SahanGalbeed wrote:Listen Gurey , back when I first went there , I used to have a journal , a diary , in which I used to write every night all the things that I have observed and my feelings . They thought I ws a spy working for Ismael Omar Guelleh's secret police

they stole my journal and had it translated by a french speaking guy without ever returning it . Their biggest crime is ignorance .One does not let a fool commit suicide just because he doesn't know any better . I am not talking about Kosovo or Darfur , I am talking about the Tuareg , and Biafra, Polisario western Sahara and the Senussis in Lybia , cases that have their legal relevance just as Somaliland , not adding the disparity in the ethnic background for the most part.
Somaliland is going to seek international arbitration , okay , they have to ! My point is don't do it because it the event you lose , you will lose big much more than if you initiate a path to joining a federal Somalia . Now if they win , they win of course

But suicide is not an option .
Again you are mixing apples and oranges,
the case of the Tuareg , Biafra are so far from Somaliland, they never existed with a seperate border and as a different entitiy.
The Polisario case matches Somaliland, but are they independent? no? because the Morrocans ignored international law and used force.
I told you before on purely legal terms Somaliland is the strongest case out there.
This is why the Somalia administratioon is going to try very hard to avoid it, and the international community will try to ignore the subject as long as we are quite and dont rock the boat.
The Battle is to get to international arbitration, it will be one hell of a battle.
Winning the arbitration is going to be piss easy..
I expect the SL government to be ignored, and the issue to take a few years to reach the international courts.
and i want to know what other option do you have for us?
Join as a federal state?
are you like the majority of somalis that do not understand federalism?
Without checks and balances enshrined in a constituition, federalism means jack shit,
The government will monoplize all power and defeat all other opponnents due to having access to foriegn funds that can be used to bribe .
Reer Puntland and Jubaland are doomed, they do not understand how fucked they are, they have been outmanouvered.
The situation is far worse than 1961.
For us if we join now we will be screwed allot faster and deeper than the politicians in 1960 ever thought.
Your naivity is very dangerous, and will mean my sons generation will have to fight another war of independence 20 years from now,
an SNM 2.0
Its our job to prevent that.