Amnesty International Welcomes Janaan’s Arrest Says Big Step

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Amnesty welcomes Janan’s arrest, says a step towards accountability
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Hiiraan Online
Monday September 2, 2019



The campaign group Amnesty International has hailed the arrest of Jubbaland Security Minister Abdirashid Janan terming it a ‘significant step to accountability.’

Amnesty said in a statement Monday it welcomed Janan’s arrest last week in Mogadishu and called for investigations be opened on him.

“The arrest of Abdirashid Janan is a significant step towards accountability for the serious human rights violations committed with impunity for years by powerful individuals in Somalia,” said Amnesty’s director for East Africa Saif Magango.

According to Amnesty, Janan has been adversely mentioned previously in UN Monitoring Group on Somalia for violations of human rights.

“Abdirashid Janan is accused by the UN Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group of horrific crimes including killings, torture, unlawful detention and illegal renditions between 2014 and 2015,” the statement read in part.

Jubbaland State protested Sunday the arrest of Janan terming it a violation of law and called on state and federal authorities to come clean on the matter.

Police spokeswoman Hussein Zakia confirmed Friday the arrest of Janan but did not give details only noting police are already investigating him.

But Jubbaland Government reads mischief in Janan’s arrest which comes amid rocky relations between Mogadishu and Kismayu.

Amnesty said Janan was mentioned by the Monitoring Group ‘for serious human rights violations in their 2016 and 2017 reports, and of “conduct constituting obstruction of humanitarian assistance” between 2014 and 2017.”

[barbarossa]

Farmaajo, the only African president serious about human rights issues.

[original dervish]

So Farmaajo has graduated from selling Ogadens....to now selling his own Marehan's.

Hang in there Janaan.....you gotta take this one for team.

[Baad]

So Farmaajo has graduated from selling Ogadens....to now selling his own Marehan's.

Hang in there Janaan.....you gotta take this one for team.

Wuxuu rabo haa ahaado. Dowlad baan nahay sxb faham ina adeer. Niinki maaro loo waayo godka Jilicoow baan qol uga ijaareeyna. Gaaladana war-saxafaadeed soo Sara baan ku amreeyna... Nabad iyo nolal ninki dhiida, dagaal musaan dhooneyn?

[Voltage]

And he started with his own Marehan ina adeer

Janan is reer Ahmed who are one of the most powerful sub-clans in Gedo. They straddle from Dollow to Beled-Xaawo and are particularly heavily armed. This is how Janan become the power boss of northern Gedo in recent times.

Over the weeekend I have come across a lot of Marehan who are cautious and warn the potential of inter-clan civil war if this isn't handled properly.

Fiqi tolki kama jano tago...our Somali history has been to back our clan even in bad and have our clan back us even in bad.

If Farmaajo handles this properly, it is a game changer and a warning to any other human rights abuser.

It says maybe we have moved on from civil war and have forgiven the warlords since we ALL took part in the civil war, but going forward any other human rights abusers will be held accountable

[Talo alle udaa]

Jalleyaal, get out of your high horses.

This is nothing but political expedience and everything to do with the JL Impasse.

The guy was in Xamar 3 months ago and no one touched him. All of the sudden he overnight became a "human rights abuser"

Using state institutions to settle political brownie points is the hallmark of a banana republic.

[Voltage]

Talo,

Talk to any Marehan, the guy is a focking bastard. You have no idea how many crimes he committed using the "Shabaab" card against people

When did Amnesty congratulate any arrest before with the most recent being Rooboow?

As for WHY this is happening now, YOU AREN'T MAREHAN, so let me give you a little secret.

ETHIOPIA!

Janan was the biggest and most important agent of Ethiopia in Somalia for the last 10 years when he was in charge of the only Al Shabaab-free district in southern Somalia; namely Dollow, Gedo. That district itself was free for unofficially hosting Ethiopian troops.

