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PEOPLE CAN TRUST THE SOMALIAN GOVERNMENT

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HAWIYE

Thursday, February 22, 2001 - 08:53 pm
SOMALIS CAN TRUST THE GOVERNMENT BECAUSE THIS NEW GOVERNMENT ALREADY STARTED TO IMPROVE ALOT OT THINGS LIKE HUMAN RIGHTS, AS WE KNOW THE ETHOPIAN TROOPS WERE IN SOME SOMALIAN CITIES AND THEY WERE MAKING VERY CRUELTY TO THE PEOPLE AND I BELIEVE THAT IF THERE IS NO GOVERNMENT AT THIS TIME THE ETHOPIANS WOULDN'T LEAVE, HOW EVER NOW THERE IS NO MORE ETHOPIAN TROOPS IN OUR SOMALIAN LAND OUR GOVERMENT IS PROMISING WHAT IS ALREADY BEEN PROMISE WHICH WAS WORKING FOR THE PEOPLE PLUS PROTECTING OUR NATION AND THAT IS ONLY BEGINNING SO IT IS A GOOD IDEA IF WE FULLY SUPPORT OUR ENTRIM GOVERNMENT, GOD PLESS QASIN AND GALEYR

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Alert

Friday, February 23, 2001 - 03:59 pm
BAY CENTRE FOR CONFLICT PREVENTION (BCCP)

Kismayo City, Southern Somalia, February 23, 2001

Somali Transitional Government and Mogadishu Businessmen With Some News Media Groups Determined to Destabalising Stable Regions of Somalia

Kismayo City (southern Somalia), February 23, 2001 - Conflict Monitoring Officials of "Bay Centre for Conflict Prevention" (BCCP) have reported to the Centre's security team today that Somali Transitional Government, Mogadishu bussinesmenn, Mogadishu media, BBC Somali section, IRIN agency (Integrated Regional Information Networks) and certain Somali website groups are involved in developing news items aimed at the destabilisation of Somalia's stable regions.

According to the recent Media Monitoring Project carried out by the Centre's monitoring team, it has now become obvious that the common ground shared by Transitional Government and Mogadishu businessmen is to broaden and accelerate the pace of their economic interests in Somali civil war, and to promote Hawiye clan hegemony in the country. None of the two has a social and political agenda aimed at the promotion of national reconciliation and justice among Somalis, and improvement of Somali people's livelihoods. The Media Monitoring Project also indicates that a number of Mogadishu news media such as Qaran, internet websites like Hiiraan and Somalinet, and BBC Somali Section have become a major instrumental in helping to frame and distribute the new context within which interests of Mogadishu businessmen are perpetuated and Transitional Government's opportunistic policy is daily encouraged and mounted.

The principal intended-audience of their news release are international community, foreign News Agencies, and international aid agencies, with the view to hiding evil actions such as exploitation of public resources, confiscation of private properties and human rights abuse in Mogadishu and its surrounding.

The Media Monitoring Project has coded the coverage of the Mogadishu news media's and their partners into 8 topics, that is, business; politics; education; violence; health; human rights; arts & culture; and crime. It was found that there were more news items about human rights, crimes and violence aimed to destabilise stable regions like Puntland state of Somalia than any other issues. This did not only show the low coverage of human rights violation and of exploitation of public resources by Mogadishu businessmen in southern Somalia but also the lack of partiality in coverage of issues that concern whole society.

The Centre monitoring team has also found that the most common sources of misinformation and manipulated opinions in news reports about stable regions are drawn from two institutions, notably Mogadishu businessmen and transitional government to promote their interest and hide the negative impact of their activities on Somalia's livelihoods. BBC Somali section is principal actor in distributing the fabricated news items to its networks (both through radio and through the World BBC website). This research also states that the increase in the news coverage of BBC Somali Section's misinformation on Puntland and other stable regions was aided by Mr. Yousuf Graad Omar, the head director of BBC Somali section who is very close family-clan to the President of Transitional Government, Mr. Abdiqasim Salad. Mr Yousuf Graad has promoted his current power influence on the news release policy of BBC Somali Services by bringing considerable funds to the BBC Somali section through the sponsorship of some Somali news-reports from Somali businessmen and international agencies like Red Cross in Somalia.

