Så har försvarkriget börjat så som jag förvarnade er i inlägget under. Chefen för Sida svarar på kritiken och på ifrågasättandet av svenskt bistånd till bland andra krigsherrar, al-Zenawi i Etiopien. Sidas generaldirektör Anders Nordström, resonerar i DN Debatt, 080926, som om han leder ett företag, företaget Sida går in i länder med "kalkylerade risker". Finns det några aktieägare därute som frågar efter bokslutet. Svaret ser vi det varje dag runt om vartenda land som företaget Sida investerat med "kalkylerade risker". Över 34 miljarder kronor av skattebetalarnaspengar spenderar Anders Nordström & Co varje år. Han skriver "vi tvingas ibland att avbryta samarbeten, stoppa utbetalning och kräva tillbaka pengar." Hur mycket av dessa 34 miljarder kronor har det krävts tillbaka av Sida?
Hålla där...har vi några Riksdagsmän som kan kräva svar på detta?
fredag 26 september 2008
fredag 19 september 2008
Birgitta Ohlsson skicka lite liberala BRÖD till Ogaden
Ett FOLKMORD pågår i Etiopien. När regimen i Addis Abeba och terroristen al-Zenawi inte lyckades knäcka folket i Ogaden, har han återfunnit sina föregångares metod att försöka utrota ett folk - SVÄLTA UT DEM! Just utrotning har det varit terroristen al-Zenawis politik det senaste året utan att de så kallade demokratiska länder i omvärlden reagerat ett knyst. Tvärtom skickas det mer och mer "bistånd" för att hålla al-Zenawi vid makten.
Han har militärt blockerat området, kastat ut enskilda organisationer som Läkare Utan Gränser, för förhindra ögonvittnen, bränt ner byar som bedömdes föda motståndet, bombat ner vattenkällor.
Som vanligt är det inte al-Zenawi själv som står för ”kalaset”. Hur kan ett fattigt Etiopien ha råd att ständigt föra krig mot sitt eget folk och mot sina grannländer?Det är länder som USA, Storbritannien och Sverige som alltid står redo att finansiera folkmordet. Ja, i Sverige kallas det för bistånd, utvecklingsstöd, budgetstöd. Du och jag som skattebetalare står alltså för terroristen al-Zenawi budgetering av utrotning av sitt eget folk.
Folket i Ogaden har tyvärr inga Hollywood stjärnor och liberala politiker som vi ofta hör skrika högt mot folkmordet i Darfur, mot Mugabes politik i Zimbabwe, etc. vid sin sida. Har ni någonsin hört riksdagskvinna och Folkpartiets taleskvinna i biståndsfrågor, Birgitta Ohlsson ifrågasätta svensk bistånd till terror regimen i Addis Abeba. Birgitta ta en kort paus från festandet och FRA snacket. Skänk lite liberala bröd till folket i Ogaden.
Läs gärna Reuters rapportering av läget i Ogaden idag.
By Daniel Wallis
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Ogaden rebels demanded on Friday that the U.N. Security Council secure an aid corridor to their homeland where they said people were starving behind a military blockade.
Since June last year the Ethiopian military has been waging an offensive against separatist guerrillas that has cut off access for most aid workers and journalists to the ethnically Somali region.
"The situation is getting out of hand. Women and children and the elderly are dying from thirst and hunger," Abdirahman Mahdi, a founding member of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) said in a telephone interview.
"The U.N. Security Council must set up and enforce an aid corridor immediately, with international monitors, because the army is using relief supplies to fuel its campaign."
Ethiopia's government, an important U.S. ally in the region, routinely rejects ONLF claims that its forces withhold aid from desperate communities in the drought-stricken east.
The ONLF was formed in 1984 in the ethnically Somali region on Ethiopia's border with Somalia. Its aims have varied between full-scale independence to joining a "Greater Somalia" to more autonomy within Ethiopia for a region it says is neglected.
Addis Ababa says the rebels are terrorists supported by Horn of Africa rival Eritrea, and points to an ONLF attack on a Chinese-run oil field in April 2007 that killed 74 people.
It says criticism of its tactics in the rocky, arid region is just defamation by "anti-peace" forces.
Mahdi said international officials who had visited Ogaden recently, including U.N. aid chief John Holmes, had underestimated the crisis.
"People are eating roots and grass, animals are dying," he said. "And at the same time the military campaign is going on. Soldiers are shooting people, beating people, harassing them."
Holmes said earlier this month special attention should be paid to the region and food deliveries should be speeded up.
In June, U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said donors who gave the government more than $2 billion a year in aid needed to speak out against what the group called widespread and systematic atrocities by Ethiopian troops.
HRW accused Western nations including the United States and Britain of maintaining a conspiracy of silence. Addis Ababa said the report was fabricated.
In July, regional government officials in Ogaden accused a Swiss medical charity of spreading hearsay after it stopped work there complaining of repeated obstructions, intimidation and arrests.
Han har militärt blockerat området, kastat ut enskilda organisationer som Läkare Utan Gränser, för förhindra ögonvittnen, bränt ner byar som bedömdes föda motståndet, bombat ner vattenkällor.
Som vanligt är det inte al-Zenawi själv som står för ”kalaset”. Hur kan ett fattigt Etiopien ha råd att ständigt föra krig mot sitt eget folk och mot sina grannländer?Det är länder som USA, Storbritannien och Sverige som alltid står redo att finansiera folkmordet. Ja, i Sverige kallas det för bistånd, utvecklingsstöd, budgetstöd. Du och jag som skattebetalare står alltså för terroristen al-Zenawi budgetering av utrotning av sitt eget folk.
Folket i Ogaden har tyvärr inga Hollywood stjärnor och liberala politiker som vi ofta hör skrika högt mot folkmordet i Darfur, mot Mugabes politik i Zimbabwe, etc. vid sin sida. Har ni någonsin hört riksdagskvinna och Folkpartiets taleskvinna i biståndsfrågor, Birgitta Ohlsson ifrågasätta svensk bistånd till terror regimen i Addis Abeba. Birgitta ta en kort paus från festandet och FRA snacket. Skänk lite liberala bröd till folket i Ogaden.
Läs gärna Reuters rapportering av läget i Ogaden idag.
By Daniel Wallis
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Ogaden rebels demanded on Friday that the U.N. Security Council secure an aid corridor to their homeland where they said people were starving behind a military blockade.
