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NEWS > EVERYONE ELSE > ATTACK ON SOMALI PARLIAMENT THREATENS NATION’S LAW PAMPHLET
ATTACK ON SOMALI PARLIAMENT THREATENS NATION’S LAW PAMPHLET
May 17 2010
Mogadishu, Somalia – For those who live in modernized society it’s difficult to imagine things ever falling apart. Society though, civilization, is not a guarantee. Our modern cultures are the product of decades of work and a constant state of 
movement that could be, in an instant, sent into turmoil. In the United States, events such as 9/11 and the recent financial crash brought about fears, much like the fears of Chicken Little, that the sky was falling. Though the country did not collapse, the instability that many people felt showed that the line between civilization and chaos is very thin indeed.
We need look no further than the ongoing turmoil in Africa which, despite being home to the oldest human cultures, has been beset by chaos and turmoil for centuries with no significant turnaround likely anytime soon. The shining example of that failure of socialization has for decades been Somalia which has become the very definition of a failed state. Internal corruption, piracy, warlords, famine, and all other sorts of trauma have been visited on the nation, a loose term in this instance. Now a fresh trauma has been visited upon the country with word that 16 people have been killed after an attack on a building where law makers were meeting. It isn’t the death toll that is causing a stir however, it being relatively low in the country, but it is the realization that the country has law and lawmakers at all that has people suddenly paying attention.
“We have an incident where a group of attackers, who we believe to be a part of an Islamic militant organization, attacked a building where several members of the Parliament were meeting,” said police spokesman Abdullahi Hassan Barise. “Sixteen people were killed and thirty-one were wounded, all of them civilians, and the attackers have been subdued. No government officials were harmed in the battle. We are taking all precautions necessary to ensure that such an incident does not happen again.”
Militants have killed a number of government officials in the last few years, though such incidents have had no appreciable effect on Somali society.
“There are a few nations in Africa which can be called true failed states with only a few
being able to claim some kind of success in organizing and structuring a culture in a way that most people would consider rational. Somalia has become a famous example of that because of the Blackhawk Down incident as well as the piracy but it is far from the only area suffering from those problems,” said Scrape TV African analyst Claude Contee. “Somalia though has done it the best. They have been the example of how a failed state should run and this news that they are trying to create and implement laws is really surprising and more than a little disturbing. Yes, we do not want genocides or shipping lanes disrupted but we also don’t want countries in Africa to realize that they can self-organize. Such actions, should they spread, could have disastrous consequences on the rest of the world.”
It is believed that Somalia currently has twelve laws on the books.
“Law and order, not the show, is the basis for a civilized culture. From there comes suffrage, economic renewal, and cultural identity which has been lacking throughout the Sub-Saharan section of that continent for thousands of years. A change could be shocking and potentially destructive to the people living there,” continued Contee. “I mean nations such as Zimbabwe and Sudan are unlikely to do things like implement laws but many of the smaller nations might follow in the Somali example and try and build a society like the rest of the world. This attack highlights the issue and hopefully it will resolve itself in short order.”
Fellow failed state Chad has also recently celebrated the introduction of their twentieth law.
Emil Uliya, International Correspondent
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