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CONSTITUTIONAL CONSPIRACY: Ethiopia’s Secret Plan To Put
Somalia In Check
July 10,
2002
Ogaden
Online Editorial Board
Something
is brewing in the Ethiopian town of Sodere, hidden from the
eyes of the world and under the heavy guard of only the most
trusted of Ethiopian security personnel and intelligence
officers. While what is taking place may seem of little
consequence now, if it succeeds, what is happening in Sodere
at this crucial moment in the history of Somalia will be
looked back upon as the single most significant lasting
effect of Ethiopian designs on Somalia.
Huddled
together in a handful of rooms working tirelessly into late
into the evenings and early morning is a collection of
traitors of Somali origin tasked with nothing else than
putting together a Somali constitution to be presented by
Ethiopia’s surrogate warlords at the much anticipated Somali
Reconciliation Conference to be held in Kenya under the
auspices of the Inter Governmental Authority on Drought (IGAD).
Ethiopia,
fearing the pressure of both the United States, European
Union and the Arab League not to be the spoiler in what may
be Somalia’s last chance for reconciliation has recently
decided to insert a Trojan Horse into Somalia’s political
future in the form of a constitution of it’s own design.
The
urgency and importance of this plot in the eyes of Ethiopia
is apparent in the fact that Ethiopia chose not to trust any
of its surrogate Warlords with putting together this
document which if adopted will set the parameters and
direction of Somali politics for years to come.
Instead
Ethiopia chose a handful of select individuals of Somali
origin in the employ of the Ethiopian government for it’s
plot.
The plan
itself is simple, the warlords will accept the Transtional
National Government’s contention that things should not be
begun from scratch although some adjustments will be sought.
In return, the warlords will seek as the price of their
“loyalty” to the new broad based government, the adoption of
a constition secretly hatched in Ethiopia for the purpose
crippling a Somalia which in the future may once again
challenge Ethiopia in the Horn of Africa.
Like all
human endeavors, some one at some point talks and
information leaks out.
What has
come out of the secret Sodere meeting is the beginnings of
some key elements of this poison pill constitution.
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Somalia shall be transformed into a
Federation of State all of which will be represented in
a national assembly. To put a check on the use of the
Somali military, the constitution will stipulate that a
declaration of war can only be made upon the approval of
all states in the federation and not at the discretion
of the central government.
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Somalia shall hereafter recognize the
Administrative Line between it as a legal boundry of the
Federation thereby forfeiting all future claim to
territories west of that line.
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The constitution will specifically
prohibit the support for ethnic Somali groups in the
Ogaden region by classifying such acts as a declaration
of war and as such subject to approval by every and each
member of the Federation.
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There will be a constitutional limit to
military expenditures under the justification of seeking
to promote reconstruction of the country following the
lengthy period of Statelessness.
Those
familiar with the constitutions of Japan and Germany
following World War II may note a similarity to what
Ethiopia is putting together. The objective here is to
ensure that Somalia as a state will never again become a
challenge to Ethiopia which has come to see itself as the
superpower of the Horn of Africa.
The
delivery boys of this conspiracy are the very same warlords
who have wreaked so much devastation on their own people.
If this
plot succeeds, the legacy of Somalia’s civil war will not be
the countless deaths and suffering it caused, but rather how
Somalia became a de-facto colony of Ethiopia.
Patriots,
you have been warned. Let it not be in vain.
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