Open letter to Farmajo” The word Somalia is trauma for Somalilanders being costing the loss of 50, 000 lives and the destruction of properties accumulated over 150 years. Part one.

Mr. Farmajo, Somaliland has people invoked the failed union with Somalia in May, 1991 based on collective public support as the word Somalia considered  trauma for Somaliland people being costing the death of over 50, 000 innocent civilians and destruction for the properties  accumulated over 150 years.  This is why the word Somalia considered as a trauma for Somaliland people. The former Somali brutal regime that fall down in 1991 has reduced to rubble Somaliland major cities and towns in particular Hargeisa. The airstrikes and the artillery shelling have destroyed every building in the capital even the worship places like mosques as the regime leadership has issued instruction to destroy the entire city. 28 years ago, there was no single building in Somaliland capital saved from the regime bombardment as the dictatorship system has issued instructed destroying every building in the capital including schools.  Even the mosques were not spared from the regime air and artillery bombardment. Mr Farmajo, the regime that you were a member had used human suffering as a political tool.  Local residents have sad memory about the agony of the city those days.  Eyewitness has told fighter planes lunched airstrikes from Hargeisa airport to bomb the highly populated centres to kill maximum number of civilians. Hargeisa was literally carpet-bombed. Almost half million people were forced to flee from their homes in an effort to save their lives from the regime heavy bombardment. The terrified civilians run away from their homes and become refugees in neighbouring countries mostly in Ethiopia.  The regime has denied journalist and human rights representatives to enter Somalia to eyewitness the suffering, the misery and the agony of Somaliland people imposed by brutal regime. Many countries have inserted pressure the former oppressive to stop killings, violence and human misery against the innocent citizens, but no vain.

 Mr. Farmajo, the suffering of Somaliland citizens under dictatorship rule cannot be expressed in words. The whole civilian population become a target in their homes. Nowadays, memories of bloodshed and destruction are common stories in Somaliland. The scale of the suffering cannot be express in words. Mr. Farmajo the destruction of Hargeisa was so total that it earned the nickname “the Dresden of Africa. The relentless violence against civilians in 1988 resulted in the world’s largest refugee crisis. The regime has bombed towns and strafed fleeing residents and used artillery indiscriminately.  Many reports were written about the agony of Somaliland people during dictatorship regime like the government with its own people, the forgotten genocide and the Death Valley.  Virally Hargeisa was razed to the level and as a result, became a ghost city to the extent two German journalists described it in relative similarity to Hiroshima and Nagasaki of Japan during second world II in terms of destruction ensued.

Mr. Farmajo, the crimes committed by the most ruthless regime was well-documented by the United Nations and other International Human Rights bodies who have witnessed the extent of the destruction the entire country had suffered and also how its schools and health services were razed to the ground.  Mr. Farmajo, even Somaliland citizens living in the seat of the regime were not saved from the ruthlessness killings   as 47 middle-class Somaliland citizens living in the capital city of Mogadishu were taken from their homes in the middle of the night; they were then transported to Jasiira, a communal beach west of Mogadishu and summarily executed. These men included professionals, businessmen and teachers. The memories of those loved Somaliland citizens will remain our hearts and minds everlasting.  War criminal Yuosuf Tuke was filmed while burning Somaliland citizens burning alive and laughing. This photo is the most horrifying photo ever we have experienced.  This is the worst crime against humanity. Yuosuf Tuke has committed this crime deliberately. This is most the horrifying campaign against humanity but justice that was silent almost 30 years has spoken finally this war criminal.  Yousuf Tuke has failed to escape from just justices as injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Mr. Farmjo, Yuosuf Tuke that you have taken with him  has proved the most merciless criminals in recent history .Tuke was charged by US court of law  to pay the cost of the ruthless crime he was committed against Somaliland innocent civilian. But unfortunately, the mass genocide committed against Somaliland citizens during Sayid Bare era were horrible and was largely overlooked by the rest of the world as those that committed system killing against unarmed civilians like, the butcher of Hargeisa  Saed Hersi are still are large.  This year marks the 31th anniversary of Hargeisa Holocaust. Mr. Farmajo, the trauma of brutal regime mass killing will everlasting memories for Somaliland people. The Somali air force pilot Ahmed Mohamed Hassan and Yousef Tuke have committed two different acts.   Yousuf Tuke behaved the most savage manner in history while the Somali former Ahmed Hassan proved the most honourable act, in words the mother of all humanity as he refused bombing population centres but instead dropped the bombs he was supposed to kill civilians at outskirts of Hargeisa.

Mr. Farmajo, at present, Somaliland has living memory for its citizens massacred by brutal regime, in other words the most savage of state-sponsored atrocities. In view of above, the world will not remain in peace unless these that committed mass killing will pay the cost of their savageness. Taken above into account, Villa Somalia leadership leading by Farmajo who was elected through vote buying and corruption must recognize the crimes committed by former dictatorship system that, he is the by-product of that merciless regime. The Syrian city Aleppo and Hargeisa have identical history being labelled as death cities. Until at present, the whereabouts of thousands are still accountable, but presumably killed by the regime.  At present, war memorial in the form of MiG fighter jet was erected in Hargeisa to mark the regime by airstrikes in 1988.  This memorial was built as an indication for the death and destruction committed by the most inhuman regime in Africa. Follow part 2 of the article shortly.

Ismail Lugweyne

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