Somali Warlords Should Have Been Airlifted To Arusha.!!

[Som@li]

March 16, 2004 HornAfrik. Mogadishu Somalia

 

The international community is observing current Somali reconciliation conference in Nairobi, Kenya. This has been a recurring event for the most part of the past decade and its outcome has been a consistent failure.

 

There is no new dimension to the problem at hand except more suffering for the people of Somalia, and perhaps the warlord’s abuse of September 11 incident. Terrorism by warlords prevails in most of Somalia.

 

The Somali reconciliation conference in Kenya started with a good footing when the warlords were denied to dictate the agenda of the conference. What is needed more is to look at their records. Most of them have unenviable record in human rights abuse. Indeed it is more than an abuse; they are strong candidates for war crimes against humanity. Some have committed point-blank assassinations in a broad daylight, some are occupying cities and regions against the will of the dwellers.

 

The international community should not forget some basic facts about Somalia: that a brute dictator’s violation of human rights is the mother of the current mayhem. Unfortunately some of his henchmen are still being invited to this conference. Much worse others who excelled leveling the nation to the ground are not only talking but considered leaders in Nairobi. Again much worse, some elements who have fresh blood on their hands are ironically positioning themselves for national leadership.

 

Somali Peace Rally (SPR) is reminding the international community and the good citizens of Somalia gathering in Nairobi to look at the records of the delegates of this conference. Expediency should not outweigh the human right abuses committed in Somalia. Those who have resulted in mass skeletons in graveyards and/or failed to accept political differences and rather resorted to elimination of their rivals should not be given the opportunity to restart another decade of civil war. They have their place in the court of law, not in national leadership. Please send them to the nearby Arusha for war crimes.

 

Source: all Africa