BVSNet wrote: Tue Jan 02, 2018 5:15 pm
What happened in lower shabeele is not as simplistic as you narrate. All the people who killed innocent inhabitants should be brought to justice and come what may they will have to answer for it in akhira.
What is going in Lower Shabelle and has been going on since the fall of the Kacaan regime is not complicated.
The killers that murdered that grandmother and her children were identified and are known to the natives of Marka district. Their killing was an act of revenge for Habargidirs killed when the Biimaals launched an attack on an occupied farm in the Janaale area.
On 18 April 2016 at Essow village southwest of Marka seven members of one family, an elderly woman Khadija Noor Mohammed and her six grandchildren (aged eight, six, four, three and three years old and a baby of four months) were
shot dead and then burned in their home. The SEMG interviewed members of the family, two of whom survived the
incident by hiding in the surrounding bush. Other neighbours had fled when the community received a telephone warning
that militia were approaching the hamlet. The relatives described how the mother of the five children had grabbed her
eldest son (13) at the advance of the militia and fled, trusting that the smaller children and elderly grandmother would not
be harmed. Later she and her neighbours reportedly heard Grandmother Khadija cry out and name her attacker: Nur
Awale, the son of a prominent elder, and leader of a unit of Haber Gedir (Saleban) militia based at Shalmabot. Seven homes in the hamlet were burned and the animals shot after which the militia departed, stealing maize, clothes and money they had found. Members of the community asserted that the action would not have occurred without sanction of the local SNA Commander Nur Jiddow with whom Nur Awale’s militia were frequently located.
Shortly after the killings Al Shabaab officials arrived at the scene and collected bullet casings. The also took pictures of the bodies and of the funeral ceremony. Later Al Shabaab arrested four of those alleged to have participated in burning down the homes, but they were ultimately released without charge further to clan pressure.
In the days following the killings a series of revenge attacks and clashes between Haber Gedir and Biimaal militia ensued. Seven people were killed, including children.
The then Al Shabaab Governor of Lower Shabelle, Mohamed Abu Abdalla, subsequently organized a reconciliation conference between the parties which ended with an ‘agreement’ in Janale on 28 April 2016. Meanwhile no investigations into the incident were conducted by Federal or regional or local authorities.
Both Biimaal elders living in Somalia and abroad reported receiving threats from members of the Haber Gedir community further to their speaking out about the case.
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http://www.securitycouncilreport.org/at ... 16_919.pdf
It ain't only the Biimaal that have a problem with the remnants of the Habargidir militias that controlled Lower Shabelle, and are now part of the SNA. Sadly, the Digil are not as outspoken and predominately shy away from conflict. Then again, who can blame them as they do not possess the heavy weaponry that allows a relatively small non-indigenous 'SNA' militia to harass hundreds of thousands of local civilians. Arm them like the way the Ethiopians armed the Raxanweyn against Aideed's thugs in Baidoa, and even they will not remain silent for long.
Lower Shabelle 44.
Since 2014, the Monitoring Group has documented how entrenched intercommunal conflict in Lower Shabelle, particularly among the Haber Gedir, Biimaal and Digil clans, was complicated by the comparative dominance of the Haber Gedir clan in local and federal political and security structures, and increasingly by the involvement of Al-Shabaab. Under President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the extension of State power in Lower Shabelle, and by extension international support, was allied with Haber Gedir networks. Not only did elements of the Hawiye-dominated Somali National Army participate in large-scale attacks on Biimaal and Digil communities in Lower Shabelle but, on some occasions, it did so in joint operations with Al-Shabaab (see S/2016/919, annex 6.1). At the same time, Al-Shabaab was also building alliances with local communities in opposition to the Government, presenting itself as a protector from an illegitimate and predatory State.32
45. By late 2016, Al-Shabaab’s allegiances in the region were more firmly established. Spurred by Al-Shabaab’s temporary takeover of Marka in February 2016, supported to various degrees by Haber Gedir militia and elements of the Somali National Army, the Biimaal switched their allegiance to AMISOM and anti-Al-Shabaab forces (see S/2016/919, annex 7.5). Haber Gedir networks in the region turned to Al-Shabaab and consolidated their alliance. By October 2016, Al-Shabaab had commenced large-scale burning and looting of Biimaal villages, escalating its attacks in May 2017. In August, open conflict erupted between Biimaal and Haber Gedir militias and Al-Shabaab over control of Marka (see also annex 10.2 (strictly confidential)).
http://www.wardheernews.com/wp-content/ ... Mgroup.pdf
The conflict in Lower Shabelle is ugly but truth be told BV, it is mainly ugly because of one clan's desire to maintain its hegemony in a land where it does not have a Deegaan. None of the dozens of villages in Marka district that have been affected by the conflict are Habargidir nor are most of the civilians. The Squatter 'Landlords' are now using both the SNA and Al Shabab to intimidate the local populace in order to put pressure on the Biimaal militia. If you are sincere in your 'Somalinimo' and 'idealism', start with your own folk. Allah knows they have meted out more injustice than they have received in Lower Shabelle.
I wonder if you would be so silent if it was the other way round, and Digil/Biimaal were waging war on HG in Guriceel, Cadaado etc? Nothing wrong with being a Qabilist like the majority of people on Snet, but just keep it real and allow the Munafiqnimo.
zero sum game ay ? this is not a video game mate this is peoples lives and an entire nation at stake, an individual who is a traitor does not represent an entire clan. HG might be little greedy with Abdishakur they should let him face his fate and distance themselves from this toxic individual before its too late and they get a new stigma of traitor ontop of moryanism.
