Somaliland and Pland (ilma xabashi) collude to discredit ssc

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Somaliland and Puntland collude to discredit the leaders of SSC regions by associating them with terrorist organizations
By Ali H. Abdulla
June 10, 2010


We have a popular saying in Somali “Been fakatay, runi ma gaadho” which means “It is difficult for the truth to catch up with a widespread lie”. Come to think of it, this is the principal of character assassination, the deliberate spread of misinformation about a real or perceived enemy. Hopefully this time, the truth will overtake the lies being spread by some Somali websites in their smear campaign against the leadership of the Sool, Sanaag and Ayn regions of Somalia, SSC.

These clan motivated Somali websites have mastered the technique of character assassination par-excellence. One of these sites is Somaliland Press which has released a barrage of recent articles targeted at the leadership of the SSC regions who are struggling against a conspiracy that involves the balkanization of the Somali Republic by aiming to unite and develop their constituencies.

In an article titled Somaliland Elections: Major blow to Canadian, American, Al-Shabab’s clandestine operations, Somaliland Press attempts to associate an SSC organization known as the Northern Somali Unity Movement, NSUM, with the Al-Shabab movement that is trying to topple the internationally recognized Somali government in Mogadishu. By trying to exploit the classification of the Al-Shabab as a terrorist organization by the US and other Western countries, the website has embarked on a smear campaign against the leadership of the SSC regions by portraying them as affiliated to the Shabab, a strategy that is meant to mislead the international community about what is really happening in the SSC regions and discrediting its elected leadership. The president of NSUM is a respected electrical engineer working in Sweden.

The website also targets Mr. Suleiman Essa Karr, the president of the Council for the Salvation and Unification of the SSC regions, and his Vice President, Mr. Ali Sabarey and labels them as Shabab operatives. Both men are portrayed as terrorists who are out to disrupt the scheduled Somaliland presidential elections on the 26th of June with the help of the Shabab. Mr. Essa is a businessman who abandoned his business ventures in the United States to help his people in their efforts to run their own affairs until a credible Somali government takes over.

Somaliland wants to force the residents of SSC to participate in the coming presidential elections by arguing that these regions are part of the former British Somaliland and should join a secessionist project that aims to split Somalia into two countries along the old colonial border that existed before North and South Somalia became independent in 1960 and voluntarily united to form the Somali Republic.

The SSC regions are also claimed by the Puntland administration in the north east. The claim is based on clan affiliation that groups the clans of the North East and SSC regions, just as Somaliland is a coalition of willing clans in the North West along with unwilling clans in the Awdal region who were incorporated into Somaliland by force by the rebel SNM movement that overran the North Western regions of Somalia after the Somali government collapsed.

NSUM is an organization that was established by concerned SSC intellectuals in the Diaspora. The movement was created just after the secessionist Somaliland regime invaded and occupied the city of Las Anod on the 15th of October 2007 and displaced thousands of its peaceful residents in the process.

The objective of NSUM is to establish a local administration for the SSC regions and to spearhead a program for developing the three regions which had been neglected by all the administrations that controlled the area since independence. The area lacks any form of descent health care system, proper schools and other important amenities compared to all the other areas in Somalia. This is mainly attributed to the fact that it is landlocked and lacks sea ports and airports. The sad state of SSC can also attributed to the fact that most of its educated elite have relocated to the neighbouring administrative areas such as Puntland and Somaliland, while thousands more emigrated to the West seeking better lives for their families.

This mass brain drain created a leadership vacuum and an atmosphere that encouraged claims and counterclaims by the two neighbouring administrations. Both administrations have used portions of the foreign aid and tax revenues flowing into their coffers for political funds meant to buy the allegiances of the elders of the SSC regions. These conflicting claims caused two bloody wars that resulted in the city of Las Anod changing hands from the Puntland administration under the former President Adde Muse to the Somaliland administration of Rayale with the help of some local collaborators from the SSC regions and with the blessing of the Ethiopian regime that regarded Las Anod as a transit point for arms destined to the Ogaden Liberation Front fighting against Ethiopia. The second war that saw the change of administration in the area took place while Adde Muse was in Addis Ababa and his forces, under the command of the current Vice President of Puntland, evacuated the area without firing a single bullet as if getting instructions to evacuate the area without a fight.

