10/12/2021
Liyuu Police in Somali State: From a Killing Institution to a Good Samaritan-Human Rights Day - 10 December 2021
By Ahmed Abdi
Jigjiga—For more than a decade in the Somali Regional State's 'Liyuu Hayl' or Special Police, now officially renamed Somali State Special Force- played an active role in the implementation of a scorched-earth policy across the vast Somali Regional State.
The special paramilitary forces of Liyuu Police engaged in collective punishment-war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Somali Regional State because Tigray Peoples Liberation Front, TPLF Generals and their security sector personnel had told them that they were to do that and because they knew that they would only be safe in doing so. They have become slaves of an oppressive regime dominated by TPLF-junta.
Abdi Mohamoud Omar (Abdi Ilay) used to hold a meeting with every fresh graduate; in the brief discussion, he offered his dark advice to the graduates, asking the well-trained forces to “indoctrinate the women with the male phallus and the men with guns”.
The scorched-earth campaign had been taking place across Somali State over the years led to the destruction of many towns and hundreds of villages that were razed to the ground in all eleven (11) provinces of the Somali State. The details of the events were extensively reported, published, documented and denounced by leading humanitarian NGOs, the likes of Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International.
In Jail Ogaden, imprisoned Somali women were deliberately r***d in front of their fellow prisoners, men or women. As for TPLF generals, who had paraphilic disorder this inhumane act was sufficient for efficacy.
They had not allowed any information to emerge from those areas with regards to the atrocities that represent a deliberate ethnic-cleaning campaign and the first, fully-proven genocide of the 21st century; amongst others. The following acts had been perpetrated in Somali State during the TPLF's reign of terror: sexual assault, r**e, torture, extort, beating, robbery and inhumane treatment of civilians, unlawful confinement, murder; unlawful deportation and transfer of civilians; targeting of political leaders, intellectuals and professionals; unlawful appropriation and plunder of real and personal property; the destruction of places of water supplies including local wells; extrajudicial killings of civilians; destruction of villages and crops.
The truer Muslim scholars were defaced and whoever had a different opinion had been ostracized by the loathed traitor Abdi Mohamoud Omar (Abdi Ilay), the associated TPLF Army generals, and other officers of the occupying forces.
Somali State MPs had no say whatsoever as they were forced into a position of subordination —many MPs were beaten and plunged knives into their buttocks—as the regime tried to control their vote by intimidating them.
The dissolved Ethiopian Somali People's Democratic Party was playing a pivotal role in the system of oppression that led to it. What was happening in the Somali State was unknown to the wider Ethiopian community until fairly recently and Western diplomats used to say," Oh, that area is too remote to visit!"
In this part of the World, the hapless inhabitants-young and old-had the same belief as what was happening: Armageddon.
However, the darkness and fear ruled until a politician and charismatic young leader has come to power. The rise of Mustafe Muhumed Omar, a former humanitarian official who had a direct experience for the TPLF brutality in Somali State was a blessing to millions of people as he silenced the guns and established a rule of law and a system of accountability among the ruler and the ruled.
During the TPLF regime and Abdi Mohamud Omar (Abdi Iley) no one could have imagined that this miracle would occur because none of the 8-10 million people in the Somali Regional State were innocent - they were all sentenced to death and their lives were considered illegal - the only way you can escape that sentence was to be a slave to the TPLF commanding officers stationed in Harar.
As lessons have been learnt from the past, the senior politicians stressed that there would be no more violation of the human rights of the citizens and no more detention without a warrant. Trade and commerce were encouraged - and everyone took the opportunity to strive. Now the day-to-day topics that enter people’s discussions are often tourism, unemployment, public investments, rising food prices, corruption and mismanagement and natural disasters such as drought.
Somali State president and his security chief launched a series of programs to help educate and train security forces to make soldiers fit in body and mind.
"We are leaving behind us for the future leaders a force that has a reputation among their society-well-trained and fully-equipped and at the same time has command and control structure." President Mustafe Muhumed Omar said in his speech at the graduation ceremony last Sunday.
Addressing the newly-graduated 12th batches of the Somali State Special Forces Somali State Security Chief Mubashir Dubad Rage in his part states:
"For any State to exist there must be numerous centripetal forces operating those link people, places, socioeconomic development, army and political processes."
"We will provide them with the information they need to make the best possible decisions about their lives, their communities, their societies, and their governments, " Mr.Rage emphasized.
