ANWAR Posted April 6, 2006 I wonder how a whole nation can lose its freedom to tribal thugs who control every corner of the country including its seas and oceans at gunpoint. Somalia has plunged itself into turbulent waters of chaos and strrifre as its freedom and the freedom of its people have been trampled on by warlords . When have we lost our freedom? Prior to the arrival of the white man Somalis have been able to feed and clothe themselves without needing any support from outside. But they were communities who have had no central authority to govern themesleves under one nation with viable state institutions. Over the meager resources of water and pasture they fought as tribal anarchy reached peak during dry seasons. Those days they were free to move around though the risks to clash with another tribe was quite high. When the white colonizer seized their territory (sometimes on arrangement with tribal chiefs) he put them together in certain confined areas to have some control over their movements and and have thus created tribal boundries among tribes who once had crossed to each other as freely as they wished. The imposition of the movement restrictions has greatly affected their pastoral freedom on one hand and improved, to some extent, the security situation of their environs on the other. Was the arrival of the white man the beginning of a gradual process to lose freedom or was it the beginning of understanding the value and meaning of freedom? Anyway Somalia was declared as an independent nation in 1960. Somalia's freedom went on fire when tribalism was used as an essential tool to achieve political goals. In the early sixties the parliamnet seats were divided along tribla lines, the military regime tried its best to eradicate tribalism but to no avail. It only buried the roots to tribalism deep in the soil of revenge and anarchy. But the worst thing happened when Somalia fell apart in the early nineties due to widspread chaos and strife across the nation. Somalia has been reduced to a nation without a face in the international community. It had disintegrated like empires of the ancient times which were once very strong and powerful but later on collapsed as a result of the anarchic environment their leadership had established. Today these empires have a small space in history books to teach students how every wrong rise has a sudden fall. I believe that until we wipe out TRIBE from our political system we can never ever be free people, no matter how expertly we balance our political equation with parties belonging to tribal factions. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ANWAR Posted April 6, 2006 Freedom once achieved can not be robbed Nor can it be stolen or taken away from No free man can compromise his freedom Unless he gained it without fighting for it Freedom swims in the blood of the free man Inside each other the two live on each other They are two lives living together in one life You can not grab one without taking the other Slavery does not mean lack of freedom It means lack of a will to free yourself We think we are free but we are not We are slaves to our tribal belief Our freedom is on fire. It is burning TRIBE dismantled our national fibre In tears we had sunk in depths of misery But like Martin L. King I have a dream I have a dream that Somalia shall rise again That it shall rise again to a position of honour Let Education be our main tool of change Let the pen bring our lost freedom back to us Let the gun go hell :mad: :mad: Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
