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PRESS RELEASE, 16 January 2011
Somaliland's SSC Occupation is a Threat to Peace in the Horn
NSUM:- Born out of terror, the one-clan secessionist enclave calling itself "Somaliland" has espoused terror as a means to achieve its ends from the moment it declared its secession.
A reconciliation conference held in Burco in May 1991 among Somalia's northern clans, including those from Sool, Sanaag and Cayn (SSC) regions, was hijacked by armed extremists belonging to the secessionist clan's Somali National Movement - a misnomer for a ruthless terrorist organization responsible for the collapse of the Somali State and much of the ensuing woes that befell the Somali people since then. Under duress, and as was dictated to them, the SSC delegates had little choice but to sign up to the secession declaration from Somalia. This treacherous background is the basis for this illegitimate "Somaliland" entity that remains to the present day a scourge on Somalia's unity, peace and revival.
The fact that the SSC delegates repudiated the secession once they were safely back in their regions is neither here nor there as far as the secessionists are concerned. From their perspective, and in their peculiar self-righteous reasoning, what counts and is binding is the declaration signed in Burco, albeit at gunpoint, and not the true stance of the SSC participants of the conference, or the fact that the overwhelming majority of the SSC people have nothing to do with the secession and are sworn to Somalia's unity and territorial integrity.
Availing themselves of the massive military arsenal left over by the disintegrated Somali national army, the one-clan based secessionists had sought from the outset to bring to heel all the unionist regions and clans in the north (former British Somaliland). Hegemony over others, and the misguided belief that full control of the area would lead to a certain recognition have been the rationale behind the enclave's chauvinistic warmongering. Towards this end, force and terror have been their principal tactics against recalcitrant unionist regions.
The peace-loving people in the Awdal region were the first to fall victim to this later-day incarnation of empire-building modelled on the ways of their former colonial master. After Awadal, it was the turn of the regions of Sool, Sanaag and Cayn (SSC), whose unshakeable commitment to the union has kept the secessionists at bay for many years but in the end succumbed to their overwhelming superiority in military hardware. Other than overall control, land grab and ethnic-cleansing have been the secessionists’ main objectives of their SSC invasion and occupation.
The plight of the regional capital, Lacanod, captured in October 2007, sums up the scars that the secessionist invasion and occupation have inflicted on the SSC regions. In the wake of the terror unleashed on the hapless population, over 100,000 of Lascanod's residents were forced to flee the city and seek refugee in the bush or even as far away as the Somali refugee camps in NE Kenya. This appalling picture, entailing human rights abuses and humanitarian crisis, has been replicated in varying degrees in all the areas occupied by the secessionists with little concern from the international community who appear to have been mesmerized by the secessionists' public relations razzmatazz.
The need of the SSC people for an end to the occupation and their suffering by peaceful means was dashed when Ahmed Mohamed (Siilaanyo) took over the "presidency" of "Somaliland". Those in the SSC who were vainly hoping him to have outgrown his bad old days as leader of a terrorist organization and metamorphosed into a visionary statesman in his old age had a rude reckoning before he even had time to settle in his post. As if he was back to his former job in the NSM, Siilaanyo's new marching orders to his militia in the SSC regions was to bring the whole SSC under their control. The realization that Puntland had no wish to defend SSC areas still technically part of it, or to liberate those that are occupied by the separatists have undoubtedly emboldened Somaliland's predatory appetite.
The town of Buuhoodle has acquired a do or die importance for the separatists, seeing its capture as completing their control of the whole SSC. And for this reason, they mobilized not only most of their occupation militia but also their clans as auxiliaries. Land grab, ethnic cleansing, and indiscriminate slaughter of unarmed SSC nomads unconnected with the fighting and the capture of others as "prisoners" are now the order of the day of their on-going campaign around Buuhoodle. Rather than surrender to the enemy's genocidal onslaughts, Buuhoole's SSC civilians are equally determined to defend their territory tooth and nail.
The current struggle between the secessionist invaders and SSC unionists is a replica of the struggles in the early 20th Century between the British colonizers, supported then by the forbearers of the present-day secessionists, and the nationalist Derwish movement from the SSC defending the country against alien occupation and partition. This time once again, the descendents of Britain's collaborators are fighting the offspring of the Darwish, using tactics reminiscent of the worst practices of the British colonial era aimed at dismembering Somalia just at the British played a leading role in the partition of the Somali home land in the Horn.
