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Somaliland: Justice must be Delivered for Healing to complete its cycle

More than three decades later, Somalilanders are still hurting whenever a southern politician comments on the horrific massacres that took place in their county. It became their habit to furiously fume with rage and indignation like a fizzy, then settle down instantly and move to another trifling topic about the local politics.

That anger and a deep feeling of mistreatment and unjust alienation are always there, simmering under the surface, waiting for any small stimulant to trigger it. the reaction periodically comes as a provocative comment from one of the ex-senior figures of the military regime, or an antagonistic action from the incumbent president and his cabinet.

The reaction always takes the form of an unorganized wailing, condemnation and, at times, self-deprecating blame; this haphazard response is understandable since Somalilanders has never passed the first grieve stage of the healing process. After the initial euphoric elation of independence declaration, they were faced with extremely exceptional circumstances that occupied their entire thinking process: the establishment of the newly declared state from ground zero.

Hence, they were forced to look inwards and start focusing on the internal challenges; the building of state institutions hand-in-hand with slow, laborious urban reconstruction, reconciliation and conflict management.

Like any other nation recovering from decades of subjugation, tyranny, and complete dismantling of national institutions, many internal frictions surfaced manifesting as direct tribal confrontations and, sometimes, infightings. Recurrent skirmishes between the victims of the same enemy multiplied the cost of the reconciliation, delayed the state-building project, and prolonged the healing process.

We successfully tended to the visible aftermath of the destruction that occurred to our cities and towns, prioritized tangle outcomes, but knowingly or otherwise, ignored the hidden wounds of that era.

Disregarding feelings could be due to our cultural behaviour that does not appreciate showing emotions, openly addressing sentiments, and elaborating on grieve, but prefers to keep the lid tight and leaves hearts to suffer in silence. As a result of that, a senseless comment from the criminals at large, Guul-wade as an example, ignites storms of furry from our side without reasonably weighting the incident to positively organize our action.

There are countries who have gone through similar circumstances like us; delivering justice was an integral part of their healing process. We built our nation on forgiveness and new friendship for all the citizens of the new state, but never addressed our attitude towards those individuals or groups who were prime drivers of the transgression and reside beyond the borders of our state.

Shall we pursuit justice by going after them with legal prosecution and actual physical elimination or leave them to history to judge them in its way. Our leaders and intellectuals never put these important questions for discussion.

And what about those of us who chose to abort the state-building and impede our reconciliation through forging an unholy alliance with the perpetrators of treacherous acts of killings, torture and rape against our people. Do they have a free pass to come back whenever they like or will they be facing tough measures for the years and sometimes decades, they were sabotaging our existence and assisting our sworn opponents.

Thirty years later, we are still in a mood of grieve, easily irritable and the shock that encapsulated our subconscious is refusing to dissipate, our collective memory is not yet ready to let go. Our national institutions (parliament, presidency, and political parties) are mature enough to initiate a discussion about how we will deal with this reality, and the intellectual community is capable of enriching the debate with the relevant historical context, legal backing, and political analysis it requires.

Those citizens who were affected the most must be given a platform to speak, their stories documented, and internationally disseminated. When we formulate a formal public stance against those criminals at large, it can be translated into an implementable action plan to counter them, trace those influential figures still surviving, and with the sight of justice in action, healing will commence and complete its course.

Until then, the cycle of provocation countered by a fizzy-like response will continue to manifest as an online outrage.

Dr Abdikarim D. Hassan

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New Orientation in Indian Defence Policy

New Orientation in Indian Defence Policy

Speaking at the inauguration of India’s first dedicated military university in May 2013, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh saw his country “well positioned to become a net provider of security in its immediate region and beyond”.  While no particular emphasis was put on the word “beyond”, it is apparent that the Indian military’s security footprint is expanding beyond the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) with specific exercises being conducted to protect Indian overseas energy assets in areas like the South China Sea (SCS). In fact, Indian strategic community seems rather comfortable with the emerging coinage Indo-Pacific that sees the Indian and Pacific Ocean theatres as a continuum and is acquiring out of area capabilities such as aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines that would allow it to project credible force throughout this consolidated sphere.

