Alaa war wakaa Mustafe huudhayd'na xaga danbe ka qoslaya! :D war maxaa who-is-who of the fodder-eating fools isugu yimid meesha!

The Diapora guy's interview is even funnier. You know of course very happy you know denamrk you know good day you know there is no change you know afraid but advise peace place welcome and express viewers and everybody is you know happy... FYI - marka gabadha maraykanka ka timid hadlayso ka xagga danbe madaxa ka lulaya nin buu tuulo Cobole la yidhaa ku dilay 8 years ago isagoo qaad ka boobaya. Baxasad baa Finland loo geeyay. He is now a Diaspora! Xidid baanu nahay. :D

looooooooooool @the translator -Abdirahman Gurey -The Ethiopian Minsiter of Trade. War maxay meeshu rag wax turjuma u baahatay? :D War kii yaraaye tabliiqa ahaa ee Abdinasir Aw Dahir'na meesha wuu tagay ileen? Balo! even loooooooooooooooooooooooooooler@the body language of Abdi Iley. What a disgraceful stooges! You think they are like a bride who met her long-awaited husband. Tigre saccharine is doing wonders.

Wyre, My name is Hashi Adan Aamusane. Dakhare is my nickname.

I now know that Yustur’s brother asked her to leave the town. He couldn’t bear the ridicule of his peers. She worked as maid in Jigjiga, Borame, and later in Qabribayax. As if someone with her secrets followed her from the village, wherever she went, it only took her two to three months to see people pointing fingers at her. A cruel firing always followed. It was one Jigjiga maid who told her that she heard some boys saying Yustur has “three letters”. They meant HIV. From the day she come back from Hospital and were told that she needs to take Antiretroviral drugs, Yustur carried the unbearable burden of tiny letters - at times three, at times four, other times seven when they are all added together, that become her name, her identity, her shadow at sunlight and even in the darkness of night. She met me on her way to the end of her horizon, Yemen. If she is lucky, the sea that ate many people will be kind enough to swallow her and spare her more misery, more disgrace. That is the last words she said to me. “Alla waa Dakhare! You reached on time.” Ahmed-deeq was relieved I was there. “Your father is blind and can’t see you. Which is good, because he won’t be able to see your bald head, your graying beard and the creases all over your face,” Ahmed embraced me. “My son, things have changed. What was shame is now fame, what was fame is now shame in our land. There are new rulers, new religions, new diseases, and new medicines” my father’s words comforted me. It means my people will change too; they will not treat people, with illnesses they don’t understand, as criminals and social rejects. I told my father about Yustur. His words were measured and came as if rehearsed for a long time. “Some things will never change - things we can never understand. God’s way of dealing with those who disobey him is a matter we can’t know about. You don’t have to feel for the girl. Feel for this society. Feel for our culture. Feel for our progeny.” He raised his voice. “Loose girls in our times were rare, but they were there. They brought unclean children, without father, without ancestors to this world. God exposed their decadence through their stomachs’ protuberance; through pregnancy.” The conclusions came with the finality and certainty of a man who saw too many things change, and too many others not change. “Today, he grows them thin, thinner, and thinner. It is a sign. Their sins are written on their body, they can’t hide or deny. It is what our world needed; for the warning that humans will pay for their transgressions in their graves and after the grave is ridiculed and ignored. The verdict is not delivered after death anymore. They are made to watch hell in this world. Can they say they were not warned? Can they turn their eyes from divine punishment?” My whole body became numb. I wished Yustur never makes to Yemen. I prayed the boat that she boards capsizes. I saw her dead body in the shores of Somalia, in my mind. I felt reprieve. Abdullahi D. Moge WardheerNews Contributor E-Mail: abdullahimoge@yahoo.com http://www.wardheernews.com/Articles_11/Jan/Moge/09_Yusturs_Alphabet.html

