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SOMALILAND: President sends Independence Day greetings 52 years after British rule
June 26, 2012 · 42 Comments
From the British Public Record Office, this historical picture shows Somaliland leaders and the colonial leaders in Hargeisa in 1960. From right: Ahmed Haji Duale Abdulle “Ahmed Kayse” (SNL/minister), Mohamed Haji Ibrahim Egal (first Prime Minister and leader of Somali National League – SNL) and Sir Douglas Hall (Governor of the Somaliland Protectorate). Haji Ibrahim Nur (USP/minister), Ali Garad Jama (leader of United Somali Party – USP/minister). In February 1960 after an election won by SNL it formed a coalition government with runner-up USP where Egal became the Prime Minister.
HARGEISA — President Ahmed M. Silanyo has greeted Somaliland and its people on the occasion of the 52nd anniversary of the Independence of the Republic.
This occasion, which brings together the past, the present and the future generations, commemorates Somaliland receiving their independence from Great Britain on 26th June in 1960.
According to the presidential press office, in his message of greetings, Mr Silanyo said “on this day of great historical significance, I want to convey my good wishes to Somaliland and its citizens both in the country and abroad. I pray for prosperity and full statehood.”
The president called on the international community to fulfill their international obligations and accept the aspirations of Somaliland people. He said the international community needs to accept the voice of Somaliland and its people who deeply value the independence of their nation.
“At the will of the people chaos yielded to order and progress replaced despair while totalitarianism was thrown out for democracy. This is their voice, the will of the people. Somaliland has fulfilled all its requirements and now its time the international community did their part,” he said.
The president finally urged the citizens to be vigilant of anything that might harm or danger Somaliland’s stability and national unity.
Somaliland ended a British rule 52 years ago from today and temporarily unified with its southern neighbour Somalia. The union collapsed after differences erupted between the sides leading to a decade-long war that left more than 50,000 killed in Somaliland. Somaliland reclaimed its independence in 1991 but it has failed to gain diplomatic recognition from any country.
Some of the people that spoke to Somalilandpress urged the government to cancel any planned activities due to the fact that some parts of the country are plagued in severe drought. They said they feel guilty to celebrate while some will be suffering with their basic survival.
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June 26, 2012
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Congratulations to all Somaliland people and lets hope the next 52 years bring tangible progress with us joining arms together.
Half a century of independence and statehood, Somaliland wind blows in the north and away from southern Somalia. Few days later they will celebrate an empty nation with no Somaliland, Djibouti, NFD or Somali Galbeed.
They will be lucky if they will celebrate a July 1st that consists of Puntland and Hawiyeland.
hey traitor! wishful thinking, somalis are in fact united djibouti and sgalbeed and NFD and somalia are separate in the eyes of international community but we have no borders i go to garriasa jigjiga and djibouti no one asks me for passport and i was born in kismayo as for waqooyi galbeed my friend there is no one leaving this union there can only be joining not leaving. the way i see w/galbeed is like my wife she wanted divorce since 1999 but since that period we had 5 kids. imagine if i divorced her? i would not have my three daughters and two sons
watch your mouth jack ass.
I congratulate all our people in our beloved Somaliland and abraod, wishing them and our Motherland peace and prosperity. May the Almighty Allah bring bless Somaliland and its people. Amin.
Ahmed will you be happy with a nation only with hargeysa, berbera and burco, because that's all it is.
Hey Kayse,
What is going over there Buurta DAALLO meeting? I have been trying to understand what this is all about
Can you perhaps enlighten us please
@ Kayse,
You have a very superficial understanding of Somaliland and its people.
The day the despot Afweyne was chased out the country was a fantastic day, it ended the brutal rule of a tyrant.
The USC aren't celebrated because their legacy is anarchy, death and destruction. Whereas legacy of the SNM was; Peace, Stability and Democracy .
Tuur (AUN) got back stabbed by those criminals (USC) in Mogadishu and that was the reason for the rebirth of Somaliland.
SNM – The men who armed themselves when they needed to and disarmed when they need not.
That is why we Somalilands hold them in the highest of esteem my anarchist friend.
most people see 18 may nothing put rebel day. it does not represent whole nothern somalia.
never in The history of mankind happen any rebel group That liberates own towns name after That day for independent day.kayse is right also The people with full functioning brian.
