‘A jail you have to pay to stay in’ - Mail & Guardian Online

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Safia (17) has never been to Somalia. She has lived in South Africa all her life and says “I feel more South African than Somalian,” in a broad Joburg accent. She has lots of friends, but this doesn’t mean she is entirely accepted — and her “otherness” is often used to exclude her.

Recently Safia — a keen footballer — was told she could not play soccer for a local girls’ team because she does not have a green South African ID document. “I used to play for Fordsburg Girls’, but they say you need an ID book to play. I showed them my refugee ID but they said it was not good enough. They said if I don’t have a green ID, I must bring my mother’s work permit.” In reality, the law says that the maroon refugee ID entitles the bearer to all the same rights as a citizen, except they may not vote or access RDP housing. Many public officials, employers and community groups choose to overlook this fact.

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Her mother, Sulega Dahir, feels there is no future for her children in this country. Sulega has lived here for 15 years and raised her children single-handedly, struggling to scrape together school fees and money for rent. She fears that all her efforts to raise her children to be productive members of South African society will be stymied by the fact that they carry a refugee ID. She wonders if it will prevent her children from getting a job one day, supporting themselves and fulfilling their potential.

There is zero
“Our children have no hope: everything we want to do, they are not allowed,” she shakes her head in despair. “In Somalia there is zero. But in South Africa they can also do nothing. When South Africans were in exile in Tanzania they got everything, they came home very well-educated. But they don’t care about our children.”

Sulega has been living in a frustrating limbo for 15 years. “I don’t have a passport so I can’t leave, but at the same time they don’t want us to stay. I tried to sell in the street but they took away all my stuff. I tried to open a shop, they chased me out.” She now works at the Department of Home Affairs as an interpreter in Swahili, Arabic, Somali and Chichewa.

“When Thabo Mbeki was president I wrote to him explaining that I need help to get a passport and a bank account so I could save my money.” In return she received a pro forma letter saying the president could not give her money — a response that left her deeply insulted. “I have never taken a cent from South Africa. I pay my school fees, my rent and everything for myself. The Joburg Muslim charity helps us and that is how we survive.”

She sorts through a stack of pictures taken when the family lived in the Acacia camp for several months, after being driven from their home in the 2008 xenophobic attacks. The sadness and trauma of that time still lingers in her eyes. Many refugees in the camp had hoped the UNHCR would resettle them in other countries where they feel they would be able to integrate more fully.

They ended up going back to the homes they had left, having lost their money and belongings and starting all over again. “They don’t want us to stay but they also won’t let us leave,” she says resignedly. “I feel like I’m in a jail — but it’s a jail you have to pay to stay in.”

They say Muslims must adopt democracy, one man, one vote, and yet, when Muslims vote and chose their leaders in a democratic way, the west says, no…no…no, we cannot accept that, because you did not elect our candidates but voted for someone we do not like! And what is that? Is the whole democracy talking just a mockery?

I read with great interest and yet disbelieve, an article by Joe Cochrane and Jonathan Kent (Newsweek ). Great interest because at least someone is “trying” to find answers to the growing affiliation of steadily growing moderate Moslem masses towards extremism, and disbelieve because these gentlemen, like most other western leaders, politicians, academics and reporters keep showing a despicable degree of double standard towards Islam and Moslems.

To illustrate, in simple terms, so even minors can understand the core of the problem which these gentlemen neglect and turn the blind eye to, let me list here few questions, young Muslims ask editors of reputed newspaper and, as usual, without getting neither a decent answer nor a comment of any kind, also a standard thing.

Quetions:

1. A Jew can grow his beard in order to practice his faith, but when a Moslem does the same, he is termed an extremist and terrorist,Why?

1. A nun can cover her body from head to toe in order to devote herself to god, but when a Muslim women does the same, she is branded as being “oppressed” why?

1. When a western woman stays at home,, it is “to look after her house and kids”; and she is respected for making sacrifices for the family, and taking care of the household; but when Muslim woman does so by her own will, they say “ she needs to be liberated!” why?

1. Any girl can go to university wearing what she wants, as it is part of her rights and freedom. But when a Muslim woman wears a Hijab, they prevent her from entering her university. Why?

1. When a Christian or a Jew kills somebody, his religion is not an issue, but when a Muslim is charged wit a crime, it is Islam that goes to trial. Why?

1. When someone sacrifices his or her life to keep others alive, he or she is seen as being noble, and all respect goes to him or her; but when a Muslim does that to save his son from being killed, his brothers arm being broken, his mother or sister from being raped, his home being destroyed and his Mosque from being violated, he is given the title of “terrorist”. Why?

1. When there is trouble, we look around for a solution, if the solution lies in Islam we look the other way. Why?

1. When someone drives a perfect car in a bad way, no one blames the car. But when a Muslim makes a mistake or treats people in a bad manner, you say “Islam is the problem2. Why?

The problem is very simple to understand for anyone wanting to understand a thing, what is driving the moderate Muslim masses to the extreme and at times respond violently is, the perverted western double standard towards Muslims.

They say Muslims must adopt democracy, one man, one vote, and yet, when Muslims vote and chose their leaders in a democratic way, the west says, no…no…no, we cannot accept that, because you did not elect our candidates but voted for someone we do not like! And what is that? Is the whole democracy talking just a mockery?