However even as Indian security  thinking catches up with its extending geo-economic  interests,  the fact remains that India continues to  be flanked on its main land borders by two nuclear armed rivals, Pakistan and China, who describe their friendship as “taller than the tallest mountains and deeper than the deepest seas.” The Sino-Pakistani nuclear relationship shows no signs of abetting and there are deep suspicions in New Delhi with respect to potential coordination between the two countries in military operations along India’s northern frontiers in Kashmir. Moreover border incidents between India and Pakistan and India and China have multiplied in recent times and in 2009, the Minister of Defense formally asked the Indian Armed forces to prepare for a two-front scenario.

That India sees itself as a “net” provider of security is in itself reflective of its civilian leadership retaining the option of undertaking punitive operations across its frontiers and indeed in the Indian Ocean against enemy sea lines of communication (SLOC).  Such a situation can come to pass in the event of another 26/11 style attack by terrorist elements based in Pakistan or if say a 2013 Depsang like intrusion by China refuses to be winded down via negotiations.  Indian military planning in recent years therefore predicates itself on creating the ability to carry out simultaneous offensive conventional operations against both Pakistan and China against a nuclear backdrop.

Indeed India has moved from a “defence” to a “deterrence” posture with respect to China as well in addition to its similar longstanding posture (i.e. deterrence) against Pakistan. In the event of a two-front war Indian forces will no longer merely look to “hold” Chinese forces as they concentrate offensive elements against the Pakistanis before switching forces from West to East following a collapse of Pakistan’s defenses.

This Indian doctrinal shift vis a vis China ultimately stems from failed attempts at enduring détente between the two sides since 2003 when  a National Democratic Alliance (NDA) ruled India recognized the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) as a part of China in return for the latter dropping Sikkim from its list of territorial claims. The United Progressive Government (UPA) has sought to carry forward this legacy by engaging Beijing in continuous dialogue since it took power in 2004.

But after the 2005 Bush-Singh nuclear accord, the Chinese began upping the ante on the diplomatic front with respect to territorial disputes with the Chinese Ambassador  to India publicly stating in 2006 his country’s claim over the entire Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh and not just Tawang as was widely believed to be the Chinese position till that time. The subsequent period has seen a major increase in Chinese “transgressions” across the Line of Actual Control (LAC) leading up to a bloodless Chinese Army intrusion in April 2013 which penetrated into Indian held territory far beyond even the current Chinese claim line in the Ladakh region.

This period has also been marked by a rapid build-up of dual use infrastructure by the Chinese on the Tibetan Plateau besides the Chinese military undergoing massive conventional force modernization.  From the Indian perspective the new infrastructure allows the Chinese to build better equipped forces far more rapidly and at multiple points than ever before. Indeed heightened Chinese activities on the LAC derive from the new “last mile connectivity” that they now have on various points along it.

The Indian Army(IA) which earlier had a thought process of keeping its own side of the LAC a wilderness so that ingressing forces simply overextended  their supply lines, now feels that the Chinese have built up enough supporting  frontier infrastructure to move in much deeper  and at multiple points before they get bogged down.  Moreover, the new infrastructure on the Chinese side is actually allowing them to launch patrols all the way to their claim line and beyond in what is Indian held territory with a view to perhaps extending their LAC road networks even further.

India therefore has been upgrading its own LAC infrastructure in recent times to both prevent the Chinese from nibbling away at territory by being able to orchestrate counter patrols, as well as laying the back end support enablers for mounting its own offensives into the Tibetan Plateau if required. The IA believes a defensive battle against quickly concentrated Chinese forces at a point chosen by the latter is an inferior alternative to mounting a counter offensive of its own at a time and place of its choosing with a view to grabbing Chinese held territory that can later be used as bargaining chip in negotiations.

