HAFEEZANWAR
30-11-07, 04:02 PM
World Should Not Forget Situation In Somalia
The situation unfolding in Somalia is horrifically grim. According to
the UN, it is the worst crisis in Africa; worse than the crisis in
Darfur that outraged the world’s conscience in an unprecedented way. The
past few months was the nightmare scenario that many analysts warned
against as John Bolton, the US Ambassador to the UN, in his last days,
aggressively pushed for resolutions that would ultimately pave the way for
Ethiopia to invade its neighboring Somalia under the pretext of a
preemptive war to protect its national security and contain “the spread
of terrorism.” The mainstream media can no longer disregard the
magnitude of the human suffering in that part of the world, graphic pictures
of the grisly effects of a callously ignored preventable violence and
starvation are making their way to the living rooms of millions of
household- an ominous reminiscence of the early 1990s.
Pope Benedict XVI urged global intervention to help end the violence
and starvation.
"I am anxiously following developments and I call on
those who have political responsibilities on the local and international
levels to seek peaceful solutions that can bring relief to these
people," said the Pontiff.
A week earlier, the European Union passed a resolution that
"strongly condemns the serious violations of human rights
committed by all parties to the conflict,” and called for
"an independent panel to investigate war crimes and human rights violations.”
Accordingly, these turn of events have compelled Washington to dash for
public relations damage control. Washington’s image has been steadily
eroding since the spring of 2006, when ‘Operation Dung beetle,’ a CIA
covert operation that financed some of the most brutal warlords to hound
after the Islamic courts became public news. This subsequently led to
the June 2006 popular uprising that firmly established the Islamic
Courts Union (ICU) and chased the despised warlords out of Mogadishu. The
courts ruled for six months, described as the most peaceful period that
war-torn Somalia has known since the civil war erupted in 1991.
Washington viewed this as a threat, and ill-advisedly opted to support the
Ethiopian invasion of Somalia which, in due course, led to the
humanitarian and political mayhem at hand.
We feel that the world in general and the US and UN in particular have
grave responsibility in this regard. As Abukar Arman ,the freelance
writer based in US , has written,Washington still has a chance to rectify
its wrongs and play a constructive role in helping to stop the brutal
bloodletting in Somalia, by pulling the plug on the Ethiopian occupation
and initiating through the UN Security Council a resolution that would
replace them with UN forces instead of the mirage of African Union
forces. Similar points have been argued by Sadia Ali Aden, President of
the Somali Diaspora Network in a debate hosted by the Council on
Foreign Relations a few months ago. We hope international community will
heed their advice.
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BY MUHAMMED A. HAFEEZ
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EMAIL ; hafeezanwar@yahoo.com
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The situation unfolding in Somalia is horrifically grim. According to
the UN, it is the worst crisis in Africa; worse than the crisis in
Darfur that outraged the world’s conscience in an unprecedented way. The
past few months was the nightmare scenario that many analysts warned
against as John Bolton, the US Ambassador to the UN, in his last days,
aggressively pushed for resolutions that would ultimately pave the way for
Ethiopia to invade its neighboring Somalia under the pretext of a
preemptive war to protect its national security and contain “the spread
of terrorism.” The mainstream media can no longer disregard the
magnitude of the human suffering in that part of the world, graphic pictures
of the grisly effects of a callously ignored preventable violence and
starvation are making their way to the living rooms of millions of
household- an ominous reminiscence of the early 1990s.
Pope Benedict XVI urged global intervention to help end the violence
and starvation.
"I am anxiously following developments and I call on
those who have political responsibilities on the local and international
levels to seek peaceful solutions that can bring relief to these
people," said the Pontiff.
A week earlier, the European Union passed a resolution that
"strongly condemns the serious violations of human rights
committed by all parties to the conflict,” and called for
"an independent panel to investigate war crimes and human rights violations.”
Accordingly, these turn of events have compelled Washington to dash for
public relations damage control. Washington’s image has been steadily
eroding since the spring of 2006, when ‘Operation Dung beetle,’ a CIA
covert operation that financed some of the most brutal warlords to hound
after the Islamic courts became public news. This subsequently led to
the June 2006 popular uprising that firmly established the Islamic
Courts Union (ICU) and chased the despised warlords out of Mogadishu. The
courts ruled for six months, described as the most peaceful period that
war-torn Somalia has known since the civil war erupted in 1991.
Washington viewed this as a threat, and ill-advisedly opted to support the
Ethiopian invasion of Somalia which, in due course, led to the
humanitarian and political mayhem at hand.
We feel that the world in general and the US and UN in particular have
grave responsibility in this regard. As Abukar Arman ,the freelance
writer based in US , has written,Washington still has a chance to rectify
its wrongs and play a constructive role in helping to stop the brutal
bloodletting in Somalia, by pulling the plug on the Ethiopian occupation
and initiating through the UN Security Council a resolution that would
replace them with UN forces instead of the mirage of African Union
forces. Similar points have been argued by Sadia Ali Aden, President of
the Somali Diaspora Network in a debate hosted by the Council on
Foreign Relations a few months ago. We hope international community will
heed their advice.
================
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DISCLAIMER: Witness-Pioneer is an Internet based Islamic
Organization,focusing on Research and Education. The content of this message does not
necessarily reflect the views of Witness-Pioneer. Above author takes
full responsibility of it.
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http://www.witness-pioneer.org
http://www.witness-pioneer.com
http://www.witness-pioneer.net
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BY MUHAMMED A. HAFEEZ
B.COM.,
HYDERABAD, INDIA.,
EMAIL ; hafeezanwar@yahoo.com
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