Since June last year the Ethiopian military has been waging an offensive against separatist guerrillas that has cut off access for most aid workers and journalists to the ethnically Somali region.
"The situation is getting out of hand. Women and children and the elderly are dying from thirst and hunger," Abdirahman Mahdi, a founding member of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) said in a telephone interview.
"The U.N. Security Council must set up and enforce an aid corridor immediately, with international monitors, because the army is using relief supplies to fuel its campaign."
Ethiopia's government, an important U.S. ally in the region, routinely rejects ONLF claims that its forces withhold aid from desperate communities in the drought-stricken east.
The ONLF was formed in 1984 in the ethnically Somali region on Ethiopia's border with Somalia. Its aims have varied between full-scale independence to joining a "Greater Somalia" to more autonomy within Ethiopia for a region it says is neglected.
Addis Ababa says the rebels are terrorists supported by Horn of Africa rival Eritrea, and points to an ONLF attack on a Chinese-run oil field in April 2007 that killed 74 people.
It says criticism of its tactics in the rocky, arid region is just defamation by "anti-peace" forces.
Mahdi said international officials who had visited Ogaden recently, including U.N. aid chief John Holmes, had underestimated the crisis.
"People are eating roots and grass, animals are dying," he said. "And at the same time the military campaign is going on. Soldiers are shooting people, beating people, harassing them."
Holmes said earlier this month special attention should be paid to the region and food deliveries should be speeded up.
In June, U.S.-based Human Rights Watch said donors who gave the government more than $2 billion a year in aid needed to speak out against what the group called widespread and systematic atrocities by Ethiopian troops.
HRW accused Western nations including the United States and Britain of maintaining a conspiracy of silence. Addis Ababa said the report was fabricated.
In July, regional government officials in Ogaden accused a Swiss medical charity of spreading hearsay after it stopped work there complaining of repeated obstructions, intimidation and arrests.
lördag 13 september 2008
Vänner Adulis är tillbaka. Åter till fantastiska Sverige efter månader av äventyr -oftast utan tillgång till Internet och andra skit som över-konsumtion samhället erbjuder.
Går igenom min rutin för att se om det har hänt något exceptionellt i moder Svea, speciellt inom de områden jag är intresserad av. Som bekant är: Afrika, bistånd och den sk ”fria media:s” ständiga lögner, bland de ämnen som intresserar mig.
En av landets största hycklar-tidning, DN hade den 5:e sept, en artikel om Bengt Nilssons kommande bok. Rubriken var riktigt saftigt: "Svenskt bistånd finansierar krig".Och fortsätter ”Sveriges bistånd till Afrika finansierar krig och stödjer diktaturer. Det hävdar Afrikakännaren Bengt Nilsson i en ny bok där biståndsorganet Sida anklagas för att vilseleda de politiker som beslutar om biståndet.”
Jag liksom många andra som har direkt och indirekt varit offer för svenskt bistånd, ser verkligen fram mot att läsa boken. Främst för att se hur långt denne ”afrikakännaren” kan driva sin sak innan någon klipper hans försörjningskälla för gott :-). Samtidigt håller tusentals av så kallade biståndsarbetare, experter, konsulter som är helt beroende av fortsatt bistånd för sitt levebröd på att smida sina vapen för att gå till motattack. För dessa och biståndindustrin är saken på liv och död. Håll öron och ögon öppna närmaste veckorna, men akta er for korselden.
Det är ingen nyhet för oss att svenskt bistånd finansierat krig i Afrika. Det har det gjort i mer än 30-år. Fallet Etiopien – ett av Sveriges bortskämda barn – är det absolut mest tydliga exemplet. Sveriges årliga bistånd till Etiopien (ända sedan 1960-talet) har igenomsnitt varit ca 500 miljoner kronor. De olika etiopiska regimers krig mot sitt eget folk och mot sina grannländer har inte kunnat fortsätta år efter år utan svenskt bistånd. Det som är nytt idag är, en svensk ”Afrikakännare” skriver om det. Mina och era insändare om att sätta villkor för svenskt bistånd har i åratal hamnat i papperskorgen av just den ”fria media”
Etiopiens invasion och fortsatt ockupation av Somalia kan inte genomföras utan svenskt bistånd i form av budgetstöd till terrorregimen i Addis. Regimen får inte bara ekonomiskt stöd av Sverige utan även politiskt. Vet ni att Sverige är bland de länder som kallas för International Somalia Contact Group. Gruppen styrs av USA och Jendayi Frazer. Bland de brott som denna grupp begått mot Somalias folk är att ge Etiopien sitt fulla stöd att invadera och ockupera Somalia. USA skulle sköta den militära delen av stödet medan länder som Sverige ta hand om den ekonomiska bördan – BISTÅND.
Går igenom min rutin för att se om det har hänt något exceptionellt i moder Svea, speciellt inom de områden jag är intresserad av. Som bekant är: Afrika, bistånd och den sk ”fria media:s” ständiga lögner, bland de ämnen som intresserar mig.
En av landets största hycklar-tidning, DN hade den 5:e sept, en artikel om Bengt Nilssons kommande bok. Rubriken var riktigt saftigt: "Svenskt bistånd finansierar krig".Och fortsätter ”Sveriges bistånd till Afrika finansierar krig och stödjer diktaturer. Det hävdar Afrikakännaren Bengt Nilsson i en ny bok där biståndsorganet Sida anklagas för att vilseleda de politiker som beslutar om biståndet.”
Jag liksom många andra som har direkt och indirekt varit offer för svenskt bistånd, ser verkligen fram mot att läsa boken. Främst för att se hur långt denne ”afrikakännaren” kan driva sin sak innan någon klipper hans försörjningskälla för gott :-). Samtidigt håller tusentals av så kallade biståndsarbetare, experter, konsulter som är helt beroende av fortsatt bistånd för sitt levebröd på att smida sina vapen för att gå till motattack. För dessa och biståndindustrin är saken på liv och död. Håll öron och ögon öppna närmaste veckorna, men akta er for korselden.
