After the SSC has exhausted all possible venues of peaceful resolution, they started forming their own administration whose mandate is to liberate the occupied parts of SSC territories from the secessionists, administer the SSC democratically, and strengthen the traditional and historic unionist stance of the SSC population.

As a result, the political and administrative departments of the SSC have been formed, educated and experienced individuals have been nominated for these positions, and SSC armed forces have been established. Most importantly, the SSC armed resistance forces have been in continued armed confrontations with secessionist Isaaq militia, inflicting them heavy casualties, causing them series of defeats, and forcing them to flee and withdraw from many SSC parts. On the diplomatic front the SSC leadership has scored notable victories. The Foreign Affairs Secretary of SSC Professor Mohamoud Ali Jama has recently been touring Africa and other parts of the world to explain the SSC cause and its regional administrative jurisdiction. Currently he is in Sweden having meetings with parliamentarians and government officials to discuss on the SSC issue and the conflict in the Northwest region of Somalia.

This swift and dramatic military and diplomatic success by the SSC administration has created profound confusion, fear, and unprecedented heat in the hearts of secessionist leadership and their traditional leaders. This dramatic SSC military and political success has left the secessionists agendas on SSC a painful and tasteless dishes in their plates.

Now, we see the Isaaq traditional leaders coming out of their hiding places and talking about ‘peace' between the Isaaq (a.k.a.Somaliland) and the Dhulbahante (SSC). This is happening with the full blessing of the secessionist administration!!! The development is reflected in the reported meeting between some Isaaq and Dhulbahante traditional leaders that took place in the town of Xadhadhanka near Buhodle. The Isaaq traditional leaders were sent with clear guidelines from the secessionist leader and war criminal Ahmed Silanyo the SNM chairperson in Hargeisa.

However, the question is whether the Isaaqs are honest in seeking a genuine peace. The following will tell you that the answer is No:

1.  The meeting in the Xadhadhan village was hastely convened, highly confidential, and shrouded in secrecy.

2.  The Isaaq traditional leaders have met with few individuals who all support the Puntland enclave, a hostile entity to SSC cause( only 3 Dhulbahante chiefs were participating in the meeting) and as such do not represent the SSC. A spokesperson for these individuals has recently told the BBC that they fully support Puntland. Garaad Abdillahi Garaad Sofe and the other two Dhulbahante traditional leaders in the Xadhadhanka meeting have difference in views with the SSC leadership on Puntland autonomous region.

3.  One clause in the so-called agreement reached by the two groups met in Xadhadhanka is to withdraw the Isaaq militia from one part of SSC territories (the Cayn region) to be relocated to another part of SSC (Sool region). This step, if ever fulfilled by the secessionists, is meant to create division and hostility among the SSC

4.  The groups involved in the 'agreement' are not the proper authorities to engage such politcal matters. The SSC is not part of the secessionist project (a.k.a Somaliland.) If any meaningful negotiation is to take place it should be between the SSC leadership and the Secessionist leadership with an international presence. The SSC are unionist party with a clear mandate from the SSC people who will never agree to secession and demand total withdrawal of the Isaaq militia from the Sool, Sanaag, and Cayn territories

5.  The secessionist leadership is trying cheap and unworkable tactic which is to divide and rule the SSC, a futile attempt which merely reveals both their level of desperation and their utter ignorance of the unity and resolve of the people of SSC. Instead of attacking the problem head-on by negotiating with SSC administration, they approached few individuals who are loyal supporters of Puntland but who have no political mandate from the people of SSC.

Nonetheless, many analysts have the impression that the secessionists are beginning to see the light and might sooner or later realize that the futile exercise of secession has no chance of succeeding, and will take the necessary steps to withdraw their militia from the SSC and live with their neighbors in peace and harmony as it used to be all along in their centuries long history.

By: Keenadiid Hiirad

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