Beautiful piece about Somalinimo!

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all somalinet members. this is a sad but beautiful piece about somalinimo. check out http://garqaate.blogspot.com/

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".........She told me how soldiers came to their village and killed all their livestock. How their young men were either killed or imprisoned. She was jailed for months and gang raped by Ethiopian forces. She had bayonet scars on her inner thighs to prove it. As I looked at those scars, I swelled up. A few tear drops ran down my face. I could not help but feel a little bit—a tiny little bit—of the agony this lady went through. An agony she suffered because of her identity........"

"..........How many times can a country be abandoned before it runs out of people and becomes a barren wilderness? How many times does a country bleed before its bled dry? ........"

"........How long does it take before we understand that like a herd of zebras we might be able to differentiate each other but to the rest of the world we are all just the same?....."

".......Gal iyo Mudug
haddii ay kala midooween,
Burca iyo Baydhabo
haddii ay ooda kala xirteen,
Walbahaarkii Wargaduud
hadduu gaareyn Galgaduud,
Kala soocid soomaaliyeed
hadduu suuqa saraf ku leeyahay,
If Gal and Mudug
Have united in disunity
And Burca and Baydhabo
Have erected walls between them
If the pain of Wargaduud
Cannot be felt in Galgaduud
If the dicing and dividing of Somalis
Still has value in the market place

Wadaad iyo wadaadnimo
haddii ay sharaf la'aatay;
If the learned and “learning”
Have lost all prestige and respect

Hadduu qamiiray qarankii;
hadduu butaacay burburkii;
hadduu calaacalay calankii;
If the nation has decomposed, rotten
And the destruction has overflowed
and the flag is wailing