(SomaliNet) After having intensive meeting in the north of the Mogadishu, capital of Somalia, elders of Hawiye tribe, one of the four main tribes in Somalia, Sunday issued a communiqué over their position towards the best way to find solution for the crisis in the capital which has been stable for the second day.
The Hawiye elders agreed on late today several articles including to fully comply with the ceasefire deal they signed with the Ethiopian military officials, as Abdi Imam Omar, among the elders told the reporters.
The elders representing the Hawiye tribe said in their statements that they are suggesting the world community to provide support the ceasefire agreement and help it implemented and giving consideration to the human crisis in the capital that resulted from the latest clashes.
They called on the Somali people in Mogadishu not to give respect to the government’s warning that residents desert the targeted places but remain in the city.
The Ethiopian government should immediately pull its troops out of our country as it had already pledged to quit Somalia after the arrival of the African Union peacekeepers, the statement said.
The elders said Puntland militia should be withdrawn from Mogadishu and brought back to their home until a national government is formed.
The Hawiye chiefs agreed to release all the prisoners captured in the recent clashes in the capital saying what they called ‘the misled soldiers will be handed to their clans.
They made it clear that Hawiye is ready to fully participate the coming national conference in the capital on 16 April after the implementation of the ceasefire and appealed the Hawiye people within the interim government to come before the elders to them into accountability for the responsibility they are holding for the their constituencies.
The elders asked for all Somali people wherever they are to intensely attend in defending the religion and the country against the enemy.
