Dallada xuquuqul-insaanka S/land oo iftiimisay musumaasuq xadhkaha goostay oo qoyska madaxtooyadu

Dec 10, 2012 at 11:32 PM

S.Xaquuq wuxuu daaha ka feyday inay ogaadeen in Baashe Cawil X.Cumar (Moorgan) oo M.siilanyo Sodog u yahay si weyn ugu lug leeyahay musuqmaasuq baahsan oo ka jira Dallada xuquuqul-insaanka S/land oo iftiimisay musumaasuq xadhkaha goostay oo qoyska madaxtooyadu ku lug leeyahay Xoghayaha Dallada Ururada Xuquuqul-Insaanka Saleebaan Ismaaciil  (Saleebaan Xaquuq)ayaa daboolka ka qaadey in musumaasuq baahsani oo xadhkaha goostay ka jiro Somaliland,Qoyska Madaxtooyaduna si weyn ugu milmay oo qeyb ka noqday musuq-maasuqaas. Saleebaan Xaquuq wuxuu ku nuuxnuuxsadey in intii Xukumada Siilanyo talada dalka haysay ay si xawliya u kordhayaan xad-gudubyada iyo gabood fallada is-dabajooga ah ee lagula kaco Muwaadiniinta iyo dadka taagta daran oo Xabsiyada layskaga guro iyagan Maxakamadaha la marin. Saleebaan Xaquuq wuxuu daaha ka feyday in Dallada Xuquuqul –insaanku ogaatey in Baashe Cawil Xaaji Cumar (Moorgan) oo madaxweyne siilanyo Sodog u yahay si weyn ugu lug leeyahay musuqmaasuq baahsan iyo lunsasho hanti qaran oo ka jira TV-ga Qaranka (Tv ku hadla Afka Qoyska Madaxtooyada ),musuqaas oo  uu sheegay Saleebaan Xuquuq inay soo bandhigtay Hayada Transparent International. Dhinaca kale Saleebaan Xaquuq wuxuu saluugay oo farta ku go’day Komishinka Doorashooyinka Somaliland iyo Natiijada doorashada Degaanka oo uu sheegay in lagu hungoobay oo mid lagu khasaarey u e’eg tahay maadababa buu yidhi tacab badan la geliyey,waqi dheerna la ga dhursugaayey balse natiijadeedii laysku haysto oo muran weyn xukumadu gelisay. Sidoo kale Gudoomiyaha Dallada xuquuqul-Insaanka Somaliland Axmed Yuusuf Xuseen ayaa ugu baaqey Bulshoweynta reer Somaliland iyo difaacayaasha Xuquuqul Insaanka inay maalinta Arbacada isagu soo baxaan Banaanbax balaadhan oo lagu diidan yahay Cadaaladarada iyo Tacadiyada ay Komishinka Doorashooyinka Somaliland ku kaceen.Gudoomiyuhu wuxuu ku ceceliyey in natiijada doorashada degaanku  sababtay dhimasho iyo dhaawac Caruur da’doodu ka yaryar tahay 14 sano masuuliyadeedana Komishanku leeyihiin. Hargeisa

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Difaacayaasha Madaxa Banaan ee Xuquuqa Aadamiga Somaliland oo Carrooga Ku Afuufay Tacadiyadda Musuqmaasuq Iyo Bani-aadaminimo Ee Xukuumadda, Dibad-baxna Ku Baaqay

Suleiman Ismail Bulaleh (Saleban Xuquuq)

December 11th, 2012 |

“Waxaynu Ka War-qabnaa In Sanadkii Boqolaal Kun Oo Doolar Oo Tv-ga Qaranka Ka Soo Baxa uu Wiilka Madaxwaynuhu Sodogga U Yahay….”Saleebaan Xuquuq

Hargeysa (Waaheen) Dallada Isku xidhka ururadda xuquuqal sIisaanka Somaliland oo maanta si gaar ah u xusay maalinta caalamiga ah ee xuquuqda aadamaha oo adduunka oo dhan laga xusay, ayaa soo bandhigay gabood-fallada lidka ku ah xuquuqda aadamaha ee dalka ka dhacay intii xukuumadda Siilaanyo tallada dalka haysay.

Difaacayaasha xuquuqal Iisaanku, sidoo kale waxay ka hadleen musuqmaasuqa dalka ka jira oo ay sheegeen inuu marayo heer qoyska Madaxtooyaddu ku lug leeyahay in boqolaal kun oo doolar sanad walba la lunsado.

Guddoomiyaha difaacayaasha xuquuqal Iisaanka  Somaliland Saleebaan Ismaaciil Bullaale (Saleebaan Xuquuq) oo Munaasibadan ugu horeyn ka hadlay ayaa faahfaahiyey gabood-fallada xuquuqda aadamaha ku xun ee Somaliland ka dhacay mudada uu Madaxwayne Siilaanyo xilka hayo, waxaanu yidhi “Tan iyo intii tallada dalka ay qabsatay xukuumadda Madaxwayne Siilaanyo waxaad moodaa in xad-gudubyadda xuquuqal Iisaanku ay aad u sii kordhayeen, xadhiga sharci darada ah ee muwaadiniinta, iyadda oo aan loo marin Maxkamada wuxuu noqday mid aad u badan, waxaana imika xabsiga Madheera ku jira 16 qof oo ciidamadda qaranku ka soo qabteen Lawyacado, maxkamad lama gaynin, waxaasi ayaa la idinku haystaana lama odhan, dhowr jeer oo hore waanu ka hadalnay, waxaanu xukuumadda leenahay haddii ay dambi leeyihiin maxkamad hala geeyo, haddii kalena hala siidaayo. Xad-gudubyadda waaweyn ee dalka ka dhacay waxa ka mid ah saxaafadda Madaxa-banaan oo inta la xidhay ama la jidh-dilay waxay kor u dhaaftay 86 Wariye (inta xukuumaddani tallada haysay)”

