Somaliland is a modern and vibrant nation on the Horn of Africa

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Historical Background

 

Somaliland joins its brothers in the South a former Italian colony unconditional under the leadership of Mr. Haji Mohammed Ibrahim Egal.

 

The delegations in Mogadishu answered to it brothers from the North by taking the post of President, Prime minister, and the capital was to be in Mogadishu while the brothers from the North had no conditions except the dream of greater Somalia.

 

Mr. Haji Mohammed Ibrahim Egal (the late was offered the post of Defence Minister) which Mr. Egal accepted with the interest of Somalism at heart rather than complicating matters for the betterment of Somalia.

 

The Great Somalia State that was yet to be achieved, comprissed of five states as shown on the Somalia flag, Blue and and Five stars on it, of which represents, the former Italian Somalia, Somaliland British proptectorate, French Djibouti, and the Northern Frontier District of Kenya (NFD) and the now Region Five District of Ethiopia (******)

 

A few years after the unification between Somalia and Somaliland. "General" Said Barre came to power through the barrel of the gun, and totally deminishing the dream of a Great Somalia.

 

And with Djibouti granted its indpendence from its colonial masters France, and proclaimed itself as a self independent state, made the dream of Somalia Union more vivid than ever before.

 

"Somalia" Under the ruthless leadership of dictator "General" Siad Barre had to seek for greener pastures.

 

Barres immediate adventures led him towards the liberation of ******. We would now like to bring back our somali broters & sisters in to the present, with all this disinformations on concerning the relations between the North and the South.

 

The missadministration of Somalia right after the ****** led the Somalis to mutiny against the central government in Mogadishu, with the Somali Socialist Democratic Front (SSDF) as a spearhead of the uprising.

 

Barres administration answered it with an iron hand which claimed a lot of Somali lives, and forced a handful of Somalis into refugee in Ethiopia. My dear brother Somali brothers & sisters wake up this is the wake up process .

 

The fact that the same Somalis who fought against Ethiopia, were now seeking refugee into Ethiopia was inevitable .

 

 

Somali National Movement (SNM)

 

The Somali National Movement (SNM) emerged into the limelight with the ambition to liberate and restore stability up in the Northern Part of the former Somalia.

 

At the same time the Siad Barres adminstration had a big number of army officers & soldiers stationed at the north.

 

This army personels were to carry out all the massacares ,and most horrible acts that man could inflict on any human beings to his own somali brothers and sisters .

 

When Gen Said Barre heard of this Movement in the north he and his collegues with the consent of the whole somali so called five star.

 

Started Executing people systematicaly one after the other one.Well this went on and on and on and throughout all this time the whole somali community was concious of what was happening to their fellow somalis up in the north.

 

 

Peace and Stability can not be acheived on a notion based on War

 

In 1991 Somaliland reclaimed back it sovreingnty as the independent Republic of Somaliland in The town of Burco.

 

Since 1991 Somaliland has gone through changes and acheived more as a people , a nation and a young African Republic.

 

Somalilanders have proved to the entire international community that peace can only be acheived through justice ,equality and respect of all human rights above all.

 

Peace can only be acheived through the ballot and not the bullet.

 

In May 2001, Somaliland had its referrundum whereby the results did show 97% for an independent Republic of Somaliland only 3 % against.

 

This dream of Somalia of which was to consist on the five Somali states today is more of an illusion rather than a reality .

 

We would love to remind our somali brothers & sisters of these states once again.

 

Djibouti ( a former French colony)

Somaliland ( a former British protectorate)

Somalia (a former Italian colony )

The northern Frontier District of kenya (a British colony part in Kenya)

The ****** (a British protectorate in Ethiopia)

These five were to be united if there was ever going to be something called "Somalia" that was what Somaliland had in mind when it joined its Somali brothers in the southern part who were an italian colony Well what happened right after Somalia /Somaliland united ?

 

The dream of a united Somalia started fading away first by the loss of the Nothern frontier district to Kenya.

 

 

Djibouti was not that ambitious of joining any union

 

Somalia under the ruthless leadership of Gen Siad Barre got desperate and started looking for more land and shortly after declares war against Ethiopia a country that had fifty million people .

 

This War was the beginning of his downfall. And the dispute over who does the ****** province belong to was squared and the deal was in favour Of Ethiopia.

 

These were the deeds of an evil and a ruthless somali leader that only led the united Somalia dream into its grave.

 

A man shall be judged according to the content of his mind. Since 1991 Somaliland has had three different Presidents. Somaliland is a vibrant & a hardworking young nation. Somaliland has its constitution and functioning instutuitions .

 

Contrary to all this Somalia have had fourteen peace & reconcilation meetings in Ethiopa,Djibouti,Egypt all of them resultless and utterly a waste of the International communities tax payers money down the drain.

 

Presently in Somalia another attempt to save the so called TFG whereby the situation has just produced more deaths and violence on everydays basis a hell that does not cease to exist and Puntland that is a parasite that is the mother of all Somalias problems.

 

 

Puntland on exists on Tribalistic basis

 

We're asking our fellow somali brothers to work hard and restore back trust and peace amongst the various groups that are into armed conflict with each other in "Somalia".

 

We also pray God to help them regain peace in somalia. We wish them the best in whatever they do.

 

Somalilands fate and destiny is into the peoples of Somaliland hands and its no longer your responsibility .

 

Somaliland will never ever again put its peoples security in anybodys hands anymore .

 

 

History is the best teacher "brothers & sisters

 

Today Somaliland has a democratic elected President and soon we are going to experienced its Second Democratic Presidential Elections in June 2008.

 

To add up on to that Somaliland has been peacefull and has indeed secured its borders .

 

The milion dollar question is that if Ethiopia can not afford to loose 5 km of its borders.And went to war with their former Brothers Eritrea and loose about 50,000 lives of its citizens.

 

Why Should The Republic Of Somaliland Compromise 380 Km of its territorial borders ? Borders that are inherited from the former Brtish Somaliland Protectorate. When Africa was Divided but colonial powers

 

Somaliland is indeed based on the same colonial borders that the African Union (Au ) Sanctifies.

 

Where are this Democratic states on the African continent and where do you find this Democracy that we have in Somaliland on the African Continent.

 

A dream that so many African nations that have had independence for the past forty years have only possesed in such abundance.

 

We hereby appeal to the United Nations, European Union, The United States government ,African Union, Igad and the Entire international community to support, encourage and embrace the efforts of the peace loving citizens of Somaliland.

 

 

Ali Mohammed

The Producer of Tv Somaliland Europe