After 30 years of dictatorship and civil war, the Somali people pulled off a qualified consensus on forming a new state that is different from the obliterated one. The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia is vested with the awesome responsibility and authority to steer the formation of the new state. Successive elected presidents strived to some extent to fulfill their awesome responsibilities with the exception of President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo who has striven to tear Somalia apart for good.
According to a Somalia Human Rights Status in 2019 released by the US state department during the era of the Farmajo Presidency, significant human rights abuses in Somalia in include: extrajudicial killings of civilians by federal government forces, clan militias, al-Shabaab, and unknown assailants; arbitrary and politically motivated arrest and detentions, including of journalists by federal government forces and regional government forces; harsh and life-threatening prison conditions; political prisoners; arbitrary or unlawful interference with privacy; serious problems with the independence of the judiciary; the worst forms of restrictions on free expression, the press, and internet, including violence, threats of violence, and unjustified arrests and prosecutions of journalists, censorship, site blocking, and the existence of criminal libel laws; numerous acts of corruption.
This revenge and subversion tactics are processes by which the Somali government has trampled, reversed, and contradicted the values and principles believed in by the Somali people in an attempt to transform the constitutionally established social order and its structures of power, authority, hierarchy, and social norms into personal rule that is above the law.
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