Det är ingen nyhet för oss att svenskt bistånd finansierat krig i Afrika. Det har det gjort i mer än 30-år. Fallet Etiopien – ett av Sveriges bortskämda barn – är det absolut mest tydliga exemplet. Sveriges årliga bistånd till Etiopien (ända sedan 1960-talet) har igenomsnitt varit ca 500 miljoner kronor. De olika etiopiska regimers krig mot sitt eget folk och mot sina grannländer har inte kunnat fortsätta år efter år utan svenskt bistånd. Det som är nytt idag är, en svensk ”Afrikakännare” skriver om det. Mina och era insändare om att sätta villkor för svenskt bistånd har i åratal hamnat i papperskorgen av just den ”fria media”
Etiopiens invasion och fortsatt ockupation av Somalia kan inte genomföras utan svenskt bistånd i form av budgetstöd till terrorregimen i Addis. Regimen får inte bara ekonomiskt stöd av Sverige utan även politiskt. Vet ni att Sverige är bland de länder som kallas för International Somalia Contact Group. Gruppen styrs av USA och Jendayi Frazer. Bland de brott som denna grupp begått mot Somalias folk är att ge Etiopien sitt fulla stöd att invadera och ockupera Somalia. USA skulle sköta den militära delen av stödet medan länder som Sverige ta hand om den ekonomiska bördan – BISTÅND.
onsdag 19 december 2007
The "war on terror" and the Worst Humanitarian Crisis in Africa
by Sadia Ali Aden
Source: Media Monitors http://world.mediamonitors.net/
"The current Somali nightmare was exacerbated by the systematic assassination of Somali independent media groups who are not pro TFG and the Ethiopian occupation. And the silence of the international community on this matter is deeply disturbing and sadly deafening."
Approximately three months ago, Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG), pressured out Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi. Surprisingly, this political re-arrangement of deckchairs generated much noisy headlines.
Meanwhile, the real story--the great unfolding humanitarian disaster--continued unnoticed.
For the Somali people, the Ethiopian invasion of December of 2006 could not have started at a worse time. Defeating the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) and propping up the TFG; this was Ethiopia's immediate rationale for violating Somalia. The larger goal? Forging a partnership between Washington and Addis Ababa in order to execute "war on terror"…
A year later, this mission has not been accomplished. Instead, the "war on terror" has become the terror of war being visited on the Somali people.
Admittedly a handful of Somalis have benefited from the invasion, specifically the dozens of warlords previously driven out of Mogadishu by the UIC. These warlords, the instigators of Somalia's current civil conflict, were reinstalled in their fiefdoms riding on the backs of Ethiopia's invading tanks. As a result, the reviled check points and road blocks used to bully cash out of unarmed civilians were reintroduced in Southern Somalia, particularly Mogadishu.
To keep the invasion and Africa's worst humanitarian catastrophe going, heavy and modern weapons, including airplanes were used. One was a U.S. Air Force AC-130 gunship that attacked and killed Somali villagers and countless livestock in the hunt for three foreign men suspected for the bombing of 1998 American embassies in Africa, who yet remain at large.
Among those caught in the chaos were visiting Somalis from the Diaspora. In the period between June and December 2006, Somali technocrats returned to their native country to partake the rebuilding in the six month period of peace and stability that was established under the rule of the UIC. The Diaspora arrived with the intention to give back to the land and the people they left behind and contribute to rebuilding their lives.
Unfortunately, an extraordinary rendition programs were the gratitude they received; in that, the TFG, Kenya, Ethiopia and US all being implicated. Young men as young as 12 years of age were taken out of their homes in the dead of the night, blindfolded and taken into unknown destinations.
Fleeing refugees of mostly women and children did meet a similar fate. Unfortunately, these refugees had no where to escape, as Kenya decided to close its borders and deny them entry. This paved the way to the current nightmare scenario: 1 million internally displaced persons (IDPs,) mostly children and women, without any provision or protection from the UN or other humanitarian agencies or NGOs.
In order to create a safe haven for the displaced refugees, the international community must demand the neighboring countries to open their borders. It is all too often that the casualties of war are those that are unmentioned. The innocent men, women and children, caught in the middle, left with no way out.
The UN's High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, said border security measures should not impair the ability of deserving Somali civilians to enter Kenya to seek safety and protection as refugees. The neighboring Nations have humanitarian responsibility to safeguard these refugees.
On October 30, 2007, 40 international NGOs have released a joint statement ominously warning against a gathering cloud of humanitarian catastrophe in Somalia urging the international community to respond to this man-made calamity as the Ethiopian forces and militias loyal to the (TFG) callously prevent the delivery, and bluntly stating that "there is an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in South Central Somalia".
Meanwhile, Ethiopian forces continue their shelling of Mogadishu neighborhoods and killing, according to Elman Human Rights group, 7000 civilians mostly women, children, and elderly between January and November of 2007.
"In Shell-Shocked, Human Rights Watch's August 2007 report of our investigation of the March-April hostilities, we documented many of the most serious patterns of abuse by Ethiopian troops, such as indiscriminate attacks on civilians, summary executions and repeated targeting of hospitals," wrote Tom Malinowski, Washington Advocacy Director for Human Rights Watch, in an open letter to Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates.
However, the international media by and large remain morally selective in what they show to the world.
Somali caricaturist, Amin Amir (AminArts.com,) depicts this morally selectivity on his December 12, 2007 cartoon. The powerful imagery shows a representative of the international media zooming his camera on a severely malnourished child standing in the middle of a killing field where many bodies are on the ground and Ethiopian fighter jets are flying overhead and dropping missiles. The child retorts: I don't need your coverage; it is these atrocities – pointing to the dead-- that you need to be telling the world.
The current Somali nightmare was exacerbated by the systematic assassination of Somali independent media groups who are not pro TFG and the Ethiopian occupation. And the silence of the international community on this matter is deeply disturbing and sadly deafening.
This year alone, eight Somali journalists were killed- their crimes being to have simply dared reporting the reality on the grounds of Mogadishu. The TFG & Ethiopian forces are terrorizing Somali reporters creating an uncomfortable environment of terror and coercion.
According to the United Nations Children's Fund, one-quarter of the refugees around Afgooye are younger than age of five. Sick children and pregnant women often are turned away at checkpoints, and trucks carrying food and other humanitarian aid are routinely charged $500 each for passing through.
"Things are now getting absolutely worse," said Christian Balslev-Olesen, the UNICEF representative for Somalia. "There is a dirtiness to this war. Children are a real target."
