Universal TV: Singing Wedding Songs

Like the village idiot who comes to the house of a bereaved family and sings wedding songs in the middle of the funeral procession, Universal TV is rubbing salt into the wounds of the colonized people of Somali Galbeed with its parochial and prejudiced coverage of the reality on the ground. On the day Universal TV broadcasted the arrival of Mohamed Suleiman Tubeec in Jigjiga, the region’s special police killed a truck owner in Degahbour town. On the same day, two families learned that their sons, who were in the main prison in Jigjiga for over a year, died a year ago. The sad thing is, all this time, the poor families were supplying food to the prison guards, in the belief that they were feeding their sons in detention! In the same week, about a dozen people died of Cholera in Fiq and more than thirty others died of preventable whooping cough in Rasso district. Read More