Saleebaan Xuquuq, waxa kale oo uu kak hadlay Musuqmaasuq uu sheegay inuu Tv-ga qaranka ka gaysto nin uu Madaxwayne Siilaanyo sodog u yahay “Musuqmaasuqa oo kale, hay’adda caalamiga ah ee Transparency International war-bixinteedii ugu dambaysay waxay inagu dartay waddamada ugu musuqmaasuqa badan, difaacayaasha xuquuqal Iisaanku waxay xog-ogaal u noqdeen in heerka musuqmaasuqu uu ka gaadhsiisan yahay Somaliland ay ku lug leeyihiin xitaa qoyska Madaxwaynuhu” ayuu yidhi waxaanu intaa ku daray in difaacayaasha xuquuqal Iisaanku ay Boobe Yuusuf Ducaalle u aqoonsadeen muwaadin daah furay xogo shacabka ka qarsoonaa “Difaacayaasha xuquuqal Iisaanku waxay sanadkan Boobe Yuusuf Ducaale u aqoonsan yihiin inuu daah furay xog ka qarsoonayd bulshada Somaliland iyo dadkii ay doorteen sida ay hawlaha u wadaan xaqiiqada uu ka sheegay, waxaynu ka war-qabnaa in sanadkii boqolaal kun oo doolar oo ka soo baxa Tv-ga qaranka ay Mushahar u qaataan dhowr iyo toban qof oo London jooga oo shakhsi loo dhiibo oo aan qaan-sheeg laga soo celin (Receipt), oo Inanka Madaxwaynuhu sodogga u yahay ku lug leeyahay, waana wax cad, waxaanu u aqoonsanahay Boobe Yuusuf Ducaalle inuu yahay qof u qalma in la siiyo shahaadada xoriyadda hadalka oo u dhaqdhaqaaqa inay dadku xog helaan”

Saleebaan Xuquuq, waxa kale oo uu ka hadlay “Waxa kale oo ka mid ah gabood-falada dhacay aar-goosiga siyaasiga ah, hal-doorkii dalka iyo dadkii aqoonta lahaa ee Somaliland u shaqeyn jiray dawladda waa laga xaaqay, taasi waxay keentay in Imtixaanaadkii fashilmo, waxa kale oo ka mid ah doorashaddan la isku haysto, oo wixii intaasi oo sanadood dadku wax walba u soo hureen ay maanta tacab khasaar u eg-tahay”ayuu yidhi waxaanu intaa ku darau  “Xuquuqal Iisaanka Somaliland, maanta waxa uu marayaa heer laga war-waro”ayuu yidhi.

Guddoomiyihii hore ee komiishanka xuquuqal Iisaanka Qaranka Somaliland Axmed Yuusuf Cismaan oo isna halkaa ka hadlay ayaa si aad ah Komiishanka ugu dhaliilay go’aanka ah in dib loo tiriyo codadkii laga dhiibtay degmooyinka Hargeysa, waxaanu sheegay in taasi keenayso in dadka la isku dillo.

Axmed Yuusuf Cismaan oo arimahaa ka hadlayaana waxa uu yidhi  “Waxaan idiin sheegayaa in doorashadii Somaliland ka dhacday ay u dhowdahay inay saqiirto ayna u sabab u yihiin taariikhduna ay xusi doonto komiishanka maanta xilka haya, waa nasiib daro in komiishankii doorashaddu isticmaalo ciidamada qaranka oo loo dhiibo sanaaduuqdii oo la yidhaahdo ku gura, in rag komiishanka ahaa oo ay ahayd inay ilaaliyaan garba-duub loo xidho, in sanaaduuqdii Saylac taalay meel lagu xidho”

Axmed Yuusuf Cismaan, waxa kale oo uu dhaliilay go’aanka dib loogu tirinayo codadkii Hargeysa laga dhiibtay “Waxa la tiriyey 431 sanaaduuq oo degmooyinka Hargeysa ah, tiradii la tiriyey ee la shaaciyey ayaa haddana la yidhi waa laga noqonayaa, tusbaxaana waxa furay komiishanka doorashooyinka, ma dowbaa , ma xaqbaa, ma garbaa, ma wax la qaadan karayaa”ayuu yidhi waxaanu intaa ku daray “Waxa dhacay waxa uu bar madow ku yahay hogaanka dalka haddii uu waxba ka qaban waayo waxa dhacay, ceebtan maanta komiishankaa leh oo dawladdu lama laha, haddiise uu waxba ka qabban waayo dawladdu way la yeelanaysaa”

Guddoomiyihii hore ee komiishanka xuquuqal Iisaanka Somaliland uu ka hadlay 14 jir ay ku dhacday rasaastii ciidamadda boolisku u addeegsadeen dadkii ka cabanayey natiijadda doorashadda ee Hargeysa “Waar Gabood-falbaa dhacay, inan yar oo 14 jir ah ayaa xabbadi ku dhacday, anigu booliska eeda saari maayo, laakiin ninka amarkaa siiyay ee meesha u diray-baa dambigaa qaadanaya, bulshada Somaliland-na waxaan ugu baaqayaa askarigu waa wallaalkeen ee dhagaxa ka daaya, Arintani arin Xaqsoor ama reer Fadhida maaha, arin Kulmiye, Rays iyo Waddani midna fadhida maaha ee waa arin qaran”ayuu yidhi waxaanu intaa ku daray isaga oo ku baaqaya dibad-baxa shacabku sameeyaan Arbacada “Maalinta Arbacadda ah difaacayaasha Xuquuqal iisaanku waxay idinku baaqayaan in la isku soo baxo oo banaan-bax weyn la sameeyo oo lagaga cabanayo waxa ay komiishanku wadaan ee dadka isku dilaya, isku soo baxa Arbacada dhacayaana waa Salmi aan cidna lagu dhibaynin”

WAR CRIME CASES AGAINST TOP THREE SIYAAD BARE DICTATOR GOVERNMENT IN UNITED STATES

BACKGROUND ON SOMALIA

From 1969 to 1990, president and military dictator Siad Barre oversaw a campaign of widespread atrocities that decimated Somali civil society.  To quash separatist movements in the 1980s, the Somali Armed Forces targeted civilians in the northwest, culminating in the bloody 1988 siege of the regional capital Hargeisa, which claimed 5,000 civilian lives. [1]  When Barre’s regime finally collapsed in 1991, Somalia was plunged into a chaotic internal conflict from which it has never recovered. Today, Somalia is universally cited as a 'failed state.'