Source: Media Monitors http://world.mediamonitors.net/
"The current Somali nightmare was exacerbated by the systematic assassination of Somali independent media groups who are not pro TFG and the Ethiopian occupation. And the silence of the international community on this matter is deeply disturbing and sadly deafening."
Approximately three months ago, Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG), pressured out Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi. Surprisingly, this political re-arrangement of deckchairs generated much noisy headlines.
Meanwhile, the real story--the great unfolding humanitarian disaster--continued unnoticed.
For the Somali people, the Ethiopian invasion of December of 2006 could not have started at a worse time. Defeating the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) and propping up the TFG; this was Ethiopia's immediate rationale for violating Somalia. The larger goal? Forging a partnership between Washington and Addis Ababa in order to execute "war on terror"…
A year later, this mission has not been accomplished. Instead, the "war on terror" has become the terror of war being visited on the Somali people.
Admittedly a handful of Somalis have benefited from the invasion, specifically the dozens of warlords previously driven out of Mogadishu by the UIC. These warlords, the instigators of Somalia's current civil conflict, were reinstalled in their fiefdoms riding on the backs of Ethiopia's invading tanks. As a result, the reviled check points and road blocks used to bully cash out of unarmed civilians were reintroduced in Southern Somalia, particularly Mogadishu.
To keep the invasion and Africa's worst humanitarian catastrophe going, heavy and modern weapons, including airplanes were used. One was a U.S. Air Force AC-130 gunship that attacked and killed Somali villagers and countless livestock in the hunt for three foreign men suspected for the bombing of 1998 American embassies in Africa, who yet remain at large.
Among those caught in the chaos were visiting Somalis from the Diaspora. In the period between June and December 2006, Somali technocrats returned to their native country to partake the rebuilding in the six month period of peace and stability that was established under the rule of the UIC. The Diaspora arrived with the intention to give back to the land and the people they left behind and contribute to rebuilding their lives.
Unfortunately, an extraordinary rendition programs were the gratitude they received; in that, the TFG, Kenya, Ethiopia and US all being implicated. Young men as young as 12 years of age were taken out of their homes in the dead of the night, blindfolded and taken into unknown destinations.
Fleeing refugees of mostly women and children did meet a similar fate. Unfortunately, these refugees had no where to escape, as Kenya decided to close its borders and deny them entry. This paved the way to the current nightmare scenario: 1 million internally displaced persons (IDPs,) mostly children and women, without any provision or protection from the UN or other humanitarian agencies or NGOs.
In order to create a safe haven for the displaced refugees, the international community must demand the neighboring countries to open their borders. It is all too often that the casualties of war are those that are unmentioned. The innocent men, women and children, caught in the middle, left with no way out.
The UN's High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, said border security measures should not impair the ability of deserving Somali civilians to enter Kenya to seek safety and protection as refugees. The neighboring Nations have humanitarian responsibility to safeguard these refugees.
On October 30, 2007, 40 international NGOs have released a joint statement ominously warning against a gathering cloud of humanitarian catastrophe in Somalia urging the international community to respond to this man-made calamity as the Ethiopian forces and militias loyal to the (TFG) callously prevent the delivery, and bluntly stating that "there is an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in South Central Somalia".
Meanwhile, Ethiopian forces continue their shelling of Mogadishu neighborhoods and killing, according to Elman Human Rights group, 7000 civilians mostly women, children, and elderly between January and November of 2007.
"In Shell-Shocked, Human Rights Watch's August 2007 report of our investigation of the March-April hostilities, we documented many of the most serious patterns of abuse by Ethiopian troops, such as indiscriminate attacks on civilians, summary executions and repeated targeting of hospitals," wrote Tom Malinowski, Washington Advocacy Director for Human Rights Watch, in an open letter to Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates.
However, the international media by and large remain morally selective in what they show to the world.
Somali caricaturist, Amin Amir (AminArts.com,) depicts this morally selectivity on his December 12, 2007 cartoon. The powerful imagery shows a representative of the international media zooming his camera on a severely malnourished child standing in the middle of a killing field where many bodies are on the ground and Ethiopian fighter jets are flying overhead and dropping missiles. The child retorts: I don't need your coverage; it is these atrocities – pointing to the dead-- that you need to be telling the world.
The current Somali nightmare was exacerbated by the systematic assassination of Somali independent media groups who are not pro TFG and the Ethiopian occupation. And the silence of the international community on this matter is deeply disturbing and sadly deafening.
This year alone, eight Somali journalists were killed- their crimes being to have simply dared reporting the reality on the grounds of Mogadishu. The TFG & Ethiopian forces are terrorizing Somali reporters creating an uncomfortable environment of terror and coercion.
According to the United Nations Children's Fund, one-quarter of the refugees around Afgooye are younger than age of five. Sick children and pregnant women often are turned away at checkpoints, and trucks carrying food and other humanitarian aid are routinely charged $500 each for passing through.
"Things are now getting absolutely worse," said Christian Balslev-Olesen, the UNICEF representative for Somalia. "There is a dirtiness to this war. Children are a real target."
söndag 25 november 2007
War Crimes Investigation in Somalia: America's global war on terror a catalyst for human rights violation in Somalia
By Abdirizak Omar Mohamed
On November 13, 2007 a United Nations envoy said Somali war crimes suspects should be prosecuted at the international Criminal Court in order to end impunity in the lawless African nation as published on hiiraan on Line and many other international media and on November 16, 2007 the European Parliament called for war crimes probe in Somalia, though, it is too little too late for many victims and their families Somalis around the globe welcome both calls and see this as the first acknowledgement by the International Community that war crimes were committed by Ethiopians and the TFG militias. In fact the European parliament firmly stated for the first time that Ethiopia is the major impediment to peace in Somalia and called for the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops.
Nevertheless, unless the USA alters its foreign policy on Somalia and unless Jendayi Frazer, the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs acknowledges and admits she is wrong in her defense for the presence of Ethiopian troops in somalia in general and her firm support for the Ethiopian dictator Meles zenawi in particular, thousands more will suffer unabated at the hands of Ethiopians and the misinformed American policy of indiference, policies based on the myth of global war on terror. How many more human life is this American foreign policy based on myth worth?