In the current battles for the soul of Somali unity, the separatists are using body count of the casualties they inflict on the occupied SSC people as an indicator of their military success and prowess. If such a measure could determine the outcome of this struggle, they can certainly consider themselves successful bearing in mind the number of innocent SSC civilians they killed throughout their occupation, not least in the recent clashes in Kalshaale, near Buuhoodle. But they are wrong on this count as they are on others. In reality, the separatist have dismally failed to achieve their primary objective of capturing the town, thanks to the gallant resistance of the civilian defenders who, through their sheer numbers, were able to repulse the invaders and inflict heavy losses on them.
The gulf between the jingoistic bloodthirsty political class beating war drums in Hargeisa and their miserable militia in the SSC could not have been so wide. Often unpaid, and away from their regions and families for long periods, Somaliland's militia have no stomach to perish in what they rightly see as a pointless colonial-like campaign aimed at conquering, suppressing and subjugating other clans who have no wish to be part of their secession and will never embrace it under any circumstances. Given the chance, most of the militia would have returned back to their homes and regions, and indeed many of them are already deserting in increasing numbers.
What is keeping the "Somaliland" militia in the SSC is a blinkered political class chasing the mirage of recognition and unwilling to face the realities. In a joint statement issued few days ago, leaders of the three political parties in the enclave are baying for more SSC blood, as if enough blood has not already been shed to no avail. How many more innocent SSC people do they need to kill to assuage their thirst for blood? What makes their stance incomprehensible is that they represent the very clan which had been orchestrating for the last 20 years the atrocities and injustices that former president Siyad Barre had committed against their people. And yet, they are doing the same thing to their SSC victims for no crime other than that they are condemned for being "agitators" and "rejectionists" (Somaliland diid) - in other words for remaining unionists.
No where else in the world other than Somalia does the international community tolerate, if not condone, an outlaw rebel clan not only to secede but in addition to unleash terror on peace-loving law abiding unionist clans and force them to join its criminal secession, and despite all this reward it as a de facto separate entity almost on equal footing with Somalia. No doubt the stance of the international community would have been different had there been a functioning Somali government. But then, the clan's secession and its "Somaliland" edifice would not have been around for so long if Somalia had such a government in the first place - which shows how much we need it for all sorts of reasons.
The absence of a functioning Somali government is no excuse for the international community to look the other way and ignore the separatists' crimes against humanity committed in the SSC regions. Their political and military leaders deserve to be indicted and tried by the International Criminal Court just as it did others from Kenya, Sudan and Sierra Leone for similar crimes. This is a matter for the SSC people, the TFG and human rights defenders to pursue and take the necessary action when its time comes.
Human rights violations in Somalia generally had become an accepted commonplace occurrence since the collapse of the Somali State. Its worst violators, those notorious warlords, are members of parliament or even held or hold the highest positions of the TFG. The time for impunity is over and a strong message should be sent by the international community that those who commit such crimes, whether in the north or south, would be held accountable for their actions.
Equally, the time for the international community to give serious consideration to the secession issue and in particular what the secessionists are doing to the SSC people and their regions is long overdue. It should do so now, not because human rights abuses are unacceptable but because what is happening in the SSC regions is going to adversely impact on the rest of Somalia and the stability of the wider Horn of Africa. The struggle between the unionist SSC people and their secessionist occupiers (Somaliland) is a theatre where three important issues in Somalia, namely the union, religion and clan solidarity all arise and conflate. Since one or more of these three issues touch the rest of Somalia and even neighboring countries, they are likely to be drawn to the conflict the longer it lasts.
For the benefit of the international community and outsiders, it is essential to grasp the clan dimension of the fighting in the SSC regions and see for what it is: It is purely a fighting between two clans who are both recognized by the international community as part of Somalia, notwithstanding "Somaliland's" self-serving pretensions to be a separate independent country. The first clan, Dhulbahante, hailing from the SSC regions, belong to the wider Darood clan, and want to remain in Somalia. On the other hand, the second clan, the Isaak, from the western and northern regions, claims to have unilaterally seceded from Somalia and is forcing the Dhulbahante and other unionist clans in the region to join the secession. For their part, the Isaak would like the world to believe that the fighting is between a government ("Somaliland") and some of its "dissident" regions (SSC). It rejects as unacceptable interference in the internal affairs of "Somaliland" anytime the TFG exercises its legitimate right to concern itself with the SSC affairs. This preposterous posturing has not won it any converts, not even Somalia's worst enemy.