CJA’s cases against three former members of Siad Barre’s regime—former Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Mohamed Ali Samantar, notorious war criminal Colonel Yusuf Abdi Ali (aka Tukeh), and former Chief of Investigations of the infamous National Security Service Abdi Aden Magan—represent the first international effort to gain justice for the victims of the Barre regime and to end impunity for those responsible for this dark chapter of Somalia’s history.

Context: Understanding Clan Violence

In 1991, Somalia was described by the US Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance as "the worst humanitarian disaster in the world."[2]  In 2009, Foreign Policy Magazine called it “the most dangerous place  in the world.”[3]  In the intervening 18 years, the violence in Somalia was portrayed in the Western media as a regression to a primordial, even timeless conflict based on eternal tribal hatreds.  In 1992, the New York Times wrote: “Instead of fighting with traditional spears and shields, the clans have more recently conducted their feuds with mortars and machine guns.” One UN official even opined: "We could end up with Africa the way it was before the colonialists came, divided up into tribal enclaves." [4]  But the history of political violence in Somalia is not given to such oversimplification.

The root causes of the Somali crisis are more modern in origin. They can be traced to at least three 20th century phenomena: colonialism, Cold War international relations, and the Barre dictatorship.  The interaction of these modern forces in the post-colonial state ushered in the clan conflict of the 1980s and the chaos of the 1990s-2000s.  Thus, to understand the present crisis we should look to what preceded it.

The Legacy of Colonialism

Ethnic Somalis have lived for centuries throughout the Horn of Africa, practicing nomadic pastoralism in the north and agricultural pastoralism in the south.  However, Somalia’s political borders were imposed by European colonial powers who partitioned ethnic Somali enclaves into parts of modern day Ethiopia, Kenya and Djibouti. [5]  Parts of the north were administered as British Somaliland, while much of the South became Italian Somalia. When these two former colonies merged to form the independent United Republic of Somalia in 1960, the contrasting colonial, political and economic traditions became a source of divisive tension in the fledgling republic.[6]

Read more on the colonial roots of the conflict in Somalia.

The Barre Dictatorship Begins: 1969-1975

Somalia’s 9-year experiment in post-colonial democracy ended in October 1969, when Major General Siad Barre seized power in a bloodless coup. Barre formed the Supreme Revolutionary Council (SRC) and declared an end to "tribalism, nepotism, corruption, and misrule." The SRC aligned itself with the Soviet Union and denounced U.S. African policy as imperialist. [7] 

At the same time, Barre set out to radically transform Somali society through “scientific socialism”: an ideology that fused Marxism with Quranic interpretation.  Publicly, Barre claimed to stamp out the clan system. Yet in practice, the regime ultimately did the opposite.   Barre elevated members of his family’s clans to the regime’s inner circle, a practice that earned his government the code-name M.O.D.—an acronym of the Mareehaan, Ogaden and Dulbahante clans. [7] In the 1970s, Barre formed a new intelligence agency comprised of members of his clan called the National Security Service (NSS).  Ostensibly responsible for intelligence and internal security, including monitoring security "offenses," the NSS became known as the "Black SS": a secret police force that used torture and arbitrary detention to suppress dissidents and curtail civil liberties.

Turning Point: The Ogaden War with Ethiopia: 1977-1978

Conquering the ethnic Somali regions of Ethiopia had long been one of Barre’s policies. The moment seemed ripe with the fall of Ethiopia’s Emperor Haile Sellasie in 1974.  Three years later, the Somali National Army invaded and attempted to annex the Somali enclave in the Ogaden region.  This proved to be a fatal miscalculation.  The Soviet Union and Cuba backed the new Marxist government of Ethiopia and withdrew support from Barre.  Soviet aid—once the life-blood of the regime—was cut off.

A column of refugees soon flowed from the Ogaden war and from drought stricken regions in the Horn.  The regime systematically resettled Ogaden refugees in camps and settlements in the northwest region and supplied them with weapons to help suppress the Isaaq and seize their economic assets. 

Uprising in the Northwest: 1978-1982

In 1978, military officers from the Majeerteen clan launched a coup attempt.  The Red Berets, military special forces, responded by destroying water reservoirs in Majeerteen areas.  As a result, an estimated 2,000 Majeerteen died of thirst.  Paramilitaries also waged a campaign of sexual violence against Majeerteen women. [4]

The rebellion spread.  In 1979, a group of Isaaq expatriates formed the Somali National Movement (SNM), with the goal of overthrowing Barre.  By 1982, the SNM were ready to launch an invasion of northern Somalia from their base in Ethiopia. [6]

Although the withdrawal of Soviet aid dealt a blow to Barre’s military strength, a new foreign partner soon stepped into the breach.  With the 1979 Iranian revolution, the U.S. lost a key ally in the Middle East.  The proximity of the Horn of Africa to Gulf oil shipping routes gave Somalia a new strategic importance. In order to maintain military bases there, the U.S. government gave Barre’s regime $163.5 million in military technology, and four times as much in economic aid from 1980-1988.  With U.S. support, Barre’s army swelled to number some 120,000 troops. [6] [9]This formidable war-machine would be turned against its own civilians.

Widespread Atrocities: 1978-1991

Throughout the early 1980s, the Barre regime used increasingly repressive tactics to suppress dissidents from all clans, with particular  brutality in the northwest. The Isaaq-majority SNM prosecuted a low-intensity guerilla war against the government throughout this period.  Though the SNM also committed human rights violations, the overwhelming number of atrocities were committed by Somali government soldiers.[1]

By 1983, as many as 1.3 million refugees had arrived in Somalia. [8]  The military defeat against Ethiopia and the refugee crisis strained the Somali economy, particularly in the northern areas dominated by the Isaaq clan, where Barre favored Ogaden refugees over the Isaaq in regional government posts. 