It is well known fact that American foreign policy has historically been guided by economic and strategic factors rather than by humanitarian considerations, therefore the underlying principle that shapes in any of its foreign policy is first to take into consideration the net positive impact such policy would have on America's economic and national security interest, irrespective of its net negative impact on other countries. Particularly, this mantra became more common and widespread in post 911, as more of their policies subsequently violated other nation's sovereignty, Territorial integrity and peoples human rights as unequivocally evidenced in Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq. In the context of protecting its economic interest, the Bush administration has unilaterally invaded Iraq in a false pretence that Sadam possessed WMD. In his new book The Age of Turbulence former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan argues, "as long as the United States is beholden to potentially unfriendly sources of oil and gas, we are vulnerable to economic crises over which we have little control." This is the product, he states of an overriding fact of today's global economy: "[W]orld growth over the next quarter century at rates commensurate with the past quarter century will require between one-fourth and two-fifths more oil than we use today".
While Greenspan's new revelation and his articulations of linking America's long-term energy squeeze with past assassination and invasions of other countries may have triggered a political firestorm in the Bush administration, Somalia is another country that has become a victim of America's economic and national security policy such as the war on terror. However, the mediocre displayed by the International Community of being either indifferent or opting to take an spectator's seat that kept them dormant for the past 16 years has also failed the Somali people, because the International Community failed to react promptly and respond to the atrocities committed against innocent civilians by the Ethiopians, the TFG and the USA.
In the case of Somalia, before the civil war broke out in 1991, the military regime of Siad Barre gave exploration rights in the Northeastern region (Puntland) to giant American companies such as Conoco and Chevron; nevertheless, these oil companies left the country due to security reasons during the civil war. Somalia remained chaos for the next 16 years as powerful tribal warlords who controlled and benefited from the spoils of the war economy ran the country. These warlords who later became members of the transitional Federal Government that was established in Kenya in 2004, even challenged and prevented the TFG to relocate to the capital city of Mogadishu
In June 2006, the Union of Islamic Courts defeated the warlords and created peace and security in almost more than 70% of the country and gained the popular support of majority of Somalis, they succeeded in opening up the Mogadishu airport and seaport for the first time in more than 15 years, schools reopened and children started going to schools, the Union of Islamic courts have finally gained the unconditional support of all Somalis and to illustrate few of their success story they have started formulating policies with respect to land and property disputes and only six gun related deaths were reported for the six months they governed south and central Somalia, where as the number of people killed each day in Mogadishu alone is estimated 10-15 before the union of Islamic courts came to power .
While the US government has followed an ambiguous course in Somalia since the outbreak of the civil war and remained passive on the many peace conferences to reconcile the conflicting parties, this ambiguity of "do nothing" policy the US pursued during the civil war was consistent with its national interest policy on Somalia. However, as always the pattern is the US changes its foreign policies when it fits its national interest to the extent the current administration calls dictators and rogues states its staunchest allies and bad guys become the good guys as Justine Raimondo points out in an op-ed titled why the US supports warlords, in this he states that "in the new millennium, we have tossed aside humanitarian concerns in favor of the ruthless pursuit of "terrorists," real or imagined. The former "warlords" hunted by U.S. troops and blamed for Somalia's shocking degeneration into pure chaos are now aided and abetted by the Americans and their Ethiopian cohorts".
In analyzing the USA's ever-changing policies the Washington post in a very metaphorical yet convincing explains how the US portrays the bad guys as the good guys when it fits its own policy as illustrated by its support for the warlords and demonizing the Union of Islamic Courts, in this excerpt the Post demonstrates how American policy makers deviated from the truth and what was morally right and sided with criminals like bashir raghe and I quote " Abukar Omar Adan was a devoutly Islamic and heavily armed clan elder with ties to the strict neighborhood religious courts that had brought a semblance of order to a city without a government. His rival, Bashir Raghe, was a brash, younger man who had been a waste contractor with the U.S. military forces in Mogadishu before the United States pulled out."
Guess, who is the U.S. proxy No, it's not the bourgeois businessman and city father whose stature in the community as a force for order advertises him as the natural and only logical choice - it's Raghe, the street punk and gang leader, who, together with his fellow killers, has reduced Somalia to a kind of living hell.
It is regrettable Ms. Jendayi Frazer continues supporting warlords and Ethiopians and holds this imaginary reasoning in her mind that ignores logic and contradicts to what experts on conflict resolution are saying, as well as published literature at her disposal- that Ethiopia is major stumbling block to peace in Somalia, and that the Somali Re-liberation alliance is the only true and people's choice that can bring about durable peace in Somalia and not the current TFG that is made up of criminal warlords.
In an interview she gave the voice of America Somali service on November 6, 2007 she presented a view that contradicts to an opinion presented earlier in the same week by the U.S. Special Envoy for Somalia Mr. John Yates who was quoted as saying that the United States underestimated the magnitude of hatred the Somali people have for the Ethiopian troops. While many concur with Mr. yate's view due to the fact of historical enmity and border disputes between the two countries. Ms.Jendayi Frazer thinks otherwise and firmly believes as stated in that interview that "the Ethiopians are playing a critical role in trying to stabilize the country". Ethiopians are de-establising force stupid!!! And Mr. Yates is right in his view that we behold in our inner soul that Ethiopia is our enemy as long as they keep oppressing our brothers and sisters in the Ogaden region.
DIIDNAYE OGOW DALKAYAGA
NINKII DOONAHAYAYOW
INUU DUUDSIYA RABOW
ANNAGU DIIDNAYE OGOW
It is the view of Somalis every where that it is in the best interest of the International community as well as the USA to take a different approach to the Somali conflict than the current rigid approach that is consistent and only reflects on the interest of America's foreign policy. It is high time that America embraces a paradigm shift in its policy on Somalia for the interest of both countries and force Ethiopia to immediately withdraw it troops from Somalia and start engaging with the Somali Re-liberation Alliance in Asmar as it is the only viable alternative that can end the current crises in Somalia.
The question is will the European parliament press their call for war crimes investigation or will they be pressured to keep quite? As was the case when the Europeans Union called for war crimes investigation in April 2007 when Ethiopians and the TFG militias killed thousands of innocent Somalis and displaced half a million of Mogadishu population.
