By Ibrahim Mohamed Mead
Matters
which should be off-limits are no longer off limits in Somaliland these
days. Undesirable things come from all sides, from the opposition as
well as from the government. Calling a Somaliland citizen Mr. Bahe Awil
‘Morgan’ is unsettling and beyond decency.
Decency is about morality, responsibilities, culture, religion and well thought-of behavior
Decency
is defined as “the behavior that obeys the rules of customary standards
of morality or respectability. Decency can as well be described as the
requirements of accepted norms and/or honorable behavior”
To
call someone ‘Morgan’ is indeed cruel. It is a complete disregard of
human decorum and not only that, it is a trivialization of what the
criminal Morgan has inflicted to the people of Somaliland. It is an
insult to Somaliland as a whole. When it is all that and more, imagine
how some of us casually and carelessly call one of our own ‘Morgan’!
The
name Morgan is synonymous to murder and ethnic cleansing. Morgan was
the son- in-law of Siyad Barre not the son-in-law of Mr.Siilanyo He was
the author and the executioner of the ethnic cleansing scheme documented
in the infamous “letter of death.”
Is
citizen Bashe Cawil who happened to be the son-in-law of a president
democratically elected deserves to be called ‘Morgan’? Can our morals
allow us to criminalize someone for what someone else did? The fact that
murderer Morgan happened to be the son-in-law of Siyad Barre and
Citizen Bashi Cawil happened to be the son-in-law of the president of
Somaliland does not add up.
Bashi
Cawil did not commit genocide/ethnic cleansing. He does not have any
governmental responsibilities; therefore we must not liken him with the
scum-General Morgan
The difference between the two is the difference of evil and innocence.
I
am not saying Mr. Bashe is a good guy neither do I say he is a bad guy
either. I don’t have evidence to support either case. What I am saying
is that the brother is NO Morgan and we better not call him ‘Morgan’ a
name no one of us accepts to be called. Would any one of us accept to be
called ‘Satan’ for ‘Morgan is Satan and worse? I don’t think so.
Therefore we must cease calling Bashe or anybody else with that name, in
the name of decency. We can criticize Mr.Bashe where criticism is due
but let us call him by his name
What
does the name ‘Morgan’ the son-in-law of Dictator Siyad Barre mean to
Somaliland? It means cruelty, Crime against humanity, it means ethnic
cleansing, genocide and the rest of all evil. For these reasons and more
it is absolutely repugnant and not appropriate to call Citizen Bashe
Awil the son-in-law of President Siilanyo ‘Morgan’! Citizen Bashe and
his family were among the victims of the cursed ‘Morgan’ atrocities
therefore how one can call him Morgan!?
I
am not defending Bashe Awil because I agree with what the government
does and how they run the Republic. That is not the case. I utterly
oppose the corruption and the abuse Mr. Siilanyo’s administration
practice, diametrically, however Mr. Bashe is not a member of the
government, therefore it is wrong and immoral to call Mr. Bashe
‘Morgan’. Bashe is the son-in-law of Mr. Siilanyo he is not the
son-in-law of Siyad Barre and Siilanyo is NO Siyad Barre. If someone
knows some misconduct and unlawful activities attributed to Mr. Bashe
which deserves to shed light on it, we can criticize his actions but we
must address him and call him by his name. In the name of fairness and
decency stop calling Bashe Awil‘Morgan,’ a name which none of us
deserves to be called.
In
my opinion it is not right to hold accountable or criticize a person
for what other person did by extension of being related. No other person
bears the burden of another person “Walaa taziro waaziratun wazra okhraa-from the Quran”.
It is therefore unfair for Mr. Bashe Cawil and inappropriate and indeed
wrong to accuse or criticize him for the (deplorable) actions of the
administration of his father-in-law, knowing that he is not a member of
the administration. However if he has done wrongs of national interest,
well, criticize him like we criticize the government but call him by his
name and not Morgan, that is my point We better not be extravagant in
dispensing horrible names unwisely as the government of Siilanyo is in
overseas trips (seedhawayn) and well come back activities (soodhawayn)
Everybody
must come back to his or her sense. We have to reflect and rationalize
what we want to say and how to say it. We have to establish a sane
atmosphere. We don’t have a sane atmosphere these days. We have to be
kind to our country, to our cause and to ourselves.
However peace and prayers
Ibrahim Mohamed Mead
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