Somalia

It upsets me when i come across article such as this. I cannot help but feel bad for the innocent people of Somalis. Everyday it is something knew and someone else has their life cut short. The greed and corruption that goes on with Somali politics is haulting the country from growing and coming out of these horrible times. Its going to be a long hard run for all of the Innocents somalis that just want what is best for them selfs, loved ones and their beloved home country. With the famine on top of all of these sadening attacks, you cant help but want to do something for yourself to help. What really gets to me about this article is when they talk about how many of the people killed were trying to get out of somalia and get an education. One of those children murdered could have been a young leader getting an education abroad and came back to their home country, and been the one who changes somalia for the better. That one person killed could have been the key to somalias prosperity. I dont know what these people think they are getting out of these attacks, and i really beleive it shines weakness on themselves.

It baffles me that occurrences like this happen almost everyday. What would make someone ensue a suicide bombing when dozens of innocent civilians will be the ultimate targets. I just don't understand when this will end and how it will end. It doesn't seem like there will be an end, there is just no way to predict such events. The anarchic state of Somalia makes for a permitting terrorist location. Hopefully the government can become more involved.

It is extremely upsetting to see another unnecessary attack take place and impact 70 innocent Somalians. Whether al-Qaeda was the primary reason behind this bombing or not, Somalia must recover and stand tall rather than bask in misery. If they show fear or hostility, it will cause the government and people to lose hope of a stronger Somalia. What rewards did the suicide bombers receive besides knowing they will kill a mass amount of people who had an entire life to live? It's disheartening to hear younger Somalians die while striving to receive an education to escape their misery at home. Each and every life lost had so much potential to improve the fate of Somalia, within those 70 lives could have been a potential scholar or leader or advocate or ambassador or politician. Hopefully Somalia will recover quickly enough to reassure the people hope of a better future.

It is heartbreaking to hear about young Somalians who are simply looking for an education, a chance to better their lives, but they ended up being killed as a result of it. They were at the wrong place at the wrong time. I don't know what the Shabab have to accomplish, because they are only making people despise them more with each attack that they carry out. Their lack of sentiment for human life is painful to think about. What is not good is that Somalia is a failed state, so there isn't really anybody to stop them from continuing these attacks on the Somalian people.

This is such a vicious cycle. The Bantus are the supposed bombers because they don't have anything and are angry at the government, so the government goes and bombs them. And so the Bantus bomb back and so on. The worst part about this is that it can't be helped as long as there is anger, and there will always be anger.

It's really unfortunate that this is still occurring in the world with all we have invested in the war on terrorism.

Somalians do not need anyone trying to kill them when they are struggling to survive right now.

People are brainwashed into becoming "martyrs" for a cause. They believe they will be rewarded in their next life. It's the communities that develop these kinds of people, not the individuals. We need to find where the orders are coming from to be able to shut them down. I believe education would be the biggest threat to suicide bombing because then people might realize there is more in this world and there is more to this life.

I never understood why jihadists participated in terrorism. My great friend who is Muslim, explained to me that jihad denotes a struggle between good and evil, warring against the lust of the flesh. By this definition, it would seem to me that jihadists would be meek, god fearing individuals, fleeing from all evil. Yet, the terrorize other groups...?? Either I received a wrong interpretation, or the jihadists have abandoned their true spiritual foundation of righteousness.

I just can't ever seem to fathom how people can just bomb innocent people and never feel any regret or remorse over it. And as if Somalia didn't already have enough problems with natural disasters and poverty. We even just collected a lot of canned foods at my school to send over there...I just wish there was more we could do to help. And how are these kids who are seeing all this go on there...what if they want to go kill people for revenge when they grow up? It's a vicious cycle that needs to end.

Somalia keeps rolling downhill fast. Their state of near anarchy has now been overshadowed by one of the worst famines in our lifetime. Can the Somali people take much more? I think not. It seem more and more likely that their state will continue to devolve with more and more fighting, until peacekeeping troops have be called in- if they ever are. Somalia is just a bad place to be right now, and there seems that there will be little hope for them having a brighter future.

