Kenya and Ethiopia’s anti-Somali policies and practices

[Taleexi]

A timely and worthy reading piece regarding the political stalmate faced by the somali nation. The author ackowledges that it is a self-inflicted wound. However, on this analysis he focuses on how the so-called neighbors, namely Kenya and Ethiopia, are meddling somali affairs and making the political instability of Somalia to exaburate without considering the detrimental effect of their actions.

 

........."On the negative side, Ethiopia sees the advent of the Islamic Union as heralding a new dawn ushering in its wake the twin nightmares Ethiopia fears most: Islamic revival and Somali nationalism that could unravel all its political investment in Somalia that it has been assiduously putting in place all these years. The fall of the TFG when it comes - and it will come sooner or later despite Ethiopia’s desperate attempts to save it - will trigger a chain reaction that it could bring down its client regional administrations,- Puntland and Somaliland. Ethiopia correctly sees the revival of pan-Somali nationalism as an uncontrollable force that could spread like bush fire through the Somali territories it occupies. The writing is unmistakeably on the wall ...."

 

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[Xaruuri]

Thank Signor Mansa:

This is a great piece. The author has clearly outlined how our neighbors are making the somali saga worse. I am sure history will not be kind to the pseudo politicians who currently populate the Somali political scene. It is a shame. Who has ever thought that we will see the day that the so called Somali leaders would compete against each of who can serve the hated Habasha's better? Talk about the tragedy of the commons!

 

Xaruuri

[Xudeedi]

Thanks, Great opinion! I wlc Muhsin. He has been out for a while. I was told he was on a business travel to a far land.

[Waaheen]

Great article. It is a superb piece I enjoyed reading it.

 

Waaheen

[Somali_Friend]

The more you look at Somali political leaders representing the North-Eastern Region, the more you find them an exact copy of their self-serving counterparts in the TFG based in Baidhaba or those in Jigjiga claiming to be the leaders of the Somali region under Ethiopian occupation. Their common denominator is their abject and slavish submission to their Ethiopian or Kenyan political masters.

 

Nothing gives a bitter taste of their treachery than the nauseating speech on the BBC the other day by Abdullahi Hassan, “president” of the Somali regional State in Ethiopia who went overboard in denigrating the Islamic Union movement as Al Qa’ida terrorists. Here is a turn-coat who was in days gone by feasted in Mogadishu as a member of the Western Somali Liberation Front and who is today casting himself and his associates in Jigjiga as more Ethiopian nationalist than the true Ethiopian highlanders. It makes you wonder whether such sickening and shameless opportunism manifested by Somali political leadership in all Somali-speaking regions is not an isolated ephemeral lapses or aberrations as we may wish, but rather something rottenly innate in the Somali character.

Wouldn't it be fair to ask the writer, as to how people who spent a good half of their lives fighting against Addis Ababa, could be now feel comfortable in Addis Ababa or Jijiga?

Could all the people and political leaders from Puntland the horn to deep inside ethiopia be all traitors to the somali and the writer and few sloganeering persons in Mugadishu are the only loyal somali?

WSLF, to speak the truth was a thousand times more harmed from Mugadishu than from Addis Ababa.

The Northern mountain highlanders the author speaks about were also in the same boat against Addis Ababa as the somali. Now that they both are working together is not a surprise to anyone, but the author.

 

Not everyone that slogans one greater somalia works for it. It also can be achieved in more ways than one. Don't go to war for something you can achieve without war. The scars of war are deeper, more dangerous, retaliatory and the outcome unknown and shortlived.

 

BTW its the same accusation those in power in Addis Ababa also get from supporters of past ethiopian regimes. They are called traitors for introducing federalism instead of central dictatorial and one language, one everything state.

 

What if the writer in accusing all those somali areas of being traitors, is himself one, but to a different hidden master like egypt?

 

Wether in ethiopia or somalia, I see that those who simply accuse everyone thats on the ground doing their best to help the population survive and if possible thrive, without offering the slightest alternative route are high horse gallopers, afraid to come down to the graound and get muddied with the people.

[Xudeedi]

Political incorporation will not solve the problem in that region’s grade as occupied, underdeveloped region that is ruled with martial law. Our lesson with Kenya gives testimony to that when the Somali government and the people in that province had given up their struggle after former Somali premier Egal signed the Arusha memorandum in return for a better treatment of equal citizenship with the rest of the country. They are still treated as "aliens", bandits, Shifta despite their less calculated decision to be Kenyans. In recent article published at Daily NATION, the national tabloid of Kenya, writes, "Even after being defeated, their remnants turned the province into bandit-land, something that is still all-too-prevalent even today. The effects are telling. One of them is the area's continued under-development." There exist hardly any political revolts in the form of Bandits today as the writer claims, a manifestation of his prejudices, but he admits the under-developmental nature of the region.

The courts consolidated as the Supreme Islamic Council of Somalia (SICS) stand as a beacon of light to Somalia and it will unite all Somali territories through its derivative support of the whole populace, make no mistake about it, the long painful years of tribal wars will only help us learn from our mistakes, mature politically and economically, and expose to the Somali people the wider picture of co-existence is the way of Islam.

 

The African Union has failed us as a country. Its policy in operationalizing "the responsibility to protect” civilians in armed conflict has been a total disaster and mostly left the onerous task to Ethiopia, a country that strives to disintegrate Somalia. Moreover, The Canadian sponsored for International Commission for Intervention and State Sovereignty aimed at developing the right to intervene countries in the most extreme cases was never implemented in Somalia at the time of our need. The Islamic courts have emerged to take the responsibility to rid the country of its destructive elements supported by Ethiopia, to react to areas under the domain of warlords (Riyale and Adde) in diplomatic approach first and finally in military intervention, and to rebuild by restoring law and order and preventing reoccurrence of violence.

 

We won’t buy the doubled-edged, ambivalent concern of the U.S and its mouthpiece, the UN, which previously neglected Somalia and left it to rot and decay till no person is left, its branding this group as terrorists