Let us say NO to Brutal Crackdown on Democracy!
Posted by:Faisal M. Aideed Saudi Arabia
The Government arrested of more than 150 Teenage students in Somaliland (SL) Independence Day through the Regional Security Council, a remnant of Siad Bare’s Systems. The fabulous thing was that the students were immediately transferred to Mandheera Prison, where there is no sufficient food and water even. What a crime they commit? One may ask how could the government through the Regional Security Council unexpectedly decide and sentence
the young demonstrators with in no time while they slept on the case of killers of Kenyan GTZ humanitarian aid worker caught by the villagers of Dhoqoshay?
These actions are an affront to Article 19 of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights, which declares that, "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression." They also are an affront to Article 9, which states that, "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention, or exile.”
They also are an affront to fundamental norms of our religon and logics of democracy.
All of these distressing reminders of the regime's lack of respect for
human rights and fundamental freedoms are meant to deal a blow against the democratic opposition. There is indeed an explosive situation prevailing in our country. The reason for this lies in government incapability of running the country and inflexibility and in it's involvement by omission and commission in the violence up against their dependence.
In the absence of patriotic and elected parliament representation and
in the absence of competent and caring government, we Somali-Landers are being forced to take matters into our own hands and we have to take a united action. Instead of kowtowing to the slick ways of non elected two house’s know-it-all attitudes, let us, we the people, organize our best legal minds and experts to regain our lost freedom. Let us organize our thoughts and let the every body know that what ever terrible and undemocratic actions the current regime does in name of the people, we are not going to accept blindly. Let us be assertive, let us have courage to say no the injustices.
Where we said yes to freedom let us say no to dictatorship. Where we said yes to democracy let us say no to Emergency Law. Where we said yes to allegiance let say no to treason. Where we said yes to government let us say no to corruption. Let us demonstrate in the presidential offices and announce to administration, that we are a force to reckon with, and we are to be taken seriously.Let it be known that we will not stand by and watch the systematic disintegration of country any more for the sake of “peace”
and for the sake of appeasing a Banda dictator, Riyaalle and his biased Ministers. Our brothers and sisters, our parents and relatives have paid with their lives and we owe it to them.
Finally, While they may slow the march of freedom and democracy in
country, they will never quell the SL people's desire for liberty nor impede its ultimate arrival. these administration actions rightly deserve the rebuke they are receiving in the country and around the world.
Faisal M. Aideed
Dhahran
Saudi Arabiaaideedfm@hotmail.com
