The Coming Back of Darwishland and the Demise of Somaliland |
As one prescient writer recently envisioned in her article :"the comeback of the SSC" (Mahado Sheikh Dahir, WardheerNews), the SSC conference at Taleex has finally unanimously proclaimed on Thursday 12 January the establishment of the Darwiiland State of Somalia for their SSC regions (Sool, Sanaag and Cayn) that would come directly under the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG). This was an unprecedented proclamation, representing the first time in the political history of the SSC people when all the delegates, chiefs and traditional leaders, as representatives of the SSC people, have signed up to a declaration without a single dissent. As the voice of the SSC, it could not have a higher legitimacy within Somalia and the international community.
This was the SSC's finest hour. Apart from the birth of a united independent Somalia in June/July 1960, no other event has engendered so much joyous celebrations among the SSC people at home and abroad as the proclamation of the Darwish State of Somalia at Taleex. Now that the SSC voice has been heard loud and clear, that puts to rest any bogus claim by any other administration that they speak for the SSC let alone claim to "own" them.
No more place for malicious references to the SSC as "disputed" regions- contrived shenanigans meant to give implicit support to Somaliland's preposterous claim that these areas were bequeathed to them by the former British colonial power. No more red-herrings that the SSC people are divided between neighbouring Puntland and Somaliland. No more need for any self-respecting SSC personality, Xabsaade, Abdisamad et al, to continue giving allegiance to any other State in Somalia other than to Somalia first, and secondly to their own Darwish State.
The comeback of a free SSC people means much more than the exercise of their inalienable right to rid themselves of Somaliland's occupation and have their own Regional State. More importantly, it also means the revival of Somalia's unity and a wake-up call to other regions in Somalia that they stand to gain strength, nationhood, and progress through unity, but would otherwise remain through division weak and easy prey for all ill-intentioned predators. Happily, Somali nationalism is still alive judging by the support and good wishes the Taleex conference and its proclamation are receiving from Somalis from all corners of the world. Continued
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