The thruth about Federalism thing in Somalia
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 8:35 am
Coming to Snet made me to think in more claninst lane. It is unfortunete, but it is true that the more I read what is being said here the more I feel saying things I would not dare to say a felow Somali ( eg, I do not like your lahjeh). That said, my nationalist feeling has not dead all together.
I quote from a Westren Observer on Somalia when she wrote about Somali Federalisms:
{....} teh second vision, espoused by Somalia's neighors (ie Ethiopia and Kenya}, and endorsed by the international community, is a federal vision in which the country would be divided into several clan areas, each exercising considerable autonomy within its own region. This approximates to the de fact gevernanace arrangements that have developed in much of the country, but the troublesome detail of territorial division has not been fully explored. Puntland represent a model for a fuitre federla state in a federal republic....
''opponents of this vision see Fedelarism as a divisive and hark back to a more unitary somali nationalist project. Others articulate a radical new vision ffo an Islamic state in Somali under Sharia Law in which the clan division s of the country would be overcome. Much of the most recent fighting in the country is ostensibly being carried out to achieve this objective. It is a vision that embraces the Somali communities in the neighboring countries and this way provides a thread of continuity with the older pa-somali vision.''
I quote from a Westren Observer on Somalia when she wrote about Somali Federalisms:
{....} teh second vision, espoused by Somalia's neighors (ie Ethiopia and Kenya}, and endorsed by the international community, is a federal vision in which the country would be divided into several clan areas, each exercising considerable autonomy within its own region. This approximates to the de fact gevernanace arrangements that have developed in much of the country, but the troublesome detail of territorial division has not been fully explored. Puntland represent a model for a fuitre federla state in a federal republic....
''opponents of this vision see Fedelarism as a divisive and hark back to a more unitary somali nationalist project. Others articulate a radical new vision ffo an Islamic state in Somali under Sharia Law in which the clan division s of the country would be overcome. Much of the most recent fighting in the country is ostensibly being carried out to achieve this objective. It is a vision that embraces the Somali communities in the neighboring countries and this way provides a thread of continuity with the older pa-somali vision.''