Besides the investment in new border road networks (progressing too slowly for most critics), strategic tunnel projects, re-activated airbases and advanced landing grounds this shift in mindset has also manifested itself in the  May 2013 Cabinet go ahead  to the IA’s  first ever  dedicated Mountain Strike Corps (MSC) based in Panagarh in the Eastern Indian state of West Bengal. Significantly, the final nod for the $10-12 billion spend spread over the next 7-8 years for raising  this new formation  was given  right after the Depsang intrusion took place. The large outlay for the MSC represents not only manpower costs since the IA is adding new personnel strength after a long hiatus but also specific equipment costs related to the acquisition of integral heli-lift capable artillery, aviation assets and tactical missile firepower suitable for use in a mountainous environment that constitutes in the main India’s de facto border with China.

The MSC for some represents a return of “threat” orientation in military force planning since it involves not just standard conventional force modernization but the incurring of significant multi-year liabilities for force component accretion seemingly dovetailed  to a  specific  context. In the new millennium Indian military writing has often talked about graduating from a “threat” oriented security system that concentrates on a large scale ground war against Pakistan in the plains to one that looks to bring in new “capabilities” in terms of platforms and training that have the flexibility to cater to a range of threats some of which might just be emerging.

Unsurprisingly, the Indian Navy (IN) which prides itself on “capability” based planning has been rather strident in its opposition to the setting up of the MSC since it has seen its raising as a threat to its own plans for expanding its capital acquisition budget in a period when the Indian defense budget has somewhat stagnated in dollar terms on account of a weak rupee. The overall defense budget itself which stands at $37.16 billion (at current rates) for 2014-15 (interim) has stayed well below 2 percent of Gross Domestic Product for the last few years.

The IN long described as India’s Cinderella service came into its own in the first decade of the 21st century beginning around the time when NDA Defense Minister George Fernandes overtly announced in 2001 that the Indian government had made the development of India’s Navy a strategic priority. Once again this policy was carried forward by the UPA government as well and today the IN operates stealth destroyers and frigates of Indian and Russian origin, an Akula-II class nuclear attack submarine, INS Chakra, leased from Russia, an ex-US Navy Landing platform dock, two aircraft carriers (ACs) with the recent delivery of the INS Vikramaditya by the Russians, and a soon to be operational domestically built ballistic missile nuclear submarine, INS Arihant.  Three more follow-ons to the INS Arihant are in various stages of construction and India’s first indigenously built AC, INS Vikrant, was launched in 2013 with delivery aimed for 2017.

The IN which sees itself as a key protector of Indian overseas interests believes that a country (i.e. India) whose trade is overwhelmingly seaborne (about 95 percent) and is pursuing a global strategy for energy and food security must embrace a much deeper oceanic approach to its security planning. With China increasing its strategic petroleum reserves to over a 100 days of self-sufficiency in the event of conflict, the IN probably realizes that mere interdiction of Chinese SLOCs in the IOR will not suffice as a deterrent to the Chinese Navy moving against Indian interests in the SCS.

Active protection of Indian assets in faraway seas and the ability to project power in the Chinese littoral has now emerged as part of its scenario planning. Indeed the advocacy by retired navy thinkers close to the government for acquiring a bigger nuclear submarine force (both SSNs and SSBNs) than what currently seems on the anvil clearly supports such a view. The emphasis on nuclear submarines is understandable since such boats have both the endurance and stealth required for fighting in distant seas characterized by enemy anti-access/anti-denial (A2/AD) networks such as the ones being built by the Chinese in the SCS.

But platforms such as nuclear submarines do not come cheap and  involve back end infrastructure in the form of extremely low frequency (ELF) communication networks in addition to satellite based battlespace management systems such as the recently launched GSAT-7 which is the IN’s first dedicated satellite. Moreover the IN also has in progress extensive surface fleet augmentation plans in the form of larger and more capable destroyers and frigates, new LPDs, anti-submarine warfare (ASW) corvettes  in addition to a projected doubling of the number of aviation assets under its control.

In the last three years the Indian economy has registered far more modest growth rates than it did in the first decade of the new millennium even as the UPA government indulged in a raft of populist policies to shore up its electoral prospects while trying to keep the overall fiscal deficit under control. This has left far less room for capital expenditure growth in the Indian defense budget leading to tussles within the military centered on the semantics of threat versus capability oriented planning. The decline of the rupee vis a vis the dollar in the same period has naturally not helped matters either with the total capital spend available to the military—though greater in rupee terms—has stagnated around the $15 billion mark on an annual basis in the last few years even as all three services continue to be import dependent to various degrees.