By 1987, a segment of the Ogaden clan broke from the government to launch its own opposition group (the Somali Patriotic Movement, or SPM), and leaders of the Hawiye clan formed the Somali National Alliance (SNA).  The regime had lost control of most of the country.  

After the Ethiopia-Somalia peace agreement in May 1988, the SNM, fearing the collapse of its long insurgency, attacked the major northern towns of Hargeisa and Burao.  In what Human Rights Watch characterized as “savage counterinsurgency tactics”, the regime responded with the aerial bombing and strafing of northern towns and villages, including the pursuit and slaughter of civilians fleeing on foot. The assault focused on Hargeisa—the second-largest city in Somalia—where bombing sorties flown by Somali pilots and by South African and ex-Rhodesian mercenaries destroyed an estimated 70% of the city. The attack struck residential neighborhoods the hardest and leveled most of the city; over 5,000 civilians were killed.  Nearly half a million Somalis fled to Ethiopia, where they remained for years in refugee camps.  At least another half million internally displaced persons streamed to other regions within Somalia. [1] [6] [10]

The Collapse of the Somali State: 1991-2012

In 1989, a group of Somali exiles from the Hawiye clan formed the United Somali Congress (USC) in Rome.  Fatefully, Barre responded by ordering the Red Berets to carry out a renewed wave of violence against the Hawiye and Isaaq populations.  USC militias eventually struck back, and, on January 27, 1991, drove Barre out of Mogadishu.  At the same time, the SNM seized power in the northwest and declared independence as the Republic of Somaliland.  Barre fled the country and, four years later, died a natural death in exile. [7]

Meanwhile, Mogadishu was plunged into chaos as rival militia leaders battled for control of the city.  The conflagration spread across Somalia, sparking a dire food crisis and eventually an ill-fated international humanitarian intervention.  More than twenty years later, Mogadishu remains a lawless zone with no effective government. In 2006, an Islamist insurgency threatened to topple the Transitional Federal Government (TFG).  In response, Ethiopia staged a large-scale military intervention. Although many have accused the Islamist insurgency, the TFG, and Ethiopia’s counterinsurgency of carrying out widespread human rights abuses against civilians, evidence of the full scale and scope of these violations has been slow to emerge.

By 2009, some 3.2 million Somalis are dependent on humanitarian assistance for their survival.[11]  At the same time, piracy along Somalia’s coasts had become a source of international tension, capturing the media's attention and even obscuring the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe.

By 2011, the TFG was still confined to only a part of Mogadishu. Weak and worn out by political squabbles, it remained dependent on troops of the African Union (AU) mission (AMISOM) for its very existence.  Regions to the north still refused to recognize its legitimacy, and much of southern and central Somalia was controlled by the Islamist insurgency known as Al-Shabaab, a terrorist group bent on imposing its extreme version of Islam on the entire country, if not the entire region. [13] [14] [15] By 2010, about 1.5 million people had been internally displaced within Somalia, and more than half a million Somali refugees had sought shelter in neighboring countries. [15] [16] Adding to the crisis, Somalia was struck by famine in 2011 and early 2012.  At its height, the famine raised the number of people entirely dependent on humanitarian assistance in Somalia to 4 million. [17] 

One oasis in Somalia’s devastated social landscape is the self-proclaimed republic of Somaliland.  Built on the ashes of Hargeisa and the devastated northwest region, Somaliland—while still unrecognized by the international community—has undertaken a transitional justice effort to re-establish the rule of law and effective governance. While the Somaliland experiment in democracy remains fragile, it offers a glimmer of hope in a region that has not seen peace in three decades.[12]

Hargeisa Under Siege

»Learn more about the self-proclaimed Republic of Somaliland and efforts at transitional justice there.

Background on Somalia

French leftist leader meets 'prisoner' Assange in London

Published: 07 December, 2012, 02:36

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange (R) shakes hands with French politician Jean Luc Melenchon inside the Ecuadorian embassy in central London, on December 6, 2012.(AFP Photo / Leon Neal)

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange (R) shakes hands with French politician Jean Luc Melenchon inside the Ecuadorian embassy in central London, on December 6, 2012.(AFP Photo / Leon Neal)

Former French presidential candidate Jean Melenchon has met with Julian Assange at London's Ecuadorian Embassy to show his solidarity with, he says, the “prisoner” of a government that lets dictators walk free but is not brave enough to free Assange.

The politician also called on Sweden to not extradite Assange to the United States, while praising the Ecuadorian government or having a “very brave attitude… unlike many other countries” who offered to help the whistleblower, quotes the French Liberation.

Following a meeting between the two, Melanchon told reporters, “We say to the British Government: you freed the former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, you let him go in 2000, you may well let Julian Assange [go],” the Paris Depeches reports.

Assange, who was not present following the meeting, was described by the French politician, as an “intellectually combative” individual who feels sympathy for the incarcerated Bradley Manning, the former US serviceman accused of delivering classified data to Assange.

"The situation is that Mr. Assange is a prisoner," the Left Front leader added.

As far as Melanchon's reasons for visiting the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, he, alongside Ambassador Ana Alban, said, “I am a friend of the Citizens' Revolution in Ecuador, and so I feel a duty to come in contact with my friends, express gratitude and solidarity."

It was the first face-to-face meeting between Melanchon and Assange. The two had previously spoken on the phone in August.

In turn, the Ecuadorian ambassador told the reporters that Assange is slowly assimilating. "You can imagine how difficult it can be to have fresh air and to have sun and space. In the beginning it was quite difficult, but now it's fine" Alban said in a press briefing.

Last week, it was reported that Assange had developed a chronic lung condition “which could get worse at any moment." The whistleblower requires constant medical attention at his refuge in the embassy, Ambassador Alban told reporters in Quito last week.

In November, Assange's lawyer warned that the forty-one-year-old Australian's health could deteriorate if he remains confined much longer.

Assange has been inside the Ecuadorian Embassy since June 19th, when Ecuador granted him political asylum.

If he leaves the building, the whistleblower faces immediate arrest and extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning on charges of sex crimes.