By Abdullahi D. Moge Jan. 09, 2011 Before the altercation at the seat behind woke me up of my reverie, I was judging my mother, Maryama Aw-Siraad, and how unfair she was to me. What did she used to call me? Footloose! An impatient itinerant son! “He is bewitched on the bottom. He roams around”, she used to say. Never in malice, never in resentment, but casually; mostly when introducing me to women guests as her third child but she could not locate me nearby. Maybe she spoke too soon. It is difficult to reconcile her verdict with the fact that I am travelling to see my village after thirty two years of life without journey, in the land of snow, in the land of pork-meat, in the land of pimps and pedophiles. I stayed put; coming close to validate my mother’s allegations only when I take a trip to and from workplace. And even then, I sat in a crowded train, motionlessly. ‘There is no free lunch in America’; there is no free bariido (greetings) too. At least, on the train. “I will sing, and sing, and sing, the way I want. Do you own my mouth?” A woman was yelling at a young girl, who sat alone on the row behind me. The girl - Yustur, as I later learned, was initially fighting back but soon sank her body into her seat. She was running away from the stares and scrutiny of passengers, I can tell. The fat Qat-merchant women let out a big guffaw, revealing one missing front teeth, and continued the provocative Sida Hara gingimano song, clearly intent on inflicting more misery on her subdued rival. She put emphasis on Shankaroon’s macabre lines. Hadaan anigu go’ayoo, Cudurkaad I galisay Intuu halista ii galay Aan gabay talaabada Geeri iyo god mooye Ifka gogoli ii ool…. Every time the raucous women receives an applause from small number of passengers beside her, who I was sure knew her, she would look at a man next to the driver and give him a big giggle. I assumed the woman was seeking his attention, although there was no hint the man was enjoying the coquettish parade. Yustur’s muffled cry continued. My father’s land has truly changed with the changing world. Here is a young girl crying and no one came to ask her why; to console her; or to curse her if she was petulantly overreacting. Even those who did not approve of the mordant chants of the older lady did not show much mercy to the mournful young girl. Harshin, the village the bus was destined to, loomed from close distance. I have also changed. For Dakhare would never have sat beside a girl uninvited and inquire about her issues. Unless, of course, the terms of the conversation fit the Haasaawe (talking) framework - that obfuscatory term, which exempted us of societal censure, but more crucially served as the only compensatory outlet for imprisoned carnal temptations. If the fool Ina-Gheele didn’t use an axe to hit my forehead, I would have only remained Hashi Adan Aamusane. The land of the white men gave me heart, gave me compassion. But that knowledge also pained me for it meant my people are heartless, vicious, and wicked. “Adeer (uncle), why are you crying? Did somebody do harm to you that I don’t know?” I joined the bus from Qabri-bayax, and wondered if things happened before that. “Leave me adeer! You yourself are one of them. You don’t think I saw how you run away from the seat beside me when you boarded the bus?” The girl shocked me, but more disbelief followed. “I saw you say, is that girl the one with the saddex xaraf?” The girl might have also earned the wrath of the unruly women with her paranoia, I suspected. I know I didn’t say what she was accusing me of. What I said was “Saddex qof”, after the bus boy asked me how many people were in the seats at the last row. For some reason, he wanted me not to sit next to Yustur, instead trying to find me some place elsewhere. I decided to talk to her after we disembark at Harshin. “We should be there in ten minutes”, I said to myself. Then, Yustur talked, this time calmly. It was as if she woke up from a bad dream. Tired and exhausted, she asked me if I was coming from abroad. I said I was here to see my ailing father. “If I reach him with life”. Yustur’s wart-filled face was like a horror movie. The depravation, hunger, disease, and self-hate on a face that barely saw twenty Gu’ rains was hard to imagine. The emaciated long check bones gave a clue of a face that once was flaunted with pride, not hidden behind niqab, like Yustur was doing today. It was not hard to know Yustur’s darker skin could not have dimmed her beauty in her good days. “I am sorry, uncle. I thought you are one of them”, her apology was sincere. “AIDS was found in me”, she added, the Somali parlance is like that. And surprisingly she seemed to be relishing telling her sad story. “I don’t know where I got it from. I am from Aware town, and was among eight girls arrested and raped by the Ethiopian army in the town. That happened in 2006. The problem is, all other girls are fine and healthy. It is only me who got it.” She told me many things: That the head of the district Health office, Saleeye, married her later, and that some people say it is him who infected her. But Sheikh Tarabi, whose blessings she asked for, said her ill-health is an expression of God’s displeasure with her. He said, since the rest of the girls were all well, it is the knower of the unknown who knows why she has to get the disease from the unbelievers who defiled her. He asked her to turn to her God and repent for sins she may have committed. God’s compassion is infinite and she may get his miracle, if she prays hard, the Sheikh advised. A bad thought crossed her mind, but she quickly dispelled it as the voice-over of the devil. “Why did God does this to me?” She suppressed her blasphemous anger. Sheikh Tarabi was immovable, and didn’t listen to her claims of innocence and previous piousness. “A Muslim is never infected with AIDS. This is God’s weapon against infidels and their filth. The Almighty protected the Muslim girls from Axmaaro venom. Otherwise, how did Mulki survive that entire ordeal? We know it is her who was raped most! Even six men at once, according to what the District head told me.” Sheikh Tarabi narrated how he almost got arrested when he tried to denounce the act. It was the District head, Dahir Kuus, who dissuaded him from doing so. Dahir Kuus is a man of wisdom, Sheikh Tarabi told Yustur. “If Dahir Kuus did not bring me to my senses, did not tell me that it is for the good of the girls that we don’t make noises, didn’t show me the wider consequences for the families of the girls if this shame is known, I would have caused pain and suffering to many noble parents”, he cringed at the thought, according to Yustur. She agreed with Shiekh’s reasoning and Dahir’s farsightedness. But she is not sure if the Dahir’s joke that “what is raped is women, not men; we should really not make it as if what happened to Prophet Lott's (Luud’s) people is happening here”, was relevant. So, now I understood why the song irritated young Yustur, although I doubt the bothersome Qat merchant was taunting the girl, or was simply attracting the attention of the man with the hat, who later changed his seat. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Continued

