Trip to Our Torture

            Voting in Berbera was the most ridiculous time I ever had. It was somehow good and on the other hand bad. The good thing was, I visited Berbera beach. But the bad thing was, I almost got shot.  First a candidate from Ucid took a lot of students from here to Berbera. He took us to vote for him. The poles were full of soldiers and there were thousand people in the line. And the lines were taking forever. And basically the Berbera populations were majority Ucid and the soldiers were Kulmiye so there were disagreements.

            First we get up at 4am and went to make the line. Even though it was too early but the lines were full. Soldiers came and chased people from the lines. But people didn’t let them do that so the fought with them and that’s when the guns start. I ran from that pole and went back to sleep. Then I woke up at 6am and went to another pole to vote. The funniest thing about the voting was voting two or three times. There were a lad standing next to us and right after we vote she washes the ink from us. Then we go back again to vote. I literally didn’t vote because I almost got shot.

 A man who was standing right in front of me got shot from the leg and I was frightened from it. Soldiers were showing no mercy and to anyone who opposes them. People voted 10 times because it completely unfair. People who were responsible for the voting were letting people to vote for their party as much as they want. They gave people 20 bucks just to have their vote. And when the government told the results people fought. This tells us that whatever happens in Somaliland then people will still vote for their clan not the person who is good for the job. That’s why Somaliland can’t get recognition.