On Somalia: " Regime Change or "Business as Usual" for Somalia...

On Somalia: " Regime Change or "Business as Usual" for Somalia...: For at least the last three years i am writing on Somali issues but till now I cannot find the reasons the International Community and cou...

On Somalia: Why The ICC is not investigating crimes against hu...

On Somalia: Why The ICC is not investigating crimes against hu...: Why the ICC is not investigating crimes against humanity committed  by Warlords,Al-Shabaab and Ethiopian Army? In the year of 19...

Why The ICC is not investigating crimes against humanity committed by Warlods,Al-Shabaab and Ethiopian Army?

Why the ICC is not investigating crimes against humanity committed  by Warlords,Al-Shabaab and Ethiopian Army?



In the year of 1993 the Somali Jurist association in a letter given to UNITAF( the international forces) and the United Nations which were running the country under a U.N Security Resolution asked for Accountability for the Human Rights abuses and war crimes committed during the Civil war by the Warlords and organized groups including the Siad Barre regime which collapsed 1991.It was discussed at the first Humanitarian conference organized by the U.N made in Addis-Abeba that same year but unfortunately the Somali groups/Warlords which were controlling spates of territory sub-divided in Sub-Clans refused any accountability for the crimes committed  during the 1991-93 period. I believe this warlords which were supported by Ethiopia mostly did not wont any real peace and reconciliation at that time nor they wont it now. A lot of water has passed under the bridge and the crimes have multiplied ten times and we are at a point that everybody believes that the" Norm  is impunity" and not the exception if  you are an officer  in the so-called TFG or so-called regional states. The Ethiopians and IGAD have adopted the same culture of killing Somalis as they were Colonial forces trying to subjugate the people-citizens of Somalia. I am writing about this groups( Igad and Ethiopians) because they are signatories of international covenants on human rights and the officers of Somali government are under also international Laws concerning the rights of Somali-citizens even when the State is Failed like in Somalia. Still armed militia representing different groups who says are representing Authorities inside Somalia  are killing people-citizens and for the last four months five journalist have been killed in Somalia including the region of Punt land.There is also the Al-Shabaab which is committing heinous crimes all the time against children and women like everybody and it also committing crimes of war, act of terrorism and has never been made accountable.But the main problem is that from 2004 (the Nairobi conference in which the TFG was installed)  the Meles regime and IGAD have sanctioned for Somalia a political architecture were the Warlords-Drug-Barons are the ultimate powers in Somali State  affairs.Be it in  the so-called state regions and the TFG .During the Ethiopian occupation of Somalia of the 2006-2009 the Ethiopian army have killed 17.000 Somali as has been reported by Human rights watch and Amnesty international. Maybe lets say 10.000 thousands Somalis ( I am giving the benefit of the doubt to the Ethiopians) were enemy combatants of Al-Shabaab but what about the rest which is more than 7.000 thousands civilians killed ? Why they have to be killed in in- discriminatory way?    Why the U.N and all international Human rights organization have not done anything about Somalia all this years? What kind of hidden agenda is at work? The United Nations security Council must pass a mandate in which all crimes against humanity ,all rapes against women ,recruiting of children in militias, the indiscriminate killing of civilians by Warlords,Ethiopian Army  and all Shabaab must be investigated and prosecuted by ICC.If we don't have justice and the perpetrators of all that injustices/crimes  are the "puppet leaders" installed by Ethiopia and IGAD for the Somali Republic, how we can  have Rule of law and a functioning federal  State? The London Conference as "usual" has accepted and sanctioned the warlords/Drug-barons,'puppet parliamentarians" installed by Ethiopia to also run the next government of Somalia after the 2012 August mandate.Wait and see.

On Somalia: " Regime Change or "Business as Usual" for Somalia...

On Somalia: " Regime Change or "Business as Usual" for Somalia...: For at least the last three years i am writing on Somali issues but till now I cannot find the reasons the International Community and cou...