Yustur’s Alphabet (A short story) By Abdullahi D. Moge Jan. 09, 2011 Before the altercation at the seat behind woke me up of my reverie, I was judging my mother, Maryama Aw-Siraad, and how unfair she was to me. What did she used to call me? Footloose! An impatient itinerant son! “He is bewitched on the bottom. He roams around”, she used to say. Never in malice, never in resentment, but casually; mostly when introducing me to women guests as her third child but she could not locate me nearby. Maybe she spoke too soon. It is difficult to reconcile her verdict with the fact that I am travelling to see my village after thirty two years of life without journey, in the land of snow, in the land of pork-meat, in the land of pimps and pedophiles. I stayed put; coming close to validate my mother’s allegations only when I take a trip to and from workplace. And even then, I sat in a crowded train, motionlessly. ‘There is no free lunch in America’; there is no free bariido (greetings) too. At least, on the train. “I will sing, and sing, and sing, the way I want. Do you own my mouth?” A woman was yelling at a young girl, who sat alone on the row behind me. The girl - Yustur, as I later learned, was initially fighting back but soon sank her body into her seat. She was running away from the stares and scrutiny of passengers, I can tell. The fat Qat-merchant women let out a big guffaw, revealing one missing front teeth, and continued the provocative Sida Hara gingimano song, clearly intent on inflicting more misery on her subdued rival. She put emphasis on Shankaroon’s macabre lines. {i]Hadaan anigu go’ayoo, Cudurkaad I galisay Intuu halista ii galay Aan gabay talaabada Geeri iyo god mooye Ifka gogoli ii ool….[/i] Every time the raucous women receives an applause from small number of passengers beside her, who I was sure knew her, she would look at a man next to the driver and give him a big giggle. I assumed the woman was seeking his attention, although there was no hint the man was enjoying the coquettish parade. Yustur’s muffled cry continued. My father’s land has truly changed with the changing world. Here is a young girl crying and no one came to ask her why; to console her; or to curse her if she was petulantly overreacting. Even those who did not approve of the mordant chants of the older lady did not show much mercy to the mournful young girl. Harshin, the village the bus was destined to, loomed from close distance. I have also changed. For Dakhare would never have sat beside a girl uninvited and inquire about her issues. Unless, of course, the terms of the conversation fit the Haasaawe (talking) framework - that obfuscatory term, which exempted us of societal censure, but more crucially served as the only compensatory outlet for imprisoned carnal temptations. If the fool Ina-Gheele didn’t use an axe to hit my forehead, I would have only remained Hashi Adan Aamusane. The land of the white men gave me heart, gave me compassion. But that knowledge also pained me for it meant my people are heartless, vicious, and wicked. “Adeer (uncle), why are you crying? Did somebody do harm to you that I don’t know?” I joined the bus from Qabri-bayax, and wondered if things happened before that. “Leave me adeer! You yourself are one of them. You don’t think I saw how you run away from the seat beside me when you boarded the bus?” The girl shocked me, but more disbelief followed. “I saw you say, is that girl the one with the saddex xaraf?” The girl might have also earned the wrath of the unruly women with her paranoia, I suspected. I know I didn’t say what she was accusing me of. What I said was “Saddex qof”, after the bus boy asked me how many people were in the seats at the last row. For some reason, he wanted me not to sit next to Yustur, instead trying to find me some place elsewhere. I decided to talk to her after we disembark at Harshin. “We should be there in ten minutes”, I said to myself. Then, Yustur talked, this time calmly. It was as if she woke up from a bad dream. Tired and exhausted, she asked me if I was coming from abroad. I said I was here to see my ailing father. “If I reach him with life”. Yustur’s wart-filled face was like a horror movie. The depravation, hunger, disease, and self-hate on a face that barely saw twenty Gu’ rains was hard to imagine. The emaciated long check bones gave a clue of a face that once was flaunted with pride, not hidden behind niqab, like Yustur was doing today. It was not hard to know Yustur’s darker skin could not have dimmed her beauty in her good days. “I am sorry, uncle. I thought you are one of them”, her apology was sincere. “AIDS was found in me”, she added, the Somali parlance is like that. And surprisingly she seemed to be relishing telling her sad story. “I don’t know where I got it from. I am from Aware town, and was among eight girls arrested and raped by the Ethiopian army in the town. That happened in 2006. The problem is, all other girls are fine and healthy. It is only me who got it.” She told me many things: That the head of the district Health office, Saleeye, married her later, and that some people say it is him who infected her. But Sheikh Tarabi, whose blessings she asked for, said her ill-health is an expression of God’s displeasure with her. He said, since the rest of the girls were all well, it is the knower of the unknown who knows why she has to get the disease from the unbelievers who defiled her. He asked her to turn to her God and repent for sins she may have committed. God’s compassion is infinite and she may get his miracle, if she prays hard, the Sheikh advised. A bad thought crossed her mind, but she quickly dispelled it as the voice-over of the devil. “Why did God does this to me?” She suppressed her blasphemous anger. Sheikh Tarabi was immovable, and didn’t listen to her claims of innocence and previous piousness. “A Muslim is never infected with AIDS. This is God’s weapon against infidels and their filth. The Almighty protected the Muslim girls from Axmaaro venom. Otherwise, how did Mulki survive that entire ordeal? We know it is her who was raped most! Even six men at once, according to what the District head told me.” Sheikh Tarabi narrated how he almost got arrested when he tried to denounce the act. It was the District head, Dahir Kuus, who dissuaded him from doing so. Dahir Kuus is a man of wisdom, Sheikh Tarabi told Yustur. “If Dahir Kuus did not bring me to my senses, did not tell me that it is for the good of the girls that we don’t make noises, didn’t show me the wider consequences for the families of the girls if this shame is known, I would have caused pain and suffering to many noble parents”, he cringed at the thought, according to Yustur. She agreed with Shiekh’s reasoning and Dahir’s farsightedness. But she is not sure if the Dahir’s joke that “what is raped is women, not men; we should really not make it as if what happened to Prophet Lott's (Luud’s) people is happening here”, was relevant. So, now I understood why the song irritated young Yustur, although I doubt the bothersome Qat merchant was taunting the girl, or was simply attracting the attention of the man with the hat, who later changed his seat.