I run for election to the Parliament and local government as a prime candidate of a political party in my own country, Denmark, in 2004 and 2005 respectively, I was denied to participate in any of the political debates in TV, Radio and newspapers! NO ONE SINGLE time have I been allowed to take part in the party leader TV/Radio debates!. Do not take my word for granted but try to roll back the reels of those elections and see for Your selves. In no where will You find Dr. Dualeh, the main candidate of the “MINORITY PARTY”, not only that, my website, the only media through which I could communicate with the outside world has been closed down by the police by orders of the Ministry of Foreign affairs!, and why? That is because, I write about the perpetuated injustices and discrimination against Danish minorities, and refugees in general, and Muslims in particular.

The above is just a few of what we Muslims experience, especially in our respective home countries in the western “Democracies”.

Dr. A.F. Dualeh

e-mail: somdana@gmail.com

 

 May 2, 2010 proved to be another spectacular landmark for the anti-African policy-making of the European Union. The unfortunate event highly illustrates the colonial and racist nature of the 27-nation club. However, one must admit that most of the European countries are devoid of Anti-African prejudices and policies, except for their misperception of the World and African History, which again should not be attributed to them, because most of them followed the track of Anglo-French Orientalist and Africanologist pioneers in falsification.

Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis

May 05, 2010

 May 2, 2010 proved to be another spectacular landmark for the anti-African policy-making of the European Union. The unfortunate event highly illustrates the colonial and racist nature of the 27-nation club. However, one must admit that most of the European countries are devoid of Anti-African prejudices and policies, except for their misperception of the World and African History, which again should not be attributed to them, because most of them followed the track of Anglo-French Orientalist and Africanologist pioneers in falsification.

As it comes, all the Africans, ethnic – religious groups, peoples, administrations and intellectuals, activists and thinkers must realize that a critical dimension of today´s troubles of Africa is due to the extension of the pernicious colonial policy of England and France throughout Europe.

Certainly this problem hinges on most of the world affairs, creating problems to diverse nations and administrations, notably the Islamic World, China, India, Russia, Turkey, and the indigenous American nations.

Anglo-French Bias Against Africa – within EU

In fact, by participating in the European Union since the moment of its inception, France viewed the Union-under-preparation as a larger body that should be hijacked in terms of foreign policy; instead of shaping a composite foreign policy (out of compromises made among its members and their foreign policies), the EU-under formation should form its own foreign policy on the basis of the French foreign policy, thus reflecting only (and being useful to) French national interests. Thus, the French Anti-African policy would become European, gathering greater support for France´s racist bias.

Almost all the other members of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) had a certain colonial past, notably Italy, Holland, Germany and Belgium. However, the Italian colonialism (in striking contrast with the French colonialism) was not an evil, racist project; the German colonialism was a very brief phenomenon (still not properly assessed and understood), and the Belgian colonialism was limited in Congo. Only the Dutch performed in Indonesia a cruel colonial policy similar to that of the French and the English.

In brief, the majority of the population of the ECSC member states opposed the inhumanity of the French colonialism. However, unfortunately, their politicians, statesmen, and diplomats failed to both, dissociate the European foreign policy from the evil colonial policy of France and avert the French hijacking of the European institutions and bodies that so much tarnishes the image of today´s average European.

England´s adhesion to the European Community (1973) strengthened the colonial character of the body, and facilitated the French hijacking, and the imposition of colonial norms and standards on the foreign policy decision-making of the European institutions.

The later adhesion of other European countries (representing the South, the North and the East of Europe) should have minimized (if not eliminated) the colonial character of the European foreign policy decision-making processes and targets. Unfortunately, this did not happen because the majority of the 27-member states´ administrations failed to discern the apt and discreet Anglo-French policy of projecting their own colonial needs, interests, viewpoints, concepts and approaches onto the rest.

Today, EU African policy is in striking contrast with the humane approach to Africa, which is shared among Germans, Italians, Scandinavians, Poles, Hungarians, Romanians and others; EU African policy is a mere extension of the ominous Anti-African machinations of the Foreign Office and the Quai d´ Orsay.

This tragic development should become the central target of the European policy of all the African countries and nations who have to fight and strike back in order to outfox the villainous Anglo-French usage of the outright majority of the EU member states, and of the European institutions for the sake of their own Africa-unfriendly projects.

EU policy toward Africa must be formed in Rome, Berlin, Warsaw, Stockholm, Budapest, Copenhagen, Bucharest, Helsinki, Prague, etc. – not in Paris and London. African diplomats should make a priority for them to turn Germans, Italians, Scandinavians, Poles, Hungarians, Romanians and others overtly against the Anglo-French diplomats, administrators and deputies at Brussels and Strasbourg, and impose another African policy for the EU.

The Euro-African relationship is certainly complex and its aspects are unbalanced and even disruptive. European colonialism, intolerance, and racism are omnipresent at all levels of the said relationship, educational, academic, cultural, socio-behavioural, political and economic.

Whereas historical falsification is denounced and refuted, and great efforts have been deployed in this regard, prejudice and bias are difficult to measure. Sometimes, economic comparisons help reveal the extent of the bias involved.

The European economic aid to Africa is not offered without conditions that the African dictators do their ingenious best to observe; these conditions help only the colonial powers materialize their nefarious target, e.g. socioeconomic development in Africa under terms of continued dependence, and with no disruption of the earlier implemented colonial infrastructure.

If we still put this critical dimension aside, and we limit our approach to mere figures, we will be confronted with an incredible situation. According to EU Business (http://www.eubusiness.com/topics/development/mdg.10/), in 2009, “the EU aid level has slightly decreased and amounted €49bn”. The report, published on April 21, 2010, makes state of an action plan adopted by the European Commission with respect to speeding up “progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)”. It is true that the EU has expressed willingness for more generous aid to Africa. The said amount “corresponds to 0.42% of EU GNI, making the EU still far from meeting the intermediate collective target of 0,56% GNI by 2010, before reaching 0.7% EU GNI by 2015″.

