Three decades ago, Somalilanders suffered genocide of military junta and decided to erect the first ever public monument against military folks: A real MIG war jet downed by SNM revolutionaries in the early 90s. The statue in downtown Hargaysa is painted with war victims by military junta of SiyadBarre. Some are very graphic portraying children and women with amputations during the war in Somaliland.
It meant to be a reminder of sad days as well as the atrocities of the military leaders in Africa and around the world who built an army against phantom enemy and finally turned their guns against their people like the military man an ex-president of Somalia “never ever help military leader grab power either by election or otherwise” implicitly says the statue that freaks out remnants of the former military regime.
Yet Professor Ahmed Samatar, against his type of American values supported Muse Bihi, an ex-warlord Mujahid with PTS disorder in this election and even went out to preach how Muse nicely fits for presidency showcasing leaflet of 1994 catastrophic mistake in Burco to famine victims who neither care about books nor usher military commanders.
I have a little interest in verbal attacking on professor Samatar who championed civilian rule in Somalia in most of his life who once surprisingly said that American hellfire missile that killed Ayro of Al-Shabab at the cost of 500 million was wrong! His about-face manifests the wider problem in Somaliland people who often condemn SiyadBarre military brutalism but praise Muse’s Mujahidism,chauvinism.
Somaliland War Memorial
Having a military background alone can’t be and never be a disqualification for presidency, but Somaliland voters are not just aware of the military men’ catastrophe but see the bones murdered by a military leader in their everyday life. The new love of Muse Bihi by some clannish voters not only discredits stories of mass murder by a military junta but also shows double standard: SiyadBarre is a brute but Muse is a benevolent warlord who killed Faqash and some Gargaxis and nothing ugly in all these and the statue has be removed!
Somaliland National Election Commission NEC invites religious leaders, tycoons, previously assumped have no role in the election to stay out of the next presidential elections . above all, ethiopia invited all three party leaders including the military leader worrying not to accept the result which against him.
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