Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis November 14, 2008 In five previous articles, entitled "Albanians and Muslims Still Targeted by Serbs in Occupied Voivodina and Sanjak – HRW Report" (http://www.buzzle.com/articles/albanians-and-muslims-still-targeted-by-serbs-in-occupied-voivodina-and-sanjak-hrw-report.html), "Tyrannized Voivodina and Sanjak Ready to Secede from Dangerous, Racist state Serbia" (http://www.buzzle.com/articles/tyrannized-voivodina-and-sanjak-ready-to-secede-from-dangerous-racist-state-serbia.html), "Hateful Acts of Racism Performed by Serbs in Voivodina, Revealed in Devastating HRW Report" (http://www.buzzle.com/articles/hateful-acts-of-racism-performed-by-serbs-in-voivodina-revealed-in-devastating-hrw-report.html), "HRW Report Demonstrates Need for Voivodina and Sanjak to Secede from Totalitarian Serbia" (http://www.buzzle.com/articles/hrw-report-demonstrates-need-for-voivodina-and-sanjak-to-secede-from-totalitarian-serbia.html) and "c, Sanjak" (http://www.buzzle.com/articles/serbian-xenophobia-racism-and-chauvinism-impose-secession-and-independence-for-voivodina-sanjak.html), I focused on Voivodina and Sanjak which are not proper Serbian territories but have been peremptorily given to Serbia because of French pro-Serbian favoritism back in the 1910s and 1920s.
After many decades of tyranny which took various shapes, the Slovenes, the Croatians, the Bosnians, the Macedonians, the Montenegrins and the Kosovars achieved their national goal of independence and freedom. Unfortunately, the Voivodinians and the Sanjakis still live under Serbian racism and terrorism.
Due to mails from several readers asking about the terminology employed, I want to specify here that the two aforementioned terms do not indicate nations or ethno-religious groups but merely the inhabitants of Voivodina and Sanjak, who in their outright majority passionately desire the removal of the illegal Serbian settlers and the subsequent secession – liberation of their homelands from Serbia, the dictatorial realm of belligerent, rancorous and merciless administrations.
In fact, the pathetic Serbian nationalism, which has permanently been harbored there, is currently rising dangerously again. This is what a devastating HRW Report reveals about the unrepentant Serbia, a medieval and rancorous realm of excruciating tyranny, merciless murder and unfathomable racism that the perfidious French statesmen and diplomats want to help adhere to the EU.
o better illustrate the tragic events that signal further secessions from the Balkan Hell ´Serbia´, I republish the entire HRW Report "Hostages of Tension - Intimidation and Harassment of Ethnic Albanians in Serbia after Kosovo´s Declaration of Independence". Following the publication of the Report´s earlier parts that shed light on the background of the new explosive crisis, the attacks in February 2008 in and outside Vojvodina, and the official stance – response to the events, in the present article, I republish the leading NGO Human Rights Watch´s Recommendations. In forthcoming articles, I will complete and further comment.
Hostages of Tension - Intimidation and Harassment of Ethnic Albanians in Serbia after Kosovo´s Declaration of Independence
http://hrw.org/reports/2008/serbia1108/
Expanded Recommendations
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2008/serbia1108/9.htm#_Toc212362288
To the Government of Serbia
Publicly and unequivocally condemn all instances of inter-ethnic violence and other offenses against minorities;
Investigate and, where necessary, take appropriate disciplinary or legal action against officials suspected of inciting, encouraging, or supporting ethnically motivated violence against people or property;
Fulfill the publicly-given promise and legal obligation to compensate victims of violence whose property was destroyed on the occasion of public protests after Kosovo´s declaration of independence;
Implement programs designed to assist victims of violence, including damage to property. Assistance should include help accessing legal remedies, including financial compensation where eligible and civil claims for damages against perpetrators if they are identified;
Conduct outreach in the areas affected by violence to inform the victims how to purse compensation for damage;
Expand the compensation law to allow for compensation in cases of criminal damage not arising from public protests;
Consider legislation that would allow for the imposition of greater sentences for ethnically aggravated forms of offenses against the person, property, public order, and similar offenses (hate crimes). The ethnically aggravated form of an offense would apply where there is evidence of either a) clear ethnic motivation on the part of the perpetrator in the commission of the offense or b) the demonstration of hostility during the commission of the offense is based on, among other grounds, the victim´s membership (or presumed membership) of an ethnic, religious, or racial group.
To Police in Serbia
Direct officers to take all appropriate preventive and protective measures to protect individuals belonging to minority communities and their property and businesses from attack especially when political events indicate that they may be at heightened risk;
Implement procedures designed to minimize opportunities for attacks once the risk is apparent, including timing shift rotations such that properties under protection are not left unprotected during the shift change;
Thoroughly investigate all violent acts directed against minorities, including destruction of property, in order to identify the perpetrators and where the evidence warrants promptly pass it to district prosecutors to bring criminal charges against them;
Renew investigations into the 2008 acts of violence against minority-owned businesses which took place after Kosovo´s declaration of independence;
Communicate with victims and affected local communities as investigations progress in order to assure the victims of their safety and deter further attacks;
Ensure greater ethnic diversity among the police force to facilitate communication and contacts with all communities in Serbia;
Closely collaborate with investigative judges, misdemeanor judges and prosecutors to ensure adequate follow up on misdemeanors and criminal cases involving minority victims.
To Investigative Judges, Misdemeanor Judges and Prosecutors
Closely collaborate with each other and with the police to ensure that misdemeanors and criminal cases involving minorities are adequately followed up on and the perpetrators identified and prosecuted.
To the European Union
Include the Serbian government´s success in preventing ethnically motivated crimes and, where warranted, prosecuting individuals responsible for them as a benchmark in the Stabilization and Association ratification process and other European Union accession processes;
Support police reform in Serbia to better enable timely and coordinated responses to violence and public disorder, including by facilitating closer cooperation and the exchange of best practices between EU national police forces and the Serbian police.
Support efforts to ensure that the police force adequately reflects Serbia´s ethnic diversity;
Continue to affirm that a multi-ethnic Serbia in which the rights of all inhabitants are respected is one of the principle objectives of the international community.
To the Council of Europe
The Advisory Committee of the Framework Convention on the Protection of National Minorities should visit the areas of the anti-minority violence during its November 3-7, 2008 visit to Serbia. The Advisory Committee should consider issuing a speedy report and recommendations specifically on the investigation into the violence;
Continue pressing the government of Serbia to uphold the standards in the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities.
To the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
The OSCE Mission in Serbia should include monitoring trials of ethnically motivated crimes in its portfolio, and publish its findings.
Monitor incidents of violence against minorities and publish reports documenting them;
Continue visits to Serbia by the OSCE High Commissioner of National Minorities to assess progress in protecting national minorities.
To the United Nations
The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, the Human Rights Committee, and the Special Rapporteur on racism should use the next opportunity provided by their respective mandates to take up the issue of ethnically motivated violence in Serbia and make recommendations for steps the authorities should take to effectively address the problem.
The Human Rights Council should use the opportunity of the forthcoming Universal Periodic Review of Serbia to question the authorities about the problem of ethnically motivated violence and their response to it, and make recommendations for steps taken to effectively address it.
Note
Picture: After Montenegro and Kosova, Voivodina and Sanjak will secede. Sanjak will be soon free (from both Serbia and Montenegro) and united, as the overwhelming majority of its population have always passionately desired.
