(SomaliNet) Mass rally against African foreign peace keeping mission to Somalia has taken place in the capital Mogadishu on Tuesday as heads of states of Inter-Governmental Authority on Development are today meeting in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi on Somalia.
Hundreds of people from the various districts of Mogadishu attended the protest which has been held in the ground of Tarabunka square in south of the city. The rally was organized by the Islamic Courts that control much of south and central of Somalia.
“No to any foreign troops, we say no the deployment plan of IGAD states,” The protestors were chanting in today’s rally.
The pro-Islamist people in the rally expressed their total willingness to defend their land from any outside troops.
The leader of executive Council of Islamic Courts (CIC) Sharif Hassan Sheik Adam has spoken to the people in the rally raising his speech on different issues relating to the current politics in the region.
He said the Islamists are welcoming the introductory peace deal signed in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum by delegations of the transitional federal government and his Islamic men.
The rally in Mogadishu came after Islamic Courts failed to persuade the Kenyan government which is currently holding the leadership of IGAD to force the countries in the region to suspend the plan of the peace keeping mission to Somalia.
Sheik Ahmed said the main objective of their trip to Nairobi to save Somalia from any foreign intervention but achieved nothing from the meeting with the Kenyan government officials.
Kenya itself wanted to make the Islamists accept the deployment plan by IGAD member states.
He accused IGAD of turning deaf ear to the objection of Somalis towards foreign deployment in Somalia.
Sheik Ahmed, formerly school teacher stressed the Islamic Courts will defend its territory against outside troops, saying we the Islamists have the vast majority support from the Somali society to protect the land against foreign occupation.
He warned the defeated warlords of leading what he called the Somali enemy of Ethiopia to the country.
“It is clear that Ethiopia and Uganda are the only governments that conduct the plan to deploy the troops in Somalia,” Sheikh Ahmed said. “Kenya told us that it was not ready to send troops to Somalia also Djibouti, Sudan and Eritrea confirmed us they don’t intend to send their troops to our country,”
“We are telling the Ugandan government that there is no animosity between Somalia and Uganda, we are two neighbor states so we should keep the goodness among us and we are informing you that we would not have responsible if your soldiers are killed in Somalia,” Sheikh Ahmed said.