Wow. Somalia was one of my favorite studies in school. It's in such a bizarre situation. What's also a bizarre situation is finding out that one of your clients at work committed murder. Yea. He sawed her body in half. Yea. That's bizarre. The archetype of a "failed state." The failed state. I mean, just look at the titles of the related stories on BBC today:
"How does Somalia function at all?" and "Somaliland: Non-existent country." How about, "Women: Marry or be beheaded?" To me, the phrase "hell on earth" brings to mind North Korea and Somalia.
At school, we just did not know how on earth Somalia would heal. It has been an anarchy for twenty years now, and the civil war-ish conflict between the "government" and the rebels have rocked the country to its current state.
But apparently the rebels voluntarily left the capital today! I might have been out of the loop for a bit, but I am very surprised.
Yet, it seems that this is no end in sight. According to a BBC correspondent Will Ross:
"It seems very premature to be putting this down as a victory seeing that al-Shabab have vowed to fight on in Mogadishu but with different tactics.
They say they are going to switch to guerrilla tactics, so we could now see more suicide bombings, more grenade attacks and perhaps the use of more landmines."Sheesh...
How do you feel when you see this? These children?
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