The SSC is technically part of Puntland, a body whose raison d'etre is to protect its related clan members. Even if no help is forthcoming from the current Puntland administration, its clan members are most likely to come to the defence of the SSC people. Other related Darood clans in the rest of southern Somalia, or even in neighboring countries, could also easily get sucked into fighting in one way or another. As such, the clan dimension is a powder keg that could easily ignite the conflict into a wider conflagration. Proactive action now, requiring Somaliland's immediate withdrawal from the SSC regions, is the best insurance to contain the conflict.
Religion also has an important part to play in the conflict. For al-Shabaab jihadists, secession and the break-up of the Somali nation are cardinal Islamic sins and therefore an open invitation to the jihadists to intervene. Al-Ashabaab has strong followers and sympathizers among the Isaak, so much so that their leader, Ahmad Abdi Godane "Abu Zubayr", and many of his lieutenants are from the Isaak clan. It was al-Shabaab extremists under his orders who were responsible for three suicide bombings in Hargeisa in October 2007 that targeted the presidential palace, the Ethiopian trade office and the regional UN offices in which more than 20 people were killed. What the secessionists are doing in the SSC is not only terrorism but creating a fertile ground for al-Al Shabaab's own terror.
In addition to clan and religion, threats to the union could attract unionists across the clan divide. These three issues, namely religion, union and clan bonds and solidarity, are what bind Somalia and hence are the factors that are most likely to be at play in the conflict in the SSC regions. And it is for these reasons that the international community ought to intervene now before it is too late and address the fundamental problem in the north which is secession and the mother of all the problems in the north and wider Somalia.
The SSC people are not only fighting for their inalienable rights and land but above all to defend Somalia's unity and territorial integrity. It is a cause that calls on all Somalis, irrespective of their region or clan to play their part. Even if no such help materializes, the SSC people, true to their Derwish heritage, are determined to defend the unity of Somalia on their own, knowing that the longer the struggle in the SSC continues, the more Somaliland's position on the ground becomes untenable. There is no doubt that the SSC regions will be the graveyard for secession. Once defeated here in the SSC, it will never rear its ugly head again in Somalia or for that matter anywhere else in the rest of Africa.
/NSUM Exective Committee.
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Press Release, 1 february 2011,
Somaliland Militia unleash new aggression in Buuhoodle Region
Spawned by the terrorist organisation inappropriately called the Somali National Movement (SNM), the one-clan secessionist entity calling itself Somaliland has remained true to its genesis. Ever since they laid their hands on the weapons left behind by the disintegrated Somali national army after the collapse of the Somali State in 1991, waging war or unleashing terror against unionist clans in the north(former British Somaliland) has become their hallmark. Chasing the mirage of recognition, no means to achieve it has been excluded.. Thus, their first target and victim was the western Awdal region. And once this area was brought by force under their hegemony, it was the turn of the regions of Sool, Sanaag and Cayn (SSC)- regions that are technically part of Puntland but betrayed by its administration, letting Somaliland's militia capture Lascanod, the regional capital, in October 2007. The incalculable human, social and economic disaster they caused continue to linger.
The struggle between the SSC resistance to the occupation and to the forced secession and the militia of the occupying secessionist entity has entered a new and dangerous turn since Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud (Siilaanyo) was elected "president" of the enclave in July 2010. Hitherto, the conflict did not affect the peaceful coexistence among the SSC clans and neighbouring clans hailing from the secessionist heartland. All that unfortunately has changed to the detriment of the ordinary people on the both sides of the clan and regional divide.
What Siilaanyo has brought, apart from jumpstarting the quest for recognition, was an explicit new policy in which his clan is used as auxiliary forces in support of their militia. Their use is not only to fight alongside their militia against the SSC resistance but also to attack the non-combatant SSC nomads. Ethnic-cleansing, occupying new territory and weakening the support to the resistance are the driving forces behind Siilaanyo's new strategy to bring the SSC to heal. This strategy is doomed to failure and all it can achieve is to poison the long enduring peace among clans. It is easy to start clan conflict as Somali history attests to, but it is difficult to end it once the genie of tit-for-tat clan vendetta is out of the bottle. That is the heritage that Siilaanyo in his old age will bequeath these long suffering people.
In the latest assault on the defenders of Buuhoodle, Somaliland's militia and supporting clan auxiliaries have kidnapped 18 SSC nomads and taken them to Burco as "prisoners". If that was not a war crime, they went further and paraded them on the local television in contravention of the Geneva Convention.
Sadly, this is only one episode in this unravelling tragedy in which ordinary people on both sides will be the main victims. For the defenders of SSC, no price is high enough to defend their land and their inalienable right to remain part of Somalia. For the aggressors, they will gain nothing but hate and the loss of the invaluable peace they hitherto enjoyed.