Somalia has had a tough few years. This new story only adds to the incidents of famine, drought, poverty and political strife that Somalia has been dealing with. Unless the government can step in and make a change quickly, the UN predicted a million to die within the next semester seems very plausible. However it is very hard to make drastic changes against drought and other natural disasters that occurred at a very ill time for Somalians.

What inspires such a group to commit such harsh acts? Why do such innocent Somalians have to be shot, stoned and beheaded? They believe these acts are normal, but no they aren’t and I don’t think anyone should have to go through something like this. It kills me that I am sitting half way across the world and have no control over this. It doesn’t look like this situation is going to improve any time soon, probably not for a long time but there definitely needs to be some improvement with the government and protecting these innocent people. We all know terrorism isn’t an option to accomplish anything, and we as a whole should fight for these rights in these countries. Some of the people killed were just simply trying to better their future and their lives and I think everyone has a right to that. They should not be punished and this is really such a tragic event that happened.

Somalia and Unites States are the nations in the same earth. However their situations are totally different from each other. While people in Unites States are living in developed and urbanized society, people in Somalia are living in the worst situation now. Their government is powerless and whole nation is in chaos. However citizens of Unites States and citizenz of Somalia are all same human being. They have same natural rights as a human being. Depending on what nations that people are born, their lives become totally different. It is a really sad fact.

If it isn't one thing in Somalia causing death, it is another. On top of all the starvation and internal conflict, they must deal with another problem of violence. The lack of a central government has plunged this country into one of the worst situations in the world in terms of living conditions. This shows a glaring problem in the way the world works now. Somalia is a sovereign state, but without a government. No other country can intervene to stop this violence since it is not considered genocide. The people of Somalia will continue to suffer as long as this country remains without a central government.

So here is my question when are the UN going to step in because Somalia is like the titanic its going to hit an iceberg if nobody steers that ship

Its seems difficult to figure aout a possible solution to suicide bombers, with there already willingness to die there is no possible type of intimidation that halt these type of atrocities. These bombers killed innocent kids, who possibly wanted to better themselves by going to college or some type of educational environment. These killers need to be somehow sought out and deat with before they have a chance to kill, but with Somalia's cosistent chaos, it seems unlikely that this is the last suicidal event that murders in the coming weeks.

It is absolutely ridiculous how people act in the world. The reason there is a brain drain in places like Somalia, is because of crazy people that go around "in the name of god" and kill others. People are never going to learn, that these rulers just want power, and they're using religion as their gateway.

This is disgusting and the fact that this happened to a bunch of students looking for a chance of a lifetime and get a scholarship to a university is even worse. This shows how the jihadists have no regard for life and will go so far to complete a "martyrdom operation." Somalia needs help desperately.

This is very upsetting and sad news from the country of Somalia. Somalia is already dealing with famine and drought, they don't need to deal with terrorists now. Somalia is definitely a country that needs aid from around the world. I hope the people of Somalia decide that they are tired of the terrorists that are destroying their country and revolt to stop them.

How is killing innocent people a martyrdom operation? These people do not have any respect for human life. Taking the life of an innocent person who is trying to get a scholarship for school is not a martyrdom action in my opinion. It is sad to hear that Somalia is going through all of this on top of a drought that is happening throughout the entire state. Even aid packages are sparse within Somalia. Something needs to be done for these people because it is not fair what lots of them have to go through. Attacks on killing innocent people are not helping the cause to save Somalia and these attacks need to be stopped.

Somalia is going through so much right now it's hard to believe that on top of that these terrorist groups would add to the suffering. The population is going through the worst drought in decades and yet they're still fighting over racial issues, and the government is too corrupt and illegitimate to do anything about it. Just when you think things can't get any worse for this poor country, it does. It really does seem to be depressingly predictable.