raadamiir Posted February 9, 2007 -------------------------------------------------- MOGADISHU (AFP) - Hundreds of demonstrators have filed through Mogadishu to protest the presence of Ethiopian troops and a planned deployment of African peacekeepers in the lawless nation. As they marched through the streets of southern Mogadishu Friday, some 600 demonstrators warned that Somalia, which has been ravaged by internecine violence for the past 16 years, would be a "graveyard" for the planned 8,000-strong peacekeeping force. "We are against any kind of foreign military intervention and we are ready to fight them," Mohamed Farah Nur, one of the organisers of the protest that began shortly after midday Friday prayers, said. "Somalia will be your graveyards," the crowd chanted in a rare non-violent demonstration seen in the Somali capital. Mogadishu has seen a rise in violence since the arrival of a joint Somali-Ethiopian force late December when they toppled a then powerful Islamist movement which has since vowed to wage a guerrilla-style insurgency. The protestors burned US, Ugandan and Ethiopian flags along the streets. So far, the AU has been able to secure troop pledges for an African force from Uganda and Nigeria, with Malawi, which earlier pledged it would deploy, saying a final decision is yet to be made. The Islamists, who abandoned several of their strongholds in central and southern Somalia, have disintegrated into clan militia, with many opposing the government, based in the backwater town of Baidoa, and its Ethiopian backers. President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed has pledged a national reconciliation conference to heal rifts in the country torn apart by years of anarchic bloodletting. Somalia, home to 10 million people, has lacked an effective central authority since the 1991 ouster of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre that plunged the country into chaos. Source: AFP, Feb 09, 2007 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
raadamiir Posted February 9, 2007 Those who are protesting are the people who benefited from the chaos and anarchy of the last16 years and would like to continue having their feasts every Friday at the expense of the rest of the country. Nothing personal, but 600 out of two million and you want to convince me that they are nothing but the remainants of the ICU!!!It is not an uprising but it has all the ear marks of those who kidnapped the country and kept it hostage for the Last 16 years. PS: I think TFG should have arrested these 600 protesters; actually they are the ones causing havoc in our capital. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NGONGE Posted February 9, 2007 Arrest for a peaceful protest? Better still, the TFG should hang them in public to teach a lesson to all the troublemakers that have destroyed Somalia in the past 16 years. Don't your comment have all the 'ear marks' (sic) of someone in support of dictatorships? Ps You don’t have to reply. It was a throwaway comment. Just toying with you. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ansaar17 Posted February 9, 2007 the ones who have been destroying somalia for the last 16 yrs are in the so-called TFG. the wadaads just came into play last june. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
raadamiir Posted February 9, 2007 The TFG hasn't been around for 16 years, So what are you talking about? ps:The wadaads and the War-lords were cousins. Both of them no longer rule a bit of Mogdishu nor anywhere else in Somalia. Somalia has been librated by the leader they eletected the 10th of october in 2004. And we are great-full. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
XOG-ogaal Posted February 9, 2007 Raadamiir just say it it's tribe world and that tribe have destroyed our country. No one can deny that, but please don't say wadaado baa dhulkii haleeyey. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Fabregas Posted February 9, 2007 The wadaads kept somalia on it's feet for the last 16 years.............. Somalis never elected any leader The warlords are the cousins and brothers of T.F.G.......... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kamalu Diin Posted February 11, 2007 Raadamiir keep up the good job you doing for un-speakable people of Somalia. Thanks one more time. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
me Posted February 11, 2007 ^^^xabashis thanking each other Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Xoogsade Posted February 11, 2007 Originally posted by me: ^^^xabashis thanking each other LOL, would be nice if they were Xabashis, waa ********** kuwaan. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kamalu Diin Posted February 11, 2007 ************* [ February 11, 2007, 03:10 AM: Message edited by: Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar ] Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kamalu Diin Posted February 11, 2007 xOOgSADe people of your kind believe that the customs of their tribe are the laws of nature. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
me Posted February 11, 2007 Originally posted by Xoogsade: quote:Originally posted by me: ^^^xabashis thanking each other LOL, would be nice if they were Xabashis, waa ********** kuwaan. Folks like this are no better then xabashis, waa ******** iyo **********. [ February 11, 2007, 03:11 AM: Message edited by: Miskiin-Macruuf-Aqiyaar ] Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kamalu Diin Posted February 11, 2007 I have felt in my very blood, ever since I was born, a most unconquerable hatred towards the whole tribe of fools, and it arises from the fact that I feel myself a blockhead whenever I am in their company. Giacomo Casanova You and I will not be united get loss XoogSade and Me Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kamalu Diin Posted February 11, 2007 "Thus we see that tribal life is inimical to personal freedom; it favors tradition, convention, and conservatism". Arthur Keith Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
