16+ yrs....
The ICC did not do anything during the 16+ yrs of civil war in Somalia. Tons of innocent men, women, and children have lost their lifes. But suddently, after a democratic government was put into place...(who by the way was elected and supported by the Somali people) the ICC out of nowhere wants to fix things now. Yah, right....too late, they did not do anything when they had the chance, now its the elected government of President Abdullahi Yusuf that has a chance to do some major fixin Insha Allah.
There is only one reason why all this is happening, its all has to do with Qabil or with the notion of tribes and clans. The majority of leaders of Somalia in the past were from the Darod tribe, and the last Somalia president before Mr. Yusuf was also a Darod. The rest of the tribes got together and wanted to get rid of him and they wanted to rule and because of that a civil war broke down and thousands lost their lifes. Anyway, most of the Darod (the ones that had the means) got out of Somalia and the others tribes remained.
Few years ago, a new government was established, and you guessed it right, the president is also from the Darod tribe. This angered the other tribes, who in the first place wrecked the great nation of Somalia in the first place because of the fact that they did not want to be led by the Darod due to jelousy. Anyway, the ICC started to go against the plans of the new elected government and its followers did not let the president into the capital state of Somalia Mugadishu. Everyone knows, that the ICC and the other tribes in Somalia did not want to be led by the same people that they had kicked out of Mugadishu back in '91 to come back and to lead them once again...and that is the main problem starter. This has nothing to do with Ethiopia, or Islamic nation of Somalia v. non-Islamic nation of Ethiopia, but this war and the problems in Somalia has to do with tribes/clans. Let me add, the Somali government are all Muslim, the president is a Muslim, so are the rest of his supporters, so please all you non-Somalis dont let others tell you lies about this war, this war is all about tribes and nothing else. Further, the ICC are predomently made up of the Hawiye tribe that were actually responsible for the chaos in Somalia in the past 16+ yrs.
The president as I have mentioned above was denied access to the capital state, and he needed some help and luckly the Ethiopians were there to help him out and oh by the way, only about 5,000 military were actually Ethiopians, the rest were Somalis.
Alhumdulilah, am just happy with the direction that the nation of Somalia is heading and Insha Allah, Somalia will once again become the nation that it once was.
Salaams
ps. sorry if its too long, I got a little carried away.