It therefore behoves the international community, and in particular those who wield leverage over the secessionists, to counsel them to end their secession for the benefit of all Somalia, north and south, but as a minimum to get out of the SSC regions in which they have no right to occupy. The SSC regions and people are part of Somalia and it is the responsibility of the TFG to speak up and condemn this aggression against its territory and its people by the secessionists. It may not have the force to face the secessionists but it should mobilise international support to minimise their damage until such time as a future strong Somali government can deal with this one- clans secession once and for all.
NSUM Executive Committee
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Press Release, 19 June 2010
The self-styled foreign minister of the one-clan secessionist enclave calling itself
Somaliland, otherwise the NW region of Somalia,
is a charlatan who distinguished himself only for his ludicrous utterances. Among his baseless
but laughable mantra is his claim that Somaliland was recognised on independence by the United
Nations and numerous countries when no country did anything of the sort and the UN itself has no
power to recognise any country; A second assertion of his, which is raving bonkers, is that the area's
former colonial borders are still valid and recognised by the African Union when that is only a figment
of his own imagination. The AU cannot recognise borders that ceased to exist when the territory
concerned united with Italian Somaliland on the first July 1960. It only recognises those of Somalia.
A third claim is that Ethiopia's trade office in Hargeisa is an embassy and its head an ambassador- implying that Ethiopia had recognised the enclave! But Mr Duale's most preposterous and bizarre claim is that the regions of Sool, Sanaag and Cayn (SSC) in NW Somalia are the heritage of their clan, bequeathed to them by their former British colonial master whom they look up to as their blessed benefactor. Any time the TFG and the UN SRSG get involved in the SSC as it is their business, Mr Duale would scream foul, berating them for illegally trespassing on their internal affairs as if they were a separate country from Somalia and as if the people and regions of SSC were their clan's private property!!
Once again, Mr Duale has been dishing out his familiar antics in his recent interview with the BBC Somali Service in which he maliciously stamped the stigma of terrorism on Mr. Suleiman Cisse Ahmed, the leader of the recently established SSC Hogaan, which stands for the unity of Somalia and the liberation of the SSC regions. Mr. Cisse's crime in the eyes of Mr Duale (and his secessionist circles) is to state in an earlier BBC interview certain undeniable facts which are an anathema to the secessionists: firstly, that the SSC regions do not belong to Somaliland but are part and parcel of Somalia just as Somaliland itself is; and secondly, that the international community recognises Somalia's unity and its territorial integrity in which the SSC regions are an inseparable parts as Somaliland itself is.
What particularly stung Mr. Duale this time is Mr. Suleiman Cisse's incontestable assertion that they had been invaded and occupied by clan militia from the rebel entity based in Hargeisa and that they will exercise their inalienable right to liberate themselves from these outlaws. In their desperation to defend their indefensible occupation of the SSC regions, Mr. Duale and his secessionist renegades are now tarring the victims of their occupation with the terrorist label when in reality they are the real terrorists. Only those who live in a fantasy world like Duale's secessionists could imagine that the international community will fall for these ridiculous accusations.
The heinous crimes against humanity committed in the SSC regions by the secessionist occupiers speaks for itself. Over 100,000 of Lascanod's residents have been ethnic-cleansed and forced to flee the city most of them ending as refugees in camps in NE Kenya. The daily terror that the occupiers mete out to the occupied include rape, looting, killings, detentions without trials, frequent curfews as collective punishment, denial of the right to education, food and free movement. The recent massacre of innocent people in Widhwidh and Balle Hadhac , including women, children and the elderly, is their latest crime and the cynical crocodile tears Mr. Duale shed in his interview with the BBC only adds insult to injuries.
Just as the colonialists used to wrongly blame their subjects' quest for freedom as being waged by handful agitators, so Mr. Duale is blaming some SSC foreign passport holders for instigating and fanning the problems they face in the SSC regions. What Mr.Duale disingenuously does not acknowledge is that most of the members or leaders of Somaliland's political establishment are foreign passport holders; so also is their Diaspora abroad who are propping up the secession financially and politically. So, if it is right for their foreign passport holders to back up their enclave and its occupation of our regions, why is it wrong for the SSC Diaspora to come to the aid of their occupied and suffering people? The answer is that there is one rule for themselves and a different one for others.
The election Somaliland hopes to hold on 26 June is their last desperate act to hoodwink the international community that these elections can take place anywhere in the NW Region and that this is a testimony both to the support the secession has among all regions and clans and their collective desire for recognition. But the reality is otherwise, and the bitter bill they would have to swallow is that the three SSC regions and their people will have nothing to do with these elections despite the brute and indiscriminate force the secessionists are using to have their way. The message it sends it to the international community is clear: that the election sham is limited to one secessionist clan and should be seen as such.