This is particularly true of the Indian Air force (IAF), the most import heavy service and one that has consistently garnered the largest share of capital expenditure in the defense budget. Indeed the Army-Navy discord ultimately stems from the fact that the capital expenditure on the IAF is veritably sacrosanct since India depends greatly on airpower capability to deal with its two primary military rivals.  In 2011, the government actually cleared the raising of the IAF’s sanctioned combat aircraft strength from 39.5 squadrons to 42 precisely to cater to the demands of a two front scenario.  In fact, both India’s biggest weapons import plan as well as joint  international development project are for the IAF,  being the multi-role medium range combat aircraft (MMRCA) tender (for which the Dassault Rafale has been shortlisted) and the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) program with Russia respectively. The MMRCA contract is expected to be worth up to $15-20 billion.

The IAF of course also sees itself as a “capability” based force and could argue that its recent acquisitions can be used for a variety of scenarios. For instance the C-130s and C-17s being purchased from the United States via the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) route and the Mi-17 medium helicopters being brought in from Russia are being used for both forward deployment along India’s mountainous borders, while India’s road and rail infrastructure catches up, as well as to support deployments in new bases in the Andaman and Nicobar (A&N) Islands which can host fighters that would provide additional air cover to Indian fleets in the IOR. In fact the IAF   seems to have extricated itself from threat vs capability debates   to an extent since it  often flies in support of the other two services  and exercises jointly with the IA and IN  more than they do with each other.

Indian strategic thinking does seem  keen to leverage the flexibility of airpower and drawing a direct lesson from American campaigns since 1990 has pushed the IAF towards taking the initiative in transformative concepts by leveraging the digital age to bring in cutting edge Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (C4ISTAR) technology.  Subsequently, the pursuit of superior “situational awareness” has been embraced by the other two services as well such as the IN’s Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) concept and the IA’s Battlefield Management System (BMS) project.

Now although the initial acquisitions in the C4ISTAR domain have been from abroad, such as the three PHALCON AWACS the IAF brought from Israel, it is clear that future “transformation” of the Indian military in addition to standard force modernization must be done through indigenous sources both from an affordability as well as a security standpoint given increasing concerns about electronic components originating from China and elsewhere. Indeed one way out of inter-service battles for allocation in periods of budgetary tightening would be much greater focus on indigenization to extend Indian defense rupees as it were.

The UPA’s last Defense Procurement Procedure (DPP-2013), issued at a time when the government was straddled by a host of defense related scams, made for the first time various types of indigenous procurement categories explicitly preferred over buying global. This also meant that it was now mandatory for every procuring service to justify any move to buy overseas. A 30 percent component indigenization clause on a cost basis for any and every piece of equipment was also introduced in DPP-2013. This was done to leverage various offset requirements that have been in place for overseas buys.

While DPP-2013, would seem to signal a decided shift towards favoring indigenization the fact remains that the immediacy of operational requirements, insufficient defense industrial base and corruption has hamstrung the pace of indigenization thus far and India’s private industry is looking for more than just official reassurance for indigenous preference in defense contracts.

Attracted by India’s substantial military modernization spend, its private sector has been looking to grow its defense practice as a lucrative hedge to downturns in the civilian sector.  Domestic industry is particularly keen on over 150 “buy and make” (Indian) contracts which allow Indian companies to bring in foreign technology partners and involve competitive trials between prototypes developed by down-selected development agencies with 80 percent of the cost of prototyping borne by the government. However, though greatly touted by the UPA two flagship buy and make Indian programs, the Tactical Communication System (TCS) and Future Infantry Combat Vehicle (FICV) have both seen numerous delays with the former getting off the ground only recently.

These are precisely the kind of bureaucratic delays that a Narendra Modi led NDA coalition is expected to remove in the perception of industry. Modi has publicly stated not just defense indigenization as a goal for an administration headed by him but defense exports as well. It seems that in Modi’s scheme of things defense indigenization is not just a matter of self-sufficiency in a critical sector but an engine of growth for the economy – a viewpoint emphatically supported by industry which enthusiastically accompanied the Defense Research and Development Organization’s (DRDO) to ADEX-2013 in Seoul, where it made the first ever international exhibition of its wares.