As a matter of fact, if we take into consideration the entire population of Africa (slightly above 1,000,000,000 people), we realize that, in 2009, the EU aid to Africa represented a meager Euro 49 per person. Some may still call it “aid”, others would describe it as “excuse”, whereas many would consider it as “almsgiving for the slaves of the hypocritical and the perfidious”.

What is the value of an African and a European for the evil EU authorities?

A few days ago, on May 2, EU finance ministers approved a useless and otherwise unprecedented bailout of Greece that will be co-financed with the IMF (http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aidjix_TLtHE&pos=2). The measure was mainly justified as an effort to prevent contagion. What had happened?

Following a catastrophic mismanagement of the country by almost all the governments since 1974, and the impact that the deterioration of the global economic situation had on Greece, the budget deficit stood at 12.7 of the GDP (and even worse in April 2010, at 13.6%); as a result, the rising debt levels (113% of GDP in 2009) led to increased borrowing costs, which in turn could end in default”.

The giant bailout of Greece endorsed by the European governments amounts to Euro 110 bn (US $ 146); this colossal amount of money for a small country (11 million people) is not expected to definitely solve the grave situation, and many analysts believe that it will be impossible for the Greek government to effectively implement the measures (remarkable budget cuts, raise of the retirement age, raise of the sates tax) announced. But this is not the subject of the present article.

The aforementioned bailout total amount means that EU lends every Greek citizen ca. Euro 11000, charging ca. 4 – 5% (below market rate). Of course, the amount covers three years, period for which the rescue funds will replace commercial borrowing - which became impossible due to Greece´s zero credibility in the world markets. On annual basis, every Greek will be bailed out with ca. Euro 3670.

If we now compare the two figures, EU aid to Africa (Euro 49 per person) and EU aid to Greece (Euro 3670 per person), we safely conclude that a European citizen´s value – for the discriminatory and insensitive European statesmen, administrators and diplomats – equals that of 75 Africans!

The incredible differentiation, never explicitly admitted by the hypocritical European elite of partiality, corruption and immorality, but majestically revealed through the only reality – that of the figures –, illuminates perfectly well every European anti-African bias and fallacy, injustice, indifference, and mercilessness.

The inexcusable tolerance toward African tyrants, like the inhuman gangster Al Bashir of Khartoum, the Freemasonic butcher Kibaki of Nairobi, and the cannibal Zenawi of Abyssinia (Fake Ethiopia), the paranoid demonization of the Hamitic – Kushitic nations, the use of disreputable Biblical passages to defame all the Africans (descendants of Ham, son of Noah), the falsification of the African History, the criminal negation of the cataclysmic impact of Africa on the barbaric European aboriginals, the so-called Ancient Greeks and Romans, the apathy of the pseudo-Christian priests of France in front of the Rwandan genocide, the generalized disinformation of the European populations as regards the genocides perpetrated by the English and the French in Africa, the appalling exploitation of Africa´s natural resources, and the overall attitude of the Anglo-French toward the Black Continent, all find their explanation in the killing figures:

Euro 3670 for the corrupt consumerist of the South Balkans, i.e. the Greek servant of the Anglo-French Freemasonic lodges

vs.

Euro 49 for the starving African child whose death is simultaneously and avidly expected by nearby vultures and greedy European Freemasons

So, for the EU, every African costs just 1/75 of a European.

This incredible shame will remain permanently stuck on the forefront of all representatives of today´s dying European Freemasonic system.

It´s time for Africans residing in Europe to let Europeans understand that such a disgrace is always met with an inevitable punishment. In a rising alliance, African immigrants in Europe, European Muslims, pious Catholic and Orthodox Europeans who still stick to Jesus´ preaching, and every destitute and marginalized European can truly demonstrate to Europeans that their elites´ life value is just Euro 0.

The idiotic act of sovereign bailout will not save Greece; it can however convince all Africans that today´s unfair World Order should not be saved either.

Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, April 17, 2010

IFO, KENYA — Two Islamist militants delivered an ultimatum to Zahra Allawi’s daughters: marry them or die. The men were from al-Shabab, a militia linked to al-Qaeda that is fighting Somalia’s U.S.-backed government. The two girls were 14 and 16.

Allawi said her neighbor in southeastern Somalia received the same command. But he swiftly married off his daughter to someone else. The next day, the fighters returned with a butcher’s knife.
“They slaughtered him like a goat,” she recalled.
Three hours later, she and her 10 children fled. After handing their life savings of $300 to a smuggler, they crossed into northeastern Kenya last month, joining tens of thousands of Somalis in this sprawling refugee settlement. They are the human fallout from Africa’s most notorious failed state, haunted by unending conflict and a quiet U.S. counterterrorism campaign.
About 2 million Somalis, roughly one-fifth of the population, have sought refuge in other parts of their country or in neighboring countries, most of them since 2007, when the fighting intensified. Nearly 170,000 have fled this year alone, according to U.N. officials, arriving in desolate camps inside and outside Somalia with barely anything except the clothes on their backs.
Many are running from al-Shabab’s radical dictates and increasing savagery, as well as fears of a major government offensive.
This article is based on more than 60 interviews conducted in Somali refugee communities in Kenya and Yemen. The refugees’ stories of life under al-Shabab could not be independently verified, but community leaders, refugee officials and human rights groups as well as al-Shabab spokesmen gave similar accounts of recent events in Somalia.
Allawi had plenty of reasons to flee. Al-Shabab fighters, she said, once whipped her for not attending midday prayers at the mosque. Last month, she was forced to prove that the man she was walking with was her husband.
An al-Shabab commander also sought to recruit two of Allawi’s sons, ages 10 and 13. Allawi begged him not to take them. In exchange, he forced her to buy three weapons for his force.

