LD292042Y Mogadiscio Domestic Service in Somali 1700 GMT

[Excerpts] Jaalle (Comrade) Mohamed Siad Barre, secretary general of the SRSP and president of the Somali Democratic Republic, has described the genocidal Addis Ababa regime as the father of international colonialism and a regime which is finding pleasure in solving every issue through the gun.

President Jaalle Siad outlined the participation of Ethiopia in the Berlin Conference of 1884, at which the European colonialists partitioned Africa among themselves. Just as European colonial powers had freed their colonies, it was now necessary for Ethiopia to grant self-determination to all the people under its domination. Jaalle Siad pointed cut that the SDR was calling on the Addis Ababa regime to free the Somali people under its colonialism. He stated that the Somali nation would never abandon its struggle to free its territory and people.

In defining the word “empire,” Jaalle Siad said it meant possessing by force a territory other than one’s own. The former title of Ethiopia was evidence of the different territories and various ethnic groups of contrasting feelings who were under its control. If what the Addis Ababa regime was claiming was socialism, then it ought to take a look at what the great socialists Karl Marx and Lenin said about peoples struggling for their self-determination; it should then allow those people who are struggling to free themselves the right to decide their own destiny, Jaalle Siad said.

Jaalle Siad urged the socialist countries to make a study of the deplorable situation of the Addis Ababa regime’s rule, and then to make fair recommendations on the issue. Somalia played a major role in the early inception of the Ethiopian revolution. However, it never became the expected progressive revolution; instead it turned out to be a murderous junta claiming to be socialist.

Commenting on the type of socialism pursued by Somalia, Jaalle Siad said it is composed of the people. It is opposed to slavery and is ready to defend the independence and the rights of Islam or human beings. The Somali people are those who strictly pursue what they believe in, and they cannot be manipulated or made to go in any other direction, Jaalle Siad said.

Speaking of the existing friendly relations between Somalia and the USSR, which have recently been the target of a malicious and baseless propaganda campaign, the president pointed out that the USSR remains a true and respected friend of the country and that it was customary for it to assist developing countries. The USSR is a friend who wants people to become free from bondage and poverty, and we declare that our relations with it are excellent, Jaalle Siad declared.

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