The Somali National Conference is dismayed by the brutal tactics used in some parts of Somalia in putting down those uprisings or in denying individuals to express their basic right of supporting or participating in the Somali Peace Process, including indiscriminate shootings, imprisonment, confiscation of property etc. We call the International Community to put pressure on those authorities to stop the illegal killings and other forms of torture against innocent civilians in those areas.

On the other hand we call Puntland and other regional authorities not to try to go against the healthy wind of change blowing throughout Somalia and to facilitate rather than hinder their elders, intellectuals, women, the civil society and other Sections of the society their decisions to break away from the past and lay the foundation for a peaceful Somalia which embraces the rule of law, respects individual rights, guided by the will of the people and the principles of democracy and replaces harmony and good relationship with the hatred and the discord which has characterised the history of the last few decades of the Somali society.

From SomaliaRebirth Web.