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Today is Friday, January 30th, 2009, and as you read this short piece, new members of parliament and a president are yet again chosen and elected for Somalia in a country outside of Somalia. I wanted to say in a foreign land, but Djibouti is not such, as she is Somalia’s little sister country. Nevertheless, there is a shame in that too, that a little sister has it overtaxed by the problems of big sis. Perhaps my reasoning senses had left me, for I see a clear and certain futility in any peace which produces a regime outside the object of peacemaking country. To hold lengthy negotiations between opposing factions in a neutral nation, away from where a violent conflict is, is not new as international conflicts go, but to create time and again a government in exile is telling. This has been the true nature of Somali peace deals of late, which for their falseness produces these successive and doomed-to-failure governments for Somalia in foreign lands. Otherwise, the result of a genuine peace is usually concluded and installed on the ground where enemies had been killing each other—a proof of a conflict resolved. On the contrary, all the while, from hatching this peace, undertaking and finishing it with such result at hand in Djibouti, the killing never stopped. Nor, I hope I am wrong, will it stop. Why? The answer is in the beginning of this Djibouti peace deal, which divided the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), one of the opposing principles, on one hand, and the amalgam of Islamists on the other hand. Before launching this peace, Sheikh Sharif had not even tried to consolidate all the Islamists on one camp. While Nur Ade, the TFG prime minster, had unraveled the TFG to its death. Nothing is more to the testament of the latter than the fall of Baydoa, the seat of the TFG, to Al-Shabab, a terrorist Islamic organization outside the peace accord. The ways went about this peace in Djibouti have the potential of resulting a more fragmented Somali opposing factions. In fact, new factions had emerged in central and southern Somalia since the start of this Djibouti peace deal. Ahlu Sunna Waljamah, a Somali Islamists of traditional, peaceful Sufi orders, not the Godforsaken Wahabbeast innovationists, is one. The international community does not know diddly-squat about the Somali affairs or psychology. What the UN and others had pushed as this peace for Somalia will only obligate them for its unintended consequences, which is for them to enforce it militarily. Now they must go in with overwhelming force to defeat those hardliners left outside this peace —who may even capture Mogadishu in the next few days. This so-called new parliament, 550 of them, and its president need a military backbone to install and bear them to and in power. They need the international community, as Moses, to lead them, by first defeating many pharos and their militias in Somalia, into the Promised Land (Somalia) to rule! Are you willing and ready for that? Somalis, ever prolific in poetry and proverb-making, say: “Timirtii horaba dab loo waa” (no fire to cook with the dates before). I do not see any reasonable country which would be willing to put the lives of its sons and daughters in danger of “nation-building on the moon,” such as Somalia. Peacekeeping is a different matter, which needs for there to be a peace to keep. Have the Somalis made a genuine peace for others to protect and nurture it? I do not think so! If the liberal Western countries are not going to make peace, by force, in Somalia, then to absolve their conscience, a typical of them, they will pour money into this scheme! I can already see Somali pockets lined up for it. However, mark my words here, this will only finance Somalis—having delivered no true peace—for their next, more deadly factional fighting around the corner. Abdul-Aziz Mohammed Email: Somam23@wowway.com _______________________________________________________________________________ We welcome the submission of all articles for possible publication on WardheerNews.com So please email your article today Opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of WardheerNews |
