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Somalia: One Year after TPLF Invasion - Part I

Written by Administrator
Saturday, 15 December 2007
Fifteen years since the fall of the Siad Barre regime on 26 January 1991, the Somali people had been victims of anarchy and civil war at the hands of various lawless military movements led by warlords who had no other objective but to kill and loot whatever came their way. In mid 2006, after long years of turmoil that seemed to have disintegrated Somali unity and nationality, a movement of Somali youth aimed at national unity and reconstitution ousted the murderous warlords from most parts of the country and gained control of Mogadishu on 6 June 2006. This development had brought a glimmer of hope to the long suffering of the Somali people and other peace-loving people. After living in terror and confusion under the warlords for so long, and with the help of being able to experience relative peace and stability, the Somali people accepted the movement wholeheartedly. Born out of the Somali people's chaotic experience, the new movement was able to restore peace and stability in the country with the help of the people. And instead of demonstrating hostility to the externally installed and popularly unaccepted interim government, which then had been limited to Baidoa only, the youth movement chose to engage in constructive talks with it. In a meeting held in Khartoum on 22 June 2006, an agreement was reached between both parties for each to recognize one another, cease hostilities, and refrain from negative media campaigns against each other, as well as to directly embark on peace talks and work together for national unity and reconstitution. However, the Somali people's own initiative towards national reconstitution and stability was an unwelcomed development to the US Administration. As can be recalled, the US Administration had in February 2006 attempted to unify the warlords that had terrorized Somalia for 15 years under the so called ‘alliance for peace and anti terrorism' and make them part of the international alliance against terrorism. Although this paradoxical move by Washington sheds light on the conflicting objectives of the international alliance against terrorism, the US Administration's Machiavellian philosophy of ‘the end justifies the means' comes as no surprise. After the Somali warlords were driven out from Somalia and into either Ethiopia or onto US ships in the Indian Ocean, the US Administration's anxiety mounted, and hence it immediately sought to squash the Somali people's new hope, before it had a chance to bloom, by trying to associate the movement in that country with terrorist organizations. To this end, the US Administration had chosen to use the TPLF regime as its primary tool. Loathed by its own people for the rigged May 2005 elections and nearing its end as a political entity, the TPLF regime had been more than ready to play second fiddle to any external power. Thus, both master and servant launched an aggression against Somalia under the guise of supporting the interim government In a speech he delivered on the occasion of Martyrs Day on 20 June 2006, and later in an interview he gave to Italian journalists, President Isaias Afwerki had exposed the US Administration's plan of invading Somalia through its agent, the TPLF regime. The President had also stressed that the move to invade Somalia could not deter the people's choice but would only lead the invading forces into a quagmire. Not long after President Isaias' statement, Somalia was invaded in December 2006. Now, one year later, the world is witnessing the ghastly consequences of the invasion.
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