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Abdirizak O. Mohamed
is an independent researcher and a member of Somali Canadian Diaspora Alliance. He holds a master's Degree in Environmental Studies focusing on post-conflict development from York University, Toronto Canada. and can be reached at E-mail abdirizakom@gmail.com
On November 13, 2007 a United Nations envoy said Somali war crimes suspects should be prosecuted at the international Criminal Court in order to end impunity in the lawless African nation as published on hiiraan on Line and many other international media and on November 16, 2007 the European Parliament called for war crimes probe in Somalia, though, it is too little too late for many victims and their families Somalis around the globe welcome both calls and see this as the first acknowledgement by the International Community that war crimes were committed by Ethiopians and the TFG militias. In fact the European parliament firmly stated for the first time that Ethiopia is the major impediment to peace in Somalia and called for the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops.
Nevertheless, unless the USA alters its foreign policy on Somalia and unless Jendayi Frazer, the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs acknowledges and admits she is wrong in her defense for the presence of Ethiopian troops in somalia in general and her firm support for the Ethiopian dictator Meles zenawi in particular, thousands more will suffer unabated at the hands of Ethiopians and the misinformed American policy of indiference, policies based on the myth of global war on terror. How many more human life is this American foreign policy based on myth worth?
It is well known fact that American foreign policy has historically been guided by economic and strategic factors rather than by humanitarian considerations, therefore the underlying principle that shapes in any of its foreign policy is first to take into consideration the net positive impact such policy would have on America's economic and national security interest, irrespective of its net negative impact on other countries. Particularly, this mantra became more common and widespread in post 911, as more of their policies subsequently violated other nation's sovereignty, Territorial integrity and peoples human rights as unequivocally evidenced in Somalia, Afghanistan and Iraq. In the context of protecting its economic interest, the Bush administration has unilaterally invaded Iraq in a false pretence that Sadam possessed WMD. In his new book The Age of Turbulence former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan argues, "as long as the United States is beholden to potentially unfriendly sources of oil and gas, we are vulnerable to economic crises over which we have little control." This is the product, he states of an overriding fact of today's global economy: "[W]orld growth over the next quarter century at rates commensurate with the past quarter century will require between one-fourth and two-fifths more oil than we use today".
While Greenspan's new revelation and his articulations of linking America's long-term energy squeeze with past assassination and invasions of other countries may have triggered a political firestorm in the Bush administration, Somalia is another country that has become a victim of America's economic and national security policy such as the war on terror. However, the mediocre displayed by the International Community of being either indifferent or opting to take an spectator's seat that kept them dormant for the past 16 years has also failed the Somali people, because the International Community failed to react promptly and respond to the atrocities committed against innocent civilians by the Ethiopians, the TFG and the USA.
In the case of Somalia, before the civil war broke out in 1991, the military regime of Siad Barre gave exploration rights in the Northeastern region (Puntland) to giant American companies such as Conoco and Chevron; nevertheless, these oil companies left the country due to security reasons during the civil war. Somalia remained chaos for the next 16 years as powerful tribal warlords who controlled and benefited from the spoils of the war economy ran the country. These warlords who later became members of the transitional Federal Government that was established in Kenya in 2004, even challenged and prevented the TFG to relocate to the capital city of Mogadishu
In June 2006, the Union of Islamic Courts defeated the warlords and created peace and security in almost more than 70% of the country and gained the popular support of majority of Somalis, they succeeded in opening up the Mogadishu airport and seaport for the first time in more than 15 years, schools reopened and children started going to schools, the Union of Islamic courts have finally gained the unconditional support of all Somalis and to illustrate few of their success story they have started formulating policies with respect to land and property disputes and only six gun related deaths were reported for the six months they governed south and central Somalia, where as the number of people killed each day in Mogadishu alone is estimated 10-15 before the union of Islamic courts came to power .
While the US government has followed an ambiguous course in Somalia since the outbreak of the civil war and remained passive on the many peace conferences to reconcile the conflicting parties, this ambiguity of "do nothing" policy the US pursued during the civil war was consistent with its national interest policy on Somalia. However, as always the pattern is the US changes its foreign policies when it fits its national interest to the extent the current administration calls dictators and rogues states its staunchest allies and bad guys become the good guys as Justine Raimondo points out in an op-ed titled why the US supports warlords, in this he states that "in the new millennium, we have tossed aside humanitarian concerns in favor of the ruthless pursuit of "terrorists," real or imagined. The former "warlords" hunted by U.S. troops and blamed for Somalia's shocking degeneration into pure chaos are now aided and abetted by the Americans and their Ethiopian cohorts".
In analyzing the USA's ever-changing policies the Washington post in a very metaphorical yet convincing explains how the US portrays the bad guys as the good guys when it fits its own policy as illustrated by its support for the warlords and demonizing the Union of Islamic Courts, in this excerpt the Post demonstrates how American policy makers deviated from the truth and what was morally right and sided with criminals like bashir raghe and I quote " Abukar Omar Adan was a devoutly Islamic and heavily armed clan elder with ties to the strict neighborhood religious courts that had brought a semblance of order to a city without a government. His rival, Bashir Raghe, was a brash, younger man who had been a waste contractor with the U.S. military forces in Mogadishu before the United States pulled out."
Guess, who is the U.S. proxy No, it's not the bourgeois businessman and city father whose stature in the community as a force for order advertises him as the natural and only logical choice - it's Raghe, the street punk and gang leader, who, together with his fellow killers, has reduced Somalia to a kind of living hell.
It is regrettable Ms. Jendayi Frazer continues supporting warlords and Ethiopians and holds this imaginary reasoning in her mind that ignores logic and contradicts to what experts on conflict resolution are saying, as well as published literature at her disposal- that Ethiopia is major stumbling block to peace in Somalia, and that the Somali Re-liberation alliance is the only true and people's choice that can bring about durable peace in Somalia and not the current TFG that is made up of criminal warlords.
In an interview she gave the voice of America Somali service on November 6, 2007 she presented a view that contradicts to an opinion presented earlier in the same week by the U.S. Special Envoy for Somalia Mr. John Yates who was quoted as saying that the United States underestimated the magnitude of hatred the Somali people have for the Ethiopian troops. While many concur with Mr. yate's view due to the fact of historical enmity and border disputes between the two countries. Ms.Jendayi Frazer thinks otherwise and firmly believes as stated in that interview that "the Ethiopians are playing a critical role in trying to stabilize the country". Ethiopians are de-establising force stupid!!! And Mr. Yates is right in his view that we behold in our inner soul that Ethiopia is our enemy as long as they keep oppressing our brothers and sisters in the Ogaden region.
