There is always a time for thanks; a moment to stop regular
activities, and express recognition and gratitude to those whom we
identify as an appreciatively essential advocate.
I would thank Mr. Ahmed Haji Abdi in private for his willingness to
publish an entire article to thank my modest person for the otherwise
minor contribution to the efforts leading to Somalia's Re-liberation,
Pacification, Re-Unification, Re-habilitation and Rise.
I truly believe that my efforts are minor, as they represent an
exclusively online article publication that spans over mainly a year;
and I am convinced that many Somalis, who ceaselessly published for
many years or even over a decade fiery features and fervent editorials
in favour of Somalia's Unity, truly deserve to be thanked first.
I must underscore here how much I loved reading the poetical and
ardent, noble and starlike literature so many Somali patriots have
magnificently produced over the last years on the web. There are few
in the world like them. And this only adds to Somalia's glory, and to
the utmost shame of Somalia's enemies – particularly the perfidious
English and the evil Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic Abyssinians.
If I reply in public to return the compliment, it is because Mr. Ahmed
Haji Abdi's text is also instructive and passionate for the Cause that
we commonly serve. At the same time, I find this time for thanks an
excellent opportunity for me to thank all the Somalis, from the North,
the East, the South, and from the High Land of Bleeding Ogaden, for
their wonderful mails of support and enthusiastic solidarity, their
letters full if questions and inquiries, their comments and reports,
and their news and testimonies to the inhuman Drama Somalia has been
undeservedly exposed to.
More than the Somalis, I intend to thank here Eternal, Diachronic
Somalia, namely the Paradisiacal Land the Past of which I studied and
explored mainly in Egyptian Hieroglyphic, Ancient Greek, and Latin
textual and epigraphic evidence. I will always see Somalia through the
eyes of Admiral Nehesy of Queen Hatshepsut's pharaonic fleet that
sailed to the area immediately in the South of Raas Caseyr to honor
the early Somali King Perehu and to advance the commercial exchanges
between the two countries by transferring to Egypt frankincense,
various metals and products, and - above all – "earth" of Punt.
This 'oddity' reflected the Egyptian conviction that Somalia was the
holiest land in the world, the very blessed land of the Original
Paradise of which we have only few hints in the Ancient Egyptian
texts. The transportation of earth from of Somalia's Holy Land to
Thebes of Egypt was part of the expedition's reasons, as this would
help advance the botanological research in Amun's Gardens at Karnak;
however, at the same time, the event helps us better understand the
religious term used by the Ancient Egyptians for Punt, namely Ta
Netsher, 'Land of God(s)'.
Indiscriminately perceived as such by either monotheistic or
polytheistic priesthoods, and by many peoples and nations, Somalia
proved in its 4-millennia long History that it remained inexorably as
it was first sanctified by the Ancient Egyptians; a Nation of Unique
Calling, Diversity, Perplexity and Simplicity, Openness and
Contemplation, Universality and Humanity, Poetry and Transcending,
Master of the Assonance, Great in Dissonance, and even Greater in
Resonance.
What can reconfirm Somalia's identity as Land of the Divine better
than the character of the Somali Original?
This moment of thanks covers all eras of Somali History, going from
the Antiquity through Islamic Ages to Modern Times; it concerns months
and years of study dedicated to Cosmas Indicopleustes, Ibn Battuta,
the anonymous author of the Periplus of the Red Sea, Ptolemy the
Geographer, Agatharchides, Pliny, Strabo and many others who reached
Ta Netsher, Divine Somalia, either physically, mentally or
transcendentally. There are no words that could express my gratitude
for the discovery of Humanity through Somalia.
That's why I would like to underscore my total agreement with Mr.
Ahmed Haji Abdi as regards his Calling for maintenance and safety of
the Somali identity, and his Warning about the Ethiopian intentions.
Only truthful assertion of the deep Somali identity will lead today's
Somalis to a Great Future they all deserve; and only true estimation
of the magnitude of the evil Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic (Tewahedo)
threat will convince all Somalis that not a single Somali can be the
ally, partner or interlocutor of the Monophysitic Abyssinians.
Read their shameful lies to discover the evil Amhara plan to eradicate
the Somali Nation: they try now to diffuse the falsehood that Punt was
… Abyssinian! (http://historyethiopia.com/punt-the-land-of-habasha-the-land-of-spices-and-deities-ca-2800-bc/).
In fact, there has never been a single Abyssinian soldier on Somali
soil before the Abyssinian expansion against the High Land of Ogaden
in the beginning and the middle of the 20th century.
Somalis are immensely indebted to Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
By Ahmed Haji Abdi
Monday, July 21, 2008 - Dr. Muhammad S. Megalommatis deserves to be
thanked, to be honoured and to be rewarded with the highest national
award. When most of us celebrate whenever Dr. Muhammad Publishes an
article that purports our unity and exposes the ugliness of Tigre
regime and its agents in dear Somalia, stooges are united to defame
this honourable personality. The three puppet administrations in
Somalia, Puntland, and Somaliland are united to attack him for
exposing their demeaning enslavement by Melez and his entourage. Dr.
Muhammad, don´t give a damn to what these mean hearted stooges say.
The sons and daughters of Somalia and Oromo will script your name with
golden ink in their history. We shall teach our youth now and
generations to come your unreserved support, your selfless endeavour
and your unlimited sense of responsibility. You stood for what is
right when so many Somali politicians collaborate to the destruction
of their country and people. You give us what ever you can, while most
of us take everything from our country and give back nothing. We sell
short our dignity and national honour.