Many see the Swedish extradition as a ruse that would allow his extradition to the United States, where he could face execution for his activities with WikiLeaks.

Ecuador has petitioned the British government for permission to allow Assange from the London embassy to Ecuador. They also asked for a guarantee of his safety if he is to be admitted to a UK hospital.

London refused to negotiate, stating that it is legally obligated to hand him over to Sweden if he leaves the premisses of the Ecuadorian Embassy.

Photo from twitter.com user @jpo11ard

Bradley Manning: A Window into the American Soul

by Paul Craig Roberts

December 8, 2012

Liberty consists of government being ruled by law and citizens having control over law. This was the way our founding fathers set up the US Constitution. It is the Constitution that defines the United States.  Every member of the government and the armed forces swears allegiance to the Constitution—not to the government or to the president or to a political party or to an ideology—to defend the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic.

Today the emphasis needs to be on the Constitution’s domestic enemies in “our own” government. America’s foreign enemies are miniscule.  But the domestic enemies are legion. America’s enemies consist, with whistleblower exceptions, of the entire US government, both executive branch, legislative branch (with possibly a dozen exceptions), and judicial branch (with few exceptions).

The three branches of our government have united to destroy US civil liberties in the name of a hoax, “the war on terror.”  Even if the US were overrun with terrorists, how could they harm us more than our government has harmed us by destroying the US Constitution?

If you don’t believe that the US Constitution has been destroyed by Republicans and Democrats alike, read my book coauthored with Lawrence M. Stratton, The Tyranny Of Good Intentions, and the five articles whose URLs are provided below.

Bradley Manning, a member of the US military, complied with his oath of office, with the US Military Code, with the Nuremberg standards set by the US government, with the strictures expressed by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the George W, Bush administration, and with his own conscience. Manning, allegedly (we will never know), released to Wikileaks the video of the US military murdering two journalists and a dozen innocent people walking down a street.

After the murder of these people by the US military playing video games with live people, a father with two young children stopped his van to help the survivors crawling in the street. The US military, due to either blood-lust, incompetence, or total evil, killed the father and sent high caliber bullets into the bodies of the two small children.

The murderers then blame the father for bringing children into the combat zone created by the incompetence or evil of the US troops, who obviously get their jollies from murdering people. TV cameras are claimed to be weapons and justifications for murdering 15 people.

Subsequently, a few people, whom the video shows to be unarmed, walk into a building.

The US troops claim the unarmed people have weapons and RPGs and send three hellfire missiles into the building.  The US troops then report that all the “targets” are dead.

Any real patriotic American who saw this video would be compelled to release it.  If Manning released it to Wikileaks, then Manning is the most morally responsible American alive. What has Manning’s moral conscience cost him?

It has cost Manning 900 days held incommunicado illegally by the US government. President John F. Kennedy’s presidency lasted 1,000 days. Manning was held and tortured for almost the entire length of Camelot.

And the US government has got away with it.

Americans don’t care. It is not them. They are too stupid to understand that once law is gone, they can be next.

In their desire to punish Manning, US military and civilian authorities failed to realize that the lesson for soldiers is that crimes against humanity will not be punished, but those who reveal the crimes will be punished.

On November 29 Bradley Manning testified in federal court about his illegal confinement and torture by the US government. Manning’s testimony was not covered by the US media. The New York Times, in Chris Floyd’s words, “contented itself with a brief bit of wire copy from AP, tucked away on page 3.”

In contrast, the British Guardian covered Manning’s testimony in detail in two stories 68 paragraphs long. The British people are informed of the US government’s crimes against humanity in violation of international law and US law, but not the American people.

A formal United Nations investigation into the illegal, brutal and inhuman treatment of Bradley Manning denounced his treatment as “cruel and inhuman.” The US State Department spokesman, Col. P.J. Crowley, resigned after publicly protesting Manning’s illegal and inhuman treatment by the US government.

The presstitute media was silent.

Glenn Greenwald, the constitutional attorney, concludes that “the US establishment journalists have enabled the government every step of the way.” The presstitutes hold “themselves out as adversarial watchdogs, but nothing provokes their animosity more than someone who effectively challenges government actions.”

Greenwald praises Bradley Manning who “has bestowed the world with multiple vital benefits. But as his court martial finally reaches its conclusion, one likely to result in the imposition of a long prison term, it appears his greatest gift is this window into America’s political soul.”

The window into America’s political soul reveals total evil. The US government constitutes Satan’s Chosen People.  Nothing else can be said for those who rule and oppress us.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33193.htm

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33192.htm

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33200.htm

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Rabshadihii Ugu Xumaa Taariikhda Dimuqraadiyadda Oo Istaagay Iyo Booliska Oo Ka Hadlay Khasaarihii Ka Dhashay

“Mar Walba ciidanka waanu kala hadalnaa oo waxaanu nidhaahnaa ilaaliya rasaasta, laakiin waa Qadar Alle” Cabdilaahi Fadal Iimaan.
 

Taliyaha Ciidanka Booliska Somaliland General Fadal

Hargeysa (Waaheen) – Rabshado habeen hore fiidkii ka bilaabmay degmadda Axmed Dhagax ee Magaaladda Hargeysa isla-markaana ku xidhiidhsanaa natiijadda ka soo baxday codadkii laga dhiibtay doorashaddii degmooyinka Caasimadda oo sii socday ilaa galinkii hore ee shalay ayaa is-taagay ka dib markii ciidamadda booliska ee rabashadahaasi ka hortagayey ay toogasho ku dileen hal qof isla-markaana ay laba kale dhaawaceen.

Rabashadahan oo ay samaynayeen dhalinyaro taageersan urur siyaasadeedka Xaqsoor oo aan ku qancin natiijadda codadkii ay ka heleen Hargeysa oo ay sheegeen in la musuqmaasuqay, ayaa waxa inta la ogyahay ku geeriyooday laba qof oo dhalinyaro ah, waxaana  dhaawacyo ka soo gaadheen ilaa 7 ruux.