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As the situation in starving Ogaden deteriorates, extraordinary measures have to be taken, if we take into consideration that the UN and the US proved
Given the tyrannical structure of the Abyssinian state (fallaciously re-baptized ´Ethiopia´), the Zenawi administration, possessed by racist hysteria, anti-Islamic madness and tribal hatred against the Islamic Nation of Ogaden, repeatedly withheld aid sent for Ogaden, diverting it to criminal death squads that spread terror in Ogaden and other parts of the inhumanly tyrannized country.
Only 18% of the country´s population (namely the Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic Abyssinians) staff and therefore control the Abyssinian (´Ethiopian´) "diplomatic" body, using their position´s privileges to continue and complete the ongoing Genocide of Ogaden). Misinforming the international community through a network of unrepresentative embassies, the tribal pseudo-diplomats of Amhara and Tigray origin are common liars and monstrous accomplices of Africa´s most recent Genocide. The world community cannot afford to allow them perpetrate against the Ogadenis what Hitler´s Nazi Germany carried out against the European Jewry.
It is therefore a matter of the utmost urgency for the UN, the US and the European aid agencies, as well as the world´s leading Humanitarian agencies and NGOs, to contact the political leadership of the Ogadeni Nation, the Ogaden National Liberation Front, and cooperate with them in the creation of an International Humanitarian Corridor in Ogaden. In case the criminal racist state of ´Ethiopia´ does not immediately accept this measure, which is the only to prevent a humanitarian disaster of unprecedented scale, the way will be open for an immediate UN Security Council resolution and deployment of UN peacekeeping troops throughout Ogaden. I republish here the recent ONLF press release which calls for an International Humanitarian Corridor in Ogaden, and an insightful feature on the US aid which is under preparation, published in the portal Afrik.
The Americans have got a great and brilliant tradition in sending humanitarian aid; on the other hand, they are proverbial in terms of inefficiency when it comes to conflicts they never had the slightest idea about, Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia being some of the examples. In this case, if American aid reaches the racist Amhara and Tigray death squads of Meles Zenawi, the cannibal friend of Jendayi Frazer, the US aid services will stand accused for contribution to Genocide. When it comes to Ogaden, the only interlocutor for the UN, America and Europe is the ONLF. ONLF Call For International Humanitarian Corridor In Ogaden http://onlf.org/onlfpress15sep2008.htmlPress Release15 September 2008
The scope and severity of the famine in Ogaden, coupled with soaring food prices mainly as a result of the economic blockade of Ogaden by the Ethiopian regime, has brought the Ogaden to the brink of a man made humanitarian catastrophe. The Ethiopian regime continues to severely restrict humanitarian assistance to our people while using what little food aid that gets through as a political weapon aimed at collectively our villagers and nomads. The United Nations has been largely unsuccessful at distributing humanitarian assistance to the Ogaden specifically due to the blatant and frequent obstacles presented by the Ethiopian regime. Independent aid agencies have been largely banned from the region with no indications they will be allowed to return despite the worsening humanitarian situation.
It is due to this reality that the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) on behalf of the people of Ogaden calls upon the international community to realize an immediate emergency international humanitarian corridor in Ogaden. Such a corridor is not without precedent and is both appropriate and implementable in the Ogaden. A humanitarian corridor can be demilitarized if Ethiopian troops do not escort or interfere with humanitarian aid convoys. As we have stated on numerous occasions, the ONLF is prepared to do all that is necessary to facilitate the distribution of food aid in Ogaden including working with the international community to realize a functioning emergency international humanitarian corridor.
Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) US comes to Ethiopia´s rescue http://en.afrik.com/article14522.htmlDrought-affected communities in Ethiopia will receive an additional food aid package of nearly US$ 60 million from the US through the UN World Food Programme, it was officially announced Thursday.The US Agency for International Development (USAID) said the relief contribution provided by America consisted of nearly 72,000 metric tonnes (MT) of food, including approximately 33,000 MT of sorghum, 33,000 MT of wheat, 5,000 MT of corn soya blend (CSB), and 1,000 MT of vegetable oil.
UN and non-governmental relief agencies operating in Ethiopia reported that increasing food insecurity and malnutrition in some areas of the country were posing a serious challenge to humanitarian response activities.For instance, reports said the overall humanitarian situation in the south-eastern Somali Region had worsened due to progressive shortages of water and food.The US is the largest donor of emergency food assistance to Ethiopia.Since October 2007, the American people have provided more than 804,000 MT of food assistance to the disaster-prone East African country.
Given through USAID´s Office of Food for Peace, the assistance was valued at nearly US$ 627 million and it included more than US$ 324 million in emergency food commodities and more than US$ 302 million in contributions to the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), a multi-donor effort led by the Ethiopian government to a ddress chronic food insecurity.Meanwhile, Assistant Administrator of the USAID´s Bureau of Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, Michael Hess, and Jeff Borns, Director of the Office of Food for Peace, are currently visiting Ethiopia to meet with government officials and representatives from humanitarian organisations and analyse the effectiveness of the American humanitarian assistance in affected areas.
During their 15-19 September 2008 tour, Hess and Borns have travelled to Somali and Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples regions of Ethiopia to observe USA ID-funded programmes and meet with regional officials and USAID partners.According to the Somali Regional Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Bureau, food and water shortages have reached critical levels in many areas of the region leading to increased rural-urban migration.Affected areas include Korahe, Warder, Degehabur, Gode, Fik and parts of Liben and Afder zones.Also, WFP reported that the region remained of particular concern due to erratic dispatches of food assistance.
Constant increase in food prices has compounded food insecurity while livestock mortality is escalating due to extreme shortages of water and pasture and drought-related diseases.With concern growing about the likely exacerbation of drought conditions as the July-September rains in Jijiga and Shinile zones are nearing a failure, regional officials said priority responses should be immediate interventions in food, in come and livelihood protection support, animal feeds and water supply.According to WFP, increasing needs of food assistance in Ethiopia remained the leading factor challenging timely and adequate response activities.The agency currently faces a resource shortfall totaling 145,690 MT of relief food valued at US$ 118.9 million.
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis September 19, 2008
Only 18% of the country´s population (namely the Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic Abyssinians) staff and therefore control the Abyssinian (´Ethiopian´) "diplomatic" body, using their position´s privileges to continue and complete the ongoing Genocide of Ogaden). Misinforming the international community through a network of unrepresentative embassies, the tribal pseudo-diplomats of Amhara and Tigray origin are common liars and monstrous accomplices of Africa´s most recent Genocide. The world community cannot afford to allow them perpetrate against the Ogadenis what Hitler´s Nazi Germany carried out against the European Jewry.
It is therefore a matter of the utmost urgency for the UN, the US and the European aid agencies, as well as the world´s leading Humanitarian agencies and NGOs, to contact the political leadership of the Ogadeni Nation, the Ogaden National Liberation Front, and cooperate with them in the creation of an International Humanitarian Corridor in Ogaden. In case the criminal racist state of ´Ethiopia´ does not immediately accept this measure, which is the only to prevent a humanitarian disaster of unprecedented scale, the way will be open for an immediate UN Security Council resolution and deployment of UN peacekeeping troops throughout Ogaden. I republish here the recent ONLF press release which calls for an International Humanitarian Corridor in Ogaden, and an insightful feature on the US aid which is under preparation, published in the portal Afrik.
