HAS ANYONE EVER HEARD A WAR BETWEEN SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN SOMALIS ? AN ANSWER FOR THE UN-ANSWERED QUESTION.
Before 22 years, there was a public uprise against a bad system of governance. That government fought the public in different fronts starting from Galmudug then Northern Somalia and lastly the main towns of the south demolishing Mogadishu.
That war was not between Southern Somalia and Northern Somalia (Somaliland). Somaliland leaders, SNM, has for a long time propagated that general civil war as a war between north and south. If that is true why the southerners bombarded their main city of Mogadishu?
We all knew that the populations in the south became destitues in their own country, same as those in the North. The international community witnessed the death and the destruction in the southern capital city of Mogadisho which is still in ruins.
If we look back into the neighbouring tribes, all was involved in different roles, on offensive and denfensive sides. In the north the SNM militia never admit the death and the destruction they did to other people.
After all, the issue of who harmed who is long forgetten in all parts of somalia but not in parts of the North for an understandable purpose. Today, Hargeisa is the only place in Somalia where a constitutionlised civil war is systematically in practice in the disguise of a government.
The system there and its supporters lied to themselves and listened to their own lies when they finally came to a point where they could not distinguish between the truth within themselves or around them. In that junction, they lost respect for others and subsequently ceased to see the truth.
There is no doubt that light is in truth and if truth is light then lie is darkness. The constitutionalised conquest and denial of the rights of many Northerners is darkness because it is far from truth. For decades, that cover-up casted the shadow of separation between themselves and others. Every time, when the deception is revealed and the truth is made known, these leaders are constantly re-united with guilt.. guilt…guilt….
The continuous deception and propoganda has changed this part of the country into medieval cult. Its leaders and elders had become masters of the folk art of human manipulation. They modify their approaches and techniques and use centuries-old manipulative talk to lead their people to the ditches. There is no limit to the ways they can learn to manipulate others, especially when they don’t have the conscience .
They use two main methods of persuasion techniques which are (1) emotional manipulation (2) and distortions of historical facts. No matter which techniques those cult leaders have used, other Somalis have seen the resultant behavioral change of the people from that region.
In the first technique, emotional manipulation, leaders put people in a psychological hypnosis. The opium of tribalism is the tool and, subsquently, the main obstacle to the rational thinking. This is essentially a highly mental focused concentration in which the leader occupies the minds. On the other side, the population blindly follow their leaders, suspending judgement, reasoning and peripheral awarness. That is how the leaders, in this cultic environment, manipulated a vulnerable society implanting suggestions tailored to their personal agenda
In the second method, people are brainwashed and are impaired. This is a phenomenon in which everyone’s consciousness or awareness is modified. In that case, people’s awareness seems to split as their active critical-evaluative thinking dims. They then slipped from an active into a passive-receptive mode of mental processing and listen without reflection, evaluation and logic.
The craze, and the imaginations are business as usual. Starting from the SNM campaign in 1980s till this present day, the distortions are the rule. These so-called leaders hide the real truth about the history of the region and its people, about what happened in the whole country of somalia, about what happened in the civil war and about everything they share with other Somalis. Only one window is open and from there young and old equally learn the cult culture and nolthing beyond.
That is how emotional somalilanders suspended rational analysis, independent judgment, and conscious decision making about what they are hearing or taking in. They, therefore, have lost the boundaries between what they wished to be true and what is actually true. From there, Imagination and reality intertwined and their mental processor gear shifted permanently into receptivity, leaving active mental processing out of position.
The cult manipulative talk was always out of proportion but went overboard few days ago. That was when Faysal Ali Warabe equated christianity and Somalism. He argued that any one who chooses somalism against somaliland is like a convert from Islam to christianity. This example and many more shows that somaliland is a religious cult. Whether that is sane or insane, I will leave it to the readers.? Is that a leader or acult leader.
On June 3rd, Mohamed Hashi, one their oldest leaders is quoted “Waxa wax lala yaabo ah in xukuumadda Somalia oo aan qirsanayn in ay dhibaato ina soo gaadhsiiyeen in lala fadhiisto, waxa ay ahayd in marka hore lagu khasbo in ay qirtaan in ay dhibaato ina gaadhsiiyeen, waana mid aan haboonayn in lala fadhiisto oo la yidhaahdo wada hadalo ayaanu la gelinaynaa”.
Here, the answer is simple and straight..the government who did the harm to all somalia has gone long ago. The people of the south are not accountable and the accusations against them is unfair, irrational and irresponsible.
In our modern world, the word cult in its current popular usage is a referemce term for a new religious group whose beliefs or practices are considered abnormal or bizarre by the larger society. It is generally characterized with great devotion to the group’s spulrious ideas. Such blind devotion is regarded as a craze.
After so much suffering in a quarter of a century, our people were supposed to make their endeavor to a qualitrative difference to society, by reawakening the spirit of solidarity and brotherhood on the basis of a common humanity. That would have brought the people together as one collective soul with life for all.
Those cult leaders like Silanyo, saleiman, Hirsi, biixi, Kahin and their team could have a better life for their people and even for themselves. The question is, did they ever try a way out?. That requires real sacrifices and courage. Do they have the courage to be strong, wise and out of the murky way? For sure, they by now have realized that this is not working and there is a better way for all.
In today’s leadership, we dont need cult leaders whose minds can’t judge between reality and fiction. We need leaders who can understand between and imagination and truth and who has the ability to shift people’s minds from the receptivity postion to the active processing mode.
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