The provocative and irresponsible disruption of a UNDP organised event in Hargeisa the other day by the secessionists based in NW Somalia (Somaliland) has come as no surprise to most Somalis. This is not an isolated case but only the latest of an established practice by the secessionists to hassle the UN agencies in order to get their way. As so often, they have been incensed by seeing their enclave included in the UNDP programme as part of Somalia when the UNDP has little choice but to dutifully follow the stance of the UN Security Council and the wider international community which consider the area as part and parcel of Somalia. Such nuances, however, do not cut much ice with the spoiled secessionists.
For too long, successive UNDP Country Resident Representatives (RR) based in Nairobi have gone out of their way to mollycoddle the secessionists and give in to their persistent nagging to the extent of treating their area for operational purposes as a de facto separate country from the rest of Somalia. Some Resident Representatives hailing from Britain harbour barely disguised empathy with the secessionist cause, hankering as they do for the days when the area was a British colony just as the separatists for their part crave for the good old days and the era of their former colonial master. This common bond goes all the way to the British Parliament...more..http://terror freesomalia.blogspot.com/2 ... lilan.html
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