The Americans have got a great and brilliant tradition in sending humanitarian aid; on the other hand, they are proverbial in terms of inefficiency when it comes to conflicts they never had the slightest idea about, Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia being some of the examples. In this case, if American aid reaches the racist Amhara and Tigray death squads of Meles Zenawi, the cannibal friend of Jendayi Frazer, the US aid services will stand accused for contribution to Genocide. When it comes to Ogaden, the only interlocutor for the UN, America and Europe is the ONLF. ONLF Call For International Humanitarian Corridor In Ogaden http://onlf.org/onlfpress15sep2008.htmlPress Release15 September 2008
The scope and severity of the famine in Ogaden, coupled with soaring food prices mainly as a result of the economic blockade of Ogaden by the Ethiopian regime, has brought the Ogaden to the brink of a man made humanitarian catastrophe. The Ethiopian regime continues to severely restrict humanitarian assistance to our people while using what little food aid that gets through as a political weapon aimed at collectively our villagers and nomads. The United Nations has been largely unsuccessful at distributing humanitarian assistance to the Ogaden specifically due to the blatant and frequent obstacles presented by the Ethiopian regime. Independent aid agencies have been largely banned from the region with no indications they will be allowed to return despite the worsening humanitarian situation.
It is due to this reality that the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) on behalf of the people of Ogaden calls upon the international community to realize an immediate emergency international humanitarian corridor in Ogaden. Such a corridor is not without precedent and is both appropriate and implementable in the Ogaden. A humanitarian corridor can be demilitarized if Ethiopian troops do not escort or interfere with humanitarian aid convoys. As we have stated on numerous occasions, the ONLF is prepared to do all that is necessary to facilitate the distribution of food aid in Ogaden including working with the international community to realize a functioning emergency international humanitarian corridor.
Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) US comes to Ethiopia´s rescue http://en.afrik.com/article14522.htmlDrought-affected communities in Ethiopia will receive an additional food aid package of nearly US$ 60 million from the US through the UN World Food Programme, it was officially announced Thursday.The US Agency for International Development (USAID) said the relief contribution provided by America consisted of nearly 72,000 metric tonnes (MT) of food, including approximately 33,000 MT of sorghum, 33,000 MT of wheat, 5,000 MT of corn soya blend (CSB), and 1,000 MT of vegetable oil.
UN and non-governmental relief agencies operating in Ethiopia reported that increasing food insecurity and malnutrition in some areas of the country were posing a serious challenge to humanitarian response activities.For instance, reports said the overall humanitarian situation in the south-eastern Somali Region had worsened due to progressive shortages of water and food.The US is the largest donor of emergency food assistance to Ethiopia.Since October 2007, the American people have provided more than 804,000 MT of food assistance to the disaster-prone East African country.
Given through USAID´s Office of Food for Peace, the assistance was valued at nearly US$ 627 million and it included more than US$ 324 million in emergency food commodities and more than US$ 302 million in contributions to the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), a multi-donor effort led by the Ethiopian government to a ddress chronic food insecurity.Meanwhile, Assistant Administrator of the USAID´s Bureau of Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance, Michael Hess, and Jeff Borns, Director of the Office of Food for Peace, are currently visiting Ethiopia to meet with government officials and representatives from humanitarian organisations and analyse the effectiveness of the American humanitarian assistance in affected areas.
During their 15-19 September 2008 tour, Hess and Borns have travelled to Somali and Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples regions of Ethiopia to observe USA ID-funded programmes and meet with regional officials and USAID partners.According to the Somali Regional Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Bureau, food and water shortages have reached critical levels in many areas of the region leading to increased rural-urban migration.Affected areas include Korahe, Warder, Degehabur, Gode, Fik and parts of Liben and Afder zones.Also, WFP reported that the region remained of particular concern due to erratic dispatches of food assistance.
Constant increase in food prices has compounded food insecurity while livestock mortality is escalating due to extreme shortages of water and pasture and drought-related diseases.With concern growing about the likely exacerbation of drought conditions as the July-September rains in Jijiga and Shinile zones are nearing a failure, regional officials said priority responses should be immediate interventions in food, in come and livelihood protection support, animal feeds and water supply.According to WFP, increasing needs of food assistance in Ethiopia remained the leading factor challenging timely and adequate response activities.The agency currently faces a resource shortfall totaling 145,690 MT of relief food valued at US$ 118.9 million.
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis September 19, 2008
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Paris Hotel Receptionists: the Only Interlocutors for Pseudo-State Somaliland's "President" RiyaleDr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Orientalist, Historian, Political Scientist, Dr. Megalommatis, 51, is the author of 12 books, dozens of scholarly articles, hundreds of encyclopedia entries, and thousands of articles. He speaks, reads and writes more than 15, modern and ancient, languages. He refuted Greek nationalism, supported Martin Bernal´s Black Athena, and rejected the Greco-Romano-centric version of History. He pleaded for the European History by J. B. Duroselle, and defended the rights of the Turkish, Pomak, Macedonian, Vlachian, Arvanitic, Latin Catholic, and Jewish minorities of Greece. Born Christian Orthodox, he adhered to Islam when 36, devoted to ideas of Muhyieldin Ibn al Arabi.
Greek citizen of Turkish origin, Prof. Megalommatis studied and/or worked in Turkey, Greece, France, England, Belgium, Germany, Syria, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Egypt and Russia, and carried out research trips throughout the Middle East, Northeastern Africa and Central Asia. His career extended from Research & Education, Journalism, Publications, Photography, and Translation to Website Development, Human Rights Advocacy, Marketing, Sales & Brokerage. He traveled in more than 80 countries in 5 continents. He defends the Right of Aramaeans, Oromos, Ogadenis, Sidamas, Berbers, Afars, Anuak, Darfuris, Bejas, Balochs and Tibetans to National Independence, demands international recognition for Kosovo, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, and Transnistria, calls for National Unity in Somalia, and denounces Islamic Terrorism.author's emailauthor's web siteview author's other articlesview author's RSS feedJoin this author's mailing list
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Print Article Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis October 02, 2008 Following the social and political decomposition of the erratic pseudo-state of Somaliland, formed under Abyssinian ('Ethiopian') guidance and colonialist anti-Somali involvement, the illegitimate local puppet of the Abyssinian tyrant Zenawi, 'president' Riyale, thought opportune to travel abroad in order to boost his image of shameful tribal thug, murderous tyrant, and ridiculous puppet of the Abyssinians.
What this silly and burlesque type of thug forgot is that Paris is not Addis Ababa (as Finfinnee, the Oromo capital, is named in the tyrannical realm of Abyssinia) where Riyale travels to posture as president when he is among those whom he serves as a shameful puppet. In fact, only the hotel receptionists were ready to meet this comical visitor whose budget was made entirely out of money stolen from the Northern Somalis who - tyrannized by Riyale's militias - passionately desire peace to prevail in the Somali South, and the Islamic Somali patriots to enter Hargeysa.
In my earlier article 'Somaliland - the Clowns of the Lost Recognition, and their End' (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/61550), I wrote the following:
"It was just a myth; that of a part of Somali territory being calm and ´still´ functioning as a state. The myth was enhanced by narratives about the peaceful image of Berbera, the illegal harbour of the permanently anti-Somali Abyssinians in … Somalia.
The myth sounded logical; many believed that some Somalis wished to keep their lives far from the Mogadishu troubles. It could be true.
