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Friday, January 16, 2009
Proving Zenawi's Mission in Somalia Not Accomplished By A/Rasaq H. Nuurre
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi
has declared "mission accomplished" in Somalia, and told
parliament Ethiopian troops will be home after two years of
a military mission to "defuse the plan orchestrated by
Eritrea, accompanied by al-Shabab, and anti-peace elements
in Ethiopia". His victory speech, however, may be intended
to deceive Ethiopian public and to divert the reality on the
ground that his troops were hobbled down in Somalia and that
he exculpated the defeat and claimed falsely a victory.
Meles's invading army, which had
already been occupying force over a decade now in large
parts of the southwest regions of Somalia, Gedo, Bay, and
Bakool, and indirectly
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi misinformed
the west, particularly the US, forced them to search someone
who is in the region, with capable ground forces to tackle
this new challenges, and decisively crush the rising power
of the Islamist in Somalia. He immediately galvanized these
powers to take an action, persuading them that leaving
Somalia which has at least five major see ports and a dozen
airports with its strategic location in the hands of the
Islamist is an unforgivable mistake. He induced them to either
confront with him this danger now before it gets worst or
otherwise face the consequences.
On one hand, Meles believed that these
major powers, without questioning the credibility of the
information he is giving, were keen to hear his
argument that Somalia had been a hot spot for terrorism
since the collapse of Siyad Barre's military rule earlier
1990s; thus, countless economic and military aid would have
poured to his regime during and after this invasion. This is
the same argument kept him in power so long that he is
fighting terrorism in the Horn of Africa on behave of the
free world. He presented Alshabab, formally known Al-Itahad
in the 1990s, as a vital factor with such provocative words
of hold sway over from Alaska to New Zealand and their
continuous appearance on the main world
television networks mainly prominent Aljazeera English
channel as a potential threat to the region in general
and to the Washington's interest in the Horn of Africa in
particular.
On the other, he proved to
himself that the war on Somalia is a huge opportunity for
him; and his regime would extremely benefit economically,
militarily, and politically from defeating the Islamist if
the go-ahead of the invasion is guaranteed. He
also found that he has a good chance to strengthen his
relationship with the west, specifically, the US which has
been very sensitive to hear the word 'Jihadist' which Meles
repeatedly and successfully used behind the microphones
prior to the invasion. And in fact, Meles
already benefited from his military ties with the US and has
"a close working relationship," as Pentagon Spokesman Lt.
Cmdr. Joe Carpenter stated before. The ties include
intelligence sharing, arms aid, and training that gives the
Ethiopians " the capacity to defend their boarders and
intercept terrorists and weapons of mass distractions".
After two years of his
army's brutality in Somalia, however, Meles has failed
to achieve any of his main objectives outlined by his foreign
minister Seyoum Mesfin, in an interview back in Dec. 2007.
He claimed that there was a lot of transformation in the
sort of capability building of the institutions of Somalia,
the TFG, the parliament and some other institutions and with
no concern of any damage to civilian lives and properties.
In contrary, and in reality, the TFG which is widely
viewed as an Ethiopian puppet by the vast majority of the
Somali people is failed not only to
sustain its power on a few streets of Mugadishu but also to
overcome the differences and the power struggle between its
top leaders; an argument that he later acceded. The president resigned over a disagreement
with his prime minister, and again the sign of
another dispute between the two remaining leaders---the
acting president and the acting prime minister---is on the
horizon.
In contrary of what Nur Adde called
peace making forces, Ethiopian army killed and displaced
tens of thousands of Somali civilians, looting their
properties, including hospitals, and committed war crimes
which Zenawi has no fear of any international inquiry in
to what degree of damage inflicted on the innocent civilians
during the invasion and the subsequent Ethiopian occupation.
The Somali public, precisely those in the south, had
been subject to collective reprisal by the Ethiopian army
since and before the invasion. This army which is suppose to
leave Somalia completely by now re-entered the
country from bordering
Moreover, the biggest proof of his
mission's failure in Somalia is that Al-Shabaab--which the
United States has designated a terror
organization--numbering 200 before the invasion gained
2000-3000 more after; and now they are together
with the other Islamist forcing his army vacate its
military bases in
Mogadishu. What ever you name it, it is the resistance, and
the refusal of the Somali people to this foreign body that
removed physically Ethiopian occupation, at least, in the capital, and not the
Djibouti Peace Agreement as Prime Minister Nur Adde claims.
The Americans resisted the British occupation, France did the same against Germany, and the Algerians gave one million lives for their freedom. It is the path and the dream for every resistance until the last day of the occupier is over. In no doubt, Meles had another agenda in his mind before the invasion that, he was later forced to swallow it: Had the Somali people not to unite against his agenda, Mogadishu would have been another Harar.
Finally, Ethiopia will stay in
Mogadishu, at least in the near future, spiritually through
the warlords and its collaborators and will occupy in other
parts of Somalia both physically and spiritually through its
repressive military machine. However, though Meles may
proudly view the product of his invasion to Somalia as a
victory of his own, his country, and his
allies; in fact, his army was broke and
depleted to even
withdraw from Mogadishu, and his objectives were not met as
he expected except "to dismantle Somalia to the extent
possible by taking the war to it and, along the way,
aggravating the contradiction between the Somali clans".
A/Rasaq can be reached for suggestions
and criticism at: Alldalka@
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