دانلود کتاب The Betrayal of the Somalis

Despite the advances in modern communications and information media, there remain several countries about which there is little general knowledge. One such is Somalia, and whereas there is an awareness of its crushing refugee problem, few know why this tragedy exists. Unless and until there is greater understanding, the Horn of African will continue to be riven by strife with resulting suffering, loss of life, and an exodus of refugees. A refugee is one who flees from upheaval and oppression; one who seeks freedom, and indeed the whole history of Somalia has been a struggle to achieve freedom - that inalienable right of all as recognized by international authority. Many of those who think about Somalia at all consider it a free country, for they recall that the European left over twenty years ago. But they forget that there was an African co-colonialist that remains a colonial occupier of Somali territory.

This book attempts to explain some of the historical background and basic facts about Somalia in the hope, perhaps, of making some small contribution to a wider understanding. This work seeks to add a little volume to the Somali plea for self-determination such as is the right of millions of ethnic Somalis, and if what I have written causes only a few to look again at the Horn of Africa, this humanitarian cause will have been achieved.