Official Statement Of Somaliland Advocacy Group In Washington DC:

By ANIIS A .ESSA...DIRECTOR
SOMALILAND ADVOCACY GROUP
WASHINGTON DC

TO: UN. SECURITY COUNCIL
SECRETARY-GENERAL
US. SENATE COMMITTEE ON
FOREIGN RELATIONS
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE
FOR AFRICAN AFFAIRS

The People of the Republic of Somaliland find itself compelled by circumstances deliberately created by actions of the UN. Security Council and Secretary-General of the United Nations. To publish this statement both as a plea to the International community against injustices which are being perpetrated in their name and as an indictment against the pending of international laws to the will of the strong and powerful? Whilst the whole of humanity rejoiced at the ending of the cold war and the end dreaded the future of a single superpower world. Throughout the history of mankind the rivalry of opposing forces have given legitimate dissent a premise of its own and the force to command a hearing for its cause. Athens and Sparta, Rome and Persia, France and Britain, and recently, the Soviet Union and the Untied States have all. In their respective epochs, furnished the rivalry and hence inadvertently, the patronage for legitimate dissent and for the sanctity of international laws.

In this fateful juncture of history when mankind stands at the threshold of a brand new chapter of history, when unfathomed electronic and atomic technology is anxiously and earnestly calling forth a matching wisdom and management, five bureaucrats and arbitrarily decide the fate of people in far off countries they know nothing about.

The lessons of Afghanistan, Bosnia, Somalia, Rwanda, Haiti and most of the other theatres of conflict must convince us that the least Secretariat of the United Nations lacks the foresight and the leadership to manage crisis. Ours is the second heart rending plea against the mismanagement of the UN. Bosnia was the first that was betrayed, others would surely follow and the number of the bitterly aggrieved and wronged would multiply and that virus of discontent will breed a host of extremists who, like Hitler, will hold an innocent world to ransom, telling it to obey or perish. Our appeal is not just for a fair deal for ourselves. It is an appeal to stop, which it can stopped, a nightmare or omissions and commission which is about to engulf us all. The first victims would of course be the weak; but once the trend of ill-informed arbitrary decision-making by a few is irreversibly established, then conflict would move into the sphere of the great and God help us then.

SOMALILAND PAST AND PRESENT:

The short statement cannot embrace the whole extensive history of Somaliland; but it is essential that a brief outline be given in order to rebut the attempt’s to depict it as another Biafra, a break-away part of a historic state.

Towards the end of the ninth century the brutalizing Muslim hoards arrived from Arabia on the land of Punt. The Puntians accepted Islam peacefully and welcomed the Muslims with open arms. Consequently, the bilingual empire of Adel was formed. Unfortunately for the Empire of Adel, the prophet’s edict against the invasion of Abyssinia, denied if expansion and growth and it soon fell into decline. However, in its short life of less then two hundred years, it has produced the languages and the nations that now inhabit the Horn of Africa. From that early age and after the success of an army sent from Hadar-al-Mawt to stop enforced apostasies the societies and the character of the people of Somaliland has taken it s distinct social and cultural dynamics. In the early eighteenth century Somaliland become part of the Ottoman Empire and in the eighteen eighties it reverted to Britain as a protectorate.

On the 26 th of June 1960, Britain granted independence to its protectorate and transferred full sovereignty to the people of Somaliland through their traditional leaders and their elected representatives. In pursuit of a dream to unite all ethnic Somalis under one government, the sovereign State of Somaliland freely and voluntarily united with the UN Trust territory of Somalia. Thirty years later, the dreams of Great Somalia are discredited and disavowed and Somaliland found itself a pathetic captive state within a ruthless hostile state. Naturally and inevitably it withdrew from a union which lost the luster and the energy of its original purpose when opportunity offered. Somaliland also had to escape the degradation of a tyrannous captivity in a hostile state and its ruthless population. The right of self-determination is enshrined in the United Nation’s Charter and the merit of the case of our restoration of our sovereign state rests firmly and squarely on the articles and the stipulations of that charter and upon other no less firm legal grounds.

UN & INTERNATIONAL VICTIMIZATION OF SOMALILAND:

Soon after the disintegration of the government of that ruthless oppressive dictator Siyad Barre, Somaliland separated itself from the chaos and the anarchy in Somalia. In May 1991 it has declared its withdrawal from the union with Somalia and created the Republic of Somaliland. The human tragedy and the pathetic starvation and banditry which prompted President Bush “First” to intervene in Somalia did not take place in Somaliland and the American forces did not therefore enter Somaliland. Only after the UN has taken over in 1992 and formed the umbrella organization of UNSOM did the blanket and ill-considered resolutions of the UN Security Council were extended to include a reluctant Somaliland. Time and again the Government of Somaliland had loudly objected to these blanket resolutions. At last, in exasperation, the Government ordered UNSOM to leave Somaliland as soon as logistic arrangement can be made. In response to that expulsion order and as a measure of appeasement, the Secretary –General assured the government of Somaliland through his personal representative that UNSOM accept the authority of the Somaliland Administration, (a UN euphemism for the government of the Republic of Somaliland) over all the regions of the Somaliland...

CONCLUSIONS:

The Republic of Somaliland, by the collective will of its people, is to stay come what may! Its secession from Somalia is irreversible in-spite of the instigated declarations of hired traitors: Whatever other local politics that might divide their ranks; the people of the Republic of Somaliland are united in the maintenance of their sovereign independent state which they had formed in 1991 in Burao and reaffirmed in Borama 1993. If individual or even a small minority of a clan endanger this sovereignty or compromise it, they will be dealt with, as they would be in any other country, by the laws of the state.

These vociferous traitors do not constitute a danger to Somaliland. What we fear are the hasty ill-considered maneuvers of the UN Security Council, and International, who in their desire to extricate themselves from Somalia, would sow the seeds for a better civil war between two neighboring brother nations. That the people of Somaliland would fight bitterly with unshakable resolve for their independence is an absolute truth which can only be ignored at the peril of the peace to the Horn of Africa.

We call upon the international community to stop the creation of a tragedy that would be a thousand times worse then what had happened in Somalia.

ANIIS A .ESSA...DIRECTOR
SOMALILAND ADVOCACY GROUP
WASHINGTON DC
301-830-5960
ANIIS@YAHOO.COM

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