     SOOMAALI | Saturday, November 11, 2000 - 05:20 pm
MOGADISHU (Nov. 11) XINHUA - The new interim government of Somalia Saturday
took its first step to register the former national armymen in the country
in accordance with a call made by Defense Minister Abdullahi Muse Boqor six
days ago.
Over 11,000 men of all ages and of all ranks from the former national army
gathered at the main soccer stadium in Mogadishu Saturday morning. Those who
need to register should get their ID cards and anything testifying their
roll numbers and ranks.
The defense minister, together with generals and many other senior officials
from the new administration, were present on the occasion. Hundreds of
people from all walks of life in the capital poured into the stadium to
witness the colorful event in the fierce sunshine.
Delivering a speech, Abdullahi Muse Boqor said that "today is a historic day
for the rebirth of Somalia's national army after 10 years of destruction."
He told the former armymen: "You are now making the difference" and "your
reintegration is the restoration of Somalia's nationhood. " "The government
felt of your importance, you could make us a government," he added.
Referring to the reconciliation, the defense minister said 13 attempts have
been made to reconcile the Somalis and few warmongers and power-greedy
figures have made it impossible.
He mentioned that some faction leaders in Somalia want to divide the country
into several powerless emirates, saying: "We are not provoking anybody, we
know what is war, it is just destruction, the army is the backbone of the
government, and our moral is high now." |
| GEESI | Saturday, November 11, 2000 - 07:05 pm
Guul Guul Guul AALHUU AKBAR AALHU AKBAR AALHU AKBAR WAA BILOWGII SOO NOQOSHADII QARANIMADDII SOOMALIYA GUUL GUUL GUUL. |
| Anonymous | Saturday, November 11, 2000 - 07:28 pm
Waa wax lagu faxro! Somalia is back! |
| ispatore | Sunday, November 12, 2000 - 07:23 am
waxaan hubaa in dad badani qandho dareemayaan markii ay maqleen (the black lion of africa is back)..jamaaamiirta ciidankeenna jidka maanta lagu joogo, marka aan jalleecaba jirkeeygaa i jiriricooda.meel libaax soo galay lo` ma joogayso.ciidankii waa la xulay waa in laga fekaro wanaagooda si auy wax wanaagsan wadanka ugu qabtaan. |
| PROUDSOMALI | Sunday, November 12, 2000 - 06:02 pm
Waa bishaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaro! Somaliya ha noolaato. Ka noxoow nafta waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! |
| Kanaxow carar | Sunday, November 12, 2000 - 06:05 pm
(Associated Press) MOGADISHU, Somalia (November 11, 2000 2:48 p.m. EST - They came by the thousands to the main soccer stadium Saturday, some in their old uniforms complete with medals and service stripes, many shedding tears of joy on seeing former comrades.
An estimated 11,000 former Somali soldiers who served during the 21-year rule of Mohamed Siad Barre came to re-enlist in the new army being formed by Somalia's first government in a decade.
The gathering was short-lived because the former soldiers were told to return home and fetch documents to prove what rank they held in the old army. But the man who issued the enlistment call six days ago, Defense Minister Abdullahi Boqor Muse, called the meeting historic nonetheless: The creation of an army is considered key to reuniting this fractured country.
"You are now making the difference," Muse told the men. "You are the government. You understand weapons and the consequence of their misuse."
Most of the soldiers belonged to the old army that fell apart when a coalition of rebels forced Siad Barre to flee to neighboring Kenya in January 1991.
Since his ouster, Somalia has had no functioning central government. The rebel coalition soon broke up, and the country of 7 million in the Horn of Africa remains divided into fiefdoms defended by clan-based militias.
In August, a national reconciliation conference in neighboring Djibouti elected President Abdiqasim Salad Hassan and a 245-member national assembly to rule the country. They now face the daunting task of establishing order by disarming thousands of militiamen, some loyal to faction leaders and others no more than bandits.
The northern regions of Somaliland and Puntland, in what was British Somaliland until 1960, refuse to recognize the authority of the new government. Several clan-based factions in Mogadishu and in central Somalia also oppose Hassan's administration.
Top officials in the new government attended Saturday's gathering.
Muse said Hassan's government recognizes the importance of the former soldiers. He told the would-be soldiers that it has "concluded that your reintegration is the restoration of Somalia's nationhood."
Muse said 13 previous attempts had been made to reconcile Somalis, but what he described as a few "warmongers and power-hungry individuals" have made reconciliation impossible.
"Somalia's enemy wants to divide the country into five powerless emirates, but we are calling our army for the security of our people," he said, a reference to the recent call by faction leaders to split the country into five autonomous regions.
"We are not provoking anybody," Muse said. "We know what war is. The army is the backbone of the government, and our morale is high now."
The re-enlistment of the former soldiers is key to reuniting Somalis, said Col. Hasshi Hassan Warsame.
"This is the only and easiest way we could reunite and retain our prestige among our people," he said.
But not all former soldiers want to join the army again.
At his business in a market in downtown Mogadishu, Hashi Sabriyeh Isaak said: "I have developed a new profession."
"I am now an electrician. And I can never forget how I was punished when I disobeyed my superiors," he said. |
| Xaqiijiye | Tuesday, November 14, 2000 - 09:23 am
11000 oo mooryaan ah ayaa isugu timid stadium moqadishu waxaana soo qabanqaabiyey general Galaal wasiirka dhabta ah ee gaashandhiga dawlad ku sheegta |
| Adan | Saturday, November 25, 2000 - 09:12 pm
xaqiijiye walaahi runta ayaad indhaha kaga dhufatay mooryaan ama futo madoobe hadba tii ku fudud weeyaan kuwa la isugu keenay, laakiin waxay su'aashu tahay aaway maxay xabsiga uga saari waayeen qolooyinka 3 bilood hoteelka ka bixi la'a mise waa ilaaladii abdulqaasim intaas. |
