By Dr. Ali Bahar
There are many more criminals than the photo lists. The question remains, where are these men, the warlords (the Charles Taylors of Somalia)? Where is culpability for crime against the Somali people, particularly against Somali women and children? Where was the fury or the current outcry when these men were abusing our sisters, and destroying the Somali pride and character? Even today, some of these men still command power and enjoy life, while their victims are still alive and silently waiting (a false hope) for justices to prevail, if ever.
Nothing must be further from the truth, as Faisal Roble states, the AMISOM forces are taking advantage of Somali women, and the Somali men are to blame. In his current article, Sexual Abuse, Somali Sisters, and the Secretes of… posted on Wardheernews- Faisal rightfully puts the blame where it belongs, and he writes, “Whereas men presided over the destruction of their nation, Somali women lost protection.”
I wonder if we have just been sterilized by the daily occurrences in Somalia for the last 30 years, where Somali men abused our nation and our sisters, right in front of us. Why not ask them to pay for their awful actions of rape and torture?
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Dadkaagani dulmigu daashaday iyo dumarkan daaduumay,
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Many of us never remained silent about this horror, and we were with the view that Somali men have committed criminal acts against their own kind, forced women and children out of their country, cities and homes. Hence, our sisters, mothers, and children have been put in a non-compromising predicament, left them for the wolves, including the warlords, AMISOM forces and the Islamists to rape them, sell them or simply kill them.. Somali woman stoned to death. My life as a Somali warlord hostage: She ended up living in a rat-infested room and being raped nightly by jihadists who planned to sell her off for a ransom.
International Criminal Tribunal For Somalia Warlords: “Notorious Somali warlords, regional administration heads and former military government leaders have committed grave human rights atrocities against the Somali civilians including women and children. Tens of thousands of Somalis have been killed, and hundreds of thousands were wounded. Millions more are displaced internally and externally. As a result, the Somali people remain stateless. No institution is left functioning”, Professor Afyare Abdi Elmi, reports.
… “Rape isn’t just happening in the camps for those forced from their homes by fighting, Ilwad Elman told CNN, but in the wider community, “which is also affected by rampant abuse of sexual and gender-based violence.” Elman says she believes a multitude of factors are to blame, but the chief one is conflict — something that has affected every Somali during more than two decades of war.” Somali woman and journalist arrested for reporting rape: Fatuma Abdulkadir Hassan told a journalist at the privately owned Shabelle Media Network that she had been raped at gunpoint by colleagues who worked at the state-owned radio station.
Gender-Based Violence Galvanized Warlords‘ Foes: The girls would return — if they returned — in the morning, sobbing and marked permanently as castoffs in a traditional Islamic society that demands virginity at marriage. “Four-year-old girls, 5-year-old girls were raped,” said Anab Mohamed Isaaq, 35, a solemn, long-faced widow who has two girls among her five children. “I was scared for my daughters.”
Furthermore, looking from a broader perspective, however, it has been shown that men, in general, demonstrated biases towards women’s bare existence, and this may explain why these African men in Somalia (Somalis and Djiboutian included) are merciless abusing Somali women. This falls in a global context where women’s rights are marginalized, or compromised at best, in all over the world, Gender Equality Universally Embraced, But Inequalities … For example, on the question of whether education for a girl is as important as that for a boy, “a solid majority in India (63%) and about half in Pakistan (51%), Egypt (50%) and China (48%) say that a university education is more important for a boy than for a girl, and sizeable minorities in several countries agree. For example, in Jordan, 44% agree that it is more important for a boy than a girl to get a college education; about one-third in Japan (35%), Poland (34%) and Nigeria (34%) also embrace this view.” “Nigerian opinion is split along religious lines. A solid majority (81%) of Christians in that country disagree that a college education is more important for a boy than for a girl. In contrast, Nigerian Muslims are nearly evenly divided; 50% agree and 49% disagree. Muslim men and women in Nigeria offer opposing views – nearly six-in-ten (59%) Muslim men agree that it is more important for boys to receive a college education, while 60% of Muslim women in Nigeria disagree.” What’s striking in these findings, as reported in this study, is that, “while egalitarian sentiments are pervasive, they are less than robust; when economically challenging times arise, many feel men should be given preferential treatment over women in the search for employment. This is especially true in the predominantly Muslim countries surveyed as well as in India, China, South Korea and Nigeria. In these countries, solid majorities agree that women should be able to work outside the home; yet, most also agree that men should have more right to a job than women when jobs are scarce. For example, about six-in-ten in Egypt (61%) and Jordan (58%) say women should have the right to work outside the home, but even larger shares (75% and 68%, respectively) say the priority should be for men to have jobs.”
In conclusion, women are most likely to be abused or denied their rights in all over the world, especially in countries where their rights are not well protected by their individual countries and the societies they belong to. And although it’s a constant struggle, even for developed countries, to guarantee women’s rights, it’s nonetheless a much more challenging task to protect women from abuses in countries like Somalia today. The least Somali authorities and the XY-clan enclaves could do for Somali women (the true victims of war), is to bring these war criminals and others like them, wherever they are, to criminal courts, charge them with the crimes they have committed, and the desperation they created for our girls. Otherwise, this human tragedy will continue, no matter who commits them. It’s about time the Somali man looks himself in the mirror, condemns himself for the horror he creates for his people, and apologizes to all Somali women.
Ina Jicimbir: Jawaab ku socota Dr. Beileh By Ali
Jamaal-qurux waxaan lahaa,
Jannooy gabadh jalaqsan dhalay
Jidkay wada daadsanyiin,
Jalbaab ku maleegan yiin
Jidhkooda la iibsadaa,
Maydkooda la jiidayaa
Afkiibaa juuqda gabay
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