[Channel 4 News] Violence returns to Somalia 2008.04.21

[omarhas]

Ask what you can do for your country, not what your country can do for you! The international world is not going to do it for us; we need to do it for us. When are we going to realize this?

[wabdinur]

It's easier said then done because there are various countries that are meddling with Somalia's affairs.

[omarhas]

Your right, but I hope ur not suggesting that we accept the interim situation and not do anything about it. Where there is a will there is a way. We need a true definite intention and the mechanism will present itself.Question is what is our intention? Do we al hav the same definite intention/agenda? We need to stop pointing the finger @ splinter groups who r inquisitive,this will always b present,we cant change that,lets change what we can first,the mindset of our citizens - Smarten-up somalia

[wabdinur]

You're right, the mindset of tribalism should be labeled as taboo.

[BIHVR6GTI]

you are talking about doing the impossible, you cant changethe mind set of humanity and even if you do change the pwens as such asnormal citizens we will never change the people in power as much as i agreee with you, its a dead end thought my brother.

[omarhas]

You don't have to change people in power. The power is always with the people that support the people in power and that is the population. Besides the rigging of voting systems and corruption, ordinary people like you and I contribute substantially to the election of people in power. People don't just make decisions they always base it on some sort of analytical reasoning. If information used to make that decision is incorrect then one should only expect a wrong result just like in any formula

[GANEY112]

i have seen my house at 2.19 that white house is ours but now is fucked up all. but who cares a house now when innocent people suffering a war. damn

[wadanaay]

Did you noticed how the reporter didn't mention the 21 unarmed people that were killed inside the Mosque by the Ethiopian. I hate bbc, they're just like fox news. don't trust them. they don't mention the atrocities the Ethiopian army doing in somalia. They always terrorist this and terrorist that. This war is not about rebuilding somalia, is about wiping out all the somali people. and at the end ethiopia will take over somalia.

[CHATMOSSMAN]

err, not BBC,Channel 4 you idiot.

[LulaTarik]

Ethiopia must leave Somalia. It is no longer about protecting Ethiopian Terrotories. IT is now only about murder and doing America's bidding. Somali is our Palestine and Ethiopia has been transformed from a bastion of black freedom to another Israel. To all Somalis out there, there are Ethiopians who sympathize with you... we are poor like you. It is not the Ethiopian people who is doing this, but the Ethiopian govrenment. I wish peace for Somalia and Ethiopia. I believe we can coexist.

[CumarAbdiAziz]

"the raid.. Eleven of the 21 dead were killed inside the mosque, including the Iman Sheik &

witnesses report that those killed inside the mosque were unarmed civilians taking no active part in hostilities. Seven of the 21 were reported to have died after their throats were cut -- a form of extra-judicial execution practised by Ethiopian forces in Somalia"

Ethiopian forces would only release the children from their military base once they had been investigated" and "if they were not terrorists".

[Afgooyee]

You are all confused The war in Somalia isn't a war between muslims and christians but it's a civil-war which started in 1991. Ethiopians were called by the so-called Somali president c/hi yusuf and his friends. All muslim nations knw it isn't a religion war but a sad civil-war which going on for long time now. My advice to the Somali people is to get unite. Kick clan out of ur mind and heart. Come as 1 nation and 1 people and ethiopians will leave our land 4eve. Together we are stronger!

[StraightouttaSomalia]

NOW we knw ders no such thing as the UNITED NATIONS OR INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY DAT REALLY CARES..Jihaad is our only option..and i wished if muslim world interfered and backed us just like da christian world is backin da ethiopians...wake up muslims...

[michael0845]

What are they fighting for ? There is nothing there. They are fighting over sand.

[proOlympic]

can we start shouting : Free Somalia now? instead of Free T- Back

I think that is the stupid mentality for many...

cos joining the protest to protest, it is just FUN for them.

[StraightouttaSomalia]

we fightin christians who invaded our muslim holyland dats y we r fightin..2 kill christians just like in iraq and our brothers in afghanstan and palastine..and we shall win inshallah..america will pay for dis..

[CULAVE]

There is a lot of attention on Darfur and there should be, because its terrible. But theres other wars raging in Africa- Somalia is one of them. And the Second Congo War with millions of fatalities was the deadliest since WW2- its legacy still burns strong from what ive heard- yet it gets next to no attention.

[Felipe19]

How come everyone wants to implement democracy. It does not coincide with every culture. To be honoust most Somalis want sharia, they just don't want people that want to live exactly like hundred years ago. They want a Somali kind of Islam that fits their culture,am I right? You can be muslim and progressive at the same time. If a democratic Somalia, means a corrupt and West-friendly Somalia, then sharia can save my country anytime. Peace was there for 6 months under the ICU. Is this better?

[abdi6734]

The UN never said a thing, actually the UN never even condemned ethiopia for the invasion of somalia even though the UN security council formed a resolution forbidding ethiopia to invade somalia.

[abdi6734]

Its funny how the united states and the UN cry abt Darfur and yet they are both responsible for causing the worlds worst humanitarian crisis in the world i.e Somalia.

Not only did the United states arm and finance the ethiopian army to invade somalia but they also actively took part in the war.

Last year during the peak of the invasion American powerful AC130 gunships killed 400 somali nomands.

[abdi6734]

Everybody knows that the civil war ended in somalia in 2006 after the Islamic courts Union chased out the war lords out of somalia.

However Ethiopia which never wanted somalia to hve peace named the warlords as the TFG government of Somalia and then invaded the country to kill, rape and commit genocide against the somali people in the name of the TFG.

[lamrof]

You have an empty stupid cry again. You have these bandits, nothing but thieves letting their people die first and shooting in the background. What senseless act to you need and you have the audacity to blame the government?

[Farax999]

how sad, speechless. worse than daarfoor yet no action from any foucking government to stop this fuckin ethiopian from killing civilian. i forgot somalis are muslim sos let them suffer

[CULAVE]

Farax999- People in Darfur are muslims are they not?