Puntland Administration's Betrayal of the SSC People

[Taleexi]

NSUM PRESS RELEASE

Date 1 June 2011

 

Puntland Press Release posted on the Somali website Wardheernews on May 30th may be diabolical and despicable but it comes as no surprise given its history of betrayal and backstabbing. It lambastes the SSC freedom fighters, whom it depicts as "anti-establishment elements", for "infiltrating" the area between "Puntland's defence line at Tukaraq and the Las Anod district" with the intention on the one hand to "stir provocation leading to open conflict between Puntland and Somaliland" and on the other hand to "divert Puntland Defence Forces engaged in a war against Al Shabaab terrorists in the Golis Mountains, west of Bossso".

 

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[Som@li]

Nice article,Despite all the problems, backstabbing, and betrayals, It is a good news that SSC people are shaping their future.

 

Guulaysta!

[Degel]

Look like the blame game is always on. PL this, PL that; com'n, how come we are ignoring the gorilla in the room--the division that exists in this Somali family. This NSUM guys were issuing these calls all those years and never get off their chairs and do something useful. Some of them are even millionnaires and here they are issuing those never endless SSC people this, SSC people that when in fact is is the internal division that is solely responsible for the situation of those regions. It helps one to be realistic.

[Taleexi]

Your point is well taken Mr. Clown. And Welcome to SOL just in case I forgot.

[The Zack]

^LOOOL@Mr. Clown. The fact that his/her third post is in the politics section is not good sign at all.

 

The article was a good read.

[Taleexi]

Puntland has Violated Customary Laws

By Liban Ahmad

June 01, 2011

 

Puntland government has issued a press release (condemning what president Abdirahman Farole sees as “the anti-establishment, militia elements led by Col. Ali Sabarey and supported by the Transitional Federal Government (TFG).

Colonel Ali Sabrey is deputy leader of Sool, Sanaag an Cayn Leadership Council, one of the groups claiming to represent the people in Las Anod, Taleex, Yagoori, Buuhoodle, Widhwidh, Xuddun, Boocame and several other towns and hamlets. SSC Leadership Council’s main rivals are pro-Puntland and pro-Somaliland people from those districts and hamlets. SSC Leadership Council was formed in a Nairobi conference in 2009. SSC constituents once supported Puntland but now back Saleban Essa (aka Xaglatoosiye) who lost Puntland presidential elections to president Farole in January 2009. The SSC Leadership Council’s main mandate was to try to recapture territories Somaliland forces had took over from Puntland. However, Its policies have brought Somaliland and Puntland closer to each other politically.

 

Before and shortly after Kalshaale clashes last year Somaliland was keen on talks with SSC Leadership Council but Xaglatoosiye has missed the opportunity to support talks unconditionally. Constituencies that once supported Puntland had pounced at that opportunity for talks with Somaliland (Daawo Shir qaar ka mid ah Cuqaasha iyo Odayaasha Beesha Maxamuud Bari ku taageereen Baaqii Gogosha nabadeed Ee Somaliland)

 

Another setback for the SSC Leadership Council was triggered by the decision of former SSC Commander, Keyse Cabdi Yusuf, to negotiate with Somaliland after he criticised the SCC Leadership Council for being an organisation led by two men from the Diaspora (Sabarey and Xaglatoosiye).

 

Colonel Ali Sabarey, a Somali-Canadian, was in Buhoodle before visiting Tukaraq where pro-Puntland militias are based. He could have been taken into custody had Puntland viewed his presence as a threat to peace. Puntland’s argument that military confrontation with Somaliland forces will “divert Puntland Defense Forces engaged in a war against Al Shabaab terrorists in the Golis Mountains, west of Bossaso” is not as plausible as the argument that “anti-establishment militia elements led by Col. Ali Sabarey… supported by the Transitional Federal Government (TFG)” have the “ intention is to support Al Shabaab terrorists by opening another front.” How can the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG) fighting Al Shabab in Mogadishu support Al Shabab sympathisers?