The invasion and occupation of Las Anod was a wakeup call for the SSC intellectuals in the Diaspora who woke up to the painful reality that their regions were being used as pawns by the Puntland and Somaliland administrations in their ambitions to control the vast potential oil reserves in the area. The two administrations finally agreed, with the blessing of Ethiopia, to carve the SSC regions into two spheres of influence. In a secret agreement that was meant to bolster the election stakes of the ruling party in Somaliland, all SSC areas lying north of the road between the city of Las Anod and Burao, were to become part of Somaliland, while the rest of the SSC regions including Buhodleh were to become part of Puntland.

The tripartite Ethiopian-Puntland-Somaliland agreement had two objectives. Firstly, to cut the flow of arms to the Ogaden Liberation Front that is waging an armed struggle against the regime of Meles Zenawi in Ethiopia. The Ogaden is part of Western Somalia that the British unfairly relinquished to Ethiopia just before granting Somalia its independence. Secondly, to lay the ground work for a potential alliance between Somaliland and Puntland in their future negotiations with the South for a nominal Federal system that would weaken the Central Government in Mogadishu. The deal would give both administrations a free hand in dealing directly with the big oil companies such as Conoco and Chevron to restart the explorations that were halted after the collapse of the Siad Regime in 1990. Conoco was very close to striking oil near Las Anod but could not continue with drilling to the depth required to ascertain the commercial quantity of the crude lurking underneath. The agreement comes in the wake of the futile efforts of the Somaliland Administration to be recognized as a sovereign country by the world community and seems to be an alternative strategy to gain a form of autonomy that would be palatable to their constituents who were misled for two decades into believing that recognition was a fait accompli.

Since the NSUM did not have any credible local presence in the SSC regions and focused its struggle on bringing the plight of the SSC regions to the attention of the International Community, the SSC Diaspora called for a conference in Nairobi in October 2009 to rectify such as a shortcoming. The conference attendance, including the NSUM, decided to create a council for the Salvation and Reunification of the SSC regions and elected Mr. Suleiman Essa Kar and Mr. Ali Sabarey to lead the council. The mandate of the Council was to unite the SSC regions and to establish a local administration for these regions with the help of the Federal Government in Mogadishu, the only legitimate government in Somalia. After their election, both men met in Nairobi with officials from the United States Embassy, the United Nations, and the Somali Government in order to brief them about the Council and its objectives. This is a far cry from the baseless accusations levelled against them by the sympathizers of the secessionist regime such as Somaliland Press.

The Council was later approved by the majority of the 14 traditional leaders in SSC who also met to elect a body composed of 18 men and 3 ladies whose mandate was to work with the Council elected in Nairobi by the SSC Diaspora. The body is a form of a parliament that would monitor the progress of the Council.

The leaders of the Council have finally managed to relocate to the SSC regions after many failed attempts. Puntland and Somaliland objected strongly to the creation of the Council and decided to hunt down its leaders. Airport security in both administrations was instructed to apprehend them on sight. Luckily for the SSC leaders, the Somali regional administration of Galmudug came to the rescue by granting them a safe passage to Buholdeh, the second regional capital of SSC regions. They are now in the process of leading a popular uprising of the people of SSC regions against the marginalization and segmentation of their territories.

The Somali residents of the SSC regions have a legitimate right to create their own local administration and to remain an integral part of the Federal Republic of Somalia instead of being a disputed area that is claimed by the secessionist minded regime in Somaliland and the corrupt regime in Puntland that supports piracy, human trafficking and condones the violation of human rights. The political funds used by Puntland to divide the SSC people could be better spent on the displaced people of Southern Somalia who live in deplorable conditions in cramped camps that get flooded in rainy seasons. A journalist trying to report on the miserable conditions of these people has recently been thrown in jail.

