Did Djiboutis Government Helps Install Fundamentalists Next Door?
The Somalilanders also charge Abdirahman Boreh and practically the whole Djibouti administration with being complicit to former Somali president Siyad Barre’s “genocide” and “total subjugation” of Somalilanders in the 1980’s. Besides being accused of having extensive ties with Barre-era officials, Boreh and Guelleh are denounced as harmful interventionists. They are blamed by Somalilanders for their part in getting Abdiqassim Salad Hassan nominated as Somalia’s interim president in August 2000. Hassan, previously an important minister in the Barre regime, is accused by Somalilanders of overseeing civilian “massacres.” In September 2001, a report details incidents “where most of the resident were either massacred or chased away by the so-called Islamic court militia terror cells and sub-clan militias.” The article states that these “terror cells” had previously been broken up thanks to Ethiopian and internal military intervention, but were now “recognized as (being) ‘rehabilitated’ gove