Hey Snake head kayse Faqa666sh I doubt it very much Tuur was your uncle. Maybe, Morgann is your uncle or the the thief professor. This more like but Tuur I doubt it.
The key word here is independence. geting back your independence as human and control over your land and desteny.
that is what the word means. Somaliland suffered more humilation, killing,and mass uprooting of civilian population under Affweene than under the British. The only comparable incedent in our history was during the turn of the century when the cazy mad mulla did the same thing to the population and uprooted the same way. The two tactics employed by Affweene and the mad mulla were the same. Kill, Maim, uproot,blunder,eradicate an entire population because of who are and for nothing else. we got our independence from a tyrent who was worse than any colonial power. So, Mr. Faqa666sh head you’re in no possition to tell the people of Somaliland what and when to celeberate. you and your opinion and the rest who think like you can go and throw yourselves over a cliff for all we care. May 18 will be celebrated as is every year to remind our people what happened their fathers and grand father,Mothers and grand mothers. So put a sock on it you are just full of crab.
TAKE YOUR MEDICATION AND GET SOME HELP.
Cimraan you hit the nail on the head.
For those who don’t understand (or not wanting to do so) why May 18 is preferred for Somalilanders to June26.We (Somalilanders) had suffered more under Somalia’s colonization than the Britain. We lost more lives in freeing ourselves from Somalia than the Britain. We were terrorized and humiliated by Somalia more than the Britain.
Nevertheless we congratulate ourselves for that brief freedom!
True AHN A/Rahman Tuur didn't celebrate a day when his S@n@m liberation forces gallantly
defeated the despotic brutal Gen. Siad barre Military Regime, because he had other bigger issues
to deal with. But now after 52 years of the de jure Somaliland Independence of the June 26th 1960s
this is another advent before the 1991 advent of Ahn Veteran Tuur..the 1st ever President of
North Somaliland Republic, with three more Presidents following him since 1991 todate..
the last now in power being his counterpart Veteran President Silaanyo.
On this auspicious happy anniversary, may I also take the opportunity to congrats the President
Silaanyo, his Govt and Kulmiye Party Chiefs and the people of Somaliland for happy returns of good
cordial greetings and best regards.
Cheers.
congratulations of my brothers in the north side of the country from the professors in Awdal To the brave somali patriots in sool and sanag
To Somalis,
The message is for Somalilanders and their friends around the world, it has nothing to do with Somalis.
July 1st, is just around the corner, may be the Madarassa teacher/president of yours should be reminded to prepare a celebratory message to Somalis, on second thought maybe not, Somalis are not mentally free.
Osman Qaal
I hate to be pedantic but, minor correction my friend-Semantics.
Somali is an ethnic group of peoples who live in the horn of Africa
Somalilander is the civic term of those who inhabit Somaliland.
Somalian is the Civic term of those who live in Somalia.
Simples.
MMAli,
I don't consider myself a Somali but a somalilander if that' bothers you then it's your problem, so, deal with it..I don't have to…
Osman Qaal
I'm just stating facts Moron.
Where do you think the Somali in SomaliLand comes from.
You cannot not be a Somalilander without being a Somali- FACT
My issues is with you defecating on the Somali name.
Stop calling yourself a Somalilander impostor
MMAli,
I believe you have more issues than you've realized yet. Again, I don't understand why you aren't getting it if I consider myself a Somalilander as my nationality. Hint, Egyptians don't say they're Arabs by nationality. Let me know as you able to differentiate between a nationality and ethnicity.
Osman Qaal
Osman 5
How can you be somalilander without being somali?
Reer aw Xasan/k*aatumo citizen,
It's quite simple, I'm a Somalilander by nationality same as the Somalis in Djibouti are Djiboutians. hope you got it now..
Osman Qaal
MMali.
you are right bro, put you should know we have people like osman5 who have no clue what They talking about at all. always have backward mentallity.
damn he siad he airnt somali so let him be lool…
osman5 so u saying u not somali dude i know ur samali and (HJ) quit the crap and caadi iska dhig
Osman5: it seems you’re dealing with 2nd graders . They really have nothing between their ears. Don’t you see how the pirates are busy replicating each and every thing done in Somaliland (civil society activities, TV programs, security missions by police, governmental announcement and rules, etcetera). The good news is the TFG also started to do the same. What a shameful!
Inayusuf,
Sometimes I wonder whether they’re kidding themselves or that’s as good as they get, either way it doesn’t really matter.
