H. E. Mr. Colin L. Powell
Secretary of State
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, D.C. 20520

Dear Mr. Secretary:

The Great Jareer Women in Democracy of Somalia considers your Excellency's recent maiden four-states' African tour a grand paradigm shift and a refreshingly new frontier in dealing with the denial or retardation of democracy in Africa. GJWD wishes to add that it is pleased with the Bush administration's emphatic engagement to helping Africa dislodge itself from the AIDS plague and corrupt authoritarian regimes.

Further, GJWD enthusiastically supports your Excellency's call on Africans and their governments to create a democratic and prosperous continent in your speech to South Africa's university students. GJWD also lauds your emphasis and assurance that the United States will stand by governments that hold free elections and create open markets in your other speech in Johannesburg. In this regard, our organization commends you for the candid conversation that you had with President arap Moi of Kenya.

Moreover, GJWD welcomes the US commitment to the southern Sudanese people who have been abused and discriminated for a number of years like the Great Jareer Women of Somalia. The Great Jareer Women of Somalia constitute a good number of the entire population of approximately 3.7 million. Somalia, the home state of the Bantus within the current totalitarian regimes and administrations of Somalia, is not only the largest but also the richest region, holding together the backbone of the entire Somali economy.

Your Excellency:

In the light of your African pronouncements on the matters of democracy and free market economy, we members of GJWD would like to register our deepest concern once again against the tyrannical and authoritarian Somali regimes, which has made human rights violations its badge of notoriety. The Great Jareer Women of Somalia are currently subjected to an endless agony and miserable situation committed by the so-called regimes, administration and authorities, whose main aim is causing war, crime, hunger, and sickness. Yet there is no reason for hope. Many of our innocent and unarmed Great Jareer Women of Somalia are today subjected to continuous war, crime, hunger, and sickness; killing, kidnapping and mental abuse in their mother land, including the capital city of Somalia, Mogadishu. This is unjust and authoritarian rule of the Somali warlords. In raising our voice against this inhuman act and unbridled dictatorships, we request the assistance of the US government to use its good offices to encourage the emergence of a truly democratic constitutional and pluralistic government in Somalia.

GJWD fully agrees with your Excellency's view that it is Africans themselves that will make the difference in getting rid of corrupt and undemocratic regimes as clearly pointed out in your Excellency's speech in South Africa. The Great Jareer Women of Somalia have been trying to do so for over the past twelve years. They have been engaged to divest themselves from the inhuman Somali warlords. However, they have been unable to do so by themselves since the ruthless warlords, which has armed itself to the teeth, have denied maintaining and respecting the Geneva Convention of Human Rights. Because of the Great Jareer Women of Somalia people's position, the atrocities that have been and are being committed by the most of the non-bantus against the Great Jareer Women of Somalia have been boundlessly brutal.

In short, after thirty five years of iron-clad autocratic rule, the only uncontestable legacy of some of the non-bantus remain to be violations of human rights, war, crime, hunger, sickness, famine, disease, poverty, social unrest, conflict, and an all out misery and wretchedness. And yet there is no hope.

Your Excellency:

Mr. Secretary:

GJWD requests that the government of the United States to use its traditional diplomatic overture to help democracy to flourish, free market economy to take root, civil society to develop, and peace to reign in the Horn of Africa. In this regard, GJWD appeals to that the US, World Bank, IMF, Arab League, Islamic Bank, and OAU to:-

SBWO believes that the US can truly help to bring about a major paradigm shift in the political and economic landscape of Somalia by using its diplomatic and financial clout on the current dictatorial regimes and administrations in Somalia in concert with its European allies. Without the intervention of the only super in the world, the Somali regimes will sink into a political quagmire day by day compounding the suffering of the Somali minorities and unarmed clans including Great Jareer Women of Somalia, Untouchable groups, and light skin minorities locally known as "Gibil-cad"

The Great Jareer Women of Somalia Women for Democracy wishes the new Republican Administration the very best of success in its endeavors in maintaining US prosperity, world peace, and the proliferation of democracy throughout the world.

GJWD anxiously awaits your action and kind reply on the very serious issues raised in this letter.

Very sincerely yours

Drs. Sahra Osman

Chairperson, Great Jareer Women of Somalia Women for Democracy.