On Wednesday, August 9, 2000 at 10:00:00 AM UTC+3, Omar M wrote:

Carrabay,
Thanks for your article. I fully support your view of the so-called shirka Djibouti. What a chaos. Did any of the dumies in the coference considered
the pitfalls facing the Qabiil erected government that may come out of
this.
I feel sorry for the millions of Somalis whose utopia for a democratic government faded after months of wait and wait.
carr...@my-deja.com wrote:

There is Somali saying " Inakstoo biyo galo, Doofaar Abadkii ma
daahiro" which can be loosely translated, No matter how hard you try to shine a junk, it always will be a junk.

Such is the case of the of the misguided adaptation of Qabiil at the
peace confrence in Djibouti, if you could still call it a peace
conference. Once upon a time, way back in Sep of last year, ina Geeleh
had a noble idea of re-establashing the Somali government. His
initiative has called of staying away of the road that had resulted a
dozen or so failures and mapping a fresh start . One, which rightfully empoweres the civil society and obliterates the role of warlords. At
the time, Majority of Somalis welcomed and backed this new approach of de_emphasing Qabiil, and eventually building consesus of cross_ clan
civil society.

For whatever reason, something has happened and thrown the process into chaotic old habits. What is taking place today is futile haggling over qabiil, and of course to the delight of qabiil peddelers who are
hawking it. The nature of qabiil structure is messy and nothing good
comes out of it. One had hoped, after more than a decade of warlords
and qabiil militia, that lesson should have been learnt by now.

Muslim men could marry upto four women with one big condition. They
should be equally fair and just to all the wives. A lot wise Muslim men
for go the whole deal , beacuse it is human to be bias. Needless to say government based on qabiil structure has similar fate. There will
always be a slighted and cheated group. Worse yet, breakdown and
violence are never far off. Is this what Somalis want? Cycle of
violence.

Let me give you an example of how futile it is. According to the
drafted national charter, each of the Two major Qabiils,( Daroord,
hawiye) and the coalition groups( Dir(1), and Digil and Mirefleh)got 44 seats out of 225. That is about 20% of the total. What this mean,
(Forget the highly contested posts, such as presidency and Ambasodorial post(2)) for instance, is Darood should have 20% set aside for every
public postion, from driver and policeman to the head of ministery. And
oh yeah, Darood should have to agree among themselves how many marehan
or majerteen drivers or who will be the next director general of
Wasaardda caafimaadka, which could only be filled by darood according
to the predetermined charter. What a nightmere.!!

Ina Geeleh had to opprotunity to steer away from the pitfall of Qabbil,
yet he headed with full speed into the abyss. All indications are he panicked and reverted to qabiil system, after he realized the envitable failure of the outcome . But, he has only himself and his mentor,
David Stephen to blame. The confernce in Djibouti should never have
been billed as 1) the last ditch effort and 2) estabalshing fully functional Somali government with merely 2000 of self invited people.
Never bite more than you can chew. It should have been only a fact
finding and buliding block for future negotiations. Now that he had
conored himself, he has no choice but to carry on the charade as long
as he could, even if it means into next year, which really isn't that
far fetched.

Footnote

1) Could somone expalin what Dir is? Does it mean Samaron, Issa, Isaq
and Dir of South has common lineage, or is it mambo jumbo political exploit. If the case is latter doesn't mean that creating more
confusion.

2)Rumor has it the most sought after post is Ambasodor. i guess that
says a lot of the participants. These idiots want to exploit the
somalis from the comfort of the distance. Yeah, why not be in Rome or Riyadh and by supported by the old lady suffering in qoryoley or Buurhakabo.

Carrabay.

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HUBERT HUMPHRY was the secretary of state of the USA his visit to Somalia Mogadishu was 1963 during ADEN ABDULLE OSMAN abdirashid was not president that Era.
ref,Washington post.

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