It became the biggest Ethiopian military garrison town south of Godey and it is where they moved on from to remove Shabaab from both Baidoa/Bay and Baardheere/Gedo.

The reason why he can now be arrested is simply because the Ethiopians have given the go a head.

So yes it indirectly has to do with the Jubbaland impasse but of a more important and exciting development; Ethiopian and Kenyan at loggerheads has made the Ethiopians become more agreeable to the Somali gov.

Regardless of the reasons why this came about, the guy IS a human rights abuser and this IS the first time the Somali gov has arrested anyone for abusing human rights.

This seeds a message across the country to any others abusing human rights.

That's the most important consequence of this development.

[Talo alle udaa]

Talo,

Talk to any Marehan, the guy is a focking bastard. You have no idea how many crimes he committed using the "Shabaab" card against people

When did Amnesty congratulate any arrest before with the most recent being Rooboow?

As for WHY this is happening now, YOU AREN'T MAREHAN, so let me give you a little secret.

ETHIOPIA!

Janan was the biggest and most important agent of Ethiopia in Somalia for the last 10 years when he was in charge of the only Al Shabaab-free district in southern Somalia; namely Dollow, Gedo. That district itself was free for unofficially hosting Ethiopian troops.

It became the biggest Ethiopian military garrison town south of Godey and it is where they moved on from to remove Shabaab from both Baidoa/Bay and Baardheere/Gedo.

The reason why he can now be arrested is simply because the Ethiopians have given the go a head.

So yes it indirectly has to do with the Jubbaland impasse but of a more important and exciting development; Ethiopian and Kenyan at loggerheads has made the Ethiopians become more agreeable to the Somali gov.

Regardless of the reasons why this came about, the guy IS a human rights abuser and this IS the first time the Somali gov has arrested anyone for abusing human rights.

This seeds a message across the country to any others abusing human rights.

That's the most important consequence of this development.

The news I am hearing is the guy was duped by Ethiopian forces who requested talks.

[Murax]

[quote=Voltage post_id=4950511 time=<a href="tel:1567472876">1567472876</a> user_id=141541]
Talo,

Talk to any Marehan, the guy is a focking bastard. You have no idea how many crimes he committed using the "Shabaab" card against people

When did Amnesty congratulate any arrest before with the most recent being Rooboow?

As for WHY this is happening now, YOU AREN'T MAREHAN, so let me give you a little secret.

ETHIOPIA!

Janan was the biggest and most important agent of Ethiopia in Somalia for the last 10 years when he was in charge of the only Al Shabaab-free district in southern Somalia; namely Dollow, Gedo. That district itself was free for unofficially hosting Ethiopian troops.

It became the biggest Ethiopian military garrison town south of Godey and it is where they moved on from to remove Shabaab from both Baidoa/Bay and Baardheere/Gedo.

The reason why he can now be arrested is simply because the Ethiopians have given the go a head.

So yes it indirectly has to do with the Jubbaland impasse but of a more important and exciting development; Ethiopian and Kenyan at loggerheads has made the Ethiopians become more agreeable to the Somali gov.

Regardless of the reasons why this came about, the guy IS a human rights abuser and this IS the first time the Somali gov has arrested anyone for abusing human rights.

This seeds a message across the country to any others abusing human rights.

That's the most important consequence of this development.

The news I am hearing is the guy was duped by Ethiopian forces who requested talks.
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TalloAleIdaa,

Lets put the argument as far as the motive of the arrest to the side for a second. Bottom line we can all agree is:

A) Somalia is in the baddest need of good press, good image. Getting kudos from a major International body is a positive, especially when you are so reliant on them

B) The UN silence as far as the Madoobe election, coupled with Amnesty, Interpool’s jubilation of the arrest of a senior Madoobe ally who is part of his administration is not a good look on Madoobe

[original dervish]

This will cause more problems for Marehan than it will for Madoobe.