 

By labelling Colonel Sabarey as a terrorist sympathiser Puntland has undermined its core argument that Puntland is an administration formed by clansmen and clanswomen making use of customary laws to live peacefully with each other and with neighbouring clans. The Puntland press release was sent published at several Somali websites. There is a glaring contradiction between claiming a territory on kinship grounds and falsely linking a clansman to a black-listed group. Ahmed Ali Askar, Puntland's Minister for Information, a veteran broadcast journalist, is copiously knowledgeable about Somali customary laws. Why has he permitted the release of these press release full of half-truths? Who is the primary audience of the press release? . Anyone Puntland administration sees as a political rival is not necessarily an Al Shabab member or an Al Shabab sympathiser. Puntland ought to retract the press release written recklessly to mislead the international community

 

Liban Ahmad is the editor of Somalia Research Report and a contributor to WardheerNews. He can be contacted at: libahm@gmail.com

 

Source: WDN

[Ibtisam]

I guess Puntiland got tired of SSC aimless backwards and forward transition which extends to years. I say aimless because in 20years they have switched sides many times and their long term plan today makes senses to no one but them. You cannot say you are pro-Somalia yet unable to work with the two peaceful [compared to the rest] entities surrounding you. You cannot do anything for unity if your have conflict within your own ranks and you can’t get on with those surrounding you, then Xamar caano uu liis misid.

 

As I always said, the leaders/elders are divided and dhinc loo raco la waya, all these years, they have achieved nothing, well aside from isolating their people, even from Puntiland. Getting labeled as terrorist just undermines what ever legitimate cause they had and without PL or SL fighting over them, the process the leaders have been milking for years becomes a dead end and they become irrelevant.

 

Of course Somali politics moves fast and PL or SL could change their attitude and turn towards the old policy making these leaders and by extension SSC relevant.

[Polanyi]

^^ Your opinion is badil because you are biased.he he. I agree with you though; " SSC" betrayed themselves, not once, not twice, but a thousand times.

[AfricaOwn]

*Ibtisam;725575 wrote:

You cannot say you are pro-Somalia yet unable to work with the two peaceful [compared to the rest] entities surrounding you. .

SL is a break-away region and they (not all of course) claim to be "pro-Somalia", so how is it possible that they work together? I get what you're trying to say when it comes to working with pl.

[NGONGE]

NSUM are making the usual hopeless noises but Liban Ahmad is talking some sense. The predicamant carries on..

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

They do not agree on the regional ssc proposed state by some sections of the garaad clan ,they also do not agree to join the Garowe enclave. In the Past they were divided between two Administrations Somaliland and the Garowe Admin. Now they are divided into 3 camps.

[Jacaylbaro]

And I thought NSUM joined SSC to form one group ..... why are they still talking ??

[Ibtisam]

Polanyi;725602 wrote:

^^ Your opinion is badil because you are biased.he he. I agree with you though;

" SSC" betrayed themselves, not once, not twice, but a thousand times.

Polanyi, everyone is biased by default, but bias and badil are not the same thing. Being badil would've been me saying, PL is telling the truth and this legitimize SL campaign. Pluz you agreed with me.

 

AfricaOwn, somethings such as this dispute CANNOT be solved in the long term by military- it requires people working together one way or another.

[A_Khadar]

Seems that SSC fate became "Hilib dar yaal" Midkastaa afkuu la gelayaa..

 

Why ssc has to work with p/l or s/l when it's obvious that both entities want to destroy it. Yeah yeah, I got it because of some self interested men from ssc are in the payroll of s/l and p/l's who are of course against ssc so the issue is ssc then right? why s/l doesn't work with TFG because few of its boys are in Mogadisho so as Faroole's many more men from p/l are with the TFG. See how simple and pathetic is some of your arguments?

 

Paid men from ssc can blow stink air regardless which enity of the sides they are solicited with but fast majority of ssc people want self determination and free from both clown around them. If that isolates them so be it. If you have hard time getting that, who cares, you all can fart..

[bilan]

I can see why people from SSC feel that PL administration betrayed them, at the same time we cannot ignore the division within SSC. I believe if people were united SL wouldn’t have stayed in LA for a single day. So one thing that SSC needs is unity, they do not need Faroole/Abdisamad to support them.