Like the village i.d.i.o.t.s who comes to the house of a bereaved family and sings wedding songs in the middle of the funeral procession, Universal TV is rubbing salt into the wounds of the colonized people of Somali Galbeed with its parochial and prejudiced coverage of the reality on the ground. On the day Universal TV broadcasted the arrival of Mohamed Suleiman Tubeec in Jigjiga, the region’s special police killed a truck owner in Degahbour town. On the same day, two families learned that their sons, who were in the main prison in Jigjiga for over a year, died a year ago. The sad thing is, all this time, the poor families were supplying food to the prison guards, in the belief that they were feeding their sons in detention! In the same week, about a dozen people died of Cholera in Fiq and more than thirty others died of preventable whooping cough in Rasso district. None of these tragedies were reported by Universal TV. Instead, dancing actors and dining Diasporas dominated its news from the region. Watching Universal TV’s daily news about the region gives one the impression that the region is at peace and in prosperity. Yet, as I write, the region is experiencing severe drought and water-shortages. Atrocities against the civilian population and illegal arrests are on going. United Nation agencies in Kenya received more than two thousand people who fled the region in the last three months alone. Can this oversight be explained by the proliferation of ‘drive-by journalism’, whereby the most important news and issues are not probed deeply and presented, or is it an evidence of a sinister corporate entanglement between Universal TV and representatives of Meles Zenawi in the region? Universal TV is a useful addition to Somali media and is playing a key role in the preservation of Somali identity and culture. Its owner, Engineer Ahmed Abubaker, deserves praise for creating a channel that provides a forum for Somali artists, historians, politicians, and parents to share their views and express their anxieties. The TV is a young station and it is explicable it will have teething problems. Some of its weaknesses are the result of the environment under which it operates. In all parts of Somalia (South Central, Puntland, and Somaliland) and in Djibouti, it hardly presents news and commentaries that contradict the official lines of the authorities in these areas. The absence of conducive environment for objective reporting compelled the TV’s correspondents to send items that are largely of ceremonies, statements, and visits by these authorities. There is no much analysis and investigative angle to the channel’s stories. In Somaliland, for instance, it cannot air opinions that oppose the secession agenda. In Puntland, it doesn’t give news of events such as the skirmishes in Galgala from the perspective of Sheikh Atom’s supporters. In South Central, it realizes the dangers of taking a side and hence balances things by covering the press releases and claims of all sides. It is unfair to ask the TV station to do more than that, given the circumstances and tensions that prevail in these areas. Nonetheless, a common practice of Universal TV in these lands is that it has semi-independent correspondents, who are not directly attached to the authorities, and hence report with some degree of impartiality. But in Somali Galbeed, their correspondent is Ali Barkhad, a cadre of the ruling Ethiopian Somali People Democratic Party (ESPDP) and the newsreader of the State government’s radio and TV stations. This is a serious indictment of Universal TV’s indifference to the suffering of the Somali people in the region. Unless it has taken a side in the ongoing conflict, it will need to rectify this matter, soonest. It also needs to review its decision to report from a region where it knows it cannot independently report from. It should do so, for deodorizing tyrants and hiding their atrocities with favorable coverage, makes the TV complicit of crimes committed by these tyrants. From the far morbid lands of Colombia, where toddlers gazed over the dead bodies of their fathers and siblings, deafened by the wailings of widowed mothers; while the killer was on TV, receiving accolades of greatness, chants of adulation, and rapturous ovation from sympathetic media, there is a lesson to be learnt. Those media were as criminal as Pablo Escobar Gaviria, the drug kingpin, who was made to look a decent human being in those fawning reportages. The victims, understandably, are hurt and angry. The mafia and other criminals have lots of money but that is no reason why they should be allowed to buy airtime to pursue criminal agendas and to carve out philanthropist images for themselves through reputable airwaves. Moral considerations aside, the themes of Universal TV’s reports on the region are repetitive and boring. A single event of the regional President having fun with Diaspora visiting delegation is covered from multiple angles as if it was the death of Santiago Nasar in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s epic novel ‘chronicles of a death foretold’. Universal TV will have to make a stark choice soon. It has to choose either to remain the mouth-piece of human-rights abusers or to become the voice of the voiceless victims. It has to choose between the jingles of coins and the ideal of justice. And it has to decide between pursuing its current journalistic salesmanship and bequeathing a righteous legacy for itself and the Somali people it purports to serve, by standing with the oppressed and not the oppressors. In the minimum, it should not be the promoter of dictators and colonizers, if it can not stand against them. Engineer Ahmed Abubaker and the board of Directors of Universal TV must look into this matter with clear head and clean conscience. http://www.wardheernews.com/Articles_11/Jan/Mahado/11_Universal_TV_Singing_Wedding_Songs_in_a_Funeral.html Mahado Sh. Dahir E-Mail:mahadoshiekh@yahoo.com