The myth was enriched with reconfirmations, justifications and explanations based on historical events. Northwestern Somalia had indeed crossed difficult times during the Siyad Barre presidency in the 80s.
Then, the myth started being transformed into an anecdote. If peace is preserved in Hargeysa, during the Civil Strife in the Somali South, why does the precarious and unrecognized state of Somaliland demand international recognition? Why on earth can´t the Hargeysa authorities discuss with the other Somalis, why can´t they help set up an all-Somali conference where everything will be discussed and a compromise will be reached in order to let all cohabitate under a re-unified Somalia?
As questions started arising about the possible intentions of the Hargeysa administrators (do not call them ministers or president, if you please!), the Somaliland anecdote turned out to be the Hargeysa comedy. Treacherously elected gang members went on with declarations of divisiveness and discord. Because of having been mistreated by someone who is not alive and whose collaborators can be retraced today throughout Somalia, among all parts, territories and parties, the Hargeysa clowns ´decided´ that the prefab ´Somaliland´ should go alone, and embarked on an all-consuming, unrealistic, heart-breaking, quixotic, and definitely un-Somali effort to obtain an otherwise impossible recognition.
The so-called Hargeysa ministers became the Clowns of the Lost Recognition, and every foreign visitor who happened to belong to an elected or unelected government was portrayed as herald of Somaliland´s recognition. But the recognition never came! Even worse, those who promised help did not deliver, and this happened despite the facilities offered to them.
We talk of course about the traditional, historical, and vicious enemies of Somalia, the Abyssinians; they promised help, if offered facilities at the Berbera harbour. What would become of Abyssinia, fallaciously re-baptized Ethiopia, if Somaliland closed it borders or asked the same high customs duties as those demanded at the Djibouti harbour? Yet, the Abyssinian allies of the Hargeysa ignorant, inexperienced and panicked rulers have a local liaison office at Hargeysa that they don´t dare promote to the level of consulate or embassy, as it would signify direct recognition of Somaliland. Why? The reason is simple; if they do so, they may eventually influence other countries in doing so. This does not correspond to the real interests of the Neo-Nazi Abyssinian gangsters around the Tigray tyrant Meles Zenawi; if this happened, they would lose all the leverage they have been exercising over Hargeysa. The Hargeysa clowns are therefore constrained to play in a tragedy".
The tragedy of Riyale, besotted pilgrim in an indifferent capital where he counts less than the local cockroaches, was plainly revealed in an article written by a Northern Somali. To therefore shed more light on the issue, I republish the insightful feature from the Somali patriotic blog gargaar.blogspot.com that I strongly recommend to your attention.
http://gargaar.blogspot.com/2008/09/somalilandnews-analysis-inconsequential.html
(also published in: http://www.somalilandcenter.com/content/view/1229/32/)
Hargeisa (Observer): Without much fanfare or explanation President Riyale departed for Europe last week. His first stop Paris. But even his envoy to France, Mohamoud Salah Nur, was not aware of his plans. Sources close to the presidency say that Mr. Nur was told of the trip just 2 nights before departure. He could not go with the President because his visa had expired, but reports indicate that he was able to join the delegation for some of his end of visit meetings after French Embassy in Djibouti expedited his travel. The President´s Foreign Minister, had also been scheduled to go to London and apparently was left out of this important trip.
In the meantime, the two top leaders of the House of Representatives have been on a never ending overseas junket. We do not know at whose expenses, but we certainly know they were not doing the job they are being paid to do. Just this month, Chairman Abdirahman Mohamed Irro and Deputy-Chairman Sheikh Abdilasis Samale first traveled to Nairobi, came back for just two days, only to embark on a European tour of their own. By some accounts, they may have spent more time on these trips then at the House of Representatives. The two parliamentarians almost always send back press reports of their meetings with the international diplomatic corps as well as senior government officials in the countries they visit. But they were not elected for that job.
They were elected to lead the legislature and the legislature is clearly floundering. No sessions of consequences have been held at the Parliament for more than a year now. Moreover, on these foreign trips, the Observer was told by reliable sources, that they never receive briefings or guidance from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. No one knows whether their discussions with foreign diplomats supports or diminishes our own government´s doctrine and strategy (if there are any). They are literally running a foreign policy of their own. At the time the President was meeting with French officials, Chairman Irro sent out press releases indicating Norway to be Somaliland´s best friend in Europe. Benign statement perhaps, but it is certain that nothing was coordinated between the two delegations.
On Wednesday, the President left France for Germany. French journalists contacted by the Observer say not much has happened in Paris. He was not officially received. No meeting with
President Sarkozy, but only with Bruno Joubert, Elysee Palace´s Africa Adviser. There is no Foccart anymore at the Elysee and in any case, the Africa adviser usually concerns himself with former French colonies. At the Quai d´Orsay, the President could not secure a meeting with Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, who does know something about Somaliland´s struggle nor with Deputy Foreign Minister who certainly knows a lot about Africa. The Presidents team could only manage a meeting with Mr. Jean de Gliniasty, the Director for Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands at the Ministry. All told, the same level of meetings other Somaliland dignitaries already had with French authorities.
The President did not even bother to meet with the energetic Somaliland community in France. No side trips to Lyons, the hub of the Somaliland Community in France, which is just a one-hour ride on the very comfortable TGV.
Greek citizen of Turkish origin, Prof. Megalommatis studied and/or worked in Turkey, Greece, France, England, Belgium, Germany, Syria, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Egypt and Russia, and carried out research trips throughout the Middle East, Northeastern Africa and Central Asia. His career extended from Research & Education, Journalism, Publications, Photography, and Translation to Website Development, Human Rights Advocacy, Marketing, Sales & Brokerage. He traveled in more than 80 countries in 5 continents. He defends the Right of Aramaeans, Oromos, Ogadenis, Sidamas, Berbers, Afars, Anuak, Darfuris, Bejas, Balochs and Tibetans to National Independence, demands international recognition for Kosovo, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, and Transnistria, calls for National Unity in Somalia, and denounces Islamic Terrorism.author's emailauthor's web siteview author's other articlesview author's RSS feedJoin this author's mailing list
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Print Article Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis October 02, 2008 Following the social and political decomposition of the erratic pseudo-state of Somaliland, formed under Abyssinian ('Ethiopian') guidance and colonialist anti-Somali involvement, the illegitimate local puppet of the Abyssinian tyrant Zenawi, 'president' Riyale, thought opportune to travel abroad in order to boost his image of shameful tribal thug, murderous tyrant, and ridiculous puppet of the Abyssinians.
What this silly and burlesque type of thug forgot is that Paris is not Addis Ababa (as Finfinnee, the Oromo capital, is named in the tyrannical realm of Abyssinia) where Riyale travels to posture as president when he is among those whom he serves as a shameful puppet. In fact, only the hotel receptionists were ready to meet this comical visitor whose budget was made entirely out of money stolen from the Northern Somalis who - tyrannized by Riyale's militias - passionately desire peace to prevail in the Somali South, and the Islamic Somali patriots to enter Hargeysa.
In my earlier article 'Somaliland - the Clowns of the Lost Recognition, and their End' (http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/61550), I wrote the following:
"It was just a myth; that of a part of Somali territory being calm and ´still´ functioning as a state. The myth was enhanced by narratives about the peaceful image of Berbera, the illegal harbour of the permanently anti-Somali Abyssinians in … Somalia.
