Re: Sawiro aan caadi ahayn Jale Siyad
Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 4:47 pm
Murax, Of course they matter to me, but you have to understand that 2 people murdered will hurt more than 1 person murdered.
Also you are right that many lost their lives after the rebel movements were formed but you have to acknowledge that
things were not all rosy before that:
The United Nations Development Program claimed that "The 21-year regime of Siyad Barre had one of the worst human rights records in Africa." [UNDP, Human Development Report 2001 Somalia]
The Africa Watch Committee wrote in a report that "Both the urban population and nomads living in the countryside [were] subjected to summary killings, arbitrary arrest, detention in squalid conditions, torture, rape, crippling constraints on freedom of movement and expression and a pattern of psychological intimidation." [Africa Watch Committee Somalia: A Government at War with its Own People]
Amnesty International went on to report that torture methods committed by Barre's National Security Service (NSS) included executions and "beatings while tied in a contorted position, electric shocks, rape of woman prisoners, simulated executions and death threats." [Amnesty International, Torture in the Eighties, (Bristol, England: Pitman Press, 1984)]
In September 1970, the government introduced the National Security Law No. 54, which granted the NSS the power to arrest and detain indefinitely those who expressed critical views of the government, without ever being brought to trial. It further gave the NSS the power to arrest without a warrant anyone suspected of a crime involving "national security". Article 1 of the law prohibited "acts against the independence, unity or security of the State", and capital punishment was mandatory for anyone convicted of such acts. [National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) Committee on Human Rights & Institute of Medicine (U.S.) Committee on Health and Human Rights, Scientists and human rights in Somalia: report of a delegation, (Washington D.C.: National Academy Press, 1988)]
Also you are right that many lost their lives after the rebel movements were formed but you have to acknowledge that
things were not all rosy before that:
The United Nations Development Program claimed that "The 21-year regime of Siyad Barre had one of the worst human rights records in Africa." [UNDP, Human Development Report 2001 Somalia]
The Africa Watch Committee wrote in a report that "Both the urban population and nomads living in the countryside [were] subjected to summary killings, arbitrary arrest, detention in squalid conditions, torture, rape, crippling constraints on freedom of movement and expression and a pattern of psychological intimidation." [Africa Watch Committee Somalia: A Government at War with its Own People]
Amnesty International went on to report that torture methods committed by Barre's National Security Service (NSS) included executions and "beatings while tied in a contorted position, electric shocks, rape of woman prisoners, simulated executions and death threats." [Amnesty International, Torture in the Eighties, (Bristol, England: Pitman Press, 1984)]
In September 1970, the government introduced the National Security Law No. 54, which granted the NSS the power to arrest and detain indefinitely those who expressed critical views of the government, without ever being brought to trial. It further gave the NSS the power to arrest without a warrant anyone suspected of a crime involving "national security". Article 1 of the law prohibited "acts against the independence, unity or security of the State", and capital punishment was mandatory for anyone convicted of such acts. [National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) Committee on Human Rights & Institute of Medicine (U.S.) Committee on Health and Human Rights, Scientists and human rights in Somalia: report of a delegation, (Washington D.C.: National Academy Press, 1988)]
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