[Do they see a Somali man lost in deep thought and wonder if I am thinking of the problems of the horn? Do they wonder if I am an Al Shabab supporter? Have they heard of Siilaanyo or Sheikh Sharif? Or do they just think of pirates? Bloody Imam Farole! I think they will know you are thinking about a second wife or how to go and interview Sheikh Atom.

If the link is not working, try this: http://www.sunatimes.com/view.php?id=648# and look for "Ahmed silaanyo gabay" on the right side.

:D Rayaale's men fight back! http://www.sunatimes.com/view.php?id=648# What a poem!

RESOLUTION OF THE FIFTH PLENARY SESSION OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF ONLF Posted by miharbi on January 02 2011 15:19:55 The 5th plenary session of the Central Committee of the ****** National Liberation Front was held between 25th December 2010 to 1st January 2011. The session was attended by CC members of the ****** National Liberation Front both from inside and outside of ******. The session was held at a time when the whole of the Horn of Africa, specially ******, Somalia and Ethiopia are undergoing a critical and traumatic juncture in the history of the region. The session deliberated on the following main agenda: 1. Reports of the chairman and the Bureaus of the ****** National Liberation Front 2. Assessment and analysis of the current international geopolitical climate in the world with particular emphasis in the Horn of Africa and its impact on the ****** peoples struggle for their right to self-determination and progress; 3. Reviewing and appraisal of the strategic plan of the ONLF; 4. Assessment of the current situation in Ethiopia and ONLF strategic alliance with the liberation forces and Ethiopian opposition groups; 5. Assessment of the current situation in Somalia and Ethiopia’s role in obstructing the reconstruction of the Somali state; The ONLF Central Committee: Having considered the reports from different sectors of ONLF and assessment of the international, regional and the local situation; Having examined the ONLF political program, and means and ways to enhance the capabilities of the different sectors of the organization, paying particular emphasis to the ****** National Liberation Army, the mobilization, foreign and information policies; Having studied the new tactical ploys and intrigues of the Ethiopian regime which is directed against the ****** people’s cause and the ONLF, the cornerstone of which is intended to divide the ****** Somali people and at the same time to mislead the international community; Confident that the shallow tactics of the Ethiopian regime regarding the so-called sham peace-agreements with elements claiming to be former liberation forces will not deter the unity, will and determination of the ****** people and ONLF to continue the momentum of the struggle for the exercise of the right of self-determination; Expressing its appreciation of the ****** National Liberation army and its daring and courageous engagements that significantly degraded the Ethiopian army and denied it to control the ******, though it continues to commit Crimes against the civilian population; Recognizing the unwavering support of the ****** people of the national liberation struggle Reaffirming ONLF believe in the importance of establishing a broad based alliance of the liberations fronts and Ethiopian opposition against the regime of Meles Zenawi; Therefore, the ONLF Central Committee; Resolves to further strength the effort to achieve the rights of the ****** people to determine their destiny through an internationally monitored plebiscite Resolves to strengthen the relationships with friendly countries and peoples that support the cause of the ****** people Supports the efforts of the liberation fronts and Ethiopian opposition parties to form a broad-based alliance against the current Ethiopian regime Reaffirms ONLF commitment for a peaceful resolution of the ****** conflict through an internationally mediated peace process but stresses that the current climate engendered by the regime’s deceit and unethical tactics will hamper genuine negotiations Condemns the wanton Human rights violations committed against the ****** people by the Ethiopian regime Condemns the illegal economic, aid and media embargo imposed by the regime against the ****** people at a time of dire need due draught and international food crisis Condemns the so-called peace agreements between Ethiopia and elements recruited by Ethiopian intelligence in order to torpedo a genuine peace process in the ****** Condemns Ethiopia’s hegemonic policies intended to dominate and subjugate the Horn of Africa, which is the main obstacle to peace and stability in the region Condemns Ethiopia’s interference in the internal affairs of Somalia and its concerted effort to destabilize and thwart all efforts to rebuild the Somali state Strongly condemns the regional administrations in Somalia for serving the Ethiopian regime by supporting Ethiopian subjugation of the ****** people and handing over ****** refugees and ONLF members to the ruthless regime of Meles Zenawi Deplores the double standards of the donor countries in their declared principles and their stance towards Ethiopia, despite having adequate and undeniable prove that the regime of Meles Zenawi has committed War Crimes against the ****** people Calls upon the valiant ****** Somali people to redouble their effort to achieve their inalienable rights to self-determination and freedom Calls upon the international community to support the just cause of the ****** people Deplores the unjust UN resolution imposing sanctions on Eritrea and calls upon the Security Council to rescind it Calls upon the Somali people in Somalia to resolve their conflict peacefully and rebuild their state Calls upon the Ethiopian people to stand up for their rights and make the Zenawi regime account for its crimes Urges the liberation fronts and the Ethiopian opposition to put aside their differences and form an effective alliance to take to task the TPLF minority regime Adopted on 1st January 2011 The Central Committee of ONLF

