Xuseen Caydiid, Circa 1999

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Xuseen Max'ed Faarax Caydiid's and Cali Mahdi Max'ed's letter to International Community, including United Nations, in 1999.

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Renewed interest in the situation in Somalia

Somalia Liaison Office

September 2, 1999

 

YOUR EXCELLENCIES, We, the undersigned concerned Somali political leaders, have read Your Excellency's (sic) report of 16 August, 99, to the

Security Council about the situation in Somalia, with keen interest. We are pleased with the United Nations renewed interest in the situation

in Somalia.

 

However, with due respect we would like to be frank, but modest in our submission appeal for Your Excellency's patience. The international community, by and large represented by the United Nations vis-a-vis Somalia, have over the years been repeatedly begging the question for the solution of the Somali problems. They have kept telling the Somalis to settle their problems while at the same time ignoring to curb interference by external actors into the domestic affairs of Somalia which have continued to fish in the latter's troubled waters. This foreign interference has since become a pattern of common practice by the government of neighboring Ethiopia in the face of the United Nations implicit policy of laissez faire.

 

This Ethiopian interference in the form of overt military incursions into Somalia, supply of armament to some Somali groups to encourage

hostilities and instability in the country continues unabated and aborts any chances of a settlement. Ethiopia's official policy, as demonstrated by its own actions shown here below, is committed to thwarting the emergence of an effective central authority in Somalia for its own geopolitical interests. This is the reflection of a long-standing Ethiopian policy of expansionism. In September 1945, the Ethiopian government of Emperor Haile Sellassie submitted a memorandum to the then Peace Council (foreign ministers of the victor powers in the Second World War) who were meeting in London. The Memorandum urged that Eritrea and ex- Italian Somaliland should be handed to Ethiopia, 'not as recompense for the ten years struggle against the Axis, but as territories incontestably belonging to the Ethiopian Empire since before the Christian era'. (Reference: Ex-Italian Somaliland by the pro Ethiopian, Sylvia Pankhurst, page 217).

 

Historically, there had been no such thing as Ethiopia before the last few centuries A.C., but an Abyssinia instead, which only composed of the Amhara and Tigre territories. Nevertheless, the mythical claim underlines an expansionist policy, which has not changed to this day and which has now been revived and emboldened by the current situation in Somalia.

 

Given the bitter history since the beginning to the sixteen-century A.C., of enmity and perennial mistrust between our two peoples, Ethiopia would be the lease likely honest broker in the Somalia

reconciliation process. The O.A.U. acted without circumspection by mandating Ethiopia with the handling of the Somali problems. However,

the mandate is both legally and morally invalid, because:

 

a. Somalia is not a dependent territory, but a sovereign state and members of the United Nations, despite the temporary absence from the international fora of a legally recognized government. Therefore, there is not entity legally empowered to mandate it to another without the

consent of the Somali people. And, b. Ethiopia is poised to exploit Somalia's current situation for its own geopolitical and expansionist

policies and entrusting the latter's fate to the former would be morally a mockery. The so-called mandate is, therefore, neither acceptable nor binding on the Somali people.

 

In nutshell, Ethiopia:

 

• Has since August 1996 made unprovoked incursions into Somalia and lastly now practically occupies the three Somali regions of Gedo, Bay

  and Bakol and threatens several other areas. Those military incursions have claimed hundreds of lives, most of them non-combatant civilians, damages to property and sacrilege to Mosques and other Islamic scriptures.

• Has been supplying armament to some groups and individuals since 1996 to encourage continuation of hostilities in the country and retard indefinitely the process of reconciliation. This is a gross violation of the UN Security Council arms embargo. The quantities of know deliveries of small arms up to April this year are as follows:

   

  (A) To Egal 5,000 pieces of AK-47 rifles

  (B) Abdullahi Yusuf 4,000 pieces of AK-47 plus some mortars. The quantity earmarked was nine thousand pieces, etc, and the balance might have been delivered.

  (C)'RRR' 2,000 pieces of AK-47 rifles, plus six mounted anti-tanks.

  (D) 'Morgan' 1,600 pieces, plus six 106 anti-tanks.

  (E) Ahmed Sh.Burale

  500 pieces of AK-47 rifles, plus some mortars.

  (F) Omar Hashi Aden 1,500

  pieces of AK-47 rifles

  (G) Hussein Bod and Musa Sudi twice seven truck

  loads during Nov-Dec 1996 and April 1999.

Ali Mahdi Mohamed, Co-chairman, National Co-ordination Committee

 

Hussein Mohamed Aidid, Co-ordination Committee National Co-ordination Committee

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It is a long interesting piece, so if you want to read more click here

[Liibaan]

MMA

 

cajiib,

 

lately, SOL became dictatorship

 

you can do watever you want, and can delete any thread

 

You misusing and taking advantage of your status as moderator

 

 

wat kind of moderator are you

[Buur Cad]

^^ Caydiid told the truth the other day so now is the time for you to drag him through the mud.

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Originally posted by Garaad Caanood:

MMA

 

cajiib,

 

lately, SOL became dictatorship

 

you can do watever you want, and can delete any thread

 

wat kind of moderator are you

Daandaansi haddaa rabtid, si kale u sheego. Eeda baselesska ah meesha hala imaan. Baliis, comment the topic of the thread, haddaan rabin meesha qof dhagta kugu haayo maleh ee, baliis, leerta nasii.

