Somaliland President Welcomes President Farmajo’s apology, Dismisses planned visit to Hargeisa

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Muqdisho | QOL | February 18, 2020 –The President of Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland Muse Bihi Abdi has on Tuesday welcomed the recent apology made by Somalia’s President Mohamed Farmaajo over the atrocities committed by the previous government against the break-away region.

While addressing a joint session of Parliament in Hargeisa, Bihi termed the apology as a historic move and a step taken towards reconciliation.

Speaking at a judicial conference on Thursday last week, President Farmajo said, “We are here now, what is needed is where we go from here, it is go towards justice. What is needed is acknowledgment in seeking forgiveness for the bad things that have happened, to correct the dark chapter in our history, which means to express regret for the suffering in the north.

“To express regret, to apologize to our brothers, those who died and those maimed, to say to them that what happened was bad history, it is in the past. Indeed what happened there was not like the south invading the north, it was not based on clan, it was a government system that existed at the time.

“As the head of State, to express regret, and to convey our apologies to our northern brothers and you join in that regard with me.”

Meanwhile president Bihi has however declined a proposed visit by Farmajo to Hargeysa saying the rumors circulated about the visit of Somalia’s president to Hargeisa were just ridiculous and it will not happen at any point.

Somaliland declared its independence in May of 1991, after a brutal civil war in the country.

Somalia contests that Somaliland is still part of Somalia, and has in the past blocked all efforts in its quest for independence.

Xafiiska Wararka Qaranimo Online | Muqdisho

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