Medeshi 29 Oct, 2009Somaliland Focus Statement on Bombings in Hargeisa and BossasoSomaliland Focus wishes to express our deepest sympathies to the families of those who were killed in today's bomb blasts in the Somaliland capital, Hargeisa, and in the Puntland commercial centre of Bossaso. While the news is still fresh and the numbers and identities of those who died or were injured are not yet confirmed, it is already clear that the vast majority of those killed were bystanders, Somalis waiting to submit visa applications in Hargeisa, and security personnel engaged in their normal employment. In our opinion, attacks of this nature are never an acceptable means of attempting to influence events, but when the human targets are so clearly innocent of any direct involvement in whatever policies or programmes the perpetrators so disagree with, such acts clearly have no comprehensible moral basis whatsoever.
We understand the depth of feeling on many levels among those who disagree with aspects of policy and reality in the Somali territories. However, no religious or political cause or other sense of grievance or desire for change can justify the indiscriminate killing of human beings going about their daily lives. There is no legitimate religion that calls for or even condones such acts, nor any valid ideology that does so.
Acts of this sort are utterly deplorable and we join with all those who unreservedly condemn them as inhumane and unacceptable.