Xaaji Xundjuf is right here. That is why those who say ONLF should change name do not look at the overall picture. But we think ONLF should try to surmount this clan challenge by changing itself. Arinta uu Xaaji'gu sheegay waa xaqiiq oo Shinile Ismail Cumar Gheele ayey ka tala qaadata, Harshina Hargesia. Markaa hadii Hargeisa Addis Ababa looga taliyo, dooda ah ONLF may ilaa Harshin kasbato, waxaa ka horeeyaa in Hargeisa la xoreeyo oo Somalinimo laga abuuro.

They didn't win the war against Siyad Barre young boy. USC did. I know indoctrinated kids are told imaginary tales of heroism by SNM, but the facts are very different.

Now you are delusional and restoring to falsehoods. Everybody knows Somaliland is a clan project. Stop the hogwash.

^ no, when the south finally settles, the situation will change drastically and SL's , SNMites I mean, will break into groups like the rest of the Somalis. There is no natural law that makes them immune to division and self-interest. Everybody will follow what gives him bread. It is an established fact that at the end of the day politicians are about bread and butter. So, don't be surprised if you see Faysal Ali Waraabe in Mogadishu in 2012 seeking a Ministerial portfolio.

Ayoub, Of all people, I would have thought you will appreciate and applaud my honesty and sincerity when it comes to discussing ONLF's limitations and the size of the Og clan in Somaliagalbeed Vis-a-vis the rest Somalis. The ONLF is the only thing I feel proud about in this time and day as a Pro-Somaliyn supporter. I can't be proud about Silaanyo and Farole playing dirty skit to Ethiopia and there is nothing good going on in South Somalia, at least before recent inauguration of Farmajo and return of some semblence of 'soverignity'. I am in an ividious position the only light from Pro-Somaliweyn prespective is ONLF with its myopia and limitations, but it is the only game in town; but the only game in town is also the game of my clan and hence ultimately I can not hide from the accusation of being labelled clanist. It is a charge I accept, until changing ONLF and circumtances set me free and I can get my real name - Somaliweyn dreamer.

..continued, Nevertheless, having said all of that, still the Somaliland agenda had been good for the ***** people! True, they sacrificed blood, a lot of it, and treasure and tears, but at last, their efforts have paid off. The Somaliland agenda had given the Isaaqs credibility. It had given them respect. And most importantly, it restored their confidence in themselves that they can be masters of their own fate! But that is as far as a clan-agenda, any clan agenda, can go. Today because of all they achieved with Somaliland agenda and with their tenacity and good luck, and because all that went wrong with the south, Isaaqs are in a unique position to redress their grievances and the marginalization they complained about so loudly for so long, and at the same time help the Somalis to get up on their feet. Though, even today, Somaliland has many problems, still comparing it with the South, its stock is high and valuable! And today is the right time for the Isaaqs, the sole sponsors of the project, to cash it in and utilize that golden opportunity. If they don't, and if the Isaaqs take this vulnerable clan-agenda too seriously, and allow themselves to be deceived by the legion of cheer-leading foreigners, almost all of whom are behind the scenes working for the land-locked Ethiopian regime, the inherent vulnerability will catch up with it, and like an anthill that went beyond its capacity to resist gravity, the secession will crumble, its stock will crush; the golden opportunity will be gone; and like the Mogadishu warlords, the secessionists will live to regret it! The secession had been sold and oversold to the people of Somaliland. If there weren't a clear change both in form and substance and tangible, definable benefits to Somaliland and its people, it would have been difficult to convince ordinary Somalilanders to support a new reunification arrangement between the Somali nation's two halves. But today the reunification arrangement is afresh, the benefits to Somaliland and to all Somalis are gigantic, and the ordinary Somalilanders will need no convincing. The question is strictly a question of leadership and foresight, and it all depends on the action or inaction of Somaliland leaders. And now the crucial and ultimate question is, would Somaliland leaders grab this golden and historic opportunity the consequences of which will decisively change, for the better, not only Somaliland and the entire Somali nation, but, in my view, the Horn, East Africa, and the entire African continent? Or will Somaliland leaders keep deceiving themselves and their people, and continue walking on the barren road they have been treading in almost two decades, and keep chasing the ever illusive mirage of the 'world recognition' that even if attained, Laa Tus-minu, Walaa Tugh-nii Min-juuc! It is my hope that every thinking Somalilander, man and woman, would do his or her best to ensure this golden and historic opportunity not to be wasted for the sake of all Somalis, for the sake of Somaliland and its people, and for their own interest first and foremost. Mohamed Heebaan E-Mail: mohamed19456@hotmail.com

