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.Dr. Muhammad S. Megalommatis deserves to be thanked, to be honoured and to be rewarded with the highest national award. When most of us celebrate whenever Dr. Muhammad Publishes an article that purports our unity and exposes the ugliness of Tigre regime and its agents in dear Somalia, stooges are united to defame this honourable personality. The three puppet administrations in Somalia, Puntland, and Somaliland are united to attack him for exposing their demeaning enslavement by Melez and his entourage. Dr. Muhammad, don't give a damn to what these mean hearted stooges say. The sons and daughters of Somalia and Oromo will script your name with golden ink in their history. We shall teach our youth now and generations to come your unreserved support, your selfless endeavour and your unlimited sense of responsibility. You stood for what is right when so many Somali politicians collaborate to the destruction of their country and people. You give us what ever you can, while most of us take everything from our country and give back nothing. We sell short our dignity and national honour. We shall honour your struggle for our cause nationally in due time. That day will witness our unity. And believe you me it will be soon. That day will be the same day when Somalis in Hargeisa, Borame, Bosaaso, and Mogadishu once more united, united for the well-being of all of us. We are one tribe, neither divided by language, colour or religion. No Somali with a drop of Somali gene, can stoop so low to entertain Tigre Woyanes. That is what is happening in Hargeisa and in Bosaaso willingly. Mogadishu and Beletweyne are shedding their blood to free Somalis from this indignity. I am a Hargeisa citizen, from Isaq clan. I lost brothers, cousins, and uncles in SNM struggle. I took my share of the noble struggle of SNM. I believe the atrocity of military regime against my clan was so immense and deep to be forgotten. That pain cannot make me forgive the massacre committed by Ethiopian imperialism against my people present and past. To sense with tribal minded, let us remember that half of Isaq live in the occupied territory of Western Somalia. Our historical towns and villages are annexed by Ethiopia with the help of British colonial power. Remember Jigjiga, Aware, Harshin, Daroor, Gaashamo and many more. There is no Somali clan that is free of Ethiopian aggression and butchery. Western Somalia is the heart of all Somalis. All clans: Isaq, Dir, Darod, Hawiye, Rahanweyn, Gabooye and Jareer live side by side in the pasture land of Western Somalia. To go back to the genocide of Siyad Barre and his administration, in reality it was engineered by a dictatorial regime that used its entire means including clan tensions. The regime used its institutions spearheaded by NSS, Military and Police. We cannot forgive the hands of the regime and hunt down the heads. That is naive and justice adulterated. We either forgive all or punish for every action of genocide and other human right violations, regardless which clan the perpetrator belongs to. Today my Somaliland is the only part of Ex-Somalia where remnants of military dictatorship form the government. Where else the head of State and Government is an Ex-NSS colonel who directly executed and initiated orders to kill, maim and imprison without court judgement of innocent civilians in District of Berbera. No one denies that President Riyale was NSS District Officer of Berbera till it was liberated in 1991, when he ran away with military officers from the south to Lasanod. There he met other NSS northerners and told to put up with them, assuring him they will be treated as to other Isaq officers. He contacted Abdirahman Tolwa his tribal cousin, who reaffirmed him being northerner he will be treated same as the Isaq officers. Being tribal, we forgave criminals and labelled insult to innocent people because they share clan name with Siyad Barre. That was wrong. Justice knows no clan or colour. A criminal should be no more than that. No tribe is to be punished for the shame subjected to our people. There should be no collective punishment. And no Isaq, Gadabursi, Harti and others who committed crime against humanity, be pardoned because they belong to Somaliland clans. Forgive all or prosecute all. On the balance, we are better than rest of Somalia right now. We have peace. They have war. War will end, and it will end if we engage to. Our future is gloomy. We are walking towards Ethiopian trap. They want to isolate us within Somali hemisphere. Internally, degree of corruption in every level of government is unprecedented. In national budget we spend more in the President's office than Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Women and Social Affairs together. Bribery is the norm. A traffic police will stop your vehicle without any excuse and tells you frankly, either to pay or he will accuse you what ever he wants. Judges negotiate with criminals and judge for the highest paid price. We love free trade, and it never happened in our history that livestock trade being intervened by government before current puppets. Not even during dictatorship. Livestock is handed to a single Saudi trader in a monopoly deal that tied with fixed price of $35.00 a head of a sheep and for 5 years. Somalialnders who can sell a head of sheep at $60.00 were rejected. Where else a state intervenes to reduce export price of their only resource? Be warned of the Ethiopian intention. Visualize what our beautiful city Hargeisa will look like in 20-50 years time. What language will prevail? How many Amharic words are mixed with the daily talk of ordinary people in Hargeisa? Multiply that with the number of years to come. What will be our culture and ethnicity, when our brothers of Somali West and Somalia are not welcome, and on the contrary non-Somali Ethiopians are welcomed with open hands? They (Non-Somali Ethiopians) come, settle and open any trade they so choose. No visa is required and no rules to comply. Where that will lead us? Think and act, before it is too late. Remember once there was an Oromo Kingdom, an Arusi, a Harar, a Wallo, an Afar Sultanates and kingdoms. Where are they now? They have been assimilated and swallowed. How that will measure with our small and less populated Somaliland? I have no personal enmity towards our neighbours. I love to see a free Somalis in their country side by side with free Ethiopians, cooperating for the good of the region. We have to compete in development rather than in annihilation and destruction. Let us respect one another. That is how the Horn will succeed. May my people think, think, and think about the future more than they do about the past. May they focus on what we share as Somalis, May they remember thousands that sacrificed their soul for the Greater Somalia. No family in Hargeisa without a relative that fought against Ethiopian hegemony. Many of them died for this noble cause, others are handicapped for life and others suffer mental disorder for the state we are in. They see daily Ethiopians not only respected but enthroned in their home town, while they are despised and left unemployed and unsheltered. Same is true in Borama, Buroa, Berbera, Erigabo, and Lasanod. Brothers and sisters think for the generations to come. We owe them at least to maintain and safe their Somali identity. Ahmed Haji Abdi
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