Ethiopia cornered by Eritrea's support to the UIC is now for dismemberment

[Xudeedi]

Ethiopia's destructive colours towards Somalia's sovereignty is manifesting broadly without the least reserves. The Monitor's editorial highlighted today that the International community should heed to the developments and minimalist system "Somaliland" region has adopted despite the nonexistant jurisdiction over the territories it claims. Do you think Ethiopia is cornered by the possibility of united Somalia and this very request with all its unintended consequences of war within the region should the International community respond to such call is the only way left for them to keep Somalia's destabilization.

 

 

Somalia: Why have we failed in Somalia? This is a question that has come and gone for over a decade now. Somalia has been without an effective central state since 1991. Up to one million people died because of fighting between rival warlords, famine and disease. Somaliland was independent for a few days in 1960, between the end of British colonial rule and its union with the former Italian colony of Somalia. More than 40 years later voters in the territory overwhelmingly backed its self-declared independence in a May 2001 referendum. They have effectively distanced themselves from main land Somalia and it new government. Somaliland has a democratic and minimalist political and economic system; that other African leaders can learn from. Somalia and Somaliland deserve much better handling by the international community. Specifically Britain, Italy and France need to lead the act as former colonizers of this region. It also should entails building the capacity of IGAD, AU, and CSOs, that are stuck in the corners of African politics, dependent on the umbilical cord of member nations and donors who determine what they do and that have little clout in and of themselves as they stand today.

 

Eritrea's Position

 

Eritrea's stand on the issue of Somalia is clear and firm. It emanates from the historical ties and friendship, which the Somali people extended to the just struggle of the Eritrean people for liberation. Hence, Eritrea remains keen to extend political encouragement to the just cause of the Somali people to create a ground for national reconciliation, dialogue and enable Somalis to live in peace and harmony. There is no other agenda whatsoever beyond that. National reconciliation of Somalis as well as promoting stability in Somalia has a substantial role to play to regional peace and mutual benefit.

 

 

 

 

 

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[Abu-Salman]

And is not the only logical conclusion to fully support ICU efforts to unite Somalis within the Shariah framework?

[Xudeedi]

This Monitor editorial piece, which probably came after the Shabait editorial in support of Somalia's struggle for their just causes to handle their affairs alone, is at best misguided by its polarized thinking that it can sustain Somalia stateless and forever divide so that it can manipulate what it calls as "the loose confederation of the primitive Somali clans that are at war with one another". Ethiopia sees the development in Somalia against the backdrop of a lasting support for peace and unity of all Somali territories, sprearheaded by the Union of Islamic Courts, as a threat to its very weak regime that is now collapsing under its own weight, looking at the complex and hostile nature of the diverse ethnicities in its own turf.

 

It first proposes the Int'l recognition of "peaceful islands" (Puntland and Somaliland" as the first order of business. How is that possible from the perspective of our political stalemate. Does it think that it can sway the international community with such a baseless rhetoric claim for a desperate call of international effort to Somalia's stateless nature? And how will the effect of such call reinforce the self-determination of the ethnicities like Oromo in Ethiopia? You might assume that this call interprates itself into a pernicious approach to the resolution of Somalia's problems and there is a deep irony to the pretense of the author for his care for "a government of the people in Somalia"

 

I will leave the rest for others to comment.

 

 

Generally speaking, the declaration of the secession has been a multi-headed monster, independent of the wishes and control of a, conservatively, good proportion of the people of the North. Unfortunately, the situation continues unabated and remains to present an up-close and present danger for all. Unable to consider options or discuss challenges and opportunities for the future among themselves, all have had to remain solemn to their safety and security as a priority, in the interim, until reality hits to dispel the fantasy. In the words of one pundit from Hargeisa, “We cannot question the situation as of the moment, in 1991, when the decision was made”—and so spontaneously—I add. A. Hirad