Posted to the web 16:11 Jun 08 2004
by AHMED ALI IBRAHIM (SABEYSE), SCARBOROUGH, CANADA..
HERE COMES ANOTHER SPIN-DOCTOR!
Jun 08 2004 Hardly a day passes without coming across a new masterpiece of comedy plied around Cyberspace as a freshly baked new figment of on temporary Somali history! Without getting into the fine details of the subject, here is the most recent installment from the bastion and the breeding ground of Somali nationalism:
This article appeared on AllPuntland.com; By a Ali A. Hersi
" Mr. Worthington alleges that the southerners made a conscious effort in 1988 to commit
"genocide against the dominant Isaq clan....." of the north. The government's savage reaction to the SNM's attack on Burao and Hargeisa is indefensible but no one who is truly knowledgeable about Somalia would in all honesty characterize it as a southern attack on northern Somalis.
Mohamed Siad Barre was a southerner, but the government leadership was quite representative of all Somalis. The military and civilian elite that should be blamed, and possibly ought to be tried, for the military regime's misrule and, most particularly, for the grisly reprisals that ensued on the SNM's desperate attacks on Burao and Hargeisa included many northerners too. For instance, out of the 5 members of the ruling Somali Revolutionary Socialist Party's political Bureau, 2 were always from the north.
Many of the current administrative and political leadership in Hargeisa, indeed including mostprominently Mr. Riyale who was in the late 1880's the commanding officer of the feared National Security Service in Berbera where, according to a report by a more knowledgeable African Rights Watch source, massive violations of human rights such as summary killings were perpetrated, are personally responsible for the atrocities committed during 1988-90.
In fact, much of the bombing that northerners were subjected to were not carried out by Somalis but were the work of aliens said to have been South African pilots, but who in actual fact were British mercenaries from the former segregationist rebel entity that called itself Rhodesia!"
In response, this is a grossly disfigured and distorted narrative of contemporary events.
The savagery and the atrocities committed during 1988-1990 against the Isaq clans Were well rehearsed and coordinated effort intended to annihilate the said group from the face of this earth.
The government in power at the time and the southern society as a whole are equally and collectively liable for the ensuing human catastrophe.
That is an eternal guilt and shame that southern (walaweynian) Somalis have to deal with.
Mr. Worthington's characterization of those events as human savagery is a well deserved graphic description befitting and appropriate to the history of the period.
The southern society bears the sole responsibility for that episode. The victims at the receiving end of the barbaric atrocities of the Somali government dont share the blame as the writer of the above article implies. History will record those events without bias or prejudice future generations will reflect on these chronicles.
These disease of manipulating numbers and the corresponding political equations arising thereof was not prevalent or contagious epidemic among northerners. Other parts of the old state were famous for that affliction and Mr. Hersi is familiar with that part of the history.
Without any exceptions, southern society will one day reconcile with the collective indictment of history. Up to this day, only one person named Abdi Warsame Isaq has admitted publicly his participation, as a willing and enthusiastic member of Siad Barre's nazi regime, in the inhumane and despicable crimes committed against defenseless civilian population. The rest of the southern Somalis are still in a perpetual
state of denial. But that will never change the dynamics of this issue.
The chronicles of what has transpired during the three year period 1988-91 is well documented by the international community and the records will be presented at the final negotiating table once southern Somalis set up a government of their own.
By the time the Somali National Movement started the war of liberation, the most prominent northerners in the regime were in prison waiting execution. The outcry of the international community and the outpouring of criticism by the human right organizations spared the lives of Omer Arte Qhalib, Ismail Ali Abokor and the group
of doctors, teachers, engineers and businessmen who dared to clean up the grounds of Hargeisa Group Hospital. This is an undeniable fact of history and no amount of distortion will eradicate it from the history books.
The Somali National Movement bears no responsibility for the criminal actions and the savage behaviour of the Somali National Army and the Somali Air Force. Unlike the humiliating defeat and the eventual disgrace of the SSDF of Majertenia, the Somali National Movement rejected to capitulate to the demands of the nazi regime.
They chose to fight to the end and they succeeded in liberating their country from an alien occupation regime. They did so with their pride and dignity in tact and we will do so in case walaweynian Somalis try to follow the foot steps of Siad Barre.
