An open letter to the British Foreign Secretary British MPs

[miles-militis]

An open letter to the British Foreign secretary, H.E Jack Straw and Hon. Members of the British parliament

 

Written by Eng. Mohamed Ali Mirreh Email:mmirreh@hotmail.com

 

 

The report delivered by the Honourable MPs to the British parliament, following their recent visit to the breakaway region of Somaliland was, if anything a product of myth and propaganda intentionally, compiled and formulated to assist the campaign of those who dream to secede from Somalia.

 

However, what makes the report entirely unacceptable and disturbing is the fact that it was fictitious and utterly biased. It grossly exaggerates the importance of one clan to the extent that it is projected in the report as being the only clan that can determine the fate of Somaliland (northern regions of Somalia) while other clans in the north of Somalia are described as virtually non-existent with Somalis in the south as degraded and demons.

 

Unfortunately, the esteemed MPs have been lured to propagate an information based, by and large on humbug and hearsay, but nothing is further from the truth.

 

Quite diabolically, the report states that the Somalis from the south have destroyed the north and murdered their brothers and sisters, in the north with MIGs and tanks. The honourable, Tony Baldry testifies in the report that he saw mass graves, in which thousands of Somalilanders had been murdered. If we hypothetically assume the truthfulness of the MP having seen thousands of bodies piled and crammed into ditches and bones scattered in large areas, what made him so convinced that these were indeed Somalilanders? Can he provide the DNA profile of these bodies, verified by independent laboratories? And is he aware that there are other versions of the story? As one goes like this, that these bodies are from the massacre of displaced refugees from Ogaxxx during the famine of 1980s who were settled in the outskirts of Hargeisa and later been killed by SNM forces, relating the victims to the clan of Siyad Bare.

 

It would have been wise if the hon. MPs have sought more balanced information about the saga of “Somaliland” by visiting the aforesaid regions, as an impartial fact-finding mission and listen others´ point of view prior to, taking into face value what has been narrated from one side

 

 

 

As a viable Somaliland government is not practical for the simple reason that the people of Sanag, Sool, Ayn (Cayn) and Awdal are not supporting the policy of secession and for “A no man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent” we, the people of Sanag, Sool and Ayn (Cayn) ardently hope that Her Majesty’s government and Hon. members of the British parliament will not contemplate the dismantling of the Somali State, and in granting a recognition and sovereign status a sub-clan on the grounds of false and imbalanced information provided by such a clan or sub-clan, which if granted will undoubtedly re-ignite other rounds of destructive clan warfare and fresh round of hostilities and revenge taking.

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[Nasir]

The guy who wrote this letter has made fool of him self just look at this quote

If we hypothetically assume the truthfulness of the MP having seen thousands of bodies piled and crammed into ditches and bones scattered in large areas, what made him so convinced that these were indeed Somalilanders? Can he provide the DNA profile of these bodies, verified by independent laboratories?

Who else was siyad bare ragime was killing other than the main clan in somaliland. Sxb you guys are joke and nothing you write will change the MP's dicision toward recognition for somaliland. People are tired of hearing your double talks and propaganda writings. I don't even think they will spend one minute reading this letter, and I bet you if you go behind the pairlaments building, where they keep the trash you will find thousands of letters writen by you how sad, stop waisting ink and trees.

 

 

You Can't keep a good man down, they always smile want they want me to frown, you can't never ever take my crown....

 

ilahay baa mahad leh

maxamed baa sharaf leh

somaliland baa guul leh

[Ex-Xisbiga]

This is the extent the anti-Somaliland elements will go to see the Dream of Mandeeq Nation crushed. Questioning the genocide that took place.

 

Shame on you!

[Ace of Spadez]

was this article written in frustration? i wonder because it isn't very well thought out. there are no footnotes, no end notes, no nothing. the way i see it, its going straight to the shredder due to lack of any references and any credible sources.

[Rokko]

Are you guys saying the SNM didn't massacre civilians in Hargeisa, Burco and all the areas they captured?

 

Oh I forgot the SNM was taking its anger on anyone from Siyaad Barre's tribe na'mean.

 

Qabyaalad is distorting the thoughts of anyone who denies the massacre committed by the SNM and its supporters who were going door to door in Hargeisa and Burco hunting for Siyaad Barre's tribe (we know who) na'mean.

 

My own uncle was killed in Burco and he was never part of Siyaad Barre's regime. Guess who killed him? His own neighbor na'mean.

 

At the end of the day you have people who are willing to forgive and forget all that was done to them by the SNM and still embrace Somaliland. Look at Fuad Adan Cadde. Most of his blood relatives(including his brothers) was killed by the SNM in Ceerigaabo and he is willing to die for Somaliland na'mean.

