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The plight of ethnic Somalis

Postby abdisamad3 » Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:07 am

Ethnic Somalis have had it hard in Kenya ever since the 1960s, when the British bequeathed Kenya's Northern Frontier Province to them. And then, on second thought, decided they'd rather bequeath it to Kenya's newly independent government in 1963.

What started as a series of border skirmishes bloomed, with an influx of cold-war weaponry, into a full-fledged war, until the Kenyan army herded the Somali population into barricaded villages and killed off their livestock.

Oppression marred the following decades and peaked with the Wagalla massacre in 1984, when the Kenyan military drove thousands of men onto an airstrip, where they lay at gunpoint.

Many died of exposure and dehydration in the desert heat. Those that survived for three days were soaked in kerosene and burnt alive. The Kenyan government has put the death toll at 57. Other researchers say it was closer to 5,000.

The bombing of the United States Embassy in Nairobi in 1998 that killed 213 people, most of them Kenyans, stoked Kenya's fears that lawless, Muslim Somalia offered a safe haven to Islamist militants. In 2006, Kenyan police were accused of handing over Somali suspects for extraordinary rendition to secret, underground prisons in Ethiopia and Somalia.

The flow of tens of thousands of refugees across the Somali border and into crowded, fetid camps in Kenya has made foreign citizenship a holy grail to thousands of young Somalis who have never known peace.

With their pale skin and distinct features, ethnic Somalis often look different from other Kenyans and are easily picked out and asked for identification by Kenyan police. The half million or so Somalis with Kenyan citizenship get the same treatment.

Source: Globe and Mail, August 13, 2009

In Nairobi's jam-packed, ethnic Somali neighbourhood of Eastleigh, a city within a city, it's been said that almost anything can be purchased – the newest designer jeans, machine guns, even passports – it's just a question of who can afford to buy them.

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Re: The plight of ethnic Somalis

Postby AbdiWahab252 » Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:10 am

I thought you were going to post about the Samaale :x

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Re: The plight of ethnic Somalis

Postby abdisamad3 » Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:13 am

I thought you were going to post about the Samaale :x
^^^^wax waalan :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: The plight of ethnic Somalis

Postby S-D-M » Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:17 am

Ethnic Somalis have had it hard in Kenya ever since the 1960s, when the British bequeathed Kenya's Northern Frontier Province to them. And then, on second thought, decided they'd rather bequeath it to Kenya's newly independent government in 1963.

What started as a series of border skirmishes bloomed, with an influx of cold-war weaponry, into a full-fledged war, until the Kenyan army herded the Somali population into barricaded villages and killed off their livestock.

Oppression marred the following decades and peaked with the Wagalla massacre in 1984, when the Kenyan military drove thousands of men onto an airstrip, where they lay at gunpoint.

Many died of exposure and dehydration in the desert heat. Those that survived for three days were soaked in kerosene and burnt alive. The Kenyan government has put the death toll at 57. Other researchers say it was closer to 5,000.

The bombing of the United States Embassy in Nairobi in 1998 that killed 213 people, most of them Kenyans, stoked Kenya's fears that lawless, Muslim Somalia offered a safe haven to Islamist militants. In 2006, Kenyan police were accused of handing over Somali suspects for extraordinary rendition to secret, underground prisons in Ethiopia and Somalia.

The flow of tens of thousands of refugees across the Somali border and into crowded, fetid camps in Kenya has made foreign citizenship a holy grail to thousands of young Somalis who have never known peace.

With their pale skin and distinct features, ethnic Somalis often look different from other Kenyans and are easily picked out and asked for identification by Kenyan police. The half million or so Somalis with Kenyan citizenship get the same treatment.

Source: Globe and Mail, August 13, 2009

In Nairobi's jam-packed, ethnic Somali neighbourhood of Eastleigh, a city within a city, it's been said that almost anything can be purchased – the newest designer jeans, machine guns, even passports – it's just a question of who can afford to buy them.

:lol: :lol: :lol:

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Re: The plight of ethnic Somalis

Postby IRONm@N » Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:37 am

With their pale skin and distinct features, ethnic Somalis often look different from other Kenyans

:lol: somalis being described at pale skin!

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Re: The plight of ethnic Somalis

Postby abdisamad3 » Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:10 pm

With their pale skin and distinct features, ethnic Somalis often look different from other Kenyans

:lol: somalis being described at pale skin!
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Re: The plight of ethnic Somalis

Postby S-D-M » Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:28 pm

Those PALE skin must be Darood (arab), and not Hawiye :lol: :lol:

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Re: The plight of ethnic Somalis

Postby Enemy_Of_Mad_Mullah » Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:30 pm

most somalis are "dark-skinned peoples" :lol:

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Re: The plight of ethnic Somalis

Postby SahanGalbeed » Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:33 pm

The fact to the matter is , somalis can be recognised for the most part by their physical features .


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