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Killings of Jewels of Somali Nation
Knowledge production
in any country costs a helluva lot. It’s an admitted fact by all men
of civ ilized nations. University of Pretoria held a
graduation ceremony recently for masters’ students (LLM). While
sitting in the graduation hall at the university of Pretoria, a
vague sense befell me given the recent heartbreaking news which
occurred in Shamow Hotel in Mogadishu, in a similar gathering where
twenty four Doctors, teachers, members from the civil society,
graduating students and university staff wrapped in happiness,
passed in a suicide bombing.
At the end of the day the fundamental question regarding the bombing
continues to haunt us all. Perhaps the issue can be reduced to a
simpler explanation: “the angry youth failed by life” wher eas
the larger question that confronts us as thinking people is to find
out where the evil origina tes?.
In that crowd at University of Pretoria I sensed that with
information, the degree and depth of our responsibilities grows
further and deeper. The suicide and murder of others points sharply
to the divided politics of our time and the dejection that haunts
our youth and future leadership. It is clear that what was to be a
significant step into the future progress of a nation was twice the
reversal of that progress. The bombing continued to hold us hostage
to our ideals and our natio nal identity; it confirmed the
rooted divisions that convince the young that politics is a place to
misplace your soul and not to help your country men.
As I left the hall at the University of Pretoria I became convinced
that the suicidal bombing in Sh amow Hotel on the 3rd of Dec
09 was not a forlorn act of an unhappy man but an organizational
outcome of the enemies of our common humanity be either you in
Japan, Africa, Europe, or Bra zil. The attack was against our
common humanity, civilasation and nothing else.
Indeed, murder at mass scale is what had happened in Shamow Hotel.
We like to think of ourselv es as civilized human beings whom
understand the value of human life but these recent attacks have led
me to examine my own beliefs about the quality of our lives as the
people of the civiliz ed world. We speak so profoundly of
human rights and development but yet the enemy's minds and thirst
for blood has vanished in their brains. No doubt that many children
as the result of th ese recent attacks will remain orphans and
desperate but this are the realities of time.
The nerves touched were not only mine, Dr. Edna Adan who arrived at
the graduation hall in Uni versity of Pretoria to receive a
chancelor medal for her to contribution to humanity betterment,
condemns this brutality "I strongly condemn to the deepest of my
human heart and sense the atrocities that are not only inflicted to
the families of the killed students, doctors and teachers but also
to the people of Somaliland and humanity at large, my heartfelt
sympathy and Du'aas goes to the families of the killed ones, May
Allah grant them Janatul Firdowza to those who died in Shamow, May
the Almighty Allah cure all those wounded...amin"amin amin. Dr. Edna
I trust and believe Somalia will rise from the difficulties of the
day and become a great country with abundance of lawyers, scientist,
and economists than the ones we have been robbed of, untimely.
Saeed Furaa
South Africa
somalilandjournalist@gmail.com
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