“If they could all afford to come, not a single person would remain in Somalia,” said Allawi, 37, seated with her children on the reddish, sunbaked earth a day after they arrived. “There is no freedom in Somalia, only death.”
Instability since 1991

War has gripped Somalia since 1991, when the collapse of President Mohamed Siad Barre’s regime plunged the country into lawlessness and clan fighting. Two years later, mobs dragged the bodies of U.S. soldiers through Mogadishu, the capital, during a U.N. peacekeeping mission, an event later depicted in the movie “Black Hawk Down.”
The country has vexed U.S. policymakers, who fear that Somalia could become the next Afghanistan. In December 2006, the George W. Bush administration indirectly backed an Ethiopian invasion to overthrow the Islamists, who had risen up against Somalia’s secular warlords.

But within two years, the Islamists returned, more radicalized and led by al-Shabab, which in Arabic means “The Youth.” The Obama administration and European nations are backing the Somali government with arms, training, logistics and intelligence

Yet al-Shabab, which the United States has labeled a terrorist organization, now controls large swaths of Somalia. It has imposed Taliban-like Islamic codes in a region where moderate Islam was once widely practiced. Urged on by Osama bin Laden, the group has steadily pushed into Mogadishu, importing foreign fighters and triggering U.S. concerns that the movement could spread to Yemen, across East Africa and beyond. Somalia’s government controls only a few blocks of Mogadishu and has little legitimacy elsewhere.
Many Somalis say they believe the United States is guiding the war.
“We expect American helicopters to strike Mogadishu at any moment,” said Aslia Hassan, 40, who arrived at this refugee settlement three days ago with two small plastic bags of possessions. “This is why we are running.”

Al-Shabab’s dictates

The refugees say they are also escaping al-Shabab’s puritanical dictates. Western and Somali music is outlawed in the areas the group controls in southern and central Somalia. Movie theaters have been shuttered, and the watching of films on DVDs is prohibited. In some areas, the refugees say, playing soccer — and even watching it on television — is banned. So is storing pictures on cellphones and using Western-sounding ringtones. Only Koranic music is allowed.
Al-Shabab’s religious police, often led by children, order people to put out cigarettes and give haircuts at gunpoint to anyone with modern hairstyles or longish hair, the refugees say. As a warning to those who defy their dictates, al-Shabab fighters have displayed severed heads on steel poles.
Women must sheath themselves from head to toe in abayas made of thick cloth and are not allowed to wear bras. In Mogadishu, buses are segregated, with women sitting in the back.
“Even if a pregnant woman asks to sit in the front of the bus, where it is less bumpy, she will be refused,” said Dahaba Duko Ali, 35.
She arrived here last month with her seven children, evading al-Shabab checkpoints. Fearing the police — Kenya has closed its border with Somalia — the smugglers drove along back roads and dropped the family just over the border. Under cover of night, Ali and her children walked 30 miles to Ifo.
Ali Mohamud Raghe, an al-Shabab spokesman, said that “our Islamic religion tells us” to separate men from women and for women to wear thick abayas. The militia forbids all “the evil things that infidels aim to spread” among young Muslim Somalis.
“So music is among the evil actions,” he said in a telephone interview.
Even donkeys are not beyond al-Shabab’s dictates. The militia has decreed that donkeys cannot wear harnesses, nor can they carry more than six sacks. They are also segregated: Women can use only female donkeys; men must use male ones. “How can I feed my children?” lamented Hassan Ali Ibrahim, 40, a gaunt donkey-cart driver who arrived in Yemen with his eight children.

On a Friday in October, the Ibrahim brothers — Sayeed and Osman — were taken from their prison cell in the coastal Somali town of Kismaayo. An al-Shabab court had convicted them of robbery, they said, adding that their imprisonment was politically motivated

brothers and a third inmate were driven in a minibus to a field in front of a police station. A crowd of 4,000 had gathered. Ten masked men stood in the field; one held a microphone and another clutched a knife, the brothers recalled.
The third inmate, in his early 20s, was taken out of the van. Several of the masked men held him down and his foot was chopped off above the ankle, the brothers recalled.
It took five minutes.
“God is great,” chanted the fighters, drowning out the screams.
Minutes later, the brothers were taken out of the van. Sayeed looked away as his brother’s leg was sliced off.
“I felt powerless,” Sayeed said. “I wanted a miracle to happen.”
A voice over the loudspeaker announced that Sayeed’s right hand and left leg were to be amputated. By the time his limbs were hacked off, he had passed out. He woke up in a hospital. After 10 days, the brothers fled Kismaayo. In February, relatives hid them inside a crowded minibus and smuggled them into Kenya.
“What they did to us has nothing to do with Islam,” said Osman, as he struggled to get up from a chair with his crutches.
But Mohammed Muse Gouled, 70, said al-Shabab had helped bring stability. For years, he said, warlords contested for power and territory, and chaos and insecurity grew. “No one can harm you under the Shabab,” said Gouled, adding that he fled shelling by the regional African Union peacekeeping force.
One woman’s journey

Habiba Abdi, 19, was five months pregnant and unmarried. Under the dictates of al-Shabab, she would have faced death by stoning. Fighters entered her neighborhood in Kismaayo, searching for the woman with the “illegal child.”
She hid with relatives. Four days later, she begged a smuggler to take her to Kenya. A few months later, she had a baby girl. She named her Sabreen, which means “tolerance.”
They live here with a cousin. Other refugees taunt her as the “one who broke the law of Islam.” Some call her dhilo, or whore.
But she is more worried about al-Shabab. Last year, fighters from the militia crossed into Kenya and abducted three aid workers and a Somali cleric; last week, the group raided a Kenyan border town.
“Sometimes, I prefer to die,” said Abdi, as she cradled Sabreen in her arms.

