| Message | Thanks, Angelo for drawing the attention of your readers to the matter of Somaliland and the danger which that country currently faces.
May I please respond to a couple of things written by Enrico just now?
For sure, the situation in Somalia and the Horn of Africa is very complex, but to suggest that there is any sort of equilibrium is absolute nonsense. Somaliland has been a land of peace, stability and democracy for the last 15 years, whilst Somalia has been a place of pure anarchy, violence and crime for all of that time. Somalia, or any warlord whom the United Nations favours at any particular time, has had the right to represnt the (two) country(ies) at the various international institutions and they have failed all Somalis and Somalilanders terribly.
Further, with respect to your sardonic/sarcastic remark about there being a Republic of Hargeisa one day is totally facetious. Somaliland is the very same entity which had a separate identity from 1880 to 1960, as a British Protectorate. It is an African/AU convention that colonial boundaries should be repected (as happened with Eritrea, which had a much shorter separate life from Ethiopia). Also, the treaty which joined the two nations was never ratified and so on...
Somaliland has a very clear case for being recognised as the independent country which it is. As a country opearting by rule of law, with a well functioning democracy, it should be encouraged by those who favour this over tyranny and despotism. |