It is worth noting that private sector capabilities in defense have been built in great measure through participation with DRDO in two areas where India has achieved a notable degree of indigenous proficiency — strategic missile systems and electronic warfare (EW).  In the coming decade DRDO is keen to make its mark in a range of tactical missile systems both independently as well as by leveraging technology partnerships with foreign entities. Examples of the latter would include the Long Range Surface to Air Missile (LRSAM) project with Israel and the Short Range SAM (SRSAM) project with MBDA of France. The successful Indo-Russian Brahmos missile joint venture provides a sort of template in this sphere although DRDO is keen to partner with private sector players for productionizing these developments.

Also like the Brahmos, which is already in service with the IA and IN with an air-launched version being progressed for the IAF, many of these new tactical missiles will be universal in nature with tailored versions finding their place in the inventories of all three services. Indeed indigenous R&D in India is also leading to several joint developments which in turn are helping reduce the friction over capital expense allocations by leveraging economies of scale. Beyond missiles, this is also visible in the aerospace and EW domains.

Indigenous R&D is now being prioritized as a capacity building exercise that can lead to the capabilities needed to counter emerging threats, such as in the cyber domain. In fact, India is embracing the so-called new triad of cyber, space and special forces with each expected to get a dedicated joint service command of its own. The IAF which has been looking to become an aerospace power is expected to lead space command, the IN will take the lead in building the cyber command and the IA which has the largest number of special force operators will spearhead the new consolidated special operations command (SOC).  Besides specific operational elements these new commands are also expected to expedite the development of new technology in these realms.

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Hi, with Apple coming out with M1 SoC now, and Raspberry Pi 4 with 8GB RAM available, I would love a benchmark that would be compiled or built for any combo SoC/CPU or OS combination. I see you sell this at a reasonable price. Does it come with source code so you can build your own version on a platform such as Pi 4 on Raspberry Pi OS (32-bit) or Ubuntu 20.04 (64-bit running on Pi 4)? I'm fine with having to run ./configure and then make, then make install. I can also fix simple compilation errors.

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    I too would like a version for Linux on ARM for Raspberry Pi and similar devices. I doubt we'll be able to build it ourselves (since it's closed source) but I imagine it shouldn't be too difficult for Primate Labs to offer a compiled ARM CLI version alongside the compiled x86 CLI version.

    Even if it's offered as a 'beta' or untested build with no guarantees it could be useful.

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Poperinge Part Six – The Execution Memorial

I simply don’t know my own strength.

Ho ho!  This curious memorial, styled on the war memorial in the main square in Poperinge, can be found in a park a few hundred yards from the town hall,…

…and, as the artist who designed it, Anno Dijkstra, tells us on this information board,…

…‘The bottom of the socle [plinth, I think, to you and me – MF] is a gigantic black hole.

Do I succeed in looking into the head of the soldier?

The darkness is all over.  The socle is a funnel.

The present sneeks (sic) in through this funnel.

Or is it the past that is calling us?

Do we notice the enthusiasm of the first battle weeks, the homesickness, the pride, the doubts, the death-rattle or the song of victory? Perhaps it is just a whispering, as in an empty shell, the rush of our own blood?’

To which the information board adds, ‘This monument is in (sic – again) invitation to reflection. Sit down and listen to the whispers.’

Me, I’m just going to give you some facts.

Actually, before I do, as you know, I get easily confused these days.  Poperinge war memorial features a Belgian soldier, of course it does, as we saw in the first post of this series, but I don’t understand why, if this is a memorial to remember those executed, and Poperinge is (in)famous for the British executions that took place here, which it is, it doesn’t feature a British soldier, perhaps posed in homage to the Belgian soldier on the war memorial?  But then I didn’t design it, a Dutch lady did, so what do I know?  On to the stats.