In the first killing of its kind, private security contractors shot dead a Somali pirate in a clash that left two skiffs riddled with bullet holes, officials said March 24. The killing raises questions over who has jurisdiction over a growing army of armed guards on merchant ships flying flags from many nations. There’s currently no regulation of private security on board ships, no guidelines about who is responsible in case of an attack, and no industry-wide standards, said piracy expert Roger Middleton from the British think tank Chatham House. “There’s no guarantee of the quality of individuals you are going to get,” said Middleton. “If you’re a shipping company, then that could be legally concerning. It’s also concerning to everyone if you have individuals with guns and not much oversight out on the seas.” The exact circumstances of the shooting are unclear, but the European Union Naval Force said guards were on board the Panama-flagged MV Almezaan when a pirate group approached it twice. An EU Naval Force frigate was dispatched to the scene and launched a helicopter that located the pirates. (AP)

The above article from the “AFP” appeared on the Global Development Briefing “Devex”.

In a previously published, I asked this same question of: who is a pirate?

The bounty hunter who traveled 10-15000 nautical miles, to steal and to dump nuclear waste, thus poisoning all life along Somalia, or the somali trying to protect, whatever is left of his homeland?

Obviously, this is not a valid question to the EU, USA, Mr. Ban kee Moon of the UN or any other bounty hunter from the east or the west!. I expect no answer at this time and under these circumstances, but do sincerely hope that the somali Patriots will at the aftermath of this, will start shooting to kill the real pirates soon enough, inorder to fix the blance sheets and stop being contented by some dirty bloody money.

It was Copenhagen, to beautify for the COP15, the Danish politicians renamed it Hopenhagen symbolizing the venue of the climate hope, the result of the venue, as expected by all decent people of the globe, became one big nothing! Thus making the venue city of the “ZERO” result to HopelessHagen.
This meeting was, in advance, deemed to end in failure. The reason being that, it assembled a group of the worst hypocrites and their and darling war criminals such as the prime minister of Afrikas most bloody regime of Ethiopia, Mr. Meles Zenawe, a war criminal of the worst calibre the International Criminal Court is unwilling or unable to apprehend because his industrialized colonial powers are protecting him.

To confront and resist these hypocrites and their subordinates were a large number of world leaders from the ripped off nations of the world, the so called underdeveloped countries. Unfortunately, some of the YESSE_MASSA willing boys like the representative of the Maldives and Meles Zenawe were within these nations, and as traiters as they are, and put in single rooms at the venue and instructed and morally corrupted, they sided with the super hypocrites of the industrialized countries.

The world masses of developing countries had thus to look at, unable to do anything, and again witness the colonial powers dictating their will to the developing countries and asking them- dictating to them- to bear the burden their climate crime.

Foreign fishing companies have been illegally sending their sofisticated industrial trawlers to vacum the rich seabed along the somali coast for years, thus making life for the somali artisan fishermen impossible as their, the somalis’s, wooden and poorly equipped boats are no mutch for these sofisticated foreign ships.
Furthermore, industrialized countries and especially corporations from the EU member states have been dumping nuclear and chemical waste along the somali coast but also burying deep indland.

Confronted with this life threatening situation and the immoral tacit acceptance of these inhuman and despicable illegal operations by the industrialized nations from which thes operators originate, combined with the “no interference” attitude by the world body, the UN, the somali fishermen had no alternative but to act on their own and resort to whatever means they had, and started boarding and arresting foreign vessels operating illegally or believed to be part of or to belong to the nations involved in the aforesaid illegal operations and within their reach.

Other actors have since joined the somali fishermen, middlemen from Europe and America as lawyers, negotiators and even an american lady, who is said to be the supplyer of arms and logistics to these Patriots are all part of the project at present, and the self protective operations have become an industry of itself.

The question is:

1: Who is the real pirate to be combatted?

a: those coming from Europe and Asia and illegally stealing the somali fish and
dumbing nuclear and chemical waste and thus depriving the somali his/her
livelihood and/or exposing their lives into a real danger of dying a painful
death by way of the nuclear & chemical poisoning ?

OR

b: the somali who rises, arrests these foreign thieves- who travelled thousands of
seamiles to Somalia, with the premeditated intent to steal and dump poison- and
asks them to pay compensation for their
illegal fishing and poison dumping activity in his land?

C: is it not fair to call these young men just what they are: Brave Patriots
protecting their country from overwhelming colonial and neo colonial powers
who are protecting and assiting their own thieves,
driven by their GREED and IMMORALITY?