The myth sounded logical; many believed that some Somalis wished to keep their lives far from the Mogadishu troubles. It could be true.
The myth was enriched with reconfirmations, justifications and explanations based on historical events. Northwestern Somalia had indeed crossed difficult times during the Siyad Barre presidency in the 80s.
Then, the myth started being transformed into an anecdote. If peace is preserved in Hargeysa, during the Civil Strife in the Somali South, why does the precarious and unrecognized state of Somaliland demand international recognition? Why on earth can´t the Hargeysa authorities discuss with the other Somalis, why can´t they help set up an all-Somali conference where everything will be discussed and a compromise will be reached in order to let all cohabitate under a re-unified Somalia?
As questions started arising about the possible intentions of the Hargeysa administrators (do not call them ministers or president, if you please!), the Somaliland anecdote turned out to be the Hargeysa comedy. Treacherously elected gang members went on with declarations of divisiveness and discord. Because of having been mistreated by someone who is not alive and whose collaborators can be retraced today throughout Somalia, among all parts, territories and parties, the Hargeysa clowns ´decided´ that the prefab ´Somaliland´ should go alone, and embarked on an all-consuming, unrealistic, heart-breaking, quixotic, and definitely un-Somali effort to obtain an otherwise impossible recognition.
The so-called Hargeysa ministers became the Clowns of the Lost Recognition, and every foreign visitor who happened to belong to an elected or unelected government was portrayed as herald of Somaliland´s recognition. But the recognition never came! Even worse, those who promised help did not deliver, and this happened despite the facilities offered to them.
We talk of course about the traditional, historical, and vicious enemies of Somalia, the Abyssinians; they promised help, if offered facilities at the Berbera harbour. What would become of Abyssinia, fallaciously re-baptized Ethiopia, if Somaliland closed it borders or asked the same high customs duties as those demanded at the Djibouti harbour? Yet, the Abyssinian allies of the Hargeysa ignorant, inexperienced and panicked rulers have a local liaison office at Hargeysa that they don´t dare promote to the level of consulate or embassy, as it would signify direct recognition of Somaliland. Why? The reason is simple; if they do so, they may eventually influence other countries in doing so. This does not correspond to the real interests of the Neo-Nazi Abyssinian gangsters around the Tigray tyrant Meles Zenawi; if this happened, they would lose all the leverage they have been exercising over Hargeysa. The Hargeysa clowns are therefore constrained to play in a tragedy".
The tragedy of Riyale, besotted pilgrim in an indifferent capital where he counts less than the local cockroaches, was plainly revealed in an article written by a Northern Somali. To therefore shed more light on the issue, I republish the insightful feature from the Somali patriotic blog gargaar.blogspot.com that I strongly recommend to your attention.
http://gargaar.blogspot.com/2008/09/somalilandnews-analysis-inconsequential.html
(also published in: http://www.somalilandcenter.com/content/view/1229/32/)
Hargeisa (Observer): Without much fanfare or explanation President Riyale departed for Europe last week. His first stop Paris. But even his envoy to France, Mohamoud Salah Nur, was not aware of his plans. Sources close to the presidency say that Mr. Nur was told of the trip just 2 nights before departure. He could not go with the President because his visa had expired, but reports indicate that he was able to join the delegation for some of his end of visit meetings after French Embassy in Djibouti expedited his travel. The President´s Foreign Minister, had also been scheduled to go to London and apparently was left out of this important trip.
In the meantime, the two top leaders of the House of Representatives have been on a never ending overseas junket. We do not know at whose expenses, but we certainly know they were not doing the job they are being paid to do. Just this month, Chairman Abdirahman Mohamed Irro and Deputy-Chairman Sheikh Abdilasis Samale first traveled to Nairobi, came back for just two days, only to embark on a European tour of their own. By some accounts, they may have spent more time on these trips then at the House of Representatives. The two parliamentarians almost always send back press reports of their meetings with the international diplomatic corps as well as senior government officials in the countries they visit. But they were not elected for that job.
They were elected to lead the legislature and the legislature is clearly floundering. No sessions of consequences have been held at the Parliament for more than a year now. Moreover, on these foreign trips, the Observer was told by reliable sources, that they never receive briefings or guidance from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. No one knows whether their discussions with foreign diplomats supports or diminishes our own government´s doctrine and strategy (if there are any). They are literally running a foreign policy of their own. At the time the President was meeting with French officials, Chairman Irro sent out press releases indicating Norway to be Somaliland´s best friend in Europe. Benign statement perhaps, but it is certain that nothing was coordinated between the two delegations.
On Wednesday, the President left France for Germany. French journalists contacted by the Observer say not much has happened in Paris. He was not officially received. No meeting with
President Sarkozy, but only with Bruno Joubert, Elysee Palace´s Africa Adviser. There is no Foccart anymore at the Elysee and in any case, the Africa adviser usually concerns himself with former French colonies. At the Quai d´Orsay, the President could not secure a meeting with Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, who does know something about Somaliland´s struggle nor with Deputy Foreign Minister who certainly knows a lot about Africa. The Presidents team could only manage a meeting with Mr. Jean de Gliniasty, the Director for Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands at the Ministry. All told, the same level of meetings other Somaliland dignitaries already had with French authorities.
The President did not even bother to meet with the energetic Somaliland community in France. No side trips to Lyons, the hub of the Somaliland Community in France, which is just a one-hour ride on the very comfortable TGV.
the Hell of Tyrant Riyale, the world community's most isolated pariah.
As the eyes of the global community turn to historical places of the Somali coast that were unduly and undeservedly forgotten by the prefabricated Western mass media, the phenomenon of piracy – which is at the basis of the fresh Western interest – tends to expand to the northern confines of Somalia that constitute the Horn of Africa's most chaotic realm.
The reason is simple; where despair invades the hearts and desolation prevails in the minds of undeservedly deprived people, piracy becomes an attractive alternative for anyone who would thus highlight his existence to the eyes of a heartless and insensitive world community that permitted themselves to spend 17 years without a proper concern for the injustices caused to Somalia. The effort can in addition bring some money to the performers, and this is definitely good.
Why not?
The disreputable trash of appointed and unrepresentative Somali prime minister Nur Adde, who turned over to the Abyssinian evil gangster and pseudo-general Gabre money entrusted to the 'government' of Somalia in form of aid and assistance, dared sell his own country in this most disreputable way. Only he will make money then?
Americans and Europeans failed to understand thus far that the deeds of the trashy pseudo-Somali prime minister are equivalent to De Gaulle turning American funds to German generals stationing in WW II occupied France.
The hope exists that through many similar acts and greatly unpleasant surprises for the Western countries, a solution of the problems of Somalia will be imposed, involving the
the withdrawal of the Abyssinian death squads and criminals who impersonate a pseudo-national army,
the elimination of the unrepresentative TFG regime,
the collapse and dissolution of the separatist puppet regimes of Garowe and Hargeysa (Puntland and Somaliland),
the imposition of an Islamic Republic of Somalia where many parties will shape a new national administration,
the complete punishment of all warlords,
the liberation of Ogaden,
the secession of the Somali province of Kenya, and
the dissolution of Djibouti with the merge of part of its territory (inhabited by Issas) with Somalia.
So, one must expect the generalization of the phenomenon because the reasons that triggered it are present; until Jendayi Frazer is removed from her position and impeached for tolerating a genocide in Ogaden, all the Somalis of the coast will find it great to become pirates.
