhile, the World Food Programme has warned that it may have to use private security companies to protect its vessels from pirate attacks in Somalia.

 

The agency has been sending food ships without protective escorts after a Dutch naval mission ended last month.

 

The WFP country director for Somalia, Peter Goossens, told the BBC the threat of piracy was putting at risk vital food aid for millions of people in Somalia.

 

"The problem is twofold - the ships themselves can get hijacked and we lose the food... my biggest problem is that I can't find enough vessels that are willing to do this work for me unless they get an escort," he said.

 

 

Mr Goossens warned that the country was at a dire crossroads, with the risk of a famine similar to the early 1990s, when hundreds of thousands died.

 

He added that the UN had spoken to various naval powers who might provide military escorts to aid WFP ships, including Britain, Sweden and India.

 

He said he was grateful for their expressions of interest, but now wanted action.

 

Pirates operate off the coast of Somalia using high speed vessels and automatic weapons.

 

BBC World Affairs correspondent Mark Doyle says that shipping companies regularly pay ransoms of hundreds of thousands of dollars to get their vessels released.

 

Masked men

 

The killings of three local leaders among the refugee community are the latest in a string of apparently targeted attacks on aid workers, which has caused a number of humanitarian agencies to consider pulling out of Somalia.

 

"About five masked men armed with pistols came to our camp, they ordered us to get into our make shift houses and then after a few minutes we heard shots, when we came out three of our men... were lying there," a witness, Aden Norow, told the BBC.

 

"We do not know why our colleagues were targeted but we suspect it is because they were active in the recent protests against the killings of the aid workers - someone wants to silence us - we do not know who," Abdow Dahir Mudey said.

 

Another elder was killed in a separate incident some 60km (37 miles) from the city.

 

It is not clear who exactly is behind Friday's killings, but a BBC correspondent says many factions in Somalia's chaotic war stand to benefit from the violence.

 

Meanwhile, at least 10 people were killed and 15 others wounded after fighting broke out on Thursday in southern Somalia, 100km west of Kismayo, in the Lower-Jubba region.

 

Somalia has experienced almost constant civil conflict since the collapse of Mohamed Siad Barre's regime in January 1991.

 

Successive droughts have left an estimated two and a half million in need of food aid. That figure could rise if the droughts and insecurity continue.

 

Source:BBC.COM

[General Duke]

Che adeer this a wonderfull step. Why not begin by telling your heros the Al Kebaab to stop assasinating these innocent unarmed individuals?

 

Who killed Abdulkadir Yehye?

[Che -Guevara]

Will do but Yeey and his clan as well as Ethio masters stop terrorizing the good people of Benadir.

[General Duke]

^^^Adeer pardon me the people will be protected but we will continue to terrorise the militias who have for 17 years been killing the innocents, the unarmed and who know target NGO's and unarmed civilans.

 

These will continue to be hunted untill they learn to live with the law.

[Che -Guevara]

^Your idea of protection is rasing Xamer Cadeey to the ground and blowing people to bits. The deaths of relief workers is unfortunate and no one is celebrating.

[General Duke]

^^^Its unfortunate indeed, but supporting their killers is fortunate for you right?

 

Adeer stop the hypocracy these killers will be dealt with.

 

As for Mogadishu we know the TFG and its allies entered without a fight. Then if they hated the people why not raise it?

 

Who started using the city for their attacks and the people as shields?

 

The defeated cowards who ran away from the battle field and who know kill NGO workers to get your nonsnece support

[Che -Guevara]

The real cowards are those riding on top of Tigray tanks while their people are mercilessly murdered by those very tanks.

[jamaal7777]

I thought by saving the journalist and the educated or skilled they were saving the poor people.

 

Save a few doctors and you save alot more than you could if you save an equal number of the poor

 

Save the journalists and you would probably have done more for the poor than you could by saving any equal number of them or so i think. It seems like when you save the few, you save the lot.

[Malika]

LOL@Ngonge,you just had to? Well,if only you werent so stuborn and listened to me you would have saved your self the trouble of writing to the Hiiran boys..Lol,as I said,what do you know?