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Somalia: Hawiye issues statement after meeting
By: Shabelle news Dept.
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Mogadishu 25, March.07 ( Sh.M.Network) The traditional elders of Somali’s powerful Hawiye tribe, who had several hours long meeting in the Somalia capital Mogadishu after the ceasefire broken, on Sunday issued a joint declaration statement over the current situation in the country – as Mogadishu remains clam for the second day.
* After the meeting, Abdi Imam Omar, the chairman of Hawiye tribe read out the statement to the reporters as below:
The third Hawiye declaration.
* After the third conference in Mogadishu on 25, March 2007, the Hawiye elders agreed on several articles of their statement:
* We (the clans of Hawiye) here be indicating that we have implemented the ceasefire agreement in which we signed with the Ethiopian military officials on 22, March 2007.
* We suggest the international community to support the truce and help keep it emplaced and also not turn blind eye to the humanitarian disaster in the capital.
* The Hawiye elders called on the Somali population living in the capital to remain in their homes and not comply with the warning by the puppets within the government in which they said to abandon some villages in the city.
* The Ethiopian government should immediately pull its troops out of our country as it had already pledged to quit Somalia after the arrival of the African Union peacekeepers.
* The Puntland militia should be brought back to their settlements in northeast Somalia until to find national government.
* The elders of Hawiye decided to release the misled militiamen that caught in the Mogadishu clashes three days ago and hand them to their clans.
* Hawiye is ready to attend the all-inclusive national reconciliation conference after the implementation of the ceasefire.
* We again appeal the Hawiye people within the interim government to come before the elders to them into accountability for the responsibility they area holding for the Hawiye.
* Finally, we call on the Somali people wherever they are to vividly attend defending the religion and the country against the enemy.