In April 1920, a government spokesman stated that 3,076 sentences of death had been passed during hostilities, and that of these, 343 had been carried out.  Two years later, in March 1922, the War Office published a tome which, for the princely sum of 10s 6d, would have allowed you to peruse, at your leisure, ‘The Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire during the Great War’, and should you have reached Part XXII, you would have found a section entitled ‘Discipline’.  Today you can download it for free (which is very handy) if you know where to look,…

…and if you are interested in, oh I don’t know, the statistics relating to ‘Mechanical Transport Abroad and at Home’, or ‘Army Contracts, Clothing and Salvage’, or maybe ‘Enemy Prisoners of War’, or perhaps simply ‘Casualties’ or ‘Munitions’, to name a few chapters, then that is exactly what you will have to do.  Either that or ask me very nicely.  But the relevant pages of the ‘Discipline’ chapter are to be found in the appendix to this post, and the two most germane are shown directly below:

The bare statistics of military courts-martial are listed, and for the first time the public became aware of the figures.  The number of military executions had now risen to 346 – three men having been executed for murder in 1920 which the government spokesman had omitted – of which just three were officers.

The number of men actually sentenced to death is listed here, and the percentage chance you had of clemency, or otherwise.  The note at the bottom is difficult to understand; I think the total of 324 does not include any of the men found guilty of murder apart from the 15 Imperial Troops, because the remainder totals twenty two.  Add 22 to 324, and we have 346, the number of executions actually carried out.  Quite why they are separated from the others – they were not civilians, and elsewhere (see appendix) are listed under ‘soldiers’ –  I do not know.

Some thoughts.  It seems to me that the cases of the 346 men who were executed are inextricably linked, naturally with the 2,734 men sentenced to death who received clemency, but also with those who were tried and found guilty of the same offence, and yet did not receive a death sentence in the first place.  Take desertion.  Do you know how many General, District & Field General Courts-Martial there were for desertion during the war?  38,630.  Of those, 31,269 were at home in the U.K., and whether returning late from leave, for example, got you a court-martial for desertion I don’t know (I don’t think so – that would be ‘absence’, and there were more than 51,000 trials for men going absent at home), but nobody was going to be executed at home – that would not have gone down well – and it still leaves a total of 7,361 officers and men who were tried for desertion abroad during the war years.  I repeat, 7,361.  Unfortunately, we don’t know the number of acquittals, but looking at the statistics in general, the figures show us that acquittals of above 20% are rare across the board, which leaves several thousand men most likely found guilty of desertion who were clearly not sentenced to death.  Why?

The spire of the town hall peers over the trees in the centre background, the execution cells beneath.  Of the 3,080 death sentences passed in total, 346 were carried out, of which 264 were for desertion.  Of these 264, just two were officers.  What, leaving aside those already under suspended sentences, were the reasons for the remaining confirmations of death sentences, as opposed to the vast majority who received clemency?  Why, for example, despite Haig’s comments on the case of Second Lieutenant Eric Poole, ‘Such a case is more serious in the case of an officer than a man, and it is also highly important that all ranks should realise the law is the same for an officer as a private’, were the other twenty officers found guilty of desertion all given a lesser sentence?  Questions, questions……

And you know what?  Very few people actually cared.  A nation tired of war did not want to hear unsavoury tales of Briton killing Briton.  And that was pretty much how it remained, with due deference to certain individuals in the 20th Century who worked tirelessly to gain some sort of modern justice for these men, until the pardons of the early 21st Century.

Elsewhere, a Peace Tree, planted on 11th November 2018,…

…and this curious memorial that I nearly didn’t photograph but, once researched, I was very glad I did, as this is something I knew nothing whatsoever about.  Most countries seem to have, or have had, ‘forgotten’ groups of men and women from the Second World War (think Arctic Convoys, up until a few years back, in the U.K.) who failed to get the recognition their sacrifices deserved, and this memorial remembers a group of Belgians who fall into that category.  On 10th May 1940, the Germans, once again uninvited, came to Belgium.  As thousands of Belgian civilians, just as they or their forefathers had done a quarter of a century earlier, began the trek west in a vain, on this occasion, attempt to escape the invaders, many passing through Poperinge as they went, the Belgian Government ordered all Belgians between the ages of 16 & 35 to immediately register for the army reserve at one of the Recruitment Centres of the Belgian Army (RCBL) in Flanders, or a Center de Recrutement de l’Armée Belge (CRAB) in Wallonia.  Hence the initials on the memorial.  You have to remember that all this was during the chaos of the German invasion and the uncertainty about the immediate future, but those who did not register were considered deserters, with all the potential consequences that might entail.  Although only a reserve, many who registered were sent to France, where some would have inevitably found themselves in the firing line, and God knows the fate of many once the Battle of France was over, but those who returned to Belgium never received official recognition for their deeds because they were never regarded as real soldiers!  Hence it would be 1998 before this memorial, which features a young Belgian, his belongings packed on his bicycle, typical of those who made up the reserve, would be unveiled.

