The Limits of Vuvuzela Genocide

[Abtigiis]

The ugly and incorrect narrative that Somalilanders were massacred by everyone in Somalia and therefore everyone owes them an apology has been marketed relentlessly that it now enjoys immunity from critical and objective interrogation. What is worse is that it has become the sole eloquent argument for secession after all the laughable colonial boundary references are debunked and sent to where they belong: the cesspit. No one has ever recognized a country called Somaliland, and such recognition only exists in the minds of delusional self-seeking clan henchmen whose political appetite is much bigger than what a united Somalia can offer. The charade from the North is endless and there is no need to dry ink over the unending nonsensical and nowadays theatrical recognition prophecies. Just last week a white man is said to have urged Ethiopia to recognize Somaliland and one would think God’s emissaries have spoken judging by the euphoric reaction it created in the enclave’s capital.

 

But it is every step cowardly to not challenge the genocide storyline. The SNM was a political entity with members from a clan in the North. It fought against a government dominated by a different clan. Both sides used clan slogans to mobilize their supporters and mayhem ensued. No one takes the higher moral ground for simply suffering the higher casualties in such clan warfare. That doesn’t mean what happened to the people in the North is justifiable. Nor does it expiate the crimes of the fallen regime. The question is not even about whether the secessionists’ definition of genocide is correct or not. The question is why their mistreatment is unique in a civil war context where almost every other clan, including the presumed culprits, has suffered similar treatment.

 

Would the answer for such dark history be hanging old Mig jets in public places and reminding every child about who killed who, or is it truth and reconciliation? Should Puntlanders also display the tanks used to smash their women moons before the landers felt the heat? Should the anarchists in the South build statues of a farmer firmly crushed by the boots of a military dictator to relive the alleged horrors a nomadic clan inflicted on them? Should the clans of the dictator print postal stamps showing mutilated breasts of their women after the fall of the regime?

 

And as if their endless whining and victim-playing is not enough, everyone who passed on their doorstep two decades ago is a potential war criminal. Why they treat such a grave matter of national demise and civil war with playground simplicity and flippancy defies logic and mathematics combined. The good news is that they often take this matter up with the gusto of an infant bird in first flight, often making the tired point that if one bombs a city it amounts to genocide, and therefore their jingo crumples into the ground with the first interrogation. Did the SNM bullet hit only men in military uniforms? Are men high in khat so precise to single out the army from the civillians when they raid small towns and refugee camps? Or is the SNM clan incapable of committing war crimes by virtue of their comically fabled Hashimite lineage?

[Carafaat]

Someone feels guilty, me thinks.

[Abtigiis]

^ DOWN with fa.qa.sh aplogists! Prosecute them! War criminals! Takbiir children of the Mujaahidiin!

[xiinfaniin]

This is by far the most powerful intellectual bullet fired by our prof. abtigiis. It would be very hard to believe if this does not wound NGONGE.

[Abtigiis]

^ :D That is a huge endorsement from the man I love to hate. Thanks the horseman. Now I brace for the loquacious but empty vessel Oodweyne to reappear with his victorian waffles.

[xiinfaniin]

^^when one reads Oodweyne verbal onslaught one would think his argument is at category-five hurricane strength but when you get to the second paragraph, it looses strength so rapidly that even good NGONGE feels embarrassed by it at times.

[Abtigiis]

:D if he is embarassed, he never showed. The Somali jews are groomed to cover for each other.

[xiinfaniin]

^^For the record, I don't endorse the 'somali jews' term. This should be clear to Ibtisam.

[A_Khadar]

Would the answer for such dark history be hanging old Mig jets in public places and reminding every child about who killed who, or is it truth and reconciliation? Should Puntlanders also display the tanks used to smash their women moons before the landers felt the heat? Should the anarchists in the South build statues of a farmer firmly crushed by the boots of a military dictator to relive the alleged horrors a nomadic clan inflicted on them? Should the clans of the dictator print postal stamps showing mutilated breasts of their women after the fall of the regime?

 

Add to your lists... Should Buhodle people build statues of SNM "Baroon" running over nomads from SSC in Kalshaale?

 

Good points!

[Valenteenah.]

It's not a nice term, that, and shouldn't be used.

 

This thread is gonna blow up. I assume Abtigiis is fully armed and expectant? I will get out of the way before the mortars start flying.

 

Adios Inadeer, t'was nice knowing you.

[Baashi]

Is Abtigiis trying to re-litigate this argument anew? Why now? We had our fill for this canard ages ago.

 

Puntlanders have also been called names to that effect -- (nothing wrong with the jews as they are resilient folks who know one or two about survival) and some even went on to pen poems to that effect -- read Bacadle’s famous poem.

 

If you must re-litigate and revisit secession argument stick to the gist of the argument. There is a simple and powerful case against dismembering Somalia on the basis of now defunct colonial exploitation Somalis were subjected to by powerful foreign states bent to dominate indigenous folks everywhere.

[Abtigiis]

The utterances of secession are the ears of a hippo. Ironically, it is the easy part of the inimitable medieval clannish graffiti of this unique Somali clan. The ears of a hippo give the splendid facade of two birds dancing over water to gullible tourists and nature admirers. Behind the façade lies a monstrous animal that unleashes its fury once the tourists came closer. The dreadful encounter sees the light after the dangling birds give way to the colossal head of the dangerous herbivorous mammal. Beneath the secession shrill lies a monstrous agenda of subjugating other clans, usurping disproportionate political representation.

 

This should be achieved through threats and secession declaration. And when the matter of the prerogatives and privileges of those who do not subscribe to the unilateral declaration of independence is invoked, marauding clan militias in false military Kaki are dispatched to silence the unionist clans. This is the case in SSC, where a fiercely nationalist Somali clan is under attack. This will be the case in Awdal, where a historically unionist Somali clan shall be raided to force the secession agenda down their un-obliging throats.

 

The Somaliland populace is a hospitable and hardworking clan with no malice towards the rest of their brothers. However, they are hostage to tribal chauvinist elite whose favorite pastime tales are of Hutu-Tutsi annihilation stories. And without a fight back, that is what they plan to do to those they see as detrimental to their harebrained secession fantasy.

[burahadeer]

Not helpful article... just making thm dig in their heels.Wish stick to more conciliatory tone; web needs reassembled with great care.There is nothing much anyone can really accomplish by inflammatory words.Only making them more intransigent.

[Abtigiis]

Not following others is a trait only admired in sheep. On the subject issue, I intend to go my way. Appeasement hasn't stopped Hitler from attacking Western Europe and is often a counter-productive strategy. Silence will only make them emboldened to pursue the whinning affliction with undistrurbed continuity. Truth ought to be inflammatory. Or at least becomes such even when the intention is different.

 

There will be no converts because we toned down our rethoric.

[burahadeer]

you really taking off gloves..I wait on the side line.