If in the process they are killed, they will be as great heroes as the European anti-Nazi WW II fighters and partisans.
The diffusion of the passion for piracy as last tool for fair treatment for Somalia and for replacement of the monstrous authorities of the fake state of Somaliland with UN peace keeping soldiers is attested in the recent news from the breakaway lawless pseudo-state.
Northern Somalis, who passionately want to turn 'president' Riyale's tyranny to mere ashes and are determined to eliminate the presence of Amhara and Tigray Abyssinian devils from the northern parts of Somalia, have been arrested for plotting pirate attacks.
You arrest these guys, but the others will be successful; and the world community will understand that Riyale's thugs have to be guillotined if order and justice, rule and humanitarian concern are to prevail in Northern Somalia.
The event shows how deeply hated the illegal regime of Somaliland is, and to what extent the paranoid policies of Jendayi Frazer damaged the US interests in the Horn of Africa region.
I republish an insightful that sheds lights on the event, and at the same time, sounds like the funerals of the illegal pseudo-state of Riyale.
I then add an informative feature about the Harardhere case of piracy of an Ukrainian ship which seems to be the most impressive endeavour of the Somali pirates – thus far!
What comes next will certainly be even more astounding, and even more detrimental for the interests of all those who remained indifferent to the Drama of Somalia or – even worse – contributed to its materialization.
Berbera Court Sentences 5 Men to 15 years for Plotting Pirate Attacks
http://www.waaheen.com/index.php?action=view&id=1029&module=newsmodule&src=%40random48953494e4350
Berbera (Observer) - On 9 September, the Berbera regional court sentenced 5 men 15 years of imprisonment each for plotting sea piracy attacks. The Presiding Judge, Osman Dahir said that the me were caught red handed and that the prosecutors produced clear evidence that these 5 men and two others who were also sentenced in absentia were plotting attacks on ships in the Gulf of Aden.
Somaliland police arrested the men in Berbera. Police sources told Waaheen media that the men were hatching their scheme to launch pirate attacks using a small fishing boat. They also said that they confiscated weapons and other paraphernalia at the House a house were the arrests took place.
Sea piracy is becoming common place in the Gulf of Aden, but Somaliland ports have been fully free from piracy. No attacks are known to have been launched from Somaliland territory. Almost all the piracy that has taken near Somaliland / Somalia waters occur in nearby Puntland, which has no become notorious for pirate attacks. More than 11 ships are now held in Puntland.
Reports indicate that the men in Berbera, apparently all fishermen, were lured by reports of lucrative ransom gains in Puntland, where sea pirates are said to earn more than $30,000 a year.
Somalia:We Will Sink the Ukrainian Ship if Anyone Dares to Rescue, Says Pirate.
http://www.mareeg.com/fidsan.php?sid=8062&tirsan=3&PHPSESSID=6c991bc4d4c8e4e2d07b972709dfb8d2
Mareeg (MM) One of the pirates whose name Sugule Ali said that if the warships encircled them attempt to rescue the ship that they would drop the ship underwater. The pirates holding the Ukrainian ship carrying military hardware off Somali coast.
"We are armed and they are as well so if they try to force us we will force the ship to go under the water" Ali said in a telephone interview while he was on the Ukrainian ship.
He added that US has made contact with them and informed to them that they were going to prevent the weapons to drop off from the ship but don´t want to rescue the ship.
He added that they were unafraid on any attack from the Russian and US ship stay around the ship they hold.
Somali pirates who seized a Ukrainian freighter carrying arms were on Sunday surrounded by several foreign warships off Harardhere, in central Somalia, a ranking Somali official and witnesses said."We are getting information that three warships are tracking the pirates and two of them are very close to the hijacked ship," the adviser to the presidency of the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, Bile Mohamoud Qabowsade, said in Mogadishu by telephone."One of these ships is from the United States and the other two are from the European Union countries," he added.
The MV Faina was seized on Thursday with a crew of 21 as it neared the Kenyan port of Mombasa with a cargo of tanks, grenade launchers and ammunition for the Kenyan army. A tribal chief and local fishermen in Harardhere, around 410 kilometers (250 miles) north of Mogadishu, confirmed to Shabelle that they had seen the Ukrainian ship surrounded by at least two ships but were unable to say what nationality.
"The pirates are now surrounded near the village of Hinbarwaqo (between Harardhere and the port of Hobyo area) by western ships. They asked individuals in charge of the hijacking of the Ukranian ship to come aboard the navy ship for talks," the local clan elder, who asked not to be named, told Somali radio He said the navy ships were using loud speakers warning the pirates not to make any attempt to unload any of the cargo on board the ship. So far they had not responded to the invitation for talks.
A fisherman in Harardhere, Abdinasir Ahmed, told Shabelle he had seen two big ships in the vicinity of the hijacked ship, but had been unable to get any closer. Another elder, Ali Harun, said: "The pirates made contacts with friends on the ground and they are saying that at least two warships came close to them, I believe they have no chances of escaping with the shipment".
According to the Ukrainian defense ministry, the Faina is carrying 33 Soviet-type T-72 tanks as well as armaments being delivered by Kiev as part of an arms deal with Kenya. Seventeen Ukrainians are among the ship's 21-strong crew, which also includes three Russians and one Latvian.
The coastal waters off Somalia, which has not had an effective central government for more than 17 years and is plagued by insecurity, are considered to be among the most dangerous waterways for shipping in the world. Numerous UN-backed bids to restore stability in the nation of up to 10 million have failed.
Last year more than 25 ships were seized by pirates in Somali coastal waters despite US navy patrols, according to the International Maritime Bureau.
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
The reason is simple; where despair invades the hearts and desolation prevails in the minds of undeservedly deprived people, piracy becomes an attractive alternative for anyone who would thus highlight his existence to the eyes of a heartless and insensitive world community that permitted themselves to spend 17 years without a proper concern for the injustices caused to Somalia. The effort can in addition bring some money to the performers, and this is definitely good.
Why not?
The disreputable trash of appointed and unrepresentative Somali prime minister Nur Adde, who turned over to the Abyssinian evil gangster and pseudo-general Gabre money entrusted to the 'government' of Somalia in form of aid and assistance, dared sell his own country in this most disreputable way. Only he will make money then?
Americans and Europeans failed to understand thus far that the deeds of the trashy pseudo-Somali prime minister are equivalent to De Gaulle turning American funds to German generals stationing in WW II occupied France.
The hope exists that through many similar acts and greatly unpleasant surprises for the Western countries, a solution of the problems of Somalia will be imposed, involving the
the withdrawal of the Abyssinian death squads and criminals who impersonate a pseudo-national army,
the elimination of the unrepresentative TFG regime,
the collapse and dissolution of the separatist puppet regimes of Garowe and Hargeysa (Puntland and Somaliland),
the imposition of an Islamic Republic of Somalia where many parties will shape a new national administration,
the complete punishment of all warlords,
the liberation of Ogaden,
the secession of the Somali province of Kenya, and
the dissolution of Djibouti with the merge of part of its territory (inhabited by Issas) with Somalia.
So, one must expect the generalization of the phenomenon because the reasons that triggered it are present; until Jendayi Frazer is removed from her position and impeached for tolerating a genocide in Ogaden, all the Somalis of the coast will find it great to become pirates.
