^Zenawi is smart though. The secession clause is in there because he knows Ethiopia can not be sustained in its current form. Money and resources have been diverted to build the Tigray region economically and militarily shall Ethiopia implode.

^What do you have against Eritreans?

^Thanks for Yank Constitution, you can buy enough guns to go to war with the government. I am thinking one of those colonies rednecks have out in Montana and Idaho. Waa kuu duceenayaa inaad geeljirnimo ka kortid

^Farmaa iska toogatey-you need another nickname. Clay shooting inaa Lilaahi. War anaa ku maqleey qofkale yuu maqlin. I was actually thinking of buying a gun. Geeljire inaa tahey taas lagu garanaa aanaa xamarna tagin. All Xamiris know goof. No, it's not an English word.

^Fox hunting in one weekend doesn't count,you are better off playing soldier of fortune. I don't know what's guuf, I said goof.

^Balwaa loo fadhiyaa marka.

^Balwaa loo fadhiyaa marka.

^Ciyaal goof aas tahey sug bal. Ma,ogtahey hada falaar lama isticmaalo?

^War ninyahow Qardo nin aad xigtid malahey sug bal

^War ninyahow Qardo nin aad xigtid malahey sug bal

My cousin joined the reserves and will likely be deployed.I don't know his motivation is. The kid already has collage degree and can pursue other venues. Personally, I will never put on military gear to fight for a country (even it's Muslim) other than Somalia. That said, I'm grateful for life, education and passport afforded by Yanks.

Child prostitution and trafficking is national problem that's not getting the resources and attention it need to be stemmed. It's even more difficult as America is cash strapped.

Maybe it's Gardaro University or Qandho But kudos to the organizers!

Maybe it's Gardaro University or Qandho But kudos to the organizers!

^You just made Duke's day.

^Typo-Yup, I don't think they have any sense of personal responsibility and a bit of decency. What do they LITERALLY do when they get up in the morning till it becomes dark? The only thing left for Somalia is mass awakening and that's unlikely in the near future.

Are we gonna see Gabbal and Allamagan more now

It is funny and ironic in cruel way!

And the sage continues.

An another one-N I ask you people if you still wanna put your fate in TFG (Maddeey is out of this).

^I'm aware of what Somalis are or do but the crimes of the Ethiopian government against all Somali people and entities ARE evil. The flaws of the Somali character is not justification for Ethiopia to commit heinous crimes against the Somali nation.This is what I don't understand people like you and others who makes excuses for the crimes committed by Ethiopians?

^Somalis committed heinous crimes but does that give Ethiopia the right to rape, kill and torture Somalis? I don't understand your logic?

Sure Xaaji...Seeing your mom and sisters raped while your father lay dead on the floor makes Ethiopia a boogeyman. Taleexi...Ethiopia has no absolute respect for any Somali entity or person-makes me wonder what goes through the mind of those that defend its action and do they really believe Ethiopia will spare them if they are no longer under its grace (which they never were but the mind does play tricks).

When I hear and see a Somali person defending Ethiopian actions, I'm reminded of this A 22-year-old man from Mogadishu told Human Rights Watch: Some Ethiopian and government soldiers came to our house and said, "Where are you hiding them [the insurgents]?" We said we were not hiding anyone, and that's when they shot my father. He was just explaining to them that we did not see the people they are looking for and that we had been in the house all day, and they shot him, telling him he was lying. They shot him in the chest. My sister and mother were screaming at me to leave the place. But I wanted to resist, and I said, "Why are you doing this?" but they started beating me with the back of their guns. The young man and his family were members of a minority clan that traces its ancestry partly back to immigrants from Portugal and so were unusually light skinned. The Ethiopian soldiers began joking that the young man's two sisters and mother looked more like Eritreans than Somalis. With the family's father lying dead on the floor in front of them, several Ethiopian soldiers took turns raping the three women. "And I was sitting there helpless," the young man said. "They started raping my sisters and they were screaming. They were there for almost three hours. I saw them raping my mother in front of me…I could not help my mother or help my sisters." At his mother's insistence, he left Mogadishu the next day. HRW The patterns of such attacks are strikingly similar: the Ethiopian military first issues orders to the villagers to evacuate the villages within two to seven days. When the villagers refuse to evacuate, the army returns to carry out killings and other atrocities, and burns the village. Should soldiers see villagers or pastoralists in the area after the evacuation and burning of the village, they are often beaten and detained, summarily executed or, if women or girls, raped. HRW The women were accused of supporting the ONLF, cooking food for the fighters and spying for the ONLF. Most of the women were being raped. As we were moved outside our room, I witnessed women who were interrogated and raped. I saw with my own eyes two girls being raped, at different times. We could hear their screams and could see these things with our own eyes. One girl was raped by five soldiers one night I was taken out, I was handcuffed at the time, and another time two girls were being raped just meters away from me. All the time when they interviewed the girls, they used to force them to undress themselves. Six soldiers were with the two girls when I saw them being raped; the interrogator was there also. When the women refused to answer the questions, the interrogator allowed the soldiers to rape them. HRW

Good progress-I hope they stay in the country.There's need economic growth and stability to stop the brain drain.