 

PS, I have never deleted a thread the past couple months that I am aware of.

[Liibaan]

cheap hadal baa meesh ku heysaa

 

dandaansiga adi un baa yaqaan

 

markii aad i aflagaadeenasay ma anaa ku soo daadansadey, bal beenta aad sheegasi u fiirso

 

Caanood asagana markii cirka laga hadlaayo.......

 

where is markii aad i aflagaadeenasay,

 

where is the thread?

 

there was another thread where you accused me everything

 

meesha xaqdaro badan baa ka wadaa

 

 

Ninyahow caqli la imow

[Gabbal]

Originally posted by Xaabashi:

^^ Caydiid told the truth the other day so now is the time for you to drag him through the mud.

What's interesting is that this letter was a response to the Ethiopians kicking Aydiid and the SNA out of Baidoa and installing Shaati-gaduud and the RRA there.

[AYOUB]

HornAfrique

What's also interesting is; you and Caydiid Jnr are pro-Ethios these days.

[Jacaylbaro]

No one should Trust Husein Aideed ,,,,,,, he is not as man as his father ,,

[Gabbal]

Ayoub-

 

If that legitimizes whatever point of view you wish to hold, then so be it sxb. Frankly I am tired of having to defend myself against cheap rhetoric.

[Buur Cad]

Originally posted by HornAfrique:

quote:Originally posted by Xaabashi:

^^ Caydiid told the truth the other day so now is the time for you to drag him through the mud.

What's interesting is that this letter was a response to the Ethiopians kicking Aydiid and the SNA out of Baidoa and installing Shaati-gaduud and the RRA there.

But this MMA guy will tell you he didn't know anything about the RRA and Shaati-gaduud until 2000. How convenient ! He must have been born in 1999. Cajib !

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

Aidid accuses Ethiopia of destabilizing Somalia

 

MOGADISHU, May 19 [1999] (AFP) - Ethiopia's policy on Somalia is characterised by "killing, looting, torture of people, occupation of territory and creation of instability," warlord Hussein Mohamed Aidid charged Wednesday.

 

In a statement he issued as about 10 rival warlords attended a "peace conference" in Addis Ababa, Aidid charged that Ethiopian troops had occupied part of Somalia after invading the Gedo border region in 1996, and "kidnapped Somali officers and civilians who were tortured before abduction".

 

He also accused Ethiopian troops of planting landmines in the southern Somali regions of Galgudud, Gedo, Hiran, Bay and Bakol regions.

 

He charged that the Ethiopian government was hosting the Addis Ababa conference in a bid to renew hostilities in Somalia, and said it was arming the factions attending it.

 

Aidid denied reports -- verified by a number of reliable sources -- that 1,500 Ethiopian Oromo guerrillas had recently arrived in Somali territory he controls, along with 150 Eritrean army instructors and large quantities of weapons.

 

The statement appealed to the United Nations, the Arab League, the Organisation of African Unity, the regional Inter-Governmental Authority on Development and the Islamic League to condemn Ethiopia's "misdeeds" in Somalia.

[General Duke]

The RRA backed by Ethiopia chased Aydeed and his group out of Baidoa, thus a landmark in recent history and one many here gave credit to the RRA.

[Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar]

MOGADISHU, May, 1999 (Xinhua) -- "The Voice of the People", a radio supporting faction leader Hussein Aidid returned to the air Wednesday again by broadcasting the usual programs and anti-Ethiopian propaganda after more than three months' silence.

 

The radio quoted Aidid as strongly condemning the Ethiopian policy toward Somalia in a press statement issued Tuesday night.

 

The statement charged that Ethiopia has unlawfully attacked and violated the territorial integrity of Somalia by "crossing some of its troops into Somalia."

 

The radio has also accused Ethiopia of sponsoring a meeting for some Somali factions inside Ethiopia for the sole purpose of what it called instigating more Ethiopian attacks against Somalia.

 

The strongly-worded statement also accused the Ethiopian forces of planting land mines in several regions in central and southern Somalia including Bay, Bakol, Gedo, Hiran and Galgudud.

 

The statement complained that these land mines are continuously causing fatalities and injuries to lives of both human beings and mine. However, many of the estimated one million land mines buried in Somalia have been laid down during the height of the civil war.

 

Aidid also said in his statement that Ethiopia is attacking parts of Somalia by "using the pretext of Oromo nationals and weapons being brought to southern Somalia."

 

He said that the Oromo nationals in Somalia are refugees who fled Ethiopia in 1964 during the war between Somalia and Ethiopia.

 

Nonetheless, between 500 and 700 Oromo nationals, and weapons have allegedly arrived for Aidid two weeks ago on a vessel chartered by Eritrea

which docked at the natural port of Merca town, 100 kilometers south of Mogadishu.

 

Some of the local newspapers have reported that many of the Oromo soldiers have already crossed into Ethiopia a few days ago for possible hit-and-run attacks against the regime of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.

 

In conclusion, the statement called on the international community to put pressure on Ethiopia to refrain from what it called the intervention in Somalia's affairs.

 

The statement also called on the Inter-Governmental Authority for Development, the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity to intervene into the problems between Somalia and Ethiopia.