Here is the article from Wardheernews The Somaliland Agenda and its Inherent Vulnerability… By Mohamed Heebaan Jan. 03, 2010 Despite all the pretensions to the contrary, the Somaliland Agenda is not, and has never been a state agenda or a national agenda, but a clan agenda! ***** secessionists are pretty much like some ******is of Somali Galbeed, who call that territory ******, and expect others to adopt their clan name as a national one. Similarly, the secessionists fill the world with Somaliland this, Somaliland that, and by sheer rhetoric and repetition attempt to transform what is purely a clan agenda into state agenda. The Somaliland business, its pursuit of independence, and its secessionist drive are entirely an ***** vernture! No one who hails from Awdal will put his or her life on the line in order to enable Somaliland secede from Somalia. It will NEVER happen! No one who hails from Sool and East-Sanaag and Cayn will do the same. It is impossible! But the Isaaqs will sacrifice their lives and everything they own for that same cause simply because they know the Somaliland agenda is their clan agenda. As a clan agenda, today Somaliland is a success story. And its success is primarily based on two factors: A. The dedication and the tenacity of the Isaaqs B. An enormous amount of good luck! Since as a writer I am expected to justify statements that I make, I am obliged here to illustrate the crucial role that 'good luck' played in the success of the Somaliland agenda. If I don't, and leave the statement about luck, without presenting a convincing evidence, it would appear that my reference to luck was just my way of undercutting the accomplishments of the ***** clan and its people. How big a role did luck play in the success of the secessionist agenda? A very crucial role. It is not easy to correctly express such a role in numbers, nevertheless, allotting luck about 50% of the success would be just about right. Now in order to make the reader understand the role played by luck, we have to put the events of the Somali Civil War in reverse, and hypothesize what would have happened if things that did take place didn't occur; and things that didn't come to pass did indeed take place. If the Mogadishu warlords, after winning the civil war, instead of becoming forces of death and destruction and road-blocks, behaved as forward looking forces of national leadership, and fostered rebuilding and reconciliation, and spread peace and stability in the south, the consequences of such wise policies would have become a fatal blow against the secession of the north! How? Well, when the leaders of Sool and East-Sanaag and Cayn saw the peace and stability in the south, as Somali patriots, they would have automatically rejected the secession of the north, and they would have declared that they and their territory would forever remain an integral part of the Somali Republic. Similarly, when the people of Awdal, who are also as patriots as anyone can be, also saw the stability, peace and the unity in the south, they would have held up the secession-rejection-card they have been tactically holding under the table, and would have declared that they and their territory are, would be, and would forever remain part and the parcel of the Somali nation! When the people of Awdal stand up for the unity of the Somali nation, and knowing that that region and its people are geographically cornered, the Somali leadership in Mogadishu would have made it clear, in no uncertain terms, that no adventurist of any kind would be allowed to contemplate any mischief or ill-will against Awdal and its people! Therefore the abuses or rather the atrocities inflicted upon the people of Awdal by SNM "mujahids" could not have been entertained much less exercised! Thus when Awdal, Sool, eastern-Sanaag, and Cayn, all non-***** territories, reject the secession and remained part of the Somali Republic, Somaliland would have shrunk into the territory inhabited by the ***** clan only, and, hence, the secession would have lost its crucial mask, and would have clearly and nakedly become a secession of one clan, by one clan, for one clan! Now if, as we all know, Somaliland with a crucial mask and is tactically supported by Awdal, and nominally supported by SSC for almost two decades could not get recognition even from one country, you just have to wonder what hope would have been there for Somaliland that is confined into one Somali clan and the territory it inhabits? The answer is none! Even the most ardent and diehard Issaq secessionists know that if the people of Awdal, sool, and Easter-sanaag reject the secession, and Somaliland is left for the Isaaqs, there will be no hope for world recognition, and the secession will be dead on its tracks. When the secession proves hopeless, there would have been two options facing the elders and the leaders of the ***** clan, and those options would have depended on whether: A. The Isaaqs were lucky B. Or the Isaaqs were unlucky If they were lucky, the ***** elders and political leaders would have quickly realized that pursuing a hopeless cause and traveling on a road that leads to nowhere doesn't make sense. And consoling themselves that, at least, they have tried their level best, they would have rejoined the Somali nation. If the Isaaqs were unlucky, they would have done what the Somali clans do best: Issaq sub-clans would have started fighting over a mountain that was made out of a mole-hill, and after much blood-shed and exhaustion, the sub-clans would, one by one, and in a rather disorganized way, have returned to the fold of the Somali Union. As you can see, the mayhem that swept the south had been a blessing for the secession. And as Al-mutanabbi once said, "Massaa'ibu qowm, cin-da qowm fa-waa'id!" In either case, the secession would have been abandoned by the Isaaqs, because the other clans' rejection of the secession would have made the secession hopeless and unworkable. And regardless of how hard the Isaaqs may have tried initially, they would always be forced to abandon it at the end of the day. This is the INHERENT vulnerability of Somaliland! Because its fate is always in the hands of non-***** clans in Awdal and SSC, who have no intention or interest to willingly support a secessionist-clan-agenda at the expense of the Somali Republic. Conscious of the crucially important support that diversity lends the secession, Isaaqs have been extremely diligent in attracting politicians from other clans, and those who showed willingness to work with the secession have been generously rewarded and given the highest posts including top ministries and even the presidency! However neither the diligence nor the generosity that goes with it will ever solve the inherent vulnerability associated with the secession. This is so because bribing and placating individuals and groups to maintain the façade of statehood can only go so far! Any time these non-***** clans reject the secession, Somaliland will crumble, regardless of whether it is recognized by the world or not! That is why pursuing this secessionist venture is really a waste of time and hopeless. Thinking Isaaqs should wake up!