Hogaanka urur siyaasadeedka Xaqsoor oo kaashanaya Madax-dhaqameedka gobolka Hawd iyo culimadda dalka, ayaa si weyn uga hawl-galay sidii dhalinyaraddu u joojin lahaayeen rabashaddaha oo ahaa kuwo dhibaaato amaan daro u horseedi gaadhay Magaaladda Hargeysa, waxayna subaxdii shalay dhalinyarada

Mudaharaadka dhigayey isugu yeedhen garoonka kubadda Cagta ee Hargeysa Istaadiyam, halkaasi oo ay kala hadleen isla-markaana u soo jeediyeen inay joojiyaan rabshadaha si xaqdarada ay tirsanayaan xalkeeda loo doono, inkasta oo markii kulankaasi waanada ahaa markii u dhamaaday ay dib u bilaabeen rabashadihii, taasi oo keentay in boolisku toogto saddex qof oo mid ka mid ahi geeriyoodo.

Rabashadahan oo noqonaya kuwii ugu xumaa ee ka dhaca dalka, intii Somaliland ku dhaqmaysay nidaamka dimuqraadiga ah, ayaa duhurkii istaagay, iyadda oo ilaa hadda cisbitaaladda Magaaladda Hargeysa lagu daweynayo dadkii dhaawacyadu ka soo gaadheen rasaasta booliska.

Taliyaha booliska Somaliland Cabdilaahi Fadal Iimaan oo shalay ka hadlay rabashadahan, ayaa sheegay inuu ka xun yahay dhibaatadda dhacday iyo dadka ku waxyeeloobay.

Taliye Fadal, waxa uu Tacsi u diray dadka dhintay, isagoo sidoo kalena caafimaad u rajeeyay kuwo dhaawacmay “Shalay (doraad) waxa lagu dhawaaqay natiijaddii doorashadda ee Hargeysa, taas oo aan qancin ururka Xaqsoor, markaa dad dhalinyaro ah oo arintaasi ka gadoodsan ayaa sameeyay rabash waxayna iska hor yimaadeen ciidamadda booliska, waxaana ku dhaawacmay lix qof, waxaana ku dhintay hal qof”

Taliye Fadal waxa uu sheegay inay aad uga xun yihiin dhibaatadda ku dhacday dadka rabashadaha khasaaruhu ka soo gaadhay “Aad iyo aad uga xunahay, kuwa dhintayna waanu tacsiyadeynaynaa, kuwa dhaawacnmayna waxaanu ILAAHAY uga baryeynaa caafimaad”ayuu yidh waxaanu intaa ku daray isaga oo ka jawaabaya waxa mar walba ciidamadda boolisku dadka rasaasta nool ugu isticmaalaan “Mar Walba ciidanka waanu kala hadalnaa oo waxaanu nidhaahnaa ilaaliya rasaasta, laakiin waa Qadar Alle”

Hogaanka urur siyaasadeedka Xaqsoor, Salaadiinta, culimadda iyo waxgaradka gobolka Hawd ayaa ku mashquulsan sidii aanay rabshadahaasi aanay mar labaad u dhaceen si looga badbaado khasaare kale oo yimaada, inkasta oo aan la ogeyn in Masuuliyiinta Xaqsoor laga qanciyey tabashada ay qabbaan ee dhibaatadani ka dhacday, inkasta oo xukuumaddu sheegtay inay arinkan ku dhamanaynayaan si nabadgalyo ah.

Dhanka kale, xukuumadda ayaa shalay galinkii dambe ciidamo faro badan oo Milatari u badan dhigtay inta badan jidadka xaafadaha degmadda Axmed Dhagax ka kooban tahay, iyadda oo gaadiidka galaya ama ka soo baxaya xaafadahaasi ay ciidamaddu aad u baadhayeen si ay u hubiyaan in dadku mar kale rabashadu isku diyaarinayaan rabashado kale oo dheeraad ah.

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Allithwaite man's help in Somaliland democracy

Written by By Hannah Upton

11:09am Thursday 6th December 2012 in News

A FURNITURE maker from Allithwaite had a unique hand in democracy when he volunteered to help oversee an election in the Horn of Africa.

Robin Le Mare of The Square spent two weeks in Somaliland as an international observer, incorporating his experience from 20 years of working for the charity Action Aid.

With the voting system in the country only in its infancy, and with just a handful of presidential, parliamentary and municipal elections under their belt, the electorate are still finding their feet when it comes to polling day.

“It was very different from what you would see here, mostly because it is something we do so regularly, and something we have been brought up with,” Mr Le Mare said.

“But it is quite a new way of doing things there.

“Traditionally in their clans they would not use a balloting system as we know it to elect someone; it would be done through debate.”

In his former career as a desk officer for Action Aid, his speciality was Somaliland and Ethiopia.

He visited Somaliland several times between 1994 and 2006 and said it was a great experience to return to a land and people he knows well.

“I have never done any election observation before but when I heard they were looking for volunteers I jumped at the chance.

“There were 55 volunteers from 15 different countries, including native Somalis who have left the county, so it really was an international operation in that sense.”

After flying out to Somaliland a week prior to voting, Mr Le Mare and the other volunteers spent a week in briefings on the history of the country and its elections.

Somaliland declared its independence 20 years ago but is not recognised internationally.

In the municipal elections, 2,368 candidates contested 379 positions across the country’s six regions.

For his part, Mr Le Mare travelled to the town of Boroma where his team would observe voting at four polling stations.

“At the end of the day we oversaw the sealing of boxes and the vote count,” he said.

“It all went very well; I was impressed with the skill and professionalism of the leader of the particular polling station we were at for the count, a young man who was a student at a nearby university.

“He was assisted by an older man who was a teacher in a local school. It was conducted very, very well.”
After voting, each man and woman dipped a finger in indelible ink to prevent them returning to vote again.

“The electorate there are hugely engaged in the political process, which is great,” he said, “But it is almost to the point of spoiling the process.”

Progressio, a charity which helped assemble the observer mission, also reported great advances in the participation of women in the election.

While in 2002 only five women contested the local elections, but approximately 140 did so this time round.

Mr Le Mare said: “In some ways it is opening up for females, though society is still very much dominated by men and the clan system.

