     Badhan | Sunday, March 04, 2001 - 09:39 pm
Wadani,
It is rather absurd that you call me a sick man after I stated my deep distrust, and what I consider a second conspiracy of your folks against my people. After what happened to my people in 1991, I believe any fair minded person would agree with me that my paranoia is based on well founded fear.
Perhaps you were too young in 1991, so let me refresh your memory on what took place that time. My people had been struggling with dictator Bare's regime long before your uprising, from Majertens in the seventies and in the early eighties to Ogadens in the late eighties, and at this particular year 1991 our civilians were just helpless sitting ducks in Mogadishu who were just hopping for a change, any change whether it was from Caydid or someone else.
What they got, instead was a sea of armed pagans whose' only goal was to execute the final solution for all Daroods, but by the grace of God, we did survive through that difficult period of in our history.
Despite all this, we don't want to take any revenge, and we asking for neither compensation nor a special status for the sake of united and strong Somalia. All we want is to make sure that what happed to us in 1991 does not happen to our children in the future.
The only way that we can insure this is to prevent Mogadishu from ever becoming the center of Somalia's power concentration, and we can only achieve this through a well balanced federal system.
Wadani, we're willing to compromise with many issues, but the security of our people is not one of them no matter what.
Incidently, I had the privilege of reading the charter of the new "Government"after receiving a copy of it from a friend, and to my astonishment it is filled with clauses that were intentionally designed to guarantee an ever lasting superiority of your clan over my people and the Isaqis. I was even more outraged when I learned the founders who put this whole so-called charter together were indeed two Hawiye men.
This reminded me of a Swahili saying that goes ‘Goats have no rights in court system where by Hyena is a judge'.
Therefore, the ultimate choice is yours, which is to gather around all disgruntled and opposition Darood individuals, and ofer them some nonexisting ministerial positions, just like you shamelessly did in Arta, which will undauntedly prolong the misery of our society, especially your clans, or come down to the earth, face the reality, and negotiate with the shakers and the movers of Darood politics.
This is no secret, and we want it to be out and into the open. |
| Moorsaante | Monday, March 05, 2001 - 03:07 pm
"Despite all this, we don't want to take any revenge, and we asking for neither compensation nor a special status for the sake of united and strong Somalia. All we want is to make sure that what happed to us in 1991 does not happen to our children in the future."
I agree 100% with Mr. Badhan.
Moorsaante, a man who is, his dad was born and died in Baran. |
