In response to Barre’s goons

By Ismail Ahmed

Under the title of “Somaliland a myopic and nincompoop’s option”, a member of newly formed “Neu-Siyaadist Organisation”, by the name of Mohamed Ali Mirreh has posted an article on Wardheernews.com, on December 25, 2006, in which he maliciously described the Somaliland people as stooges who carried British officials on their shoulders.

This article is in response to that petty ninny.

Until recently there has been a surge in propaganda campaign against the state of Somaliland and its people by diehard Barre’s remnants through theWardheer.com.To conceive how far the newly formed organisation reached its campaign against the state of Somaliland and its peace loving people, just click on Warhdeer.com.There you will see Engineer Faisl Ali Waraabe,UCID’s Chairman portrayed as a monster, while the traitors who betrayed their nation are being treated as “ hero’s”.
The latest slob who thrown himself into the fray by stitching together an animated fake picture in which he portrayed Somalilanders carrying on a stretch certain British officers in 1912,with aim of heaping all kinds of insults on people whose age-old pride and puritanical behaviours had been witnessed by all and sundry is, Mohamed Ali Mirre.
For your information, there is no such picture in existence .The picture, with caption of “Somliland, 1912”, does not truly reflect the reality that existed during that period. I reached this conclusion after thoroughly searching such a picture through the British Colonial archives in London. On the other hand, all historical rerecords belonging to the Somaliland’s pre-independence have been destroyed by Brigadier General Bile Rafile in late 1970s, when he was serving as Barre’s regional governor with aim of paving the way for the Hargeisans to be replaced with Ogadenain refugees. Moreover, Somaliland had never been a British colony. Instead, it was a British Protectorate which gave local people a certain degree of self-administration based on pastoral democracy as noted by renowned modern historians. To add more veneer to the credence, there had never been a single historian who mentioned in his book that Somalilanders in the past kowtowed to the British Protectorate officers. According to the Richard Burton, the first European who set foot in East Africa, Somalilanders were a proud people who shunned socialising with white people, leave alone carrying them on their shoulder. Somalilanders had never kowtowed neither to British nor any other force that existed in the region. The difference between colony and protectorate should have been noted by Guulwade Mirre.To acquire the necessary humility and wisdom, he would have read the genuine history of Somaliland. Instead he leaped forward without looking behind his nose. He has a bee in his bonnet.
For people like Mirre who are trudging with frustration emanating from lose of grace and charm, after the collapse of Barre’s fascist regime, Somaliland is his bete noire,thus, out-hording all other evil-doers in that vast semi-desert region where his utterly illiterate back warded nomads make their homes.
Mr.Mirre has categorically denied the 75,000 innocent civilians massacred in Somaliland’s major cities by the combination of armed Ogadenian refugees and Barre’s occupation forces with implication that they were anti-revolutionary and enemy combatants who were even deserved to be gassed, as Hitler did against the Jewish people. In his eyes, the mass graves found in the riverbeds and other localities were simply secessionist elements that deserved such executions. The internationally reputed scholars who revealed the true facts about Somaliland’s history regarding its independence are simply paid mercenaries.
Mr. Mirre and his ilk’s are still chasing an endless mirage dreaming for the impossible resurrection and resuscitation of Barre’s regime in which his clans had five ambassadors, seven ministers and eleven generals, mostly recruited from the refugee camps, in a country where they had no constituency. To achieve such a goal they gathered in Washington camouflaging under the false mantle of Northern Somalis. Among the Barre’s top officials who spoke at the so called NSPU was Faduma O.Hashi, General Mohamed Ali Samtater’s cousin. She served as a member of Central Committee of the defunct Siad Barre’s Somali Socialist Sociality Party. She was one of those Barre’s officials who claimed to be a northerner in order to mislead the international community. What a pea-brain! What a cock-up. At this year and age, nobody can pull the wool over the nimble minded intellectual’s eyes in Washington. It was the BBC’s correspondent who broke the ice that the participants of such ill-fated meeting were in fact mainly from Somalia.
Mr.Mirre’s flippant remarks are akin to a drawing man who made a desperate attempt to grab foams as he struggled against the fast moving waves. I would like to remind the Guulwade in question, a widely quoted Ethiopian saying:
One of highly respected chiefs whose eyes suddenly caught a sloppy whore he knew before she was ditched out from his village flouncing herself down along one of the streets of Addis Ababa’s red-light district, said: “Make yourself beauty for some who does not know you.” It sounds pretty good in Amharic language-la mayowqish tantni- (qof aan ku aqoon u soo uunso)
The false propaganda campaign recently launched by “Neo Siyaadist Organisation” especially directed at the democratically elected leaders of Somaliland Republic has promoted the formation of a strong alliance in the non-Ogaden inhabited regions of Ethiopia, whose regions stretch from Gaashaamo in the east, and Hawash in the west, with Dire Dawa (my hometown), the most splendid and prosperous city being Ethiopia’s second capital. The hate ideology adopted by Neo Siyaadists has left us no other option, except to stand shoulder to shoulder with our brothers in Somaliland in their diplomatic campaign to be recognised immediately as a nation and state which, is simply a re-confirmation of their 1960 independence. How long we have to endure obloquy and obscurantism. Our security must be collective and indivisible. We succeeded in keeping at arm’s length the terrorist organisation of Ogadenian Liberation Front as it only represents one single clan. One of the windfalls of Barre’s fall is the that such terrorists would never be allowed to operate in our regions as it belongs to other regions that we differ in many aspects.

I have a piece of advice for the editors of Wardheernews.com:

You would have served better your own people who are trudging with hunger and incurable contagious diseases, such as impetigo and TB, instead of looking Somaliland’s achievements with a jaundiced eye. It said: charity begins at home.

Down with those NeoSiyaadists who are vainly trying to put back the clock!

Somaliland: You will never walk alone!

Ismail Ahmed,xarshin22@hotmail.com