Uganda: The Consequences of the final whistle

A Final Bad show: this is what the German football legend has said after the final match between Spain & Netherland of the Fifa World cup 2010 in South Africa but few hours later it was not the worst show but also the saddest scene that Kampala, Uganda has faced for years – this time not from the Tanzanians or the Rwandese people but by a people they come in the first to help them and to set them free of what they’re suffering in the hands of those fanatic groups who don’t understand anything except the GUN – but Alshabab has responded very brutally in the eve of July 11 after killing those innocent people – the limbo that Somalia has lived for years made their leaders conduct so many conferences and meetings with AU Members and IGAD likewise simply for others it’s a matter of humanity relief – for Alshabab is another Restore Hope Operations.

It was never late when the leader of Radical group in Somalia Alshabab has profoundly said in his audio message that they were behind the blasts Mr. Ahmed Abdi Godane also known as Abu Zubayr has claimed the Kampala Bombings late Sunday. The death toll has risen to more than 70 and dozens more remain seriously wounded – though it’s the first time Alqaeda Affiliate Group to orchestrate some attacks outside Somalia but its believed it will not be the last as Alshabab Spokesman – Mr. Mohamed Rage has said quote ” The twin blasts were in retaliation for Uganda’s failure to withdraw its troops from Somalia and more will be on the way”

The blast has taken place in two places people were crowded to watch the final match of world cup between Spain & Holland.

Speaking about facts the AU Troops had not been brought up to Somalia not by their own ambition or their choice but by a demand from the Besieged Regime of Mogadishu and from exactly a man who butchered Somalia – Abdullahi Yusuf (Ina Yey) yet Alshabab blaming Uganda or Burundi to contribute troops to African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia – something raises some questions on why Somalia can’t control its own problems and why that couldn’t be internally without involving anybody – just like Somaliland who embodies the true Democracy that Africa has lacked for years if not decades – today in Mogadishu something is somehow apparent to the people after the continuous parachuted regimes who come into Somalia, after the mayhem it was living since Said Barre has left and after it has come Alqaeda Branch in East Africa – it has come apparent to the people that nobody is ready to change this phenomena where Somalia now truly stand where Alqaeda can detonate some terrorist attacks in East Africa if not the world.

Today Somalia becomes a place where some radical groups ruled not by law but by force – Alshabab had become the Rebel Group challenging what was known Islamic Court Union (ICU) yet nobody question or ready to stop this Mayhem that causing many to die for the dignity of their family members – their wealth and their humanity – this means Alshabab want to impose their beliefs as the standard of proper Islamic Behavior.

The number of people in Somalia who were dependent on international food aid has tripled since 2007, to an estimated 3.6 million. But there is no permanent foreign expatriate presence in southern Somalia, because the AL- Shabaab has declared war on the UN and on Western non-governmental organizations. International relief supplies are flown or shipped into the country and distributed, wherever possible, through local relief workers. Insurgents routinely attack and murder them, too; forty-two have been killed in the past two years alone.
And in the port of Kismayo , a young girl accused of adultery was buried up to her neck in the field of a soccer stadium packed with spectators, and then stoned to death; her family said that she was only thirteen years old and had in fact been gang-raped by the Al-shabaab itself – another case is, when Al-Shabaab decreed that gold and silver dental fillings were un-Islamic, and dispatched patrols to yank them out of people’s mouths.

Also In October 29, 2008, when six suicide bombers attacked in coordinated car-bombings targets in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, were it at least killed 29 people and wounded more than 25.

Finally, it seems to me that this terrorist group won’t stop at nothing to attack all his neighboring countries like Somaliland, Ethiopia and Kenya. So, Somaliland and every other country which got any borders with Somalia has to tighten its security and close its borders with it , because that is the least they can do, and what I want to say is like the old saying says ‘’Strong fences make good neighbors’’ .

Written by Faisel Ahmed Warsame