[Talo alle udaa]

[quote=Voltage post_id=4950511 time=<a href="tel:1567472876">1567472876</a> user_id=141541]
Talo,

Talk to any Marehan, the guy is a focking bastard. You have no idea how many crimes he committed using the "Shabaab" card against people

When did Amnesty congratulate any arrest before with the most recent being Rooboow?

As for WHY this is happening now, YOU AREN'T MAREHAN, so let me give you a little secret.

ETHIOPIA!

Janan was the biggest and most important agent of Ethiopia in Somalia for the last 10 years when he was in charge of the only Al Shabaab-free district in southern Somalia; namely Dollow, Gedo. That district itself was free for unofficially hosting Ethiopian troops.

It became the biggest Ethiopian military garrison town south of Godey and it is where they moved on from to remove Shabaab from both Baidoa/Bay and Baardheere/Gedo.

The reason why he can now be arrested is simply because the Ethiopians have given the go a head.

So yes it indirectly has to do with the Jubbaland impasse but of a more important and exciting development; Ethiopian and Kenyan at loggerheads has made the Ethiopians become more agreeable to the Somali gov.

Regardless of the reasons why this came about, the guy IS a human rights abuser and this IS the first time the Somali gov has arrested anyone for abusing human rights.

This seeds a message across the country to any others abusing human rights.

That's the most important consequence of this development.

The news I am hearing is the guy was duped by Ethiopian forces who requested talks.

TalloAleIdaa,

Lets put the argument as far as the motive of the arrest to the side for a second. Bottom line we can all agree is:

A) Somalia is in the baddest need of good press, good image. Getting kudos from a major International body is a positive, especially when you are so reliant on them

B) The UN silence as far as the Madoobe election, coupled with Amnesty, Interpool’s jubilation of the arrest of a senior Madoobe ally who is part of his administration is not a good look on Madoobe
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I agree Madoobe is weakened partly by his own doing. Kenya will not due for him what Ethiopia is doing for Farmaajo.
The OGs should have seen this and supported an alternative candidate to rally after but he stood in the way and
stoked tribal animosity to paint himself as the wall against MX domination.

By opposing N&N in Mogadishu which is getting the lion share of aid from the international community, the OGs and by extension JL will be missing out on all of the funding, training of officer corps, scholarships, etc.

[original dervish]

They weren't getting anything anyway.
Hardly any ngos are present in Kismayo.

You have to understand Farmaajo and his handlers do not want to see JL/Kismayo progress under a united Darood leadership.

They have been fooling certain elements of mx that they can have Kismayo as their own in order to continue instability in the region.

[Murax]

talo ale udaa,


I’ve criticized N&N’s disastrous Security record on many occassion ask people like Abkowdhiblaawe and sahal. I was against Roobows arrest and made threads about it. That being said as someone who’s a Jubbalander (Reer Luuq/Baardheere), I think people like Madoobe, Sh Shareef, Dahir Aweis have had their run as ‘Islamists’ ‘Sheikh’ etc.

I personally support an Absame technocrat with a solid education, and experience in civil administration. Madoobe could get an applause for being the 1st administrator but overall I think people of his type had their run in Somalia. I hope a neutral in the middle candidate comes. The current stalemate as I mentioned helps nobody.

[Nomand]

Step in the right direction, will Farmaajo also arrest madoobe?

[Django]

talo ale udaa,


I’ve criticized N&N’s disastrous Security record on many occassion ask people like Abkowdhiblaawe and sahal. I was against Roobows arrest and made threads about it. That being said as someone who’s a Jubbalander (Reer Luuq/Baardheere), I think people like Madoobe, Sh Shareef, Dahir Aweis have had their run as ‘Islamists’ ‘Sheikh’ etc.

I personally support an Absame technocrat with a solid education, and experience in civil administration. Madoobe could get an applause for being the 1st administrator but overall I think people of his type had their run in Somalia. I hope a neutral in the middle candidate comes. The current stalemate as I mentioned helps nobody.

Is the current mayor of Xamar a technocrat?