“For the election the men and women lined up in separate queues, and there were roughly equal numbers in each.

“But there is more of a problem with low representation at the higher political level, like in the House of Representatives.”

A spokesman from Progressio paid tribute to the team of international volunteers who gave up their time for the election.

“Because they have got these international observers, in a young democracy like this they have got some external verification about how free and fair their process is.

“This helps in a very difficult part of the world to make the country more stable. The observers really do make a difference to people’s lives.”

Illegal migration on the rise in Somaliland

HARGEISA, 3 December 2012 

Ethiopian immigrants in Somaliland (file photo): Somaliland youths are increasingly illegally migrating to Europe

(IRIN) - More youths from the self-declared republic of Somaliland are illegally migrating from the region, mainly due to a lack of jobs, traveling through Ethiopia, Sudan and Libya on their way to Europe, say officials.

“There is no exact data, but we estimate that in the last three months of 2011, only 150 youth [illegally migrated], compared to this year's last three months, [in which the number was] 300 to 350 persons," Sa'id Omar, youth department director at Somaliland's Ministry of Youth and Sports, told IRIN.

About 150 Somaliland youths were repatriated back  between January and November 2011, after Ethiopian authorities captured them along the Ethiopian-Sudan border; by comparison, 200 youths were repatriated in the first 11 months of 2012, according to Somaliland immigration officials in the border town of Tog-Wajale, along the Ethiopia-Somaliland border.

“We don't [encourage] any illegal migrants to cross the border, but sometimes they cross the open border between Somaliland and Ethiopia and continue on their way to the Sahara Desert to cross the Mediterranean [Sea]," said an immigration official in Tog-Wajale.

Mohamed*, now in Norway, illegally migrated there in early 2012. “I started my journey on 13 March, [travelling] through Ethiopia, Sudan and Libya at a cost of US$5000 for the whole journey. We were connected to brokers in Ethiopia, Sudan and Libya,” he said.

“As soon as we reached the Libyan border town of Sabha we were handed over like animals to a Libyan man who earns $800 per individual, but he beat us and tortured us using electric wires. Later, we were taken by a Land Cruiser pick-up to Tripoli, where we found some Somali-Arab brokers who rented for us the boat [to Europe].”

Few opportunities

Joblessness is fuelling the illegal migration, even though the journey carried inherent risks such as abuse, debt, deportation and imprisonment.

“The high rate of unemployment is Somaliland is considered the main factor that encourages youths to [undertake] illegal migration," said Mohamed-Rashid Muhumed Farah, the secretary general of the Somaliland Journalists Association. "For example, I was in Addis Ababa [Ethiopia's capital] in 2011 when we met about 30 Somaliland youths who wanted to go to Europe, and they told us that the main reason they were going was lack of employment in the country.”

According to Ali Osman Abdi-Liba, a political scientist, youths with higher educations are also more likely to leave Somaliland.

“University students feel proud, and they have high hopes. In the first two years, [they are] interested in studying, but in the last two years of university [their] hopes decrease because [they] know former university students [who] are in the town without jobs. For this reason, as soon as they finish university, if they don't get jobs, they will [be] frustrated and [undertake] illegal migration,” he said.

Abdi-Liba called for the creation of technical schools, as these skills are needed in the market.

The Somaliland government is set to establish a youth employment fund, to be funded at about US$130 million initially, which will be raised from the privatization of former government buildings, according to Bashe Yusuf Ahmed, the director general in the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.

“We hope that international donors will also contribute, and about 50,000 jobs will be created in the coming years to decrease the unemployment rate from 80 percent to 20 percent,” said Ahmed.

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UN voted overwhelmingly to recognise Palestine as the world's 194th state!!!

Madrid Action: Avaaz members want Spain PM Rajoy to say YES!

Avaazers, it's time to celebrate!

A few minutes ago, the UN voted overwhelmingly to recognise Palestine as the world's 194th state!!! It’s a huge victory for the Palestinian people, for peace, for our community, and people across the world are joining with massive crowds in Palestine to celebrate.

The Palestinian people's journey to freedom is far from over. But this is a powerful step, and our community played a key role in it. Palestine's Ambassador to Europe said today:

"Avaaz and its members across the world have played a crucial role in persuading governments to support the Palestinian people's bid for a state and for freedom and peace. They have stood with us throughout and their solidarity and support will be remembered and cherished across Palestine." - Leila Shahid, General Palestinian Delegate to Europe

Brussels Action: While EU leaders were met, THIS was happening right outside their windows

The US and Israeli governments, beholden to extreme lobby groups (yes, sadly even Obama has given in), threw everything they had at crushing this vote, using financial threats and even threatening to overthrow the Palestinian President if he went ahead. Europe was the key swing vote, and under intense US pressure, leaders were, just two weeks ago, leaning towards not supporting the Palestinian state. Knowing the stakes, our community responded with the speed and democratic force that we needed to win:

• Nearly 1.8 million of us signed the petition calling for statehood.


• Thousands of us donated to fund public opinion polls across Europe -- showing that a whopping 79% of Europeans supported a Palestinian state. Our polls were plastered all over the media, and repeatedly cited in Parliamentary debates in the UK, Spain and France!


• We sent tens of thousands of emails, Facebook messages and Tweets to leaders across Europe and made thousands of calls to foreign ministries and heads of state.


• We unfurled a giant 4-storey banner outside the EU Commission in Brussels (right) while leaders were meeting inside. Then, we staged another stunt in Madrid. Previously, we had sailed a flotilla of ships past the UN calling for a vote. Our actions made headlines all over Europe.


• Avaaz staff and members met with dozens and dozens of government ministers, top advisors, senior journalists, parliamentarians and thought leaders in each of the key countries, in many cases teaming up to win over leaders one by one through advocacy, pressure, parliamentary resolutions and public statements, always drawing on the surge in people power behind this cause.


• We reached out to key thought leaders like Stéphane Hessel, a 94-year old survivor of Nazi concentration camps, and Ron Pundak, an Israeli who played a key role in Oslo peace process, to speak out in favour of statehood.