DIIDNAYE OGOW DALKAYAGA
NINKII DOONAHAYAYOW
INUU DUUDSIYA RABOW
ANNAGU DIIDNAYE OGOW
It is the view of Somalis every where that it is in the best interest of the International community as well as the USA to take a different approach to the Somali conflict than the current rigid approach that is consistent and only reflects on the interest of America's foreign policy. It is high time that America embraces a paradigm shift in its policy on Somalia for the interest of both countries and force Ethiopia to immediately withdraw it troops from Somalia and start engaging with the Somali Re-liberation Alliance in Asmar as it is the only viable alternative that can end the current crises in Somalia.
The question is will the European parliament press their call for war crimes investigation or will they be pressured to keep quite? As was the case when the Europeans Union called for war crimes investigation in April 2007 when Ethiopians and the TFG militias killed thousands of innocent Somalis and displaced half a million of Mogadishu population.
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Abdirizak O. Mohamed
is an independent researcher and a member of Somali Canadian Diaspora Alliance. He holds a master's Degree in Environmental Studies focusing on post-conflict development from York University, Toronto Canada. and can be reached at E-mail abdirizakom@gmail.com
torsdag 13 september 2007
Etiopiens nya talskvinna: Jendayi Frazer
Ett folkmord pågår och har nu pågått i månader i Ogaden, Etiopien. Omvärlden tittar på utan några reaktioner - som alltid när det handlar om afrikansk människoliv. Regeringar som den svenska har fortsatt belöna terror-regimen i Addis Abeba med mer bistånd! Har ni hört någon som har ifrågasatt den svenska regeringensbeslut om att välja Etiopien bland de länder som fortsatt ska få svenska skattebetalarnas pengar??!
Organisationer som på plats i Ogaden bevittnat om vad som håller på att hända kastas ut ur landet. Bland andra Röda Korset. Media är totalt förbjudna att ta sig till regionen.
Web Exclusive By Jason McLure, Newsweek, skriver:
"The Ethiopian government denies committing atrocities and has expelled Doctors Without Borders and the International Red Cross from its Somali region. Journalists, too, are barred, but despite these measures reports of abuses nonetheless are continuing. Aid workers and residents in Jijiga, the dusty administrative center of Ethiopia’s Somali region, warn of a humanitarian crisis in the Ogaden countryside, where, they say, marauding Ethiopian troops have blocked village food supplies and shot and hanged civilians suspected of aiding the ethnic Somali Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF). William Robertson, the head of mission for the Dutch branch of Doctors Without Borders, says his organization's staff has treated civilians who'd been beaten and shot by the Ethiopian Army. "Our teams saw over 30 villages that had either been completely emptied or burned," he says. They had also witnessed Ethiopian troops chasing women and children away from a well."
Samtidigt kallar Jendayi Frazer, dessa vittnen som påstående, utsagor och beskyllning för vilken det saknas bevis.
"Jendayi Frazer, the State Department’s top Africa official, last week told a press conference in the capital of Addis Ababa that reports of atrocities in the Ogaden were simply “allegations.” “I think the Ethiopian government’s intent is not to kill civilians,”
Man kan ju undra om det är hon som driver terror-regimen i Etiopien.
onsdag 12 september 2007
Jendyi Frazer has a vendetta against people of Somalia
By Amina Mire
Department of Sociology and Anthropology of Carleton University, Ottawa Canada
“Chances are that the United States has run out of options in Somalia after the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Ms Jendayi Frazer conceded last week that Washington’s support for the ouster of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) by Ethiopia might have been a miscalculation. In an interview with BBC, Fraser conceded that the use of force in Somalia had only aggravated an already atrocious situation” [http://www.sirdoon.com/index.php?itemid=361#more] Jendyi Fazer has a vendetta against people of Somalia; She is the real force behind the US sponsorship of the Ethiopian invasion and current brutal occupation of Somalia [http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=18949]. Ms Frazer has not been able to hide her emotive aims behind her sponsorship of Ethiopia’s invasion of Somalia under respectable diplomatic language. Her distinctly belligerent overt anti-Somalia rants are often matched by her equally transparent pro Ethiopian rants. Her partisan rants gets great deal cruder as the invasion project becomes undone under its own cruel violence and as the resistant to the occupation gains momentum. Her press releases and interviews on Somalia are increasingly marked by incoherent outbursts as the resistance to her colonizing agenda is being exposed and effectively resisted. Here latest rant against the leadership of the Union of Islamic Courts is an apparent attempt at asserting herself in the Asmara gathering a week after the sham conference she sponsored, and was organized by Zinawi , Gedi and Yusuf, has failed spectacularly! Jendai Fraser lacks most basic skills required for the position she occupies and the sooner this becomes apparent to clearer heads in the US state department the better it will be for the US to salvage any shred of integrity or relevance to the situation in Somalia. MS Frazer is a dimwitted but very aggressive woman who has failed to deal with the fact that she is considered as a divider and belligerent partisan by the majority of the Somalis; as a result, she cannot be considered as an honest broker of peace and reconciliation among the people of Somalia. But Ms Frazer, it seems, is a woman who cannot take a rejection. Thus, as Somalis gather in Asmara to plan how to liberate their country from the foreign occupation entity which is wrecking death and destruction in Somalia, an occupation project which she supports fully, she makes a last ditch effort to sabotage the Asmara gathering with her irrational loud shouts and baseless accusations as she stands shoulder to shoulder with Meles Zinawi! In fact, in her irrational belligerent ways, MS Frazer is helping the Somali people’s resolve to liberate their country from the colonial occupation Tigre army of Meles Zinawi. This might just an urban myth but it nonetheless reflects MS Frazer’s relentless support for Ethiopia’s illegal invasion and occupation of Somalia; it has been suggested that, at least on one occasion, Ms Fraser has complained to the leaders of the Transitional Federal Government, “that it was unfair for Somalia to have all these miles of Ocean Coasts while Ethiopia has none”! Her latest belligerent rants from Addis Ababa gives credence to her naked attempt to support Ethiopia’s attempt to annex Somalia. “The US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Jendayi Frazer, said the presence of Hassan Dahir Aways at a meeting in Asmara was further evidence that Eritrea provided sanctuary for terrorists”. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6985656.stm] Ms Frazer is too dimwitted to grasp how stupid it is for her to make these powerful yet baseless charges while having a visit with Meles Zinawi in Addis Ababa. But Ms Frazer has a history of making similar ridiculously baseless accusatory comments against the whole Somali Diaspora community by calling them “wreckers and Spoilers of Peace” [http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,2098191,00.html] Her legendary rants against the opponents of the US foreign policy towards Somalia is matched by her equally fantastic ignorance of the facts on the grounds in Somalia before and after the Ethiopian invasion. Thus when she was recently asked by a BBC reporter to comment on the reality of “ spiralling armed violence” in Somalia under the Ethiopian occupation, Ms, Fraser said: “It is hard to say whether it (Somalia) is better or worse off because I think Ethiopia’s action was an action in the context of other actors’ actions. It is difficult to frankly say so. What is better is that the international community has converged on a set of recommendations for a way ahead.” [http://www.sirdoon.com/index.php?itemid=361#more] This is a woman without conscience for she made these comments after over 460,000 Somalis were being made internally displaced people and the country has been turn to a living hell on earth by Zinawi’ occupation force [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18745786/site/newsweek/; http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2067438,00.html; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6699479.stm http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070520-070601-8870r http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2067951,00.html] But people of Somalia cannot be fooled for they see this woman for who she really is: vindictive, manipulative “native informant” with malevolent colonizing agenda of her own [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/africa/6656753.stm, http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/somalia/2007/0515warning.htm]. . Jedai Fraser is the real power behind the US sponsorship of Ethiopia’s invasion of Somalia. She will continue to give total US backing to Ethiopia’s brutal occupation of Somalia. The people of Somalia will struggle for the liberation of their country and victory shall be theirs.