On Somalia: " Regime Change or "Business as Usual" for Somalia...

On Somalia: " Regime Change or "Business as Usual" for Somalia...: For at least the last three years i am writing on Somali issues but till now I cannot find the reasons the International Community and cou...

" Regime Change or "Business as Usual" for Somalia?

For at least the last three years i am writing on Somali issues but till now I cannot find the reasons the International Community and countries like the U.K government which used to colonize parts of the Somali Republic could not came up with a viable policy originating from Somalis of all political shades on Somalia. To give just one example in Somalia and in the Diaspora there are the left( yes the Left and some of the them are based in London like the Kasmo.com newspaper.)) the right wingers( those who preach only sub-clan based policies and are best friend of Meles). ,The Nationalist, The Islamist who accept Rule of Law and participatory democracy, and the Jihadist( who are sub-divided in two groups like the All_ittixad Business Cartels and the Al-Shaabab group). But unfortunately the West and the U.S have always followed blindly the policies of the Tigre Regime of Ethiopia for the last twenty years. To make short my brief the last conference in London of February was a total failure as is the The Mahiga Plan nicknamed the Road map,the Kampala Accord and lately the GaroweI &II and Galkayo agreement between the so-called presidents of Somalia.All this political “game plans” are founded on the “basic” ‘game plan” of Meles of Ethiopia to have Somalia Sub-divided in Clan- and sub-clan Mini enclaves which at the end will be a  Confederation( with sub-divided Sovereignty)   in one Supra- State, which have the territory of the Somali Republic, controlled by the Ethiopians.In the meantime the economies of this mini States are controlled by All-ittixad business Cartels who already own all big corporations and have the biggest share of the economy like 80% percent( including the education sector,Health sector,agriculture sector, Real Estate and constructions,Hotels,Trade,Telecommunication ,Banking, Energy like electricity and now Oil and Gas ).You cannot talk of human rights when the So-called mini-states are there to subvert the basic rights of the people citizens by superimposing on them an Agenda which works for their enemy. The Ethiopians would like to-have in-Somalia a mini-failed States and the Al-shabaab the terror group ever present in Somalia.Already they have sent Mr. Silanyo to China and Mr.Sherif Hassan the Speaker of TFG to Iran.. There have been a political strategic convergence between All-ittixad Business Cartels  and the Tigre regime of Ethiopia  on the issue of Oil and Gas which Somalia has great underground reserves onshore and Offshore.  By seeking this new alliances with Iran and the China the puppet Elites of Somalia are running away from the West and looking for friendship and alliances to States which will not ask or even talk about Human Rights and an accountable and transparent Somali Republic . Also in this way those American,British  Companies which in 1989 for the last time have renewed their Oil concessions with the Siad barre regime will be defrauded of their rights with this new Mini-States acquired new Sovereignty.  I think that Somali problems must be resolved by Somalis and not so-called presidents of so-called regional states which are uttering all the time the Agenda of foreign countries.Somalis do not like the terror group Al-Shabaab but they need an "Alternative" which does not include the Ethiopians and IGAD.The Alternative is a “Transitional government made of technocrats ” from all Shades of political spectrum with the introduction of Chapter VII of the United nations Charter.The armies could be IGAD with out the front-line States plus Muslim countries,and other third world states.Their Mandate could be for Three years for ending the terror menace and do nation Building-Institution Building where Somalis are at the fore front.Things will not be easy but if the current plans succeed let me tell you things will get worse and will be a consolidation of power of this anti-democratic groups.The All-ittixad business Cartels and Ethiopians will be the kingmaker of Somali politics for years to came and the Somali people citizens of The Somali Republic will never get their rights as citizens.Wait and see.

On Somalia: "Why in Mogadishu there is Total Upheaval?"

On Somalia: "Why in Mogadishu there is Total Upheaval?": Last Saturday I went to a meeting in which a friend and relative of mine was opening a Forum for Somali Intellectuals and business people a...