One by one, key European states broke with the US to answer the call of justice and their peoples. In the final vote tally we got just now, only 9 countries out of 193 have voted against! France, Spain, Italy, Sweden and most of Europe has voted for Palestine.

The US and Israel argued first that statehood was dangerous for peace, and then, when they'd lost, that it didn't matter and the vote was just symbolic. But if it were just symbolic they wouldn't have done everything to try and stop it. And after years of bad-faith negotiations and Israeli comfort with the status quo as they steadily colonize more Palestinian land, this move shows the US and Israel that if they do not engage in good faith, the Palestinians and the world are prepared to move forward without them. It's a more balanced basis for real peace talks. And that's the best alternative to the kind of violence we saw Israel's government and Hamas offer in Gaza this month.

For decades the Palestinian people have suffered under a stifling Israeli military dictatorship, repressive controls on their travel and work, continual denial of their rights and the constant threat of insecurity and violence. 65 years ago today, the UN recognized the state of Israel, beginning a path to the establishment of a safe home for the Jewish people. Today the Palestinians take a step down the same path, and gain a dignity in the eyes of the international community that they have been denied for a generation. And from that dignity, we can build the foundations of peace.

With hope and joy,

Ricken, Alice, Ari, Wissam, Allison, Sam, Julien, Pascal, Wen, Pedro, Saravanan, Emma, Ben, Dalia, Alexey, Paul, Marie, Aldine, Luca, Jamie, Morgan and the whole Avaaz team.

PS Here are some sources - The Associated Press covers today's victory, the Guardian covers our polling two weeks ago, Avaaz's Daily Briefing provides a map of the vote result, and Haaretz describes Israel's response.

Somaliland gets high-speed fiber optic cable

Three companies have launched a project to provide Internet access to the African country, with expansion plans for other nations

By Rebecca Wanjiku | 29 November 12

Three international companies have launched an ambitious project aimed at connecting a million people in Somaliland with high-speed Internet access.

Somcable, Bluwan and Globecomm systems will connect businesses and homes in Somaliland with up to 8Gbps capacity through FTTA (fiber through the air) access. The project is set to start in the capital, Hargeisa, and will later be deployed to other towns such as Burco, Borama and Berbera. Somaliland broke away from Somalia and is considered fairly stable.

"We have set a target to provide 1 million subscribers with access to high-speed broadband by 2015, our target market is primarily focused on the cities of the horn of Africa; residentials (affluent or middle class), small-medium enterprises or corporate customers and we have several business models that are adapted to each segment of the market," said Somcable CEO Michael Cothill.

To deliver capacity to the mass market, kiosks will be fitted with an omnidirectional Wi-Fi antenna and strategically positioned within each city to deliver a replacement service for current under-performing Internet cafés. The kiosks enable customers to purchase prepaid vouchers with a wide range of different services to suit the various markets.

(The kiosks with act as bandwidth hubs with the ability to provide up to 8Gbps of capacity within a 5 kilometer radius, peaking to speeds of 100Mbps to thousands of customers at a time.

Somcable originates from the landing station in Djibouti and Somcable will subsequently extend this service to land-locked countries such as Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda, and South Sudan.

The horn of Africa country has rocky terrain, no legacy infrastructure and most communities are nomadic, but Somcable and Bluwan said they have worked up a business model that will ensure return on investment.

"The combination of various business models, along with the technology deployed (FTTA, Long Term Evolution) allows us to get a sub $10 per subscriber connection fee and still be profitable with a good return on investment," said Cothill.

Somcable will become the latest fiber optic cable to join the African coastline. The combination of available fiber optic cables has increased the international Internet bandwidth serving African countries from 1.21Gbps in 2001 to 570.92Gbps in 2011, and 25Tbps of submarine capacity is expected to be in place by 2013, according to market researcher TeleGeography.

MUNAASIB AD SOO DHAWAYN IYO XOGWARANKA XUKUNKII KU DHACAY KALI TALIYE GENERAL CALI SAMANTAR OO LOO SAMEEYAY DHIBANE XADGUDUB XUQUUQ AADAMI MR. BAASHE ABDI YUUSUF

Munaasabad soo dhoweyn ah isla markaana ah xog waran ku saabsan Ali Samatar iyo xukunkiisii ayaa loo sameeyey Baashe Abdi Yusuf

Munaasabad ku saabsan soo dhoweyn farxaddi ku dheehan tahay isla markaana ah xog waran oo loo sameeyey Baashe Abdi Yusuf ayaa lagu qabtay xarunta West London Somaliland Community ee ku taal Hays, London oo uu soo qabanqaabiyey Masuulka West London Somaliland Community Eid Hassan muuse ayaa habeenimadii Khamiistii la qabtay 29/11/2012.waxa ka soo qayb galay dadweyne fara badan oo waliba halkaasi ku waydiiyey su’aalo Baashe oo isagu ah ninka wax walba u huray in Ali Samatar abaalkiisa la mariyo! waxaad maqli doontaan goordhowna,isla markaana aad daawan doontaan munaasabada oo dhan ee la soco.

Gabayganan hoos ku qoran oo munaasibadan laga akhriyay waxa loo tiriyey Baashe waxaana curiyey Mustafe Ismail oo ka mid ahaa ka soo qaybgalayaashii munaasibadan.

Baashow halyeeyow

Hubanti weeyaane

IJmadadii la hagradee,

Hortaaada lagu xasuuqay

Inaad maanta u hiilisaa

Waajib ku huran weeyi

Hurinttii faqashtee

U hub qaatay burburintee

Hargaisa iyo Burco

Ceerigaabo iyo Berbera

Gabilay hareereheeda

Oodwayne iyo Hawd

Ku hurgufay hubkee

Ulradkii halgadee

Huq iyo ciil

Ku-abuuIa hoo

Hurin hurin u safee

Hogaga ku guray

Hor ilaahhay

Inaad u hiilisaa

Hubanti weeyaan

Halyay Qaran inaad tahay

hohe waa 1a ogsoon yahay’

hadhow iyo faalona 

taariikhdaa hufi doonta