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March 2, 2005

Our bleeding land, our beloved land

A dictatorship is a form of government in which absolute power is concentrated in a dictator or a small clique. We are in a habit of not directly addressing the issue of tyrants in our society, and if we really support the rebirth of our bleeding land, our burned land, our waste land, we should take a radical stand for it, and there is no better or clearer opportunity than now. A common response to a tyrant is to fight back consciously with aggression, even indirect passive aggression is better than none.

When you are asked to lead our bleeding land, wounded land, our dried land, our burned land, our wasteland, our beloved land, do not get drunk on a power delivered on a silver plate and yet to be earned, you are only as strong as the support you get from your countrymen. When you are vaguely empowered to lead, there is nothing like getting started on the right foot, and as a leader you would expect a little respect, but being supposedly in charge is not enough, you have get to respect and trust others first before you get any for yourself. We have here in Somalia an all too obvious and objectionable prejudice against each other, and this you will agree, is born of fear.

In the few Months since the new government was rightly or wrongly proclaimed, and Mr. Abdullahi Yusuf at the helm, I was continually startled & surprised and one should have been prepared for any eventuality. It’s almost half a year since the day Mr. Abdullahi Yusuf was declared the winner and subsequently given the oath of office as President of the United Somalia in which he swore to obey, adhere & uphold the law of the land as stipulated in the interim Constitution and we shall never allow him or any of his colleagues for that matter to go array or betray us ever again. There is no escape, we must go out and meet him half way, it all depends on us whether he will turn into loathsome ugly monster demanding us to sacrifice for no apparent good reason or benefit for our divide & dismembered Country, or whether he shall be the saviour of our shattered lives and bleeding Nation.

We must some how make an honest effort to understand what is happening in Somalia, and shall never again let a tyrant, whom ever that might be raise his ugly head as long as we shall live, we nevertheless shall never tolerate a patriot leader of ours to needlessly languish in foreign Capitals and become advocate & puppet for other nations.

The Ethiopian Military is already a permanent fixture in many parts of Somalia, but the Ethiopian Military intervention of Somalia as constantly requested by the President of Somalia is a different ball game and will undoubtedly give Ethiopia the legal right it needed to become a major player in both the internal & external affairs of Somalia, and thus marks the elimination of the internationally recognized Eastern border of Ethiopia as the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of Somalia will catastrophically forever compromised. Landlocked Ethiopia gains the right of free navigation in the Red Sea & Indian Ocean and the unfettered use of all Somali harbours. When & if Ethiopia, which has truly welcomed our refugees to it’s Country, including Addis Ababa is invited, not just by the President, but by an overwhelming majority of the three branches of the government with the consent of the Somali people, then & only then should Ethiopia consider sending peacekeepers and not in any circumstances send peacemakers.

Qays Hagi
birjex@yahoo.com