Somaliland diplomacy suffered from the blockades by dictators in the Arab world. Egypt former leader Hosni Mubarak strongly opposed Somaliland cause of independence internationally, while the falling leader of Libya Moammar Al-Gadhafi supported Anti-Somaliland campaigners with money and weapon, disrespecting international weapons embargo on former Somalia. Today, world media describe him as delusional and disconnected from reality. Al-Gadhafi is killing his own people just like Somali Military leader Siyad Barre who bombed cities during end of last century.
Another delusional and anti-Somaliland dictator is Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Salah who is hiring snappers to kill the peaceful demonstrators. Salah ruled Yemen at gunpoint for last thirty three years. He used all his diplomatic forces to block Somaliland cause of independence, where he supported warlords in Mogadishu and even supplied arms to pro-Ethiopian former Transitional Government Leader in Somalia Abdullah Yusuf against the civilians in Mogadishu. Today, Salah and Al-Gadhafi are facing public revolution as result of suppression on civilians, as the public demand freedom.
Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and Omar Al-Bashir of Sudan rejected to attend latest African Union (AU) meeting in Khartoum, Sudan as long as Somaliland is having observer seat in the union. This came after AU officials invited Somaliland as an observer. AU Administrators were forced to reconsider the invitation, as Somaliland left helpless. These delusional leaders – Mubarak and Al-Bashir – misbelieve that united Somalia will balance the military power of Ethiopia in the region. The leaders want to use "United Somalia" as a tool to torture Ethiopia and create instability in the region – like claiming parts of Ethiopia and Kenya. Nile Water Policy plays vital role in such aspect.
Al-Bashir divided Sudan for the sake of peace, and he don´t want to do the same for Somalia! He refers the war in southern Sudan as "Civil War" and the killing of the innocent people in Somaliland as "Jihad". He is facing ICC over the human rights violations in Darfur where thousands of Non-Arab Muslim Sudanese were killed. He is wanted criminal.
These unrealistic regimes should know that common language, culture and religion don´t unite people but the desire of the parties who are uniting. They should know that language, culture and religion failed to unite the Arabs. The Somali community in East Africa is not different of Arabs and they can only unite if they want to do it.
Meanwhile, Somaliland hopes that Saudi Arabia will act differently at this time and realize Somaliland is a fact, which cannot be overlooked or neglected. Riyadh should know that possible solution in Somalia could only be reached if the mistakes of 1960 unity corrected. His highness King Abdullah Bin Abdul-Aziz needs to know that 97% of the people of Somaliland voted for secession in an internationally observed referendum.
Official AU fact-finding mission visited Somaliland in 2005 and concluded in their report that case of Somaliland should be considered different than Somalia.
It is true to say that all Anti-Somaliland campaigners fall always: from Mad Mulla of 20th Century, killer military regime of Somalia Siyad Barre, Al-Shabab – terrorist group linked to Al-Qaeda - and many Arab leaders. In other hand, Somaliland defeated armed militia in its eastern regions who received financial support from Al-Gadhafi and training from Al-Shabab. In 1994, there were an attempt to create civil war inside Somaliland, but that failed. At the end, Somaliland always stands firm against all odds.
The question is why Anti-Somaliland campaigners fail always!!!!
By Abdulaziz Al-Mutairi
Email: az.almutairi@yahoo.com
Source: American Chorincle
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