Mr Duale should be left in no doubt that the SSC people will liberate themselves, that their secession is doomed to failure, that Somalia's unity will prevail and that there will be no hiding place for those who committed human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in the SSC regions. They will be hunted whether they live abroad or at home and brought to justice. It is not still too late for Mr Duale to repent, redeem himself and desert the sinking secessionist ship.
NSUM,
Executive Committee
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PRESS RELEASE
23 April 2010
Somaliland's reign of terror in the SSC regions
The strategic importance of the unionist regions of Sool, Sanaag and Cayn (SSC) to the success of the secession has not been lost upon the one-clan based separatists from the time they declared their breakaway from Somalia in May 1991. Though invariably wrong on most of their calculations, the secessionists have been right for once to see the SSC regions, formerly part of British Somaliland, as the lynchpin that binds together north and south Somalia. And as long as these regions remain part of Somalia, the clamour for recognition by the residual secessionist rump in the NW region would not make much headway with the international community for whom all clan-based secessions are reminiscent of those in Biafra, Katanga and their likes.
Though opposition to one-clan driven secession in any African country is the bedrock of the Charter of the African Union, the separatists reckon that the secession of the whole of the NW region from Somalia, encompassing by force or free will the whole of the territory and clans of former British Somaliland, might stand better prospects in gaining legitimacy. Counting their chickens that may never hatch, resting on possible support from some corrupt African leaders they bribed, or certain western countries temped by the areas coveted strategic importance, are what nourishes their illusory hopes for recognition. This delusion continues to dominate the psyche of the secessionists, rendering them blinkered, bigoted and so far averse to peaceful dialogue and reconciliation.
The need for recognition is not the sole reason the SSC regions are sought by the secessionists. High on the list is the economic factor. The abundant unexploited natural resources of the SSC regions have long been eyed by the secessionists who rightly see them as a future Eldorado that could transform the fortunes of their resource-impoverished enclave. For Dahir Riyale, leader of the rebel area, the secession has no emotional or ideological appeal to him. Indeed, he did much to crush it in his earlier profession when he was a trusted national security officer in the north during the rule of the late Mohamed Siyad Barre. Instead, he cynically sanctioned the capture of the SSC regions in order to boost his chances to keep his job at the forthcoming "presidential" election. This is the backdrop to the invasion and occupation of much of the SSC in October 2007, including its regional capital Lascanod.
The tyranny that the secessionists have inflicted on the occupied SSC regions following their invasioin and occupation is worse than anything the British had done to them anytime during its colonial rule except for the duration of the Darwiish war. This unbridled revegenist oppression visited upon the population has touched all aspects of their socio-economic life. Of the 120,000 pre-invasion population of Lacanod, only 20,000 now remain. The rest, close to 100,000 persons, have been forced to flee, most ending up in Kenya's Somali refugee camps while the rest are internally displaced.
Rather than embarking on something that might improve the lot of the occupied people, the occupiers resorted to mindless barbaric collective punishment, arbitrary detentions, economic deprivations and denial of basic human rights. "Deportation" of Somalis hailing from other regions, seen as illegal aliens, has gathered pace. Worse is the round-up of innocent Ogaden residents and their handover to Ethiopian security forces, a practice already well established in Hargeisa. A new and more worrying development is the indiscriminate detention of innocent civilians and their transfer to the notorious Mandera jail, not far from Hareida - now dubbed as Somaliland's Quantanamo detention centre for SSC detainees where they are routinely tortured.
The impact of all these heinous crimes is to still fear and insecurity among the population, forcing many more to leave the city, in particular the most productive groups. The forced depopulation of the city, the collapse of social services and businesses and the dire condiiton of the city's only hospital, now dysfunctional as doctors and other staff have run away from this reign of terror, are some of the most visible scars of this occupation at the hands of fellow Somali compatriots whose actions are worse than those of Somalia's worst enemies. The Northern Somalia Unionist Movement (NSUM) ,striving for the unity of Somalia and the end of the secession, is ready to provide detailed cases of human rights violations to interested human rights defenders in the UN and outside.
