Somalia's graveyard of grand and beautiful buildings

[Che -Guevara]

Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, has regularly been referred to as "the most dangerous capital city on earth", but as a degree of stability returns to the area, places of peace can be found among the physical destruction and human suffering.

 

The atmosphere changed completely when we entered the cathedral. Things fell quiet. It felt almost peaceful.

 

The nervous, frantic movement of people, animals and vehicles on the streets outside did not follow us. The hysterical beeping of horns fell away, as did the sound of gunfire.

 

My five Somali bodyguards - wrapped in long, heavy necklaces of brass bullets - did not spring into position around me. They bent their heads towards the smashed floor of the cathedral and walked alongside me.

 

It was Ramadan in Mogadishu - the holy Muslim month - and we were inside the remains of what had once been one of the grandest Catholic cathedrals in the whole of Africa, built by Italian colonialists in the 1920s. Its last bishop, Salvatore Colombo, was murdered there in 1989 as he was giving mass.

 

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Back in the day

 

[Che -Guevara]

Reminds of Hotel Aruba

 

 

[Nudawn]

Damage to buildings is a superficial problem that can be easily reversed with brick and mortar. Its fundamental we lay a strong foundation built with integrity.

[GaraadMon]

Agreed, there are much deeper problems to attend to in Somalia. Can anyone even fathom how many developmentally challenged children that have to be dealt with in the future? The effects of the famine on the populace will be felt for generations.

[BoldNewSomali]

Blackflash;854515 wrote:

Agreed, there are much deeper problems to attend to in Somalia. Can anyone even fathom how many developmentally challenged children that have to be dealt with in the future? The effects of the famine on the populace will be felt for generations.

Not to mention the impacts of PTSD on Somalis in Somalia and those outside.The women who are dealing with living with the fact that they were raped. All the kids born and raised in random countries across the world that will lose their "Somalisness" forever. The destruction of this evil war that basically boils down to lineage hatred is not really appreciated by us as a people.