Both administrations regard an independent local administration in the SSC regions as a threat to their ambitions of weakening the Central Government of Somalia and usurping the resources of the country. An independent local administration in SSC would frustrate these efforts by allying itself with the legitimate government of Somalia.

Websites like Somaliland Press and Garoweonline try to mislead the international community about the events unfolding in the SSC regions. Fortunately for these regions, the International Community have their own intelligence gathering services in Somalia and will hopefully draw their own conclusions and not rely on the misleading reports being published by biased clan based websites.
As part of their efforts to develop their areas peacefully, the SSC people have started working on building a small airport in Buhodleh that will make it possible for members of the International Community to visit the area and start helping with reconstruction and development.

The traditional leaders of SSC, the NSUM leadership and the elected leaders of the Council are not associated with any terrorist organizations and are only responding to the calls of their people to lead them in their efforts to develop their regions just as all the other regions in Somalia, such as Galmudug, are doing.

Let us hope that Puntland and Somaliland administrations will stop their efforts to frustrate the sincere ambitions of the SSC Somalis to live in peace and prosperity without being a battleground for both administrations.
Ali H Abdulla

[The_Emperior5]

reality on the ground

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[SahanGalbeed]

Too fuckin long to read and pay attention to these argagaxisada Cayn niic niic !
Way before somaliland press wrote anything about them , they were arrested in Kenya on the request of the US gov . Do you research !

[Rightwing]

50 sanoba ilaahay wuxuu idiin soo diraa mid idin cidhib tira. Ina-cabdule Hassan, iminkana Xaglo toosiye ayaa cadaabaha idiin diri doonaa.

Maangaab Dhulbahanta ah miyaa nagu malaabeeyey

Khaliif

Tunka ka leefa dhiiggiyo ilmada, idinka tiixaysa. Haddaba tooga baxa waa jannada, talalaxdeediiye. Tureecada day waa taad kufriga

Ali jama haabiil

Xaglo toosiye oo markuu ka quustay UCID iyo Puntland ayaa hada u hanqal taagaya Xamar oo hawiyihiiba ka quusteen.
Caqli xumidiina maxaan ka yaabay.

RW

[The_Emperior5]

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reality on the ground

[paidmonk]

Dulbahante are discrediting SSC enough as it is.

[oldenglish]

Dulbahante are discrediting SSC enough as it is.

Its been discredited since they added the extra S. Waa Yaab

[oldenglish]

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reality on the ground

These SSC people would be shot in Sanaag like their Minister of Education.

[SahanGalbeed]

^ Go away for the sake of Allah , you are really a disgrace ! Don't come back here , leave us alone .

[oldenglish]

Your a nurse

[SahanGalbeed]

I would like to rectify my earlier comment , it is not quite clear wether xaglatoosiye and the othet faqash were arrested on the request of the US gov , not clear at all , but the fact is the kenyan security forces did put them in jail until they were released after another dhulbahante the current foreign minister of Somalia begged the kenyan gov to release them .
It is at times like these that I am actually glad the biggest terrorist in Somalia , commander of the al Shabaab , is from our part of the soomaal , motherfuckers , deal with that !

[paidmonk]

Sahangalbeed, wipe my butt.

[Goljano Lion]

Sahangalbeed, wipe my butt.

Abo xishoo

[SahanGalbeed]

Haddey xishood leeyihin ma halkaney isasoo taagi lahayn bay kula tahay goljano ?
Ilaah ba qaaday xishoodkii , la' la ma xidho ba kuwan , inkaar socota weeye !

[SahanGalbeed]

Hadda Issaqi ugu dambeeyay e TFg-ga ku jiray na waa ka baxay dowladda Sheikh dalxiis .
Baadhitan baynu wadna maalmaahan , haddey se ku cadaato iney dawladda TFG-gu argagaxisada gobolka Cayn xidhiidh ay isla leeyihin , waa lagu baaba'i doona Xamar .
Buuhoodle na burbur intaynu ka dhigno , Xamar na 2 kale oo Issaq ah baynu u dirayna .Hadda laba ayaa jooga , labo kale ayuun ba ku filan gebigeeda ba .