Mr Graad also promoted his influence on the manipulation of news release by providing a special privilege to his clan reporters through training and employment, marginalizing other clan reporters' involvement, and establishing BBC Somali Section's relationship with Mogadishu-based-radio's. In effect, his clan reporters and his network are strengthening their manipulation of news release on Somalia, with special attention to creating social tensions in stable region like Somaliland and Puntland State of Somalia.

"Mr Graad maps out the news items, in co-operation with Dr. Jim'ala Human Rights Organisation and Mogadishu media's which in turn reports and release the news items to the International Community and international development agencies, with the aim of giving a dark picture about stable regions and of hiding evil actions in Mogadishu and its surrounding", said a Mogadshu-based reporter.

Dr. Jim'ala Human Rights Organisation, based in Mogadishu, has recently received financial grants from some international development agencies including the UN agencies, due to its claimed success in the facilitation of Somali peace process in Arta, Djibouti.

"The leadership of Mogadishu-based Human Rights organisation has actively, behind the scene, advocated for the interests of its Hawiya clan at Djibouti peace conference and it has never taken the lead in protecting the mass human rights violation by Mogadishu warlords and other rootless businessmen in Mogadishu", confirmed a reliable source. "The core activities of so-called Dr. Jim'ala Human Right Organisation are now the facilitation of social tensions and instability in stable regions of Somalia", according to a reporter in Mogadishu.

So far, the leadership of transitional government remains silence on feudal activities in southern areas and closely associates with the economic interests of certain economic-minded-groups in Mogadishu City. Mogadishu business groups have deeply benefited from the destruction of Somali nation state by forcing, expelling, moving and killing the original inhabitants of southern cities, and taking possession of every single thing there.

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In the light of the found information, the BCCP urges the leadership of transitional government, its business alliance, and Media groups associated with those two institutions to desist from creating social tensions in stable regions of Somalia, and from depleting the nation's scarce economic resources.

The Centre has raised its concern and is closely continuing to monitor the situation in southern Somalia.


For more information on this report, contact the Centre. E-mail: baycentre@hotmail.com, Kismayo city, southern Somalia.


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JAMAMA

Sunday, February 25, 2001 - 03:10 pm
I WOULD SAY ONE THING TO YOU WHATEVER GROUP YOU BELONG CHAMP YOU'RE A SUCH AN ABSURD, SHAMELESS AND BLOODY UNBELIEVABLE IGNORANT GROUP/PERSON?
AND I DESPICE YOU AS A SOMALIAN FOR WRITTING SUCH A CRUEL PROPAGANDA!!!
SHAME ON YOU ........ SHAME ON YOU!!!

AND GIVE ME A BREAK "THE CENTRE HAS RAISED ITS CONCERN AND IS CLOSELY CONTINUING TO MONITOR THE SITUATION IN SOUTHERN SOMALIA" MY GOODNESS YOU'RE A SUCH A JOKE!!! I'M LOVING MORE THAN I CAN HANDLE AND I DON'T THINK I WOULD NEED TO LOUGH FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE!!!

I DON'T KNOW WHATEVER YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF BUT I THINK YOU'RE BRUTALLY LOUGHABLE!!!! AND DON'T YOU DARE TRY TO WRITE SUCH THING!!!

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ANON

Sunday, February 25, 2001 - 06:20 pm
THE HAWIYE GOVERNMENT IS REWARDING ALL WARLORDS FOR THEIR 10 YEARS OF SERVICE OF ETHNIC CLEANSING, LOOTING, RAPE AND ROBBERY.
NEWS HAS CONFIRMED THAT WARLORD QANYARE IS NOW THE MINISTRY OF FISHERIES (THE ONLY QUALIFICATION HE HAS FOR THE JOB IS WHAT IS ON HIS RESUME, WHICH CAN BE SUMMARIZED IN ONE WORD THUG)

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