Department of Sociology and Anthropology of Carleton University, Ottawa Canada
“Chances are that the United States has run out of options in Somalia after the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Ms Jendayi Frazer conceded last week that Washington’s support for the ouster of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) by Ethiopia might have been a miscalculation. In an interview with BBC, Fraser conceded that the use of force in Somalia had only aggravated an already atrocious situation” [http://www.sirdoon.com/index.php?itemid=361#more] Jendyi Fazer has a vendetta against people of Somalia; She is the real force behind the US sponsorship of the Ethiopian invasion and current brutal occupation of Somalia [http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=18949]. Ms Frazer has not been able to hide her emotive aims behind her sponsorship of Ethiopia’s invasion of Somalia under respectable diplomatic language. Her distinctly belligerent overt anti-Somalia rants are often matched by her equally transparent pro Ethiopian rants. Her partisan rants gets great deal cruder as the invasion project becomes undone under its own cruel violence and as the resistant to the occupation gains momentum. Her press releases and interviews on Somalia are increasingly marked by incoherent outbursts as the resistance to her colonizing agenda is being exposed and effectively resisted. Here latest rant against the leadership of the Union of Islamic Courts is an apparent attempt at asserting herself in the Asmara gathering a week after the sham conference she sponsored, and was organized by Zinawi , Gedi and Yusuf, has failed spectacularly! Jendai Fraser lacks most basic skills required for the position she occupies and the sooner this becomes apparent to clearer heads in the US state department the better it will be for the US to salvage any shred of integrity or relevance to the situation in Somalia. MS Frazer is a dimwitted but very aggressive woman who has failed to deal with the fact that she is considered as a divider and belligerent partisan by the majority of the Somalis; as a result, she cannot be considered as an honest broker of peace and reconciliation among the people of Somalia. But Ms Frazer, it seems, is a woman who cannot take a rejection. Thus, as Somalis gather in Asmara to plan how to liberate their country from the foreign occupation entity which is wrecking death and destruction in Somalia, an occupation project which she supports fully, she makes a last ditch effort to sabotage the Asmara gathering with her irrational loud shouts and baseless accusations as she stands shoulder to shoulder with Meles Zinawi! In fact, in her irrational belligerent ways, MS Frazer is helping the Somali people’s resolve to liberate their country from the colonial occupation Tigre army of Meles Zinawi. This might just an urban myth but it nonetheless reflects MS Frazer’s relentless support for Ethiopia’s illegal invasion and occupation of Somalia; it has been suggested that, at least on one occasion, Ms Fraser has complained to the leaders of the Transitional Federal Government, “that it was unfair for Somalia to have all these miles of Ocean Coasts while Ethiopia has none”! Her latest belligerent rants from Addis Ababa gives credence to her naked attempt to support Ethiopia’s attempt to annex Somalia. “The US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Jendayi Frazer, said the presence of Hassan Dahir Aways at a meeting in Asmara was further evidence that Eritrea provided sanctuary for terrorists”. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6985656.stm] Ms Frazer is too dimwitted to grasp how stupid it is for her to make these powerful yet baseless charges while having a visit with Meles Zinawi in Addis Ababa. But Ms Frazer has a history of making similar ridiculously baseless accusatory comments against the whole Somali Diaspora community by calling them “wreckers and Spoilers of Peace” [http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,2098191,00.html] Her legendary rants against the opponents of the US foreign policy towards Somalia is matched by her equally fantastic ignorance of the facts on the grounds in Somalia before and after the Ethiopian invasion. Thus when she was recently asked by a BBC reporter to comment on the reality of “ spiralling armed violence” in Somalia under the Ethiopian occupation, Ms, Fraser said: “It is hard to say whether it (Somalia) is better or worse off because I think Ethiopia’s action was an action in the context of other actors’ actions. It is difficult to frankly say so. What is better is that the international community has converged on a set of recommendations for a way ahead.” [http://www.sirdoon.com/index.php?itemid=361#more] This is a woman without conscience for she made these comments after over 460,000 Somalis were being made internally displaced people and the country has been turn to a living hell on earth by Zinawi’ occupation force [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18745786/site/newsweek/; http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2067438,00.html; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6699479.stm http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070520-070601-8870r http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2067951,00.html] But people of Somalia cannot be fooled for they see this woman for who she really is: vindictive, manipulative “native informant” with malevolent colonizing agenda of her own [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/africa/6656753.stm, http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/somalia/2007/0515warning.htm]. . Jedai Fraser is the real power behind the US sponsorship of Ethiopia’s invasion of Somalia. She will continue to give total US backing to Ethiopia’s brutal occupation of Somalia. The people of Somalia will struggle for the liberation of their country and victory shall be theirs.
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