Somalia: Welcome back

[Che -Guevara]

by Bashir Goth

Monday, June 11, 2012

 

With the arrest of the notorious Hassan Dahir Aweys, the inevitable defeat and apprehending of Ahmed Abdi Godane, the Joseph Kony of Somalia and his Al Shabab gang of criminals, and the ongoing Turkish-led momentum to get things right this time, one can confidently say: “Somalia, welcome back.”

 

Welcome back to the international community; to play your role as a country located in strategic and vital waterways, to restore peace and stability and start the healing process of the people traumatized by more than 20 years of physical and mental torture by criminal and religious warlords and devastated by Al Shabab-made droughts.

 

Welcome back to dress the wounds, unite divided families, rehabilitate youth from the dark, damp and masked Al Shabab criminal underworld to the bright daylight of fresh air, schools and knowledge. Welcome back to rescue our beautiful religion from the clutches of immoral vultures that dismantled its sublime goals and reduced it to dictums on controlling women’s lingerie.

 

Oh, what a nightmare! Twenty years of horror, darkness, warlordism, piracy and terrorism.

 

Twenty years during which our common will was hijacked, our independence compromised, our flag trampled on, our values dumped and our pride dragged on the dirt. Twenty years that our people were stopped, humiliated and treated as fugitives at international airports. Twenty years that our beautiful women, the pride of our nation, have been enslaved, raped at home and in refugee camps in poor neighboring countries. Twenty years that our youth, the future of our nation, have suffered from unemployment and mental agony and many of them have perished on the high seas in an attempt to run away from the hellfire back home.

 

Twenty years that our country has become a dumping ground for the world’s dangerous industrial waste and our marine wealth was robbed. Twenty years during which our land was denuded, our trees burned for charcoal, our farms wasted and our cities and towns turned into gang infested drug dungeons. Twenty years that our name had become synonymous with poverty, piracy and terrorism. Twenty years that we have carried the brand of being the most failed state in the world. Twenty years during which our elites, our politicians, our religious men, our sultans and our chieftains kept bickering and vying each other for who will take the biggest chunk of flesh from the stinky and rotting corpse of the Somali nation. Twenty years that Somalia has disintegrated into tribal fiefdoms and the term balkanization has been replaced by Somalization.

 

 

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[Che -Guevara]

Dreams:D

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

^^ Be a bit more optimistic Che anything is possible

[NGONGE]

[Xaq]

Hopeful article. Quiet a lot of "we" and "our".

[Che -Guevara]

XX ..of course anything but I am bit surprised about Bashir new optimism.

[ElPunto]

Perhaps soon then we can expect Bashir to come 'back' himself to the fold of logic and sanity.

[Che -Guevara]

I think since Riyaale left, his logic and sanity has been coming slowly.

[ElPunto]

^Isn't that sad? My man left so my politics changes. I've never understood that. I can understand if you get money or opportunity you didn't have before and thus your support. But some geeljire who's got nothing will hyperventilate if you say something about some politician from his qabiil. And when you ask what has he done for you - they can't answer. Somalis and empty useless xamaasad.

[Carafaat]

I dont think Bashir went anywhere. But some Somali went on terrorism and Piracy boats. Welcome back Somalia indeed!

[ElPunto]

^Bashir went with the Somalis who thought all other Somalis in Somali-yaa are terrorists and pirates. Although not sure what his current position is.

[Carafaat]

I assume he still opposes piracy and terrorism. many have abonded those proffesions thank god. That is the topic of his article.

[ElPunto]

^They were never professions - they were lucrative short term opportunities that came as a response to events taking place in the country. His topic is the revival of Somali governance in the south not symptoms such as piracy and terrorism.

[Carafaat]

Till recently large parts of somalia were governed by Al shabaab, a terrorist organisation.

[NGONGE]

Carafaat;841403 wrote:

Till recently large parts of somalia were governed by Al shabaab, a terrorist organisation.

Bashir was in support of SL long before Al Shabab was created, saaxib. He's just (wisely) hedging his bets (though he's doing a bad job of it).