Osman Qaal
kkkkkk osman5 At last you found your schinophrenia lost brother inasuyuuf. kkkkkkk
congratulations for all somaliland citizens the 52nd anniversary of the independence of somaliland.unfortunately we lost the independence we achived in 1960, and to day we are struglling for the oppoutinity we lost in 1960.
my allah bless somaliland
Kayse your uncle Tuur AUN was a great man but he himself realized that the will of the Somaliland people is bigger than he.
Likewise no-one can suppress the wishes of the Somalilanders.
But I hear the Mogadishu Constituent Assembly are looking for some Isaaqs to fill their 4.5 quota, you should apply, completely unaware of the facts on the ground in Somaliland, you fit the description of what they're looking for to the tee. haha
Shouldn't we be celebrating the 1st July ???
No! The president of Somaliland is sending greetings to the people who elected him as per title of article…
I’d suggest you read it again, unless you’re having some sort of literacy problems.
Osman Qaal
Somalilanders should return the favour to Faqa666sh and declare 1ST AS garbage day.
make no mistake those who celebrate May 18th as garbage day are only khaatumo state not the south or puntland… ssc rebels started but now it's international and widely celebrated the whole region .. lool I personally dont agree with them but well theres nothing we cant do.
of course we should becuase it was unity day for all somalis forget about who hijacked That day.also 26 june we should celebrate cuz That’s when bro/sis got Their independent from british.
Yes, fool in my House. I will show you a good time!!!
happy 26 this is the one and only independence day for North Somalia
I wonder how old that picture is? and if those black Somalis were infact free men? That picture shows nothing' but colonization, Lets celebrate the day the white British gave us independance' but brothers we have nobody to blame that our grandfathers willingly joined the south, It was a betrayal something the young people of today can never forget. We might have lost that chance forever and now cannot ask the same peple that we voluntarily joined to lets be free or say we changed our mind after 40 or so years. I am afraid thats the painful truth.
Nope Pal! The painful truth is Somalia needs freedom today; Freedom from themselves; Freedom from their backwardness; Freedom from hate and tribalism; Freedom from their politicians; Freedom from the Interference of the International Community.
YES YES YES I do suport so much that our grandfathers made a great mistake on running to unity with Somalia. Because that was not a unity infact it was a hell to the side of Somaliland they had been diprived all sort of development our Capital Hargeisa looked like a village each and every development was done in Mogadishu
ooh my god what was this unity for I realy fail to understand. But now we have desided we can not go back to the isolation never never againt and if other people force us may be on our dead body.
Let me also add that Michael Mariano was robbed during that election he was given one seat but its well known he clearly won more than 12 seats. The SNL and USP cheated him but he stayed true to his statesmanship and went about his business knowing that the rushed union without its foundations was set to collapse. Egal who just wanted to control both the north and south, miscalculated the south and was quickly thrown out to the side. He had no vision for Somalia nor Somaliland, like Silanyo, it was me me me. He was a good thinker and politician, make no mistake but he served his own pocket.
Michael was man of the people and I don't know much about Garad, I know at one point he was also against the rushed union between the north and south.
In every sense, Michael had better vision and ideas than both Egal and Garad but those two politicians used the faith card against him.
Michael believed in political choices and progress where both Egal and Garad believe in tribalism. Egal's tribalism engulfed the south and divided the two sides. Garad was also big on tribalism and only had support in Awdal and Sool like today's Khaatumo and Awdal State where as Silaanyo has taken Egal's position of dividing the Isaaqis even themselves.
If Michael was not robbed today all these suffering and tribalism would not be with the Somalis.
Please study your history and see where it all began. Tribalism was given birth to by Mad Mullah, Egal, Ali Garad (50 years later the Garado are still in the same buhoodle with nothing changed) and later by Siad Bare, Aideed and Silaanyo.
Garad jama's father was killed by the British followed by nearly 7000 men in Jidbaale so he thought this hard earned freedom u cant just hand over to the south but he was wrong the best thing happened to us was to unite with our brothers/sisters from the south..
looool true nothing much has changed expect when Garado were fighting for the freedom of north somalia did not take long to get it… we will let the folks from the middle state (issaks) get the recognition this time.
Egal, Sayyid Abdulla Hassen and Garad Jama were patriots.
khaatumo.
well know better Than kanyse in This case.