 

Only Allah will judge all those guilty.

[LANDER]

Mobb Deep,

saxiib the fact your alleging that the mass graves had anything to do with SNM and the so-called revenge you allude to is an insult and a distortion of facts. First of all there couldn't be MASS graves of ppl from Siyaad Barre's clan in Hargeisa or Burco because they were not numerous enough for them to be pilled into such mass graves as you allude to. Traditionally the sub-clan of Barre did not live in Somaliland, few of them came after the military coup conducted by Barre, alot of them where high ranking members of the former SNA and some where alowed to land grab where ever they wished. Sort of like a miniture version of jewish settlements in palestinian territory. Sure some civilians who just happened to be part of the greater clan to which Siyad Barre belonged to might have been caught up in the crossfire, and that is unfortunate. However, you should never compare the SNM coming to power with the massacres and genocide perpetrated by the Barre regime when they had absolute control in Somaliland.

[Gabbal]

Explain to me Lander how two wrongs make a right?

[Ace of Spadez]

HornAfrique, its not about which life is worth more. Its about the magnitude. To equate a systematic persecution, a doctrine to massacre intentionally, to what the fringes of a rebel movement committed, since clearly the SNM target was not the population, that in itself is a crime Horn. Think about it.

[Jaamac_Bootaan]

The Somali Government of General Siyaad Barre has killed, maimed, tortured and raped people loyal to SNM and the SNM has killed everybody associating with the Somali Government's dominating tribe (we know wich).

 

That makes it even and don't forget that other people who were loyal to the SSDF were killed in North Mudug.

 

Children, women and the elderly died of thirst, because of the destruction of their waterreservoirs and poisoning of water wells.

Young men have been massacred in Bacaadweyn.

 

So Somalilanders should give it a rest and stop living in the past.

We Puntlanders have moved on and so should you!

 

You guys are sounding like the jewish survivors of WW2 whom conveniently forgot that the Russians lost 50 million people for example, not to mention the Asians and sofort!

 

I support the idea of engaging a research of the victims in those mass graves. There's a large chance they are victims of the SNM barbaric actions.

[Ace of Spadez]

the SNM has killed everybody associating with the Somali Government's dominating tribe (we know wich).

 

where are your sources? what evidence do you have? are you just making up stuff? SNM policy was never targeted at the civilian population, only the regime. if its intentions included the population, the war would not have ended when the regime fell.

 

I don't see how you can talk about even, a rag tag militia and the most powerful army in sub saharan africa.

 

in any case we're jews. lol why? because jaamac said so

[Jaamac_Bootaan]

Spadez, are you denying the fact that SNM technicals had "certain tribe's name"-DILE!!! written all over it!! storming to slaughter innocent civilians in Ceerigaabo and Caynabo. Luckily they were defeated by the pro-Siyaad Barre militia of General Jaamac Green of Sanaag and crushed in Laascaanood.

 

If we are talking about GENOCIDE than let's talk about the innocent civilians killed by the savage USC militias, they are responsible for the deaths of 500.000 to 700.000 Somali people.

The CIA and the advice apparatus GlobalSecurity called the USC the dumbest military organisation ever in history...they capture a whole city..and what do they do?...they kill the people and destroy the entire city, wreck havoc in the rest of the south instead of setting up a government.

 

So better for all of us...Let's not go there!

[Qudhac]

When the SNM over threw the dictatorship regime of afweyne, there was bound to be reprisals against those people who where loyal whether political wise or clan wise to the old regime.

 

the regime of Afweyne did things on clan basis so you cant complain when the population did things on clan basis as well.

 

it is documented and recorded where the largest civilian killing took place whether people deny it or not. we all know that there will will incidents following the fall of regime like that but to tell you the truth there was never any systatic killing of monirity clans in somaliland infact i remember most of them were allowed to leave peacefully to go to south and the SNM even provided transport for them.

 

When the SNM took ceerigabo there was no civilian killings done by them there were incidents but that was always going to happen, although the clan that was related to siade barre fled ceerigabo but they were allowed to return after while.

 

the clan that lives in ethopia was also allowed to leave withought any major hasstle.

 

now all these clans had major hand in the masacres that happened burco and hargiesa and majority of them were fully supporting the regimes, so they should be thankfull to the SNM and somalilanders in general for their incredible gesture of forgiveness.

 

now compare this to what they done to them in muqdisho and the south were they completely and utterly wiped out anyone related to the former regime, the rape the torture and utter humiliation of thousands upond thousands of people

were even to this day they dare not set foot in that region.

 

 

maybe they shouldve reacted like their brethens from muqdisho, as it seems thats the only language these people seem understand.