In the meantime, the SSC people, having failed to persuade the invaders to withdraw peacefully from the territory, will have no option but to double their efforts to liberate their territory. But even at this eleventh hour, it is never too late for commonsense to prevail over delusion. It is in everybody's interest that the secessionists withdraw from the SSC regions on their own accord and save themselves and everybody else pointless human and material losses. While no political leader from the secessionist enclave, with an eye on the forthcoming elections, may not have the temerity to speak out against the occupation, there is no reason why they should be inhibited after the election. The international community has the clout to push the separatists in that direction, given their indispensable aid and the leverage it bestows upon them.
The unionist regions of Sool, Sanaag and Cayn, true to their history as defenders of the Somali homeland against alien invaders and colonisers, are continuing to pay heavy sacrifices in defending Somalia's unity, this time against its internal clannish enemies. Despite the odds they face in terms of the strength of the enemy, yet no other groups in Somalia, whether clans, organisations, or individuals, have come to join or aid them in the defence of Somalia's unity. Worse, Somali governments established in Embagethi in Kenya and Djibouti, for whom the defence of the country against its external and internal enemies were their raison d'être, have been indifferent to their responsibilities, shamelessly engrossed in their own political survival and personal pecuniary pursuits. Thus the battle to maintain Somalia's unity has been left by default to the SSC people which they heroically shoulder. No matter how long it takes, they will defeat the enemy of unity and banish the bane of secession from Somalia's body politic once and for all and consign it to the dustbin of history.
NSUM Executive Committe
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Sado Ali Warsame: A Beautiful Somali voice
and advocacy of justice
By Mohamed Ali Mirreh
April 10, 2010
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Thirty-five years ago Sado Ali Warsame joined Waberi, Somalia’s foremost music group that existed before the collapse of the central government of Somalia and today she is still indisputably one of the best and admired of her ensemble. Sado became a household icon in 1975 when she appeared on the stage dressed modestly and astonishingly beautiful with a romantic song called Cunnaabi (amber), a song that up to the present time, is evocatively listened by millions of Somalis. Sado´s popularity is not only due to her magnificent voice, but her pro-unity stand, political courage and outspokenness against injustices make her renowned. Unlike many of her counterparts, and with out hidden agenda she objectively opposed the practices of Somalia’s last totalitarian regime in 1980:s and for this she had been jailed twice by the then NSS, a notorious secret service organ, existed in Somalia. The first time was when she had, through a poem criticised the brutal oppression against the people of the central and northwest regions of Somalia. The second time was in late 1980:s, when she sang a song called land cruiser.
This song made her, an epitome of struggle against the injustices and corruption that prevailed in Somalia. As someone whose heart belongs to the well being of the Somali people her song depicts the huge gap between the lives of the ordinary people and that of the corrupted top echelon of the last Somali government who misused aid donations from donor countries. The message of the song was very clear as the words of the song painted how these corrupt officials went, with the donated funds, on expensive and brand-new glittering Toyota land cruisers, albeit the ordinary residents of the capital of the country had no water, electricity and other indispensable amenities.
For the last week or so a new song by the name libdhi maysid Lascaanood (Lascaanood won’t vanish) by Sado Ali has been airing in the Somali musical world. The song is so absorbing not only for its touchy lyrics and pleasant music but its content is redolent and remindful of Somali nationalism and historical facts that had delivered the Somali independence. It similarly portrays the significance of Lascaanood as the cradle of the Dervish movement, the Somali struggle against the British rule. The song expresses that pro-unity SSC regions of Somalia and Lascaanood, which has been occupied in 2007 by a secessionist militia clan, called itself Somaliland would not be part of a pretend state.
Although the song, Libdhi maysid Laas Caanood has been welcomed and almost all Somalis are moved by it, yet the song has irked and became ants in the pants of those who want to dwarf and destroy the unity of our country, specially the so-called Somaliland politicians.
This is the second time in less than a month that Sado´s appearance in the Somali media has been lambasted by the Somaliland authorities. Prior to the emergence of this song, Sado has participated in a Somali gathering in the US, where thousands of Somalis had to come in a show of support for a former Somali Vice President, Mohamed Ali Samatar, and one of the most respected personalities, Somalia ever had who has been accused of war crimes by some Somalis. The accusations against Samatar are familiar rehash of fabricated stories, driven by ultra motives of “Somaliland”, a clannish entity that has been relentlessly seeking international recognition for the last twenty years through all sorts of propaganda. Privy to the aim of those who accuse Mr Samatar, Sado stood up in the Somali gathering and once again has spoken powerfully and eloquently for justice, arguing that it was a hypocrisy to single out Mr Samatar for what had happened in Somalia while other members of the regime are protected in else where such as in Hargeisa, the capital city of “Somaliland”.