Selected pages from ‘The Statistics of the Military Effort of the British Empire during the Great War’ – the omitted pages, apart from the two you have already seen, mainly deal with offences committed while at home (as already intimated, no soldier was executed for an offence carried out at home), or by civilians or prisoners-of-war at home or abroad.

142 soldiers were sentenced to life imprisonment; what were their crimes, I wonder, and did they actually serve a life sentence?

The only documentation you will find with a total of 371 death sentences!  Hm.  However, the asterisked note at the bottom, which you may have spotted on the majority of these pages, explains all, or perhaps throws all into confusion, ‘The remissions and suspensions of sentences are only shown when noted on the proceedings’.  One can only presume, therefore, that the twenty five civilian death sentences were all suspended (although ‘not noted on the proceedings’), bringing our total once more down to 346.

Enough about executions.  Talbot House, a much happier place, next.

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  1. Nick Kilner says:

    As intriguing as ever. A post which as you quite rightly state, raises at least as many questions as it answers, and (dare I say it) demonstrates a degree of leniency from the courts which many would perhaps not have thought existed.
    I’m not a fan of the ‘fallen’ memorial, I must confess. I guess I’m old fashioned that way. The Dutch mistress is not for me! 😉 I wonder if she knew the number of British soldiers represented when deciding on the figure of a Belgian soldier? Possibly not. Had it been built as a standing memorial, blown over by shellfire and left as it fell then it would be quite something, but as it stand (or lies), it holds little appeal and strikes me as a somewhat lazy attempt at art. But perhaps that’s just me, after all they do say that art is anything which provokes thought and conversation, though in truth I’m not convinced by that either. And should a memorial be considered art in its own right? Many are quite stunning, but does the artistry draw attention away from the men or women that the memorial is there to represent? More questions….
    I do like the small Belgian memorial. Not the usual dead soldier in the wings of an angel, but the innocence and joys of youth. A somewhat happier aspect, in some respects at least.

  2. Magicfingers says:

    The memorial had me interested turning to ambivalence to irritation to annoyance, although only the first two while I was actually there. And I think there is some laziness involved, wrapped up as enigma. And if you think I am entering into a ‘What is Art’ discussion without the beers being stacked up, you are sorely mistaken.
    I’m not sure what I think about the other memorial either, actually. But then that is purely personal taste.
    The stats made my head hurt, but I think I got there in the end. But loads of questions still. Always.

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Well on Saturday night I was DOG TIRED and for once Andy stayed up later than me watching TV. In the middle of the night I woke up and heard this noise from the bathroom. I promptly woke Andy up explaining our inevitable doom because clearly someone was trying to climb up REALLY HIGH to get into our bathroom window. Which, by the way, does not open.

Andy woke up the first time and sat up and listened to be “nice” but after that he made death threats about me waking him again. Or actually he just slept through it all. Finally I mustered up the courage (aka I had to pee bad enough) to go and shut the bathroom door. From then on out I slept like a baby.

Sunday morning I wake up all bright eyed and bushy tailed (or actually feeling like a hangover without any drinks the night before) while the kids ran around yelling and being LOUD CHILDREN. I took a shower (you’re welcome to all who had to smell me that day). When I got out of the shower I dried off and my hair was sopping wet. I leaned over my tub to squeeze some of the water out but before I wrung my hair out there was a loud noise from my tub…

I thought, “wait that’s funny- I haven’t wrung my hair out into the tub yet….” all the while turning to see….

That sucker was running as hard as he could to try to get out but just couldