During the freedom movement in Somalia in the early 40's, a woman was killed in action when the Somalis poorly equipped though,clashed with the Italian Colonial Force in Mogadishu. Hawa Osman Tako was considered as a heroines who sacrificed her life for the sake of freeing her people from the Italian colonialists. A statue was built for her to show how the country loved her and those of her sort. Now the same Italians that had died in the war in that same day are telling Ms. Tako stories about the current situation in Somalia which she couldn't believe. Hawa's narration of the story goes like this:

The Italians fired machine guns
They were more powerful than us
They carried superior weaponry
They wanted to kill the Somalis
They wanted to crash our people
They wanted to silence our voice

But that was no easy job for them
With bows and arrows we shot back
We threw spears and stones at them
Many a warrior had died on the spot
I was one of those killed that day
My name is Hawa Osman Tako

Here in this part of the other world
The Italians are telling me stories
They talk ill of my beloved Somalia
I can't bear with their hard hittings
Somalia can't go astray that far
We fought to liberate our motherland
But they think their stay was far better

They say you were wrong to fight with us
Your people are now killing each other
No single spot in the country is safe
Bullets are flying everywhere in Somalia
Everything was destroyed and dismantled
They say even statues had been looted

"What" I said
"Ask your people" they answered
Hey Somalis if what they say is true
Please delete my name from your books
You are no worth dying for. Are you?
In the history of unpatriotic people
Tribalists are recdorded as heroes