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Buhodle and Sool-jogto citizens demand rights back to their homes and waterholes
By A. Hindi
April 11, 2012
The 1st. of April attacks by the Hargaisa Militia on the residents of Sool Joogto and Buhoodle has caused tremendous loss of life and destruction of properties including the most important commodity in these arid Khaatumo lands; Water. The denial of the rural folks and their animals to have access to drinking water has shocked the community. in the attached Video, these Women are crying for help from the international community to assist them. Similar concerns are also being sent to the Transitional Federal Government of which the Khaatumo State of Somalia is a fully fledged recognized member.
The Hargaisa Militias are ruthless in their efforts to engage in ethnic cleansing and suppressing the basic human rights of the traditional residents of the Cayn Region whose only fault is to bear the Unionist Blue flag of the TFG; a move opposed by the secessionist Hargaisa Militias who claim to be a separate Somali country that calls its self “Somaliland”.
Khaatumo State of Somalia is supported by 99% of the Sool Sanaag and Cayn (SSC) regions which always stands for the Unity and cooperation with a Central Somali Government as is currently headed by the internationally recognized TFG. However, the International media has been quite absent in giving voice to these voiceless Khaatumo women. Under the leadership of Silaanyo, the criminals behind these atrocities have to be stopped before its too late. The world has seen the consequences of a slow response to the Ruwandan Genocide and must make sure that it is not repeated again in North-Eastern Somalia.
CC: pm@opm.gov.so
Cc: unpos_pio@un.org
Khaatumas@gmail.com
A photograph published with this piece could not be recovered — the Internet Archive never captured it, so the words are all that survive.