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By Aniis A. Essa, Washington DC
“If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem”, so said the old adage. Experience has taught us not to be passive if we want to change our conditions. The gnawing question remains unanswered: how long are we going to remain indifferent while Rayale, Awil and others, are consuming our people and land.
Those who deprived the Somaliland people are the some people who promised justice and equality when they came to power. With almost a year of destitution and political destruction heaped upon us, we are as yet to find a solution.
If we want to change our miserable conditions, we must get involved in a struggle for our God given rights. As the abolitionist Frederick Douglas once said “If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many water. This struggle may be moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand….The limit of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress”.
Those of us who are apathetic about the future of our country are dead wrong while Awil and Rayale are in power. There are situations where you can be neutral but not in this issue. Because we have a situation where public funds are stolen or mismanaged, people are jailed without cause or trial, and men have absolute power over us. Yes, they decided that we should throw away our SNM history. We are ruled by men who are against the Somaliland dream, and some of us still prefer to stand on the sidelines!
Neutrality in this issue means allowing these dictators to destroy our country. As the Somali Poet, Salan Arabey once said “The man who condones the slap of insult reaps its legacy; the problems you postpone forever is visited upon your offspring”.
We are as much responsible for our misfortunes as the blood-sucking rulers of our country. The solution to our complex problems doe not certainly include remaining indifferent, but rather to get involved and become part of the solution.
We need a revolution that doesn’t involve bloodshed. Revolution is always based on land. Revolution is never based on begging somebody for an integrated cup of tea. Revolutions are never based upon love-your-enemy, and pray –for –those who-spitefully-use-you. Revolutions never compromise and are not based upon begging a corrupt government or a corrupt system to accept us. Revolutions change systems, and there is no system which has proven itself more corrupt than Rayale’s System. So, my Somaliland people, we need to change the Rayale/Awil System.
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