Treason in Turkey , by Northern Somalia Unionist Movement.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Treason in Turkey , by Northern Somalia Unionist Movement.

 

 

Northern Somalia Unionist Movement

 

PRESS RELEASE

 

21 April 2013

 

Treason in Turkey

 

Since its independence, Somalia had all sorts of leaders- the giants, the mediocre, the democrats and the dictator. Whatever their standing in the eyes of the Somali people, what they had all in common was their sworn commitment to the unity of the country. Siyad Barre, the dictator, was one of its greatest defenders of Somali unity. Sheikh Shariif, the much maligned and ridiculed last leader of the transitional government might have been susceptible to make some shady deals incompatible with his presidential functions but he has never crossed the red line of pandering to the secessionists and commit the ultimate crime of betraying Somalia’s unity. Even the hated warlords considered Somalia’s unity sacrosanct and untouchable.

 

 

The exception to all this is President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud, the man some Somalis saw on his election as the new Ataturk of Somalia. In his talks with Siilaanyo in Anakara,Turkey, he granted the secessionists at the stroke of his pen what they had been demanding from Somalia and the international community since they declared secession over 22 years – that they be recognised as a sovereign government equal to and separate from Somalia. It is as if Somalia was his personal business.

 

It is no thanks to Somalia’s government, people or parliament but to President Hassan alone that the secessionists got what they wanted. Their wish has been granted at almost no cost or concession – signed and sealed in the Ankara communiqué, an act tantamount to treason but not in lawless Somalia. One can only surmise what President Hassan has personally gained from trading Somalia’s break-up for Somaliland’s sovereignty but that is a futile exercise that will do nothing to undo the immense, probably irreparable damage he has done to this country.

 

If comparison can be made, Siyad Barre and Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud share one similarity more than any other two leaders: they both came to power as very popular leaders. But whereas it took Siyad Barre over a decade to lose his initial country-wide popularity, Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud’s equally giddy popularity heights started to wither away barely a week after his election. His popularity rise and fall is reminiscent of those first USA space failures in the early 1960s when their rockets would go up one instant, raising so much hope that America will catch up with the USSR, only to fall back to earth the next minute dashing all hopes. Unless checked, President Hassan would go down in history as the treacherous leader who broke up Somalia’s unity if not Somalia as a whole.

 

But who is to check him? The problem facing Somalia is a President who is practically unaccountable to no one, who now wields total power after usurping those of the compliant meek Prime Minister, the one who was supposed to wield the executive power of the government under our federal system. Hassan has also been emboldened by the laissez-faire and hands-off attitude of Parliament to the affairs of the country and the threats we face internally and externally.

 

President Hassan has certainly ingratiated himself with the secessionist enclave, giving away the unionist northern regions of Somalia as a sacrificial lamb, regardless of its dire existential consequences for Somalia. But his culpable sell-out of Somalia’s unity is bound to boomerang, sooner or later, on the rest of Somalia. Somalia is either indivisible – one country, one nation, one united people; but once it is divided into north and south, there is no knowing where that could end. Once a precedent has been established, what stops other disaffected regions, such as Bay, Puntland, Jubalnd, Hiiraanland, etc, to take the Somaliland route? That would be the legacy that President Hassan Shekh Mohamoud is sowing for Somalia. Will parliament, the cabinet and concerned unionists everywhere wake up to their responsibilities and defend Somalia’s unity from its worst enemy- its President- or will they simply look the other way as he calculated?

Osman Hassan

Spokesperson

[Tallaabo]

Anyone who thinks Siyaad Barre (the man who signed away the entire Somali galbeed) was a defender of Somali unity should not be taken seriously

[NGONGE]

^^ Osman again? I thought he was promoted to the Spokeperson for Khaatumo! Why is he reviving NSUM?

[oba hiloowlow]

Tallaabo;941177 wrote:

Anyone who thinks Siyaad Barre (the man who signed away the entire Somali galbeed) was a defender of Somali unity should not be taken seriously

+1

[STOIC]

NGONGE;941178 wrote:

^^ Osman again? I thought he was promoted to the Spokeperson for Khaatumo! Why is he reviving NSUM?

Never knew there was difference between the two...haha

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Tallaabo;941177 wrote:

Anyone who thinks Siyaad Barre (the man who signed away the entire Somali galbeed) was a defender of Somali unity should not be taken seriously

It was either SNM taking over the Somali republic, or lose Somali galbeed , General siyad bare choose the latter and tried to save his seat and he threw Somaligalbeed under the bus. And focused on SNM he miscalculated , 2 years later he was forcefully removed. He did not just lose the Somali galbeed he lost his seat and Somaliland broke away.

[Tallaabo]

^ @xaaji

Just goes to show the level of ignorance of those "advisers" who surrounded him.

[Xaaji Xunjuf]

Osman seems to be very worried no more airport parties and wrapping the Somali flag around your waist and shaking it, and claiming to be the indisputable Somali nationalist. Seems like hasssan culusow and the elites in Mogadishu could care less about Osman and his many flags.

[Carafaat]

Osman doesnt seem to know what he want or what unity means. One moment he is complaining Somaliland is not talking to or united with Somalia, the other moment he is crying fault because they are talking.

 

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