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"Anybody who says no to peace is not enemy for the peace as such but an enemy for the concerned and suffering Somali people" With these words I support the peace deal in Djibouti
by A.M. Tani
Friday, June 20, 2008
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"Enemy of peace is the enemy of the suffering Somali people"
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Millions of Somalis, especially in Somalia overwhelming welcomed rationally the peace deal in Djibouti without any euphoria and with certain degree of sceptics to avoid another disappointment. Speaking on the international welt refugee day in Bonn, Germany, the UNHCR special envoy for refugees said “They survived the war, they survived the exodus, they survived mass rapes, they survived hunger and they survived diseases. To all those who survived and those who did not survive we are thinking of you this day”.
Sources of that and following statement is from a “Pressmappe of UNO-Fluechtlingshilfe E.V, Germany”
Before the UN-refugee day kicked off in Bonn, the UN high commissioner for refugee António Guterres visit Daab Refugee camp in Kenya where 200.000 registered Somali refugees are living since the beginning of the Somali civil war. The camp was original constructed for 100.000 people. Since February 2007, more than 850.000 people flew away from their homes and the barbaric fighting in the more or less ruin ex- capital of Somalia
However, Mr António Guterres said in Dadaab, “Today we came to Dadaab while there is a desperate call for peace from all Somalis”. Within those touching words of impartial world Humanitarian institution, Colonel Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweis and the self declared General Sheikh Yusuf Indhacade decline the peace deal in Djibouti and called for the continuation of the war in Southern Somalia.
In contrary to Mr Hassan Dahir Aweis, the charismatic and pragmatic ICU leader Mr Sharif Sheikh Ahmed who is now in Kenya with the TFG Prime Minister preferred honorably to sign the peace deal in Djibouti and put an end to the catastrophic human suffering in our country.
On the other side, there is the group called “Al Shabab” or “Muqawma” (or What ever) who are basically organized in Clan unities which are now intensively transferring the civil war through assassinations of what they call “collaborators” in the periphery or regions of southern Somalia where previously traditional leaders managed to sustain at least relative peace among the various clans.
That means, for example in Bay, Bakool, Hiiraan, Lower-Middle Schebelle, Gedo and Kismayo regions of Somalia, al Shababa armed youth unities which consists of all local clans and sub-clans in the area are now terrorizing there alleged clans. If these groups continue these tactics, sooner or later these elements will enflame inevitably another horrifying clan war in all villages and towns of Somalia outside Mogadishu.
Within that confusing and horrifying scenario, conspiracy theory writers and cynic figures in the Diaspora are telling us to believe that the major objective of the peace efforts and deal in Djibouti was just to divide the opposition groups based in Asmara.
In other words, the peace deal which was done for our people was just a dirty trick. That is literally a scrupulous laudatory for the continuation of brutal and barbaric civil war in Somalia just like Hassan Dahir Aweis did from Asmara. The real enemy of our people is not Ethiopia only but also the self declared Somali political and religious actors.
If not, the various war stakeholders did not immediately take the Djibouti peace deal, Southern Somalia will soon be back to square one and the peace which my children are fantastically enjoying in the Diaspora will unfortunately remain only a dream for millions of Somali Children in Dadaab and elsewhere.