UN Monitoring Group in Somalia and the Quest of Wrongdoing

July 26, 2012 by Abdiaziz Abdi

In surveying the political crisis facing the Somali people, one is often at a great loss, whether to attribute it to the follies of their leaders, or to the cruelty and the immorality of external forces.  There are interwoven strings of conspiracy theories prevalent in Somali culture that hold colonialists as culprits for what ails Somalia (despite modern evidence that Somali governance is in shambles). A prevalent theory that is often bantered about goes like this: by and large, the Somali modern state is a scheme constructed by Western imperialists and their allies to quench their own egotistical needs.

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