Molla Mitiku Ayenew
The
international community has been struggling to create a world convenient to its
people to live in it peacefully. This struggle is frequently done at
international, continental, regional and country levels.
However,
there are a lot of challenges that coerced people to lead miserable lives. Of
these terrorist activities are one of the worst scenario in which innocent
people have become liable to. Terrorist activities have been claiming the lives
of a significant number of innocent people.
For
instance, the recent terrorist attacks in Turkey,
Somalia and Egypt claimed
the lives of a large number of innocent citizens. There were also a lot of
attacks targeting civilians in different parts of the world. This piece attempts
to show how countries supporting and training terrorists have eventually become
target of the group they trained.
There
was a massive bomb exploded in Mogadishu's
new seaport last Sunday morning, killed at least 20 people and wounding dozens.
The terrorist group in the Horn of Africa al-Shabab claimed responsibility for
the blast.
“The
attack occurred where poor mothers have tea shops, where the port workers buy
breakfast and get ready to enter the port for the day-shift work,” a report
indicated.
Al-Shabab has been in Somalia for more than a decade. It
has been using that country as a safe haven to train and recruit a number of
youngsters in line with its destructive ideology. Besides, it established a
strong link with Ginbot 7, Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), Muslim Brotherhood, IS
and al-Qaeda.
It is evident that Islamic State and al-Shabab are
cooperating in poisoning peace in the Horn Region. The seizure of Qandala in October 2016 had
been the first victory for the Islamic State-linked fighters, who are expanding
the areas under their control. The two terrorist groups are obviously merging
for peace poisoning activities in the poverty porn Somalia in particular and the Horn
Region in general.
Similarity, Egypt
has been serving as a safe place to the terrorist group Muslim Brotherhood. This
terrorist group even once managed to come to power, established an Islamic
State and led Egyptians for about a couple of years.
Prior and following the coming of President Mursi into power,
the Muslim Brotherhood had been committing a number of terrorist attacks in Egypt and
anywhere else. It is vivid that the Muslim Brotherhood had a strong link with
the aforementioned other terrorist groups.
The explosion at Cairo's Coptic Orthodox cathedral complex
last Sunday that killed at least 25 people and wounded nearly 50 others could
be considered as one of the typical terrorist activities of that group.
According to Egyptian media reports, more than 500 Coptic protesters gathered
at the scene of the explosion, ridiculing the Egyptian government.
They asked President Abdel Fettah el sisi to step down as he
couldn’t guarantee peace to its citizens particularly to the 10 percent
Christian population in that country. Unless the government meaningfully
discharges its responsibility of respecting, keeping and maintaining law and
order, lawlessness will widespread.
Many
political analysts argue that Egypt
is one of the targets of the terrorist group Muslim Brotherhood, which has a
strong link with al-Shabab, al-Qaeda, OLF and Ginbot 7. Despite its liability
to such terrorist attacks mainly targeting civilians particularly Christians in
that country, Egypt has been continuing working in collaboration with the
terrorist groups Ginbot 7 and OLF aiming
to destabilize Ethiopia.
This
is one of the serious challenges in fighting terrorism in the Horn Region. While the overall terrorist activities at
international, continental, regional and country levels require consolidated efforts,
some countries have become not only
adamant but also partners of terrorist activities. There are ample evidence witnessing Egypt’s support to the terrorist groups OLF, Ginbot 7 and the
State in Eritrea in a bid to
destabilize Ethiopia
and jeopardize its forward movement.
However,
it is inevitable that Egypt
will put its head in deep water because the terrorist groups it has been
supporting for years both technically and financially have a strong link with
al-Quaida and Muslim Brotherhood. The Egyptian government has been backing
these terrorist groups but eventually it will be liable to the terrorist
attacks of these groups
Therefore,
Egypt should learn from the
tale of the United States of
America and Osama Bin Laden. The USA trained and supported Osama Bin Laden when
the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan
in 1979. Available historical documents witnessed that Osama joined the Afghan
resistance using aid from the United
States under the CIA program Operation. In
1989, Osama returned to Saudi Arabia
and he considered as a hero and the United States referred to him as
"Freedom Fighter".
But
the enmity of Osama turned to the United States
of America and plotted the September 11/2001 attack on New York City. It is,
therefore, a big lesson to Egypt
and other countries backing terrorist groups. In other words, training and
supporting terrorist groups with the aim of destabilizing other countries will
eventually devastate the trainers.
Many
political analysts argue that irresponsible measures on poisoning the peace and
stability of other countries could be one of the significant retarding factors in
fighting terrorism.
It
is now high time for all citizens in all walks of life and any corner of the
world to come together and denounce ill-activities of some irresponsible states
sponsoring groups creating terrorist activities in countries other than
themselves. This kinds of ill-activity should be terminated so as to enhance lasting
peace in the world.
It
is time for all peace loving countries, concerned individuals and groups to stand
together for lasting peace. At present the United Nations Security Council has
also considered the issue seriously and it recently underlined the need for
stronger cooperation to combat terrorism.
“Condemning
acts of terrorism and their impact on innocent civilians and on peace and
stability, the United Nations Security Council emphasized the need for
establishing willful violation of prohibition on financing of terrorist
organizations or individual terrorists as serious criminal offenses in national
laws and regulations,” UNSEC said. It is high time for all countries to come
together against terrorism. However, there are some countries with their own hidden
agendas that remained highly connected with terrorist groups. For
instance, Egypt has
established a strong link with the terrorist rogue state in Eritrea and
backing terrorist groups like al-Shabab, OLF and Ginbot 7.
But
it is inevitable that these terrorist groups will turn their enmity to Egypt like what Osam Bin Laden did to America.
Therefore, Egypt has become
a loser in supporting the terrorist groups aiming to destabilize Ethiopia.
Firstly, it may lose the honest friendship of the Nile Basin Countries
particularly Ethiopia.
In
the past decade, the Ethiopian government has been attempting to strengthen Egypt’s confidence on Ethiopia
as the project on the Nile
River is designed not to
inflict any harm on downstream countries. Secondly, Egypt
will create discomfort among Ethiopian brothers and finally, those groups
getting financial and technical support from Egypt will turn their enmity to it.
They are terrorist and have a strong link with Muslim Brotherhood that has been
conducted different terrorist attacks in Egypt. Egypt, by no means, could be
achiever rather it is a loser in its attempt to support the terrorist groups. If
the world is to fight terrorism meaningfully, there should be a strong
cooperation among all countries in the world. As the same time there is need to
have a binding law that forbids countries supporting terrorist groups targeting
destabilizing other countries. These countries will be losers like what we
learnt from the story of the United States of America and Osama Bin Laden. Therefore, Egypt
and other countries helping terrorist groups should take a lesson from the USA and Osama
Bin Laden.
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