The Delegates
of the Somali national Conference in Arta, Djibouti, would
like to express their whole hearted support for the popular
uprising in many parts of Somalia against the futile and despotic
attempts by certain local authorities to deny them their involvement,
participation and support of the Somali National reconciliation,
reconstruction and setting up a National Transitional Authority
as envisaged by the bold Djibouti initiative of the Somali
Peace Process which has been successfully going on in the
republic of Djibouti for nearly nine months and now nearing
its conclusion.
The Somali
National Conference is dismayed by the brutal tactics used
in some parts of Somalia in putting down those uprisings or
in denying individuals to express their basic right of supporting
or participating in the Somali Peace Process, including indiscriminate
shootings, imprisonment, confiscation of property etc.
We call
the International Community to put pressure on those authorities
to stop the illegal killings and other forms of torture against
innocent civilians in those areas.
On the
other hand we call Puntland and other regional authorities
not to try to go against the healthy wind of change blowing
throughout Somalia and to facilitate rather than hinder their
elders, intellectuals, women, the civil society and other
Sections of the society their decisions to break away from
the past and lay the foundation for a peaceful Somalia which
embraces the rule of law, respects individual rights, guided
by the will of the people and the principles of democracy
and replaces harmony and good relationship with the hatred
and the discord which has characterised the history of the
last few decades of the Somali society.
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