Contrary to the contention of the person, who wrote the article, it is mostly likely that President Riyale's grand father was probably a toddler in the 1880's! There was no National Security Service apparatus in Berbera of the 1880's.
The writer failed to keep track of the chronology of historically significant dates. This is a clear indication of hasty, illogical, and irrational reasoning. No human being with properly functioning mental faculties would rationalise the behaviour the Somali government in terms of how many northerners were included in that regime.
The most pathetically embarrassing statement in the article is the following:
" in fact, most of the bombing that the norterners were subjected to were not carried out by Somalis but were the work of aliens said to have been South African pilots, but who in actual fact were British mercenaries from the former segregationist rebel entity that called itself Rhodesia!"
Heaven hold the sky! Aliens from Mars piloted the MiGs of the Somali Airforce that wreaked havoc on the population fleeing from the major metropolitan cities of Hargeisa, Burao, and Berbera.
This is a classical example of a walaweynian intellectual trying in vain to rationalize the brutality of a murderous regime that went berserk. Certainly, this individual is well aware of the fact that his next of kin were awarded the highest national honour in lieu of their gallantry and bravery displayed while bombing civilian targets in the major cities of Somaliland during 1988. It was Siad barre and Mohamed Saeed Morgan who presented gold, silver, and bronze medals to the distinguished Somali Pilots.
This is a historical fact and I hope Mr. Ali A. Hersi is not an ignorant person and he should not pretend to be one.
In conclusion, the article of Mr. Ali Hersi is a typically arrogant and defiant walaweynian mentality that has failed time and again, to face and accept their responsibility as far as the failed Somali Republic is concerned. The disaster that followed the demise of the state is the sole and exclusive responsibility of the family that ran the affairs of the said state up to 27 January, 1991. One way or the other, the architects who engineered that disaster should be held accountable for their actions over that thirty-one year period.
To enlighten the distinguished writer of the article, here are few statements that will definitely refresh his memories:
A-The military regime was aided and encouraged to overthrow the civilian government.
This hideous and sinister campaign started in 1965 the Siad Barre was promoted roughshod over more qualified and capable military officers. That was a blatant nepotism and it ushered in everything that went wrong with the Somali Republic. This was the beginning of the end of Somalia as we know it today.
B-The prelude to the next chapter culminated in the assassination of President Abdulrashid Ali Sharmarke. Prior to the parliamentary elections of March, 1969, the manipulatively conniving
And cunningly invisible hand of the devil failed twice to take the life of Abdulrashid Ali Sharmarke. Just eight months before the election of 1969, a combined anti-personnel/ anti-tank Mine intended to blow up the presidential limousine, took the life of high ranking military
Officer while he was setting up the device. This incident occurred on the road between Mogadiscio and Afgoi. The event was cancelled and the second assassination attempt had failed.
C-Unfortunately, the third attempt had succeeded on Tuesday, October 15, 1969! The mind and the Soul of Mr. Hersi is tormented by the same demon that sent the Somali state to the grave.
I believe that Mr. Hersi has a repertoire of information about the graphic details of the preceding events and in the spirit of Somali Generosity I challenge him to spell out his honest version of these Issues.
Certainly, this is a grey area that had never been explored in detail before and Mr. Hersi individuals who are in qualified position to shed some light on the subject. Remember, we are In search of the root causes of the problems that bedeviled our beloved country prior to its Final demise.
Next time I will present the list of the names of the Somali pilots who participated in that human carnage. Once again, Walaweynian Somalis cannot absolve themselves from that collective responsibility.
Quilt by association; quilt through kinship. That is an eternal quilt that will never be forgotten or forgiven.
Fikrada halkan ku qoran waxaa ka masuul ah qofkii qoray oo ah
AHMED ALI IBRAHIM (SABEYSE), SCARBOROUGH, CANADA.. The views published here are solely
those of its authors AHMED ALI IBRAHIM (SABEYSE), SCARBOROUGH, CANADA.. and do not
necessarily reflect those of Somaliland Net.
Riix halkan hadii aad isleedahay soo dir fikradaada To Submit
Article
or Opinion
