by Aden Mohamed Ismail
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
For the two decades, Mogadishu a pearl at the Indian Ocean achieved popularity as centre for massacring human being and the destruction of what the Somali Nation collectively established for more than three decades. In contrast to that, Hargeisa ones been barbarically destroyed by the last Somali Military regime, demonstrated remarkably peaceful coexistence and political maturity exercises to certain extend.
Just like Al Shabab, the political actors are mobilising secretly young people been electrified by subtle clan based hate following ala Said Barre era wh to invade peaceful places like Lassanod or perhaps lasqore to proof there beloved international Communities, British Empire and what they call “Somaliland friend” that Sool, Sanag and cyan is part of their alleged Republic..
They are able to do things like that soon at any time because they are miss used generations as far as the so-called Somaliland agenda is concerned.
To demonstrate the dimension of the fanatic altitude one is confronted in Hargeisa today, is that teachers refuse to register Jowhar, Mogadischu or Baidao as birth place of students. This not cheap smear campaign against any holly independence claims of the region but a reality that can be proven easily in the schools.
Take time and check it out before you react emotional.
To simplify this issue, Hargeisa is openly a tribal area according to the political class in Hargeisa. That is why Somali refugees in Hargeisa weren’t allowed to elect a somali president of the autonomy NW region of Somalia just like the Ormo, Amhara refugees are not Eligible to elect.
Paradoxically, the vast majority of the political elite, academicians and technocracies in Hargeisa used to live in the south before the collapse of Said Barre regime and weren’t all Mujahidin as they all claim today.
They used to live and intermarry perhaps with some of the refugee clans who are vegetating relatively in a peaceful environment in Hargeisa today in the various parts of South Somalia.
These gentlemen and women spent most of their life in Baidao, Kismayo Mogadischu, Bossao Beltweyen or elsewhere in the south and had perhaps good time with their people.
The Somali people in the south neither terrorised nor humiliated you and they had not committed any crime against you what so ever and they owe you no apology. The crime in Hargeisa was not carried on behalf of the Somali people in the South but in the name of a dictatorial regime and many of you was part of that regime.
Today you are discriminating, segregating and humiliating the same innocent brothers and sisters of the good old days in Somalia.
Peace loving and poor people in Togdheer and Sool and Sanaag will be the victims of the clan agenda warriors at the end of the day. The so-called Somaliland forces must go back immediately to their clan area so that peace will prevail in the area.
They manifested their stand during this and last presidential election and should be respected if you claim for yourself to be a model for African democracy which is literally or to my opinion a hot air.
I must admit that this piece will raise the temper of some of the reads from NW Somalia which belong to but consider this please as a contribution to the democracy and freedom of speech which is a guideline for political recognition fabulously followed and practised in Hargeisa and else where in NW Somalia today
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Aden Mohamed Isamil