If in the process they are killed, they will be as great heroes as the European anti-Nazi WW II fighters and partisans.
The diffusion of the passion for piracy as last tool for fair treatment for Somalia and for replacement of the monstrous authorities of the fake state of Somaliland with UN peace keeping soldiers is attested in the recent news from the breakaway lawless pseudo-state.
Northern Somalis, who passionately want to turn 'president' Riyale's tyranny to mere ashes and are determined to eliminate the presence of Amhara and Tigray Abyssinian devils from the northern parts of Somalia, have been arrested for plotting pirate attacks.
You arrest these guys, but the others will be successful; and the world community will understand that Riyale's thugs have to be guillotined if order and justice, rule and humanitarian concern are to prevail in Northern Somalia.
The event shows how deeply hated the illegal regime of Somaliland is, and to what extent the paranoid policies of Jendayi Frazer damaged the US interests in the Horn of Africa region.
I republish an insightful that sheds lights on the event, and at the same time, sounds like the funerals of the illegal pseudo-state of Riyale.
I then add an informative feature about the Harardhere case of piracy of an Ukrainian ship which seems to be the most impressive endeavour of the Somali pirates – thus far!
What comes next will certainly be even more astounding, and even more detrimental for the interests of all those who remained indifferent to the Drama of Somalia or – even worse – contributed to its materialization.
Berbera Court Sentences 5 Men to 15 years for Plotting Pirate Attacks
http://www.waaheen.com/index.php?action=view&id=1029&module=newsmodule&src=%40random48953494e4350
Berbera (Observer) - On 9 September, the Berbera regional court sentenced 5 men 15 years of imprisonment each for plotting sea piracy attacks. The Presiding Judge, Osman Dahir said that the me were caught red handed and that the prosecutors produced clear evidence that these 5 men and two others who were also sentenced in absentia were plotting attacks on ships in the Gulf of Aden.
Somaliland police arrested the men in Berbera. Police sources told Waaheen media that the men were hatching their scheme to launch pirate attacks using a small fishing boat. They also said that they confiscated weapons and other paraphernalia at the House a house were the arrests took place.
Sea piracy is becoming common place in the Gulf of Aden, but Somaliland ports have been fully free from piracy. No attacks are known to have been launched from Somaliland territory. Almost all the piracy that has taken near Somaliland / Somalia waters occur in nearby Puntland, which has no become notorious for pirate attacks. More than 11 ships are now held in Puntland.
Reports indicate that the men in Berbera, apparently all fishermen, were lured by reports of lucrative ransom gains in Puntland, where sea pirates are said to earn more than $30,000 a year.
Somalia:We Will Sink the Ukrainian Ship if Anyone Dares to Rescue, Says Pirate.
http://www.mareeg.com/fidsan.php?sid=8062&tirsan=3&PHPSESSID=6c991bc4d4c8e4e2d07b972709dfb8d2
Mareeg (MM) One of the pirates whose name Sugule Ali said that if the warships encircled them attempt to rescue the ship that they would drop the ship underwater. The pirates holding the Ukrainian ship carrying military hardware off Somali coast.
"We are armed and they are as well so if they try to force us we will force the ship to go under the water" Ali said in a telephone interview while he was on the Ukrainian ship.
He added that US has made contact with them and informed to them that they were going to prevent the weapons to drop off from the ship but don´t want to rescue the ship.
He added that they were unafraid on any attack from the Russian and US ship stay around the ship they hold.
Somali pirates who seized a Ukrainian freighter carrying arms were on Sunday surrounded by several foreign warships off Harardhere, in central Somalia, a ranking Somali official and witnesses said."We are getting information that three warships are tracking the pirates and two of them are very close to the hijacked ship," the adviser to the presidency of the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, Bile Mohamoud Qabowsade, said in Mogadishu by telephone."One of these ships is from the United States and the other two are from the European Union countries," he added.
The MV Faina was seized on Thursday with a crew of 21 as it neared the Kenyan port of Mombasa with a cargo of tanks, grenade launchers and ammunition for the Kenyan army. A tribal chief and local fishermen in Harardhere, around 410 kilometers (250 miles) north of Mogadishu, confirmed to Shabelle that they had seen the Ukrainian ship surrounded by at least two ships but were unable to say what nationality.
"The pirates are now surrounded near the village of Hinbarwaqo (between Harardhere and the port of Hobyo area) by western ships. They asked individuals in charge of the hijacking of the Ukranian ship to come aboard the navy ship for talks," the local clan elder, who asked not to be named, told Somali radio He said the navy ships were using loud speakers warning the pirates not to make any attempt to unload any of the cargo on board the ship. So far they had not responded to the invitation for talks.
A fisherman in Harardhere, Abdinasir Ahmed, told Shabelle he had seen two big ships in the vicinity of the hijacked ship, but had been unable to get any closer. Another elder, Ali Harun, said: "The pirates made contacts with friends on the ground and they are saying that at least two warships came close to them, I believe they have no chances of escaping with the shipment".
According to the Ukrainian defense ministry, the Faina is carrying 33 Soviet-type T-72 tanks as well as armaments being delivered by Kiev as part of an arms deal with Kenya. Seventeen Ukrainians are among the ship's 21-strong crew, which also includes three Russians and one Latvian.
The coastal waters off Somalia, which has not had an effective central government for more than 17 years and is plagued by insecurity, are considered to be among the most dangerous waterways for shipping in the world. Numerous UN-backed bids to restore stability in the nation of up to 10 million have failed.
Last year more than 25 ships were seized by pirates in Somali coastal waters despite US navy patrols, according to the International Maritime Bureau.
Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Prologue to Assimilation Policy
Prologue to Assimilation Policy?
By : THE MAAN-HADAL TEAM
September 23, 2008
The latest session of the 'parliament' in the nominal Somali regional state enacted statues that are of high interest. First, men and women are to share their assets equitably in the event of a divorce and no more reference is to be made to the rules in the Sharia court. Second, the 'irksome' five-star in the corner of the regional flag is soon to be a thing of the past. Third, Friday is to be a working day.
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Somali regional flag |
When announcing this 'landmark' laws, there was no disguise of the contempt for the feelings and beliefs of the people in the region. The vulgarities were so vile, the insensitivity so audacious! In fact, a laurel wreath was proffered onto the head of the man who announced it- a man merely used as an amplifier by the real rulers of the region who originated the laws. What temerity!
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The Somali Region |
The people of Somaligalbeed will need its most living God to get the better of this massive attempt on its heritage and identity, if this is what we, indeed, think it is.
We suspect this is a prologue to a new policy of assimilation the regime in Addis Ababa is trying to implement in the region, along with the already pursued divide-and-rule policies. The explanations given for the introduction of these laws are an indication of the phased strategies hatched up to delink the blood, history, and destiny ties the people of the region had and have with their kins in Somalia. This hitherto concealed agenda is beginning to obtrude blatantly; betraying the lies of the regime about valuing the customs and identities of nations and nationalities of the inhabitants of Ethiopia.
The regime thinks the removal of the star and the shade of blue background from the not-so-scared flag will hopefully mean, all of a sudden, the people of the region will be insensitive to the atrocities committed in Somalia. It hopes it will end the desire to be a Somali and will usher the dawn of a new transformation. We think, beyond publicity, it won't go far. Indeed, the stooges in Jigjiga all looked drunk with well contrived misapprehension when their dishonest leadership announced that this measure is a step forward in the birth of a new sense of 'Ethiopianism' in the heart of the people of the region. Rigging facts is not something new with the regime and their implants. But one may still ask if this gratuitous euphoria have any chance of being a reality?