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Abdillahi Cirro & Faysal A. Waraabe
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Sado´s support for the former vice president and her new song, Libhdi maysid Laas Caanood have obviously stirred up a hornet´s nest of the politicians in the so-called “Somaliland”. The politicians, there have been furious to the extend that militia’s interior minister, Mr Abdillahi Ciro warned his clan entity that Sado´s new song is to foment uprising in Laas Caanood´s people against the presence of Somaliland militia. Another clannish hate-monger, Faisal Ali Warabe and the leader of UCID party in Somaliland threatened the people of SSC three days ago with war because of the song and on-going SSC people’s meetings aimed at liberating Laas Caanood.
what such dissimulators say Sado´s song, Libdhi maysid Lascaanood decodes acrystalclear message from the SSC people and that is - the occupation of Lascaanood will not stand.
But the paradox here is that while Sado Ali was the one, jailed in 1980:s by the NSS due to her opposition to the oppressive measures of the brutal regime against the people in northwest region of Somalia, these two hypocrites who hail from the northwest regions were part and parcel of the regime.
Mr Abdilahi Ciro was an NSS officer in 1980:s, responsible for interrogating and torturing innocent people from the very entity of which its militia today is responsible for the ethnic cleansing, killing and jailing of SSC people. On the other hand it is not secret that Mr Warabe was an informer who collaborated with the regime during 1980:s for pecuniary reasons and he too was responsible for the imprisonment of innocent people from his own clan.
No matter
Mohamed Ali Mirreh
Email: mmirreh@hotmail.com
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Fanaanadda Qaranka soomaaliyeed
Saado Cali Warsame
 Saado Cali Warsame waa fanaanad wadaniyad ah oo ku dayasho mudan.
Fanaanadda qaranka soomaaliyed ee Saado Cali Warsame oo ah fanaanad ku caan baxday cadaalad iyo wadaninimo ayaa heesteedii ay dhowaan ay kasoo saartay dalka maraykanka waxay saamayn weyn ku yeelatay guud ahaan dadka Somaaliyeed meel ay joogaanba. Dadka soomaaliyeed waxay u kala qaybsameen qayb aad ugu riyaaqday quluubtodana ay taabatay oo tageertay heesta iyo nuxurkeedba, qayb kalena oo tiro yarna aad bay uga cadhaysiisay, qaybtaas oo ah dadka uu beercadaaday goososho qabiil ku salaysan iyo wandankeena oo cadow loo loogo .
Annago ah ururka NSUM ee u taagan midnima wadankeena Soomaaliya, waxaanu mar walba tageersanahay cid kasta oo u taagan midnimada Soomaaliyeed. Saado Cali Warsame iyo Somaali kasta oo jecel midnimada Soomaaliya kuna sifoobay cadalaad jecayl iyo dulmidiid waxa uu wataa astaamaha iyo sawraca ururka NSUM.
Waxaanu halkan hambalyo ugu soo gudbinaynaa Saado Cali Warsame oo ku luuqeyneysa heesteeda wadaniga ah ee “Libdhi maysid Laascaanood” iyo abwaanka Cabdirasak Dalmar oo alifay heestan qiimaha weyn xambaarsan. Waxaanu sidaa si le’eg u cabiraynaa taageeradayada iyo boogaadintayada aanu u hayno Saado Cali Warsame oo ah hoboladda qaranka soomaaliyeed. Saado waxa ay ku caan baxday la dagaalanka cadalaad darada taas oo ay dhowaan ku muujisay ugana gilgilatay ashkatada xaqdarada ah ee dadka Soomaalidiid ahi ku soo oogeen geesiga Soomaaliyeed S/G Maxamad Cali Samatar.
Waxaanu Saado Cali Warsame leenahay noolow waxa tahay geesiyad ku dayasho mudan, noqo tii ifkana caafimaad iyo nabadqab ku waarta, aakhirana hoygeedu noqdo guriga mujaahidiinta.
