The Secessionist Camp: How long the futile campaign for secession will continue in “Somaliland”?

Mohamed obsiye has come up with yet another pro-secessionist array of attacks against Somaliweyn and its supporters in the form of another repackaged and recycled article (The Brief history of the Somali Union) in favor of “Somaliland” secession without providing any new shred of evidence to support his mendacious claims. This time the author, the PhD candidate, was so desperate in his attempt to get new coverts for his secessionist idea that he rubbished of what Somalis of all generations stood for centuries: Somali nationalism. To add insult to injury, he was unmoved by Ethiopia’s old age expansionist strategy and found massive fault lines in Somalis’ pursuit of their own rightful territories. What is wrong with uniting all Somalis under one roof i.e. under one-nation-state? After all, did not Ethiopia bring different people with different ethnicity, culture and religion under one-nation-state, not by choice but by coercion? How is this different to the aspirations of Somalis to bring all Somalis under one-nation-state? Does he not know Ethiopia was/is behind the suffering and misery of Somali people for generations? How is it sound and reasonable for the founders of current Ethiopia to come all the way from Gondor and Gambella, among other places, and occupy a Somali-populated territory, namely Ogden and claim as their own while Somalis are denied to claim their own land of thousands of years? What a shame! The fact that there was unfortunate cruel civil war and that the hapless Somalis did not reconcile themselves quickly enough does not mean that we should part company and leave everything we shared for generations behind us. Read More