Postby Galol » Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:05 am
Mad Mac
Lets get this straight: Somaliland will never again join Somalia. Recognition or not. that is history and Somalis need to understand this and move on.
At the moment teh only thing our Somali brothers agree on is that Somaliland shall not go. It has and it will never come back even if all the gods of the world demand us to. Reason? Simple: we tried union for 30 years and came out of it worse off than before we joined. We got nothing from the dastardly Southerners except betrayal, corruption, thuggery, truffo, wqalays and qiyaamo. Somalilanders knew things were not going to be good shortly after they so generously handed over their freedom. The Southern bstrads simply helped themselves to the government: the President, Speaker, Prime Minister and the ministers of Foreign, defense, internal and finance were all given to the South. In fact the whole of teh Somaliland government was given teh Education portfolio which Egal turned down in disgust.
Then we saw how sly and corrupt the southerners can get during the refrendum of 1961 to confirm the union. Somalilanders voted against by majority but the Southerners cheated on a grand scale claiming that thousands of voters said `Yes' in one cow and tape-worm southern villages like Adan Yabal and Wanlaweyn. No wonder teh Northners saw the flooding of Wanlaweyn few weeks later as divine retribution
"oh the grand god that flooded wallaweyn....accept the whole [southern] ministers next week as gift from us"(Allahii Wallweyn webiga ku darow, wigganna naga ho Wasiirrada)
Somalialnders named the whole Southern people after this betrayal town hence the name Wallaweyn and what it means to Landers: truffo, khiyaamo, thuggery, cherrymandering, corruption.
Things only got better for a very bried period in the 70s when there was hope of half-decent government. And then everything collapsed.
Take for example Burao. In 1968 it had running water, electricity top quality schools including `Boarding' ones, seven high quality football teams, five petrol stations(Total, Mobil, Shell, Agip, Fina) and two police stations. The streets were so well lit and so spotlessly clean you could eat off the pavements. Its airport was the third biggest in Somaliland and International with both Al-Yemda and BOAC as well as Somali Airlines having weekly flights. It even had a limited landline telephone system although you have to go through an operator to connect
By 1980 after 20 years of union with the south the water, ectricity and telephones were gone. The roads were pot-holed and dirty and the football teams were either all dead or dying because the sponsors(Nissan, Isuzu, Coca-Cola, Mobil etc) were told to leave by the Southern government. The boarding schools were all shut. Of the five petrol stations only Agip operated because of its Italian southern connections. The airoprt was dusty and almoost abandoned except for corrupt Southern politicians flying-in to indulge in a bit of looting of the Burawis.
We did have one area of exponential growth: Burao now boasted twelve Police Stations all manned by Southern officers with specific orders to arrest, torture and ransom Burawis at will.
No surprise then that landers have no short-term plans of rejoining the south. In fact they will never join - guaranteed.
Of course the racist world will never recognise Somaliland because well the world is run by racists(how else can you justify that 15 countries in Europe teh majority of them SMALLER than Somalialand have been recognised in teh last fifteen years although some of then have never been countries?).
But to paraphrase Bhutto we will eat grass, we will go hungry but we will never ever ever have our affairs run by Wallawweyn again.
The wallos need to get this through heads and move on.