NSUM,
Gudida Fulinta
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Response to Farah Maalin’s BBC intervier
07.03.2010, click here
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Farah Maalin’s ill-advised visit to Somaliland-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Waraysi: Guddoomiyaha Ururka NSUM Eng. Mohamed Ali Mire
28.08.2009
Halkan ka dhegeyso
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28.08.2009
Marka dib loo milicsado 19 kii sano ee u dambeeyey iyo saamaynta uu ku yeeshay burburkii dawladdii dhexe
ee qaranka soomaaliyeed beelweynta soomaaliyeed. sii akhri
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Baaq NSUM oo ku aadan shirka SSC ee Nairobi
10.08.2009
Hadii aanu nahay ururka NSUM waxaanu aad ugu faraxsanahay, una soo dhoweynayna, kana mahad naqaynaa go´aankii ay gudida reer Nairobi qaateen ee ay dib ugu dhigeen wakhtigii la qaban laha shirka beesha SSC ee la filaayo in uu ka qabsoomo Nairobi. Isla markaana , waxanu mahad balaadhan u jeedinaynaa Garaadada ku sugan Nairobi oo muujiyey taloqabnimo iyo dadaal waxtar weyn u
fidindoona, haddii Alle yiraahdo qabsoomida shirka. Waxa kale oo aanu halkan ku bayaaminayna in aanu mar walba diyaar u ahayn haatanna u nahay ka qaybgalka shirkan, iyo in aan diyaar u nahay in aanu wixi gacan ah ee nalooka baahdo aanu ka gaysano si shirku u qabsoomo. NSUM waxay hada, marti uga tahay guddigii gogosha shirka fidisay casuumad iyo dawrka ay shirka ku yeelanayso oo qeexan.
Gudida Fulinta,
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Dear Mr. Chairman;
As you are aware, relations between nations and peoples have their ups and downs and those between our country and yours are no exception. While Somalis everywhere have high regards for the American people for their generosity and goodwill, the policies of the previous US administration under President Bush have however left deep scars in the collective Somali conscience and for good reasons.
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In an attempt to alleviate the ongoing tragedy in Somalia, Mr. Donald M. Payne of the United States Congress invited the TFG of Somalia, Puntland administration and Somaliland administration to a meeting in Washington on 25th June, 2009.
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Why Somaliland refused Mr. Donals Payne's invitation
09.07.2009
For quite some time it has been common knowledge amon somalis that the eccessionist politicians in Hargeisa harbour deep routed animosity for all somalis in the Horn of Africa except, perhaps, thier own clan.
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Barnaamijka Faaqidaadda todobaadka oo Cali Cabdi Xadhaadhe soo diyaariyey oo lagu lafa-gurayaa midnimada Soomaaliya, ka dhegeyso halkan qeybtii 1aad & 2aad
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14.05.2009
I refer to your above article on Somaliland and would like to give my comment as one who is from Somalia, but above all from the area itself.
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13.05.2009
Desperate times can make sworn enemies bedfellows. This could be the case with Puntland and Somaliland, two northern self-administered regions in Somalia, until now at loggerheads over many issues,
including the control of Sool region.
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Please recall the email we sent few weeks ago to the Secretary General’s Special Representative for Somalia, Mr. Ahmedou Ould Abdallah, and copied to UN aid agencies’ country representatives for Somalia, including of course your own.
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Oct 19, 2008 By: Xigasho Jidbaale
Maqaal(jidbaale.com)Tan iyo markii Hargeysa isu diyaarisay in ay midnnimada ummada Soomaaliyeed kala dhantaasho laga soo bilaabo 18-05/1991 waxaa socday weerar iyo weerar celis kaas oo salka ku hayey ololaha ay qaadayeen dadka u ololeeya gooni isu taaga labada gobol ee Hargeysa iya Togdheer iyaga oo magac hore looga gudbay gabbaad ka dhiganaya kaas oo ah Somaliland iyo aqoonyahanka aan mar kaliya nasashada galin ee ka soo jeeda Gobollada Sool,Sanaag, Iyo Cayn oo dhinacooda aduunyada u soo bandhigayey xaqiida dhabta ah ee ka jirta gobolada Waqooyi iyo waqooyi Galbeed Soomaaliya, Laga soo bilaabo Boocame1 iyo Boocame 2 oo runtii sida aan qabo in uu
bud dhige u ahaa dadaalka midnnimo ilaalinta.
warkii oo dhan.......
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Copenhagen(NSUM):-
Waxaa ka dhacay casimada ee COPENHAGAN ee dalka Danmark shir weynihii ururka NSUM oo ay kasoo qaybgaleen dadweyno farabadan oo isaga yimi daafaha dunida o isaugu jira qaybaha kala duwan ee bulshada.Marti sharaftii kasoo qaybgashay waxaa ka mid ahaa.
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Kulankii labaad ee ururka Waqooyi ee midnimada Soomaaliya Northern Somali Unionist Movement(NSUM) ayaa ka dhacay Magaalada Boston . Xubnaha ururka Nsum ee Waaxada New England ayaa kulankaas ku ansixiyey gudiga New England u matalaya golaha dhexe ee ururka Nsum .
warkii oo dhan
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