Mr. Somalia, the anti-powder-milk boy, I have written an article in 2008 with the title the 'ONLF must reform' with the same line of reasoning. I have never subscribed to the notion of Oga.den and Oga.denia. But I have defened the ONLF, who are the only group doing something against Ethiopian occuation, against unfair criticisms and malicious attacks. I am also fully aware of the complexity of the matter and why it is not the ONLF only who is responsible for the luck of unity among the Somaligalbeed people. The same malady afflicting proper SOmalia has rubbed off to Somaligalbeed and it is dishonest to assume the people of Harshin and Gashamo and Geladi and Bokh will just wake up one morning, find out that ONLF has changed name, and will take up the gun. That will not happen, which is why hardline ONLF cadres's assertion that changing a name may lose them men but won't add men to their struggle is not entirely false. But , what a name and stategty change by the ONLF will bring about is to create the enabling environment for the formation of a pan-Somali collective action against occupation in the long run. I am also 100% supporter of the armed struggle for there isno other option of stopping the demographic transformation that Ethiopia is employing to change the reality on the groung. As a democrat, I have already conceded that Dire Dawa and Jigjiga can no longer be owned by Somalis alone without causing ethnic cleasing of highlander ethiopians, something I am opposed to. We don't want that to go as far as Ferfer, and end up as a tiny minority in ur own land, agaist a maruading 80 million famished Ethiopia.

Whatever chagrin it sows in the hearts of Ayoub and his secessionst mob, this is true! [Thus when Awdal, Sool, eastern-Sanaag, and Cayn, all non-Is.aq territories, reject the secession and remained part of the Somali Republic, Somaliland would have shrunk into the territory inhabited by the Is.aq clan only, and, hence, the secession would have lost its crucial mask, and would have clearly and nakedly become a secession of one clan, by one clan, for one clan! Now if, as we all know, Somaliland with a crucial mask and is tactically supported by Awdal, and nominally supported by SSC for almost two decades could not get recognition even from one country, you just have to wonder what hope would have been there for Somaliland that is confined into one Somali clan and the territory it inhabits? The answer is none! Even the most ardent and diehard Issaq secessionists know that if the people of Awdal, sool, and Easter-sanaag reject the secession, and Somaliland is left for the Isaaqs, there will be no hope for world recognition, and the secession will be dead on its tracks.

The Somaliland business, its pursuit of independence, and its secessionist drive are entirely an Is.aq vernture! No one who hails from Awdal will put his or her life on the line in order to enable Somaliland secede from Somalia. It will NEVER happen! No one who hails from Sool and East-Sanaag and Cayn will do the same. It is impossible! But the Isaaqs will sacrifice their lives and everything they own for that same cause simply because they know the Somaliland agenda is their clan agenda. Mohamed Heebaan is telling the truth. It is what we say here but Ayoub and his ostrich-like mob want to deny. If and when genuine nationalists are allowed to campaign in Somaliland, some among the SNM clan will also vote for union. The secession dream is futile. Meanwhile, ONLF should also realise the struggle will reach nowhere with the name 'Oga.den' as its brand and the vision of 'Oga.enia' its final destination. We hope the ongoing restructuring of the Central Committee with more and more young people being included will kick-start a new direction in the struggle. That said, it is the case that whatever struggle happens in Somaligalbeed, the O' community will be the flag-bearers of it. Anyone who denies this is dreaming like the secessionists.

Bilan, waa fahmay meeshaad ka hadashay. But the fact is the SSC people are subjects as long as Las Anod is under occupation. I hope the gallant Daraawish will unite soon and chase away the SNM mafia.

I will not wait for the signatures and comparisons of it to know who is telling the truth. Omer Abdirashid wax uu sheegay waligay ma been san. The man is truth personified, waa wuxuu Somali siyaasadeed ula qabsan waayey. He is a good guy wronged by primitive politicians and thief Sheikhs. But he will day sure come back. One major reservation I have about Farmaajo is that he seems to be able to manouver in the current Somalia politics. It may be his strength and I welcome if it brings result. But as a rule of thumb,any person who can work with Sheikh Sharif and Sharif Hassan without problem must have a serious personality problem. Tuug nin ayna isdiidin waa tuug ama waa wax aan dhaamin. I still give Farmajo the benefit of the doubt. Let us see how he fares after one year. If he is still in agreement with the false Sheikhs, it means he is a thief as well.

"our citizens" smacks of ownership. The word "our" shows possession, and it is true the SSC people are "your subjects" for now.