ARS - the Liberal Somalis of the Political Center

Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis

April 23, 2008

A great dose of misinformation characterized the world´s mass media as regards Somalia – and quite unfortunately for too long. The incessantly over-publicized reports of hostilities did not give the chance to readers allover the world to get an idea about the political opinions and the approaches to a liberal and democratic reconstruction of Somalia that are shared among many Somalis in Somalia and the Diaspora.

The overwhelming flow of information concerning Somalia is effectively misleading due to erroneous selection of news filtered through the world´s mass media. Assessing the situation in Somalia on the basis of this unrepresentative and utterly biased data, one may be driven to the absolutely erroneous conclusion that the Horn of Africa country is politically decomposed and impossible to reunite because of the existence of petty warlords who prefer to perpetuate the present situation of bloodshed, criminality, division, foreign invasion, and partly occupation. This comprehensive effort of misinformation must take an immediate end.

Change Somalia – Save Africa!

There are many great Somali intellectuals, politicians, activists, statesmen and cadres, businessmen and academia able to implement a National Reconciliation and Reconstruction 7-Year Project that will change the face of today´s Somalia, and turn the embattled but noble nation into paragon of African development, and cornerstone of regional stability.

My duty is not only to reveal great moments and snapshots from the Somali past, refute the aberration of the political divisionism, reject the pro-Abyssinian apologists´ shameful plead for servility, and highlight Human Rights violations perpetrated by the barbaric and criminal thugs of the Neo-Nazi Abyssinian tyrant Meles Zenawi.

I feel also obliged to break the wall of silence, which has been so scrupulously erected by the vicious enemies of the Somali Peace, Unity, and Progress, and to present to you analyses and approaches, assessments and conclusions, suggestions and plans published by genuinely liberal and democratic Somalis who represent the vanguard of the Reconstruction, Rehabilitation, and Reconciliation that so passionately the totality of the Somalis – from Mogadishu, Kismayu, Garowe, Ras Hafun, Dhahar, Berbera, and Hargeysa, from Ogaden and Kenya, from Djibouti and the Diaspora – desire, invoke, and envision.

America and Europe seem to worry about the rise of the Chinese trade and political influence in Africa. Washington seems to have particular problems with Asmara. Western capitals and NGOs from allover the world find the overall situation in Eastern Africa as perilous and explosive, able to trigger humanitarian disasters of colossal dimensions. Instability in Kenya is intertwined with the oppression of the Oromos and the Sidamas in the colonial relic state of Abyssinia, the butchery of the Anuak, the troubles of the Bejas, and the Drama of Darfur.