While I do not approve piracy of any kind, I find it fair to look at the roots of this piracy matter, and not be contented with the western media’s propagandistic immorality unable or unwilling to act decently and tell the truth of the matter.
And to the present leaders, selfproclamed or corruptly elected, by way of blood money payments and even the few, who involuntarily became part of this morally corrupt begging team governing roughly a third of Mogadishu under the protection of foreign forces, who have learned only the terms used by the western greedy politicians and media, by heart and repeating just like parrots the term ”Somali pirates” and also to the blood soaked misled young men bearing “Ninja like” masks, killing and mutilating innocent men and women, falsely and unforgivably in the name of Almighty God, I say:

SHAME ON YOU

Over to You dear reader, to judge and comment on: who is the real pirate!!!.

Dr. Ahmed F. Dualeh
somdana@gmail.com
Denmark
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Apart from the fact that Al-Shabab is a satanic and bloodthursty organisation, the so called TFG government, composed of a gang of warlords, all with bloody hands, are capable of doing just that, namely to invite any other bloody criminal mercenary like the Blackwater assasins.

Read the following article from Global Research, dear reader, and judge for Yourself.

Dr. A.F. Dualeh
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Blackwater-Xe in Somalia?

by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey

Global Research, January 14, 2010
Pravda - 2010-01-13

Reuters reports a spokesperson from the Islamist Al-Shabaab group in Somalia claiming that the US mercenary group Blackwater/Xe Services is in Somalia, is recruiting and is planning a series of spectacular terrorist attacks against civilians to discredit his movement in Mogadishu.

The spokesperson is Sheikh Ali Mohammed Rage of the Al-Shabaab group (The Youth), an Islamist faction fighting government forces in southern and central Somalia. In an interview with Reuters, he claimed that mercenaries from Blackwater (now called Xe Services) have started planning bomb plots in Mogadishu to discredit Al-Shabaab.

“US agencies are going to launch suicide bombings in public places in Mogadishu. They have tried it in Algeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan”. He added that the target will be the market of Bakara. The source apparently warned a meeting of tribal elders that Xe Services (formerly Blackwater) has entered Somalia and has already started recruiting operationals to carry out its attacks.

Blackwater massacres

Five mercenaries from Blackwater were accused of murdering 17 Iraqi civilians in a massacre in Nisour Square, Baghdad in September 2007. The decision by US Federal judge Ricardo Urbina this month to set the accused free on the grounds that their constitutional rights had been violated (a former agreement by the Bush regime with the Iraqi Government, since revoked, had exempted US security personnel from prosecution) has caused outrage in Iraq, where Prime Minister Noori al-Maliki answered the news by claiming that Baghdad “rejects the decision by the US court to absolve the firm from the crime of murdering several citizens”. Labelling the decision as “unacceptable and unfair”, the Iraqi Government has stated that it will aid the families of the victims to bring other actions in US courts.

The five mercenaries were accused of 17 counts of murder, 20 counts of attempted murder and one count of violation of arms carrying laws. A sixth mercenary had pleaded guilty and had agreed to cooperate with the authorities.

In Afghanistan, 2 mercenaries employed by Blackwater have been formally accused of the murder of two Afghan civilians in 2009 in Kabul. Justin Cannon (27) from Texas and Christopher Drotleff, from Virginia are accused of 13 counts, including homicide, for which they could be sentenced to death.

UN Human Rights experts demand justice

Human Rights experts from the UNO have requested that the United States of America bring the Blackwater mercenaries accused of the Baghdad massacre to justice, claiming that Baghdad and Washington should work together to solve the question.

Shaista Shameen, Chair of the independent group of experts in human rights from the UNO declared “We respect the independence of the US Justice system and its requirements for due process but we are concerned that the recent decision to reject the case against the Blackwater guards will lead to a situation in which nobody is held responsible for the serious human rights violations”.

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As already predicted by many concerned environment protection grass roots, climate change experts and other scholars, all that came out of that huge global gathering is a totally useless and insult to the human intelligence document, dictated by the global polluters and their political proteges, the Copenhagen accord which I, prior to its publication, termed “The hopelesshagen” hypocrisy!.

Dr. A.F. Dualeh

I reproduce the following article to shed light on the unholy alliance protecting the real piracy which, Denmark is a full member of by sending warships to Somalia, to abduct young somali boys, trying to defend their coastline against European Nuclear and chemical waste dumping and pirate fishing vessels, these boys using canoes against nuclear battleships, destroyers and supersonic jetfighters.

Is there anything left for this world to be ashamed of?
Read for Yourself.Kevin Kelley - Sunday, April 26 2009

International firms stand accused of fish piracy

Lawlessness off the Somalia coast involving over-fishing and toxic-waste dumping is being ignored amidst the uproar over attacks on international shipping, some analysts are charging.

For years, Somalis had complained to the United Nations and the European Union “when the marine resources of Somalia were pillaged, when the waters were poisoned, when the fish was stolen, creating poverty in the whole country”, Kenyan writer Mohamed Abshir Waldo, told a national radio audience in the United States last week. “They were totally ignored”.

Beth Tuckey, an activist with the African Faith and Justice Network in Washington, wrote in a recent commentary that focusing solely on one kind of piracy - “holding ships and people for ransom” - distorts the actual situation of Somalis living on the coast.

“Having over-fished in their own oceans, many European, Middle Eastern and Asian fishing companies perceived the 1991 state collapse in Somalia as an opening to begin business in foreign waters,

” Ms Tuckey said. “Large trawlers appeared off the coast, scraping up $300 million worth of seafood every year, depriving coastal Somalis of their livelihood and subsistence. Foreign corporations also saw it as a great location to discreetly dump barrels of toxic waste, thereby causing death and disease among the Somali population”.Taking a similar perspective, the US-African Chamber of Commerce is calling on President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to address all forms of “international maritime violations off the Somali coast”.