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The people of the region are burdened by a severe famine to care about the imposition of unenforceable laws by a despairing regime |
The Somali people are one in culture, religion and are intricately tied together by blood, bonded in marriages and share common livelihood sources. A mere elimination of a star will never stop the relation, but on the contrary, might act as a catalyst to solidify the affiliation and bolster self-awareness. It may wake up those who were asleep, oblivious to the danger lurking. Therefore, the euphoria is short-sighted. It will never impact on the social, political, cultural, psychological and economic attachment and interdependence among the Somali nation in the horn of Africa.
The people of the region are burdened by a severe famine to care about the imposition of unenforceable laws by a despairing regime. A regime that is busy expelling humanitarians and media people so that the cries of hungry children and the grief of abused mothers is not revealed to the world. Add this to the well founded reports by credible international human right organisations on the extra-judicial killings, arbitrary detentions and burning of villages committed by the Ethiopian army; and one would wonder if massive starvation is the right tool to arm-twist the Somaligalbeed people to sing in praise and long for the tri-coloured flag of Ethiopia.
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A woman sits with her family in Denan, Somali Region, Ethiopia amid signs of a major drought. Denan was the epicentre of the region's last drought in 2000. Somali Region, Ethiopia |
That Friday is going to be a working day is part of the phased attempt at the assimilation of the conquered natives. Perhaps, the decision on the rights of women and men is the most far-reaching. Apart from the questionable motives and the challenges around the operationalisation of the law, whether good or bad, the issue is, will it be accepted by the suspicious Somali's who see it as a dictation by the Christian highlanders? Even if one argues this particular decree was made for the welfare of the women and with good intentions, the method of delivery has sullied its value and reduced the chances for practical implementation. Not to mention the parochial and controversial nature of the law.
After the killings, arrests and mass starvation polices is this the latest weapon to subdue the 'unruly' Somali's? The designers of these laws must have dug deep and read all the lessons from French colonialism, for there is no better way of vanquishing a rebel than to force him/her to reject his/her self!
This new invention is particularly dangerous as it is targeted against the soul and sacred beliefs of the people. Whatever physical pain and loss is inflicted upon the Somaligalbeed people by the colonizers will heal with time. But, the shame and loss that follows the absconding of our values and core beliefs will alter who we are and will have an eternal sore in our soul and that of our progeny.
Therefore, the people of Somaligalbeed and their Somali brothers elsewhere must denounce and oppose this denial of religious rights and the blatant attack on their identity.
From our side, maybe, it is time we remind the strategists of this wicked policy, the living words of the eminent poet Jaamac Kadiye:
The sound I understand is a Somali
The genetics of me is a Somali
The way God created me is a Somali
He who I greet is a Somali
He who I share food with is a Somali
He who I befriend is a Somali
The perch I sleep on is a Somali
The land I walk on is a Somali
You find a Somali If you cut my skin
I object to the dissection and dalliance – (of those who wish to divide us)
Never will we be kept apart
I am a Somali, I am indivisible!!!
Ciidanka Nabadsugida ee Somaliland oo qorshaynaya Qarax & Dilsiyaasadeed
Hargeisa/4Oct.2008:-Warar xogogaala oo ka liigay sarakiil ka tirsan ciidanka nabadsugida Somaliland waxay rabaan dadka inay badbaadiyaan taasina ay ku iman karto in wadanka loo sameeyo caddow ummada lagu jeediyo oo dusha laga saaro falkan.
Dilka waxaa lala beegsan doonaa Madax iyo xildhibano u badan xisbiga Kulmiye sida sirtu u fakatay.warkan waxaa soo tabiyey sarkaal ka tirsan Ciidanka nabadsugida somaliland oo diiday in magaciisa la sheego. markaana taageerayaasha xisbiga Kulmiye ay sameeyaan argoosi la beegsado xildhibaano ka tirsan Xisbiga UDUB arrintuna faraha ka baxdo ooy noqoto meel aan rabay roob ma igu eryaday.
Muddo dhowr bilooda oo isdaba jooga waxaa yurup booqasho ku imanayey saraakiil ka tirsan ciidanka nabadsugida ee Somaliland oo marka sarakiishani timaado wadamada Yurup waxay la kulmaan waaxda dhabargooynta Islaamka tawxiidka adag .
Qarax iyo dilsiyaasadeed oo lala beegsado dadyoow magac iyo sharaf ku leh darka siyaasada Soomaliland laga shubo wuxuu yahay mid wajaha in xibiga Udub sii hayo talada waddanka iyo jufooyin ka soo jeeda Barriga Somaliland lagu tilmaamo argagaxiso qarsoon oon ishu qaban.
arintan markii la dhameeyey qorshaheeda waxaa la abaabulay diyaar garow in ciidanka poliska dhamaan la taxo jidadka u dhaxeeya Borama - Hargeisa. Hargaysa-Burco.dadweynuhuna ay la yaaban yihiin waxa keenay ciidanka tirada badan.
Wadamo badan ayaa isticmaala xirfadan marka dhaqaaluhu xumado iyo marka siyasaada hogaanku xumaato si loo sameeyo dhibaato dadka lagu jeediyo mudooyin.
Reer Somalindoow hadaba la socda sheekadan hadhoow ha odhan la iima sheegin
source:saylicipress.net
Abdi Ali
Hargaisa
Dilka waxaa lala beegsan doonaa Madax iyo xildhibano u badan xisbiga Kulmiye sida sirtu u fakatay.warkan waxaa soo tabiyey sarkaal ka tirsan Ciidanka nabadsugida somaliland oo diiday in magaciisa la sheego. markaana taageerayaasha xisbiga Kulmiye ay sameeyaan argoosi la beegsado xildhibaano ka tirsan Xisbiga UDUB arrintuna faraha ka baxdo ooy noqoto meel aan rabay roob ma igu eryaday.
Muddo dhowr bilooda oo isdaba jooga waxaa yurup booqasho ku imanayey saraakiil ka tirsan ciidanka nabadsugida ee Somaliland oo marka sarakiishani timaado wadamada Yurup waxay la kulmaan waaxda dhabargooynta Islaamka tawxiidka adag .
Qarax iyo dilsiyaasadeed oo lala beegsado dadyoow magac iyo sharaf ku leh darka siyaasada Soomaliland laga shubo wuxuu yahay mid wajaha in xibiga Udub sii hayo talada waddanka iyo jufooyin ka soo jeeda Barriga Somaliland lagu tilmaamo argagaxiso qarsoon oon ishu qaban.
arintan markii la dhameeyey qorshaheeda waxaa la abaabulay diyaar garow in ciidanka poliska dhamaan la taxo jidadka u dhaxeeya Borama - Hargeisa. Hargaysa-Burco.dadweynuhuna ay la yaaban yihiin waxa keenay ciidanka tirada badan.
Wadamo badan ayaa isticmaala xirfadan marka dhaqaaluhu xumado iyo marka siyasaada hogaanku xumaato si loo sameeyo dhibaato dadka lagu jeediyo mudooyin.
Reer Somalindoow hadaba la socda sheekadan hadhoow ha odhan la iima sheegin
source:saylicipress.net
Abdi Ali
Hargaisa
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