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Specifying the major colonial policy directions plays a great role in identifying real possibilities of exit. Pre-Civil War Somali politicians and statesmen, intellectuals and academia failed to perceive the existing threat. The fact that Somalia was colonized mainly by Italy, and only partly by England and France, should not have been interpreted as guarantee for a hypothetical Anglo-French indifference.
The adjacent examples of Abyssinia and Kenya were very evocative in this regard; various nations had been compressed within those obsolete colonial structures. Yet, the Anglo-French propaganda – at the level of the academia, the mass media and the international diplomacy – favored these two fake states at the prejudice of Somalia – the only true, real East African Nation with a great past that had formed a homeland (despite the exceptions of Ogaden, Djibouti´s Issa Somalis, and Kenya´s Somali minority). For millennia, the Kenyan and Tanzanian coastland formed a cultural, socioeconomic and political unity with Somalia (called Azania and Punt in different times of the Pre-Islamic Antiquity).
But for the colonial schemes, the disturbing Islamic identity of the culturally unified region had to be broken to pieces, and this was achieved by means of the paranoid detachment of the Islamic East African coastland from Somalia, and the subsequent attachment of its divided parts to the otherwise useless and fake states of Kenya and Tanzania that represented a curse for the therein entangled and oppressed nations.
More clearly, the colonial transfer of power from the English to the repellant Abyssinian tyranny of the Cannibal Haile Selassie in Ogaden should have been duly interpreted by the Somali administrations after 1960; it meant an evil predisposition of the English against the Somali Nation in its entirety that would not end up easily. As one after the other the European colonies became independent in the 50s and the 60s, there was no apparent reason for Ogaden to be given to Abyssinia. It could have formed a separate state, and later on, when Somalia became independent, the Ogadenis could merge with the rest of the Somalis.
All these developments did not bode well for the benevolent but naïve Somali political leadership of the 60s; President Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke´s strong connection with the later assassinated President Kennedy worsened the situation, because it truly irritated the Anglo-French colonial elites. No one viewed the assassination of the Somali JFK within its true context thus far; yet, it demonstrates a deep, colonial, anti-Somali predisposition and hatred that finally proved to be able to reach the same end as in the case of the assassinated American president.
The stance of the colonial powers in the Ogaden war is also indicative; acting as intermediaries between America and the USSR, London and Paris did their best to let Moscow understand that no one in the West would oppose the uniquely provocative act of aerial transportation of besotted Cuban brigades to fight against those whom they should have supported. The spectacular failure of the Russian / Soviet African policy is easily attested today; Moscow played idiotically the colonial game, and was afterwards eliminated from all parts of Eastern Africa. Who gives a damn for Russia today in Eastern Africa?
I will terminate this article with a reference to the major colonial policy directions against Somalia that targeted precisely the Somali national authenticity, historical continuity, and cultural identity.
1. Despite President Siad Barre´s great campaign for alphabetization, which is something impossible to be materialized in the barbaric state of Abyssinia (where ignorance and illiteracy are basic means for tyranny prolongation), the colonial academia did their ingenious best to diminish the historical importance of the Somali language, while promoting Kiswahili as a regional lingua franca.
2. Systematized indifference for the Pre-Islamic Antiquity of Somalia, which played a far greater role than either Kush - Ancient Ethiopia (today´s Sudan) or Abyssinia (today´s fake ´Ethiopia´) in the History of the Mankind, and more particularly in the History of East – West commercial relations, cultural – behavioural exchanges, and socioeconomic interconnectedness.
3. Despite the interest of many colonial historians to come up with a Concise History manual textbook for many other modern nations, and therein record an otherwise disputed historical continuity, never ever a single Concise History manual book has been composed, with reference to the existing Egyptian Hieroglyphic, Ancient Greek, Latin, Ancient Yemenite, Hebrew, Syriac, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Middle Persian, Medieval Greek, Arabic, Farsi, Ottoman Turkish, and other sources, in order to highlight, underscore and duly diffuse worldwide the diachronic continuity (for more almost 4 millennia) of Somalia´s History.
4. Disregard for the infrastructure work needed in Humanities for a proper nation-building effort, involving systematic archeological excavations, comprehensive socio-anthropological research, full repertory of all monumental and epigraphic antiquities on Somali territory, extensive cataloguing of the Somali Cultural and Folklore Heritage, complete publication of a multilingual Somali Encyclopedia of the Somali Nation, which all would constitute the fundamental elements of a National System of Somali Education.
5. Persistent diplomatic / academic maneuvering aiming at limiting the historical interest of the Somali nation, political class, intellectuals and academia exclusively in the Islamic Ages. Through this trickery, the colonial elites would achieve two goals:
a. Somali disinterest for Somalia´s longest part of History (in which Somalia played a worldwide critical role, being the center of gravitation of Roman, Egyptian, Greek, Phoenician, Aramaean, Yemenite, Persian, Indian, Sri Lankan and Indonesian exchange, trade and navigation), and
b. Unhindered promotion of the colonially supported falsified versions of Eastern African History, composed through a totally distorted and absolutely fallacious pro-Abyssinian viewpoint which reflects the gravely racist, anti-Somali, anti-Islamic, and anti-African agenda of the Freemasonic colonial elites and the analphabetic and barbaric Amhara and Tigray ruling gangsters.
6. Related with the previous point has been the diplomatic / academic maneuvering aiming at pushing Somalia, a non Arabic nation, to develop closer relations with the Arab League, and thus become a member state in an absolutely colonial organization whereby the only Arab state is Saudi Arabia.
The aforementioned analysis is a brief enumeration of the most important points and reasons for which the colonial powers triggered a civil war in Somalia, and demonstrated inhuman indifference to all the calls that demanded immediate pacification and rehabilitation for Somalia, and freedom for all the Somalis. In fact, a successful nation – building effort carried out in a Greater Somalia – which is the inevitable course of the History – would terribly damage the Anglo-French colonial interests.
And only to eliminate the extreme peril coming from a Greater Somalia, so many great powers like the USSR, the colonial powers of Western Europe, America, Japan, India and the Arab League joined forces and allowed the formidably armed Cubans, fanaticized with the hallucination of a victorious Marxism – Leninism, to prevail over the heroic soldiers of President Siad Barre, and thus prolong the shameful life of the most malodorous butchery of the world, the humanly prohibited state of Abyssinia (criminally re-baptized Ethiopia).