In addition to stopping the seizure of vessels, the United States and other powers should prevent “illegal dumping of chemical toxic waste [and] illegal fishing”, says Martin Mohammed, the chamber´s president. He traces the upsurge in Somali pirate attacks to the 2006 US-backed Ethiopian invasion of Somalia that initially routed an Islamist force that had established control over broad parts of the country. The Islamists had provided much of Somalia “with rule of law and a functional society”, Mr. Mohammed says.

Chaos have returned to the country in the past two years, “leaving the people of Somalia in dire conditions [and] leaving the coast unprotected”, Mr. Mohammed adds. Allegations of illegal fishing in Somalia waters were raised last year by the United Nations´ special envoy for Somalia.

“Because there is no government, there is so much irregular fishing from European and Asian countries,” Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah told reporters in July 2008. He added that the proceeds from illegal fishing help perpetuate the violence that has reigned in Somalia for the past 18 years. Illegal fishers are paying corrupt officials or warlords for protection or to secure fake licenses, Ould Abdallah said.

A UN report two years ago estimated that poaching in the rich fishing grounds off Somalia amounts to a $300 million a year enterprise. “It´s been like a long gold rush for Thai, European, Yemeni and Korean boats”, Abdulwali Abdulrahman Gayre, the Puntland vice minister of ports and fisheries, told a Chicago Tribune reporter last October. “We have some of the richest fishing grounds in the world. Scientists say it is like a rainforest of fish. But our fishermen can´t compete with the foreigners in big ships who come to steal from our waters”. How Somalia’s Fishermen Became PiratesSource: Time.com

Amid the current media frenzy about Somali pirates, it’s hard not to imagine them as characters in some dystopian Horn of Africa version of Waterworld. We see wily corsairs in ragged clothing swarming out of their elusive mother ships, chewing narcotic khat while thumbing GPS phones and grappling hooks.

They are not desperate bandits, experts say, rather savvy opportunists in the most lawless corner of the planet. But the pirates have never been the only ones exploiting the vulnerabilities of this troubled failed state - and are, in part, a product of the rest of the world’s neglect.

Ever since a civil war brought down Somalia’s last functional government in 1991, the country’s 3,330 km (2,000 miles) of coastline - the longest in continental Africa - has been pillaged by foreign vessels. A United Nations report in 2006 said that, in the absence of the country’s at one time serviceable coastguard, Somali waters have become the site of an international “free for all”, with fishing fleets from around the world illegally plundering Somali stocks and freezing out the country’s own rudimentarily-equipped fishermen. According to another U.N. report, an estimated $300 million worth of seafood is stolen from the country’s coastline each year. “In any context”, says Gustavo Carvalho, a London-based researcher with Global Witness, an environmental NGO, “that is a staggering sum”.

In the face of this, impoverished Somalis living by the sea have been forced over the years to defend their own fishing expeditions out of ports such as Eyl, Kismayo and Harardhere - all now considered to be pirate dens. Somali fishermen, whose industry was always small-scale, lacked the advanced boats and

technologies of their interloping competitors, and also complained of being shot at by foreign fishermen with water cannons and firearms. “The first pirate gangs emerged in the ’90s to protect against foreign trawlers”, says Peter Lehr, lecturer in terrorism studies at Scotland’s University of St. Andrews and editor of Violence at Sea: Piracy in the Age of Global Terrorism. The names of existing pirate fleets, such as the National Volunteer Coastguard of Somalia or Somali Marines, are testament to the pirates’ initial motivations.

The waters they sought to protect, says Lehr, were “an El Dorado for fishing fleets of many nations”. A 2006 study published in the journal Science predicted that the current rate of commercial fishing would virtually empty the world’s oceanic stocks by 2050. Yet, Somalia’s seas still offer a particularly fertile patch for tuna, sardines and mackerel, and other lucrative species of seafood, including lobsters and sharks. In other parts of the Indian Ocean region, such as the Persian Gulf, fishermen resort to dynamite and other extreme measures to pull in the kinds of catches that are still in abundance off the Horn of Africa.

High-seas trawlers from countries as far flung as South Korea, Japan and Spain have operated down the Somali coast, often illegally and without licenses, for the better part of two decades, the U.N. says. They often fly flags of convenience from sea-faring friendly nations like Belize and Bahrain, which further helps the ships skirt international regulations and evade censure from their home countries. Tsuma Charo of the Nairobi-based East African Seafarers Assistance Programme, which monitors Somali pirate attacks and liaises with the hostage takers and the captured crews, says “illegal trawling has fed the piracy problem”.

In the early days of Somali piracy, those who seized trawlers without licenses could count on a quick ransom payment, since the boat owners and companies backing those vessels didn’t want to draw attention to their violation of international maritime law. This, Charo reckons, allowed the pirates to build up their tactical networks and whetted their appetite for bigger spoils. Beyond illegal fishing, foreign ships have also long been  accused by local fishermen of dumping toxic and nuclear waste off Somalia’s shores. A 2005 United Nations Environmental Program report cited uranium radioactive and other hazardous deposits leading to a rash of respiratory ailments and skin diseases breaking out in villages along the Somali coast. According to the U.N., at the time of the report, it cost $2.50 per ton for a European company to dump these types of materials off the Horn of Africa, as opposed to $250 per ton to dispose of them cleanly in Europe.

Monitoring and combating any of these misdeeds is next to impossible - Somalia’s current government can barely find its feet in the wake of the 2006 U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion. And many Somalis, along with outside observers, suspect local officials in Mogadishu and in ports in semi-autonomous Puntland further north of accepting bribes from foreign fishermen as well as from pirate elders. U.N. monitors in 2005 and 2006 suggested an embargo on fish taken from Somali waters, but their proposals were shot down by members of the Security Council.