We shall honour your struggle for our cause nationally in due time.
That day will witness our unity. And believe you me it will be soon.
That day will be the same day when Somalis in Hargeisa, Borame,
Bosaaso, and Mogadishu once more united, united for the well-being of
all of us. We are one tribe, neither divided by language, colour or
religion.
No Somali with a drop of Somali gene, can stoop so low to entertain
Tigre Woyanes. That is what is happening in Hargeisa and in Bosaaso
willingly. Mogadishu and Beletweyne are shedding their blood to free
Somalis from this indignity. I am a Hargeisa citizen, from Isaq clan.
I lost brothers, cousins, and uncles in SNM struggle. I took my share
of the noble struggle of SNM. I believe the atrocity of military
regime against my clan was so immense and deep to be forgotten. That
pain cannot make me forgive the massacre committed by Ethiopian
imperialism against my people present and past.
To sense with tribal minded, let us remember that half of Isaq live in
the occupied territory of Western Somalia. Our historical towns and
villages are annexed by Ethiopia with the help of British colonial
power. Remember Jigjiga, Aware, Harshin, Daroor, Gaashamo and many
more. There is no Somali clan that is free of Ethiopian aggression and
butchery. Western Somalia is the heart of all Somalis. All clans:
Isaq, Dir, Darod, Hawiye, Rahanweyn, Gabooye and Jareer live side by
side in the pasture land of Western Somalia.
To go back to the genocide of Siyad Barre and his administration, in
reality it was engineered by a dictatorial regime that used its entire
means including clan tensions. The regime used its institutions
spearheaded by NSS, Military and Police. We cannot forgive the hands
of the regime and hunt down the heads. That is naive and justice
adulterated. We either forgive all or punish for every action of
genocide and other human right violations, regardless which clan the
perpetrator belongs to.
Today my Somaliland is the only part of Ex-Somalia where remnants of
military dictatorship form the government. Where else the head of
State and Government is an Ex-NSS colonel who directly executed and
initiated orders to kill, maim and imprison without court judgement of
innocent civilians in District of Berbera. No one denies that
President Riyale was NSS District Officer of Berbera till it was
liberated in 1991, when he ran away with military officers from the
south to Lasanod. There he met other NSS northerners and told to put
up with them, assuring him they will be treated as to other Isaq
officers. He contacted Abdirahman Tolwa his tribal cousin, who
reaffirmed him being northerner he will be treated same as the Isaq
officers.
Being tribal, we forgave criminals and labelled insult to innocent
people because they share clan name with Siyad Barre. That was wrong.
Justice knows no clan or colour. A criminal should be no more than
that. No tribe is to be punished for the shame subjected to our
people. There should be no collective punishment. And no Isaq,
Gadabursi, Harti and others who committed crime against humanity, be
pardoned because they belong to Somaliland clans. Forgive all or
prosecute all.
On the balance, we are better than rest of Somalia right now. We have
peace. They have war. War will end, and it will end if we engage to.
Our future is gloomy. We are walking towards Ethiopian trap. They want
to isolate us within Somali hemisphere. Internally, degree of
corruption in every level of government is unprecedented. In national
budget we spend more in the President´s office than Ministry of
Health, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Justice and Ministry of
Women and Social Affairs together. Bribery is the norm. A traffic
police will stop your vehicle without any excuse and tells you
frankly, either to pay or he will accuse you what ever he wants.
Judges negotiate with criminals and judge for the highest paid price.
We love free trade, and it never happened in our history that
livestock trade being intervened by government before current puppets.
Not even during dictatorship. Livestock is handed to a single Saudi
trader in a monopoly deal that tied with fixed price of $35.00 a head
of a sheep and for 5 years.
Somalilanders who can sell a head of sheep at $60.00 were rejected.
Where else a state intervenes to reduce export price of their only
resource?
Be warned of the Ethiopian intention. Visualize what our beautiful
city Hargeisa will look like in 20-50 years time. What language will
prevail? How many Amharic words are mixed with the daily talk of
ordinary people in Hargeisa? Multiply that with the number of years to
come. What will be our culture and ethnicity, when our brothers of
Somali West and Somalia are not welcome, and on the contrary
non-Somali Ethiopians are welcomed with open hands? They (Non-Somali
Ethiopians) come, settle and open any trade they so choose. No visa is
required and no rules to comply. Where that will lead us? Think and
act, before it is too late. Remember once there was an Oromo Kingdom,
an Arsi, a Harar, a Wallo, an Afar Sultanates and kingdoms. Where are
they now? They have been assimilated and swallowed.
How that will measure with our small and less populated Somaliland?
I have no personal enmity towards our neighbours. I love to see a free
Somalis in their country side by side with free Ethiopians,
cooperating for the good of the region. We have to compete in
development rather than in annihilation and destruction. Let us
respect one another. That is how the Horn will succeed.
May my people think, think, and think about the future more than they
do about the past. May they focus on what we share as Somalis, May
they remember thousands that sacrificed their soul for the Greater
Somalia. No family in Hargeisa without a relative that fought against
Ethiopian hegemony. Many of them died for this noble cause, others are
handicapped for life and others suffer mental disorder for the state
we are in. They see daily Ethiopians not only respected but enthroned
in their home town, while they are despised and left unemployed and
unsheltered. Same is true in Borama, Buroa, Berbera, Erigabo, and
Lasanod.
Brothers and sisters think for the generations to come. We owe them at
least to maintain and safe their Somali identity.
Ahmed Haji Abdi
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