In the meantime, Somali piracy has metastasized into the country’s only boom industry. Most of the pirates, observers say, are not former fishermen, but just poor folk seeking their fortune. Right

now, they hold 18 cargo ships and some 300 sailors hostage - the work of a sophisticated and well-funded operation. A few pirates have offered testimony to the international press - a headline in Thursday’s Times of London read, “They stole our lobsters: A Somali pirate tells his side of the story” - but Lehr and other Somali experts express their doubts. “Nowadays,” Lehr says, “this sort of thing is just a cheap excuse”. The legacy of nearly twenty years of inaction and abuse, though, is far more costly. 

No real peace yet

Somali Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke has officially said on Sunday evening that his government will rule the war strife country Somalia under Islamic law. “My government will rule this government in the Holy Quran and there is no one single time when we shall hesitate in the governing the country in the Islamic Sharia law. As you are aware the Somali legislators have recently in one voice agreed in ruling the country in the Islamic law which I myself see it as one major factor which is good in the stability in the war torn country. We have been in anarchy for almost a period of two decades, it is upon the concerned ministries to show effectual and transparent to the Somali population wherever they are and it would gradually reach in every portion of the country. Rome was not built in a day

so thus I hope that the rule of the Islamic law will start right from the city and reach on the other edges of the country in the shortest possible time”, said the Somali Prime Minister, himself in his third month of office in a press conference in Mogadishu.

The premier also said at his office that groups with specific interests have misinterpreted a statement, which he has given to the press and he denounced the shelling towards the Somali parliament when the Somali parliamentarians were on the verge to conclude their session on Sunday, which has claimed the lives of at least 9 innocent civilians residing in the villages near the parliament building.

Lawmakers and clan elders from Haji Suleyman clan announced on Saturday they were planning to reopen Shikole Islamic court in Mogadishu. The minister for justice of the Somali government,

Sheik Abdirahman Mohamud Farah Janaqow, who held a press conference in his house in Mogadishu, said it was not a good idea to reopen clan Islamic courts in Mogadishu this time since the government is implementing the Islamic Sharia. Sheik Abdirahman said opening courts is the work of the ministry for justice and that the ministry would soon start opening district courts in the country. Separately, Imam Omar Moalin Abshir who attended Saturday´s meeting of Haji Suleyman clan said that the people had misunderstood the idea and that the government and the clan have the same aim of implementing Islamic Sharia in the country.

At least six people were killed Saturday afternoon in the Somali capital Mogadishu after Islamist hardliners attacked African Union peacekeepers (AMISOM), according to local radio. The fighting began after armed groups launched mortars at an AMISOM base home to Burundian soldiers, witnesses said. Several mortars hit residential areas in Hodan and Howlwadaag districts, killing at least six civilians and wounding nearly 25 people. “Two people were killed in Howlwadaag [district] including my brother”, witness Ahmed Salad told Mogadishu-based radio stations. Another witness said he saw three dead civilians at Bakara Market, the country’s largest marketplace, saying that shells hit inside the market causing civilian deaths. Workers at Daynile Hospital and Medina Hospital in Mogadishu said tens of wounded civilians were admitted for emergency treatment. An officer who spoke for AMISOM said no peacekeepers were hurt during the attack, but noted that three civilians who came to the AMISOM medical center for medicines were hurt. No group has claimed responsibility for attacking AMISOM peacekeepers, but the deadly attacks come at a time Islamist opposition leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys has returned to Mogadishu and has demanded the withdrawal of AMISOM from Somali soil.

Impacting news from the global village

Who are the real ‘pirates’ in Africa?, asks Matt Murray on pslweb.org and elaborates:

Capitalists demonize Somalis, hide their own blood-soaked history. Recent news coverage has been dominated by sensationalized stories of Somali pirates hijacking ships and taking hostages in order to secure large ransoms. Most recently, the Maersk Alabama, a U.S.-based container ship, was hijacked and its captain, Richard Phillips, was taken hostage. After a five-day standoff, Navy SEAL snipers shot

and killed three pirates while free ing him. The U.S. mass media has portrayed the killings as a heroic military action. In fact, the teenage Somali hijackers were out of fuel and ammunition, and had been frantically pleading to give up Phillips to save their own lives. The United States refused to negotiate. Two days earlier, French navy commandos stormed a hijacked sailboat and killed one hostage and at least two pirates while freeing four French hostages.

Prior to the killings by the U.S. and French navies, there had been no fatalities in any of the hijackings. Somali pirates had never harmed any captives, and in fact, many former hostages have said they were treated extremely well. Yet the Western media has relentlessly demonized Somalis involved without making any attempt at understanding the larger political context behind these actions. Rather, the Somalis have been accused of looting and plundering and have been falsely accused of being terrorists.

They have been purposely associated with al-Qaeda to justify their inclusion as targets in the criminal “Global War on Terrorism”. The United States is attempting to use the situation to further justify their bloody imperialist intervention in Somalia and the region. There is deep irony in the accusations of barbarity and brutality being hurled at Somali pirates:

The world´s largest banks and corporations, whose interests are faithfully protected by the media, also have a history of piracy. A gruesome and bloody history that is little known to the modern world because it has been so carefully hidden, but it is in fact the fundamental basis for the original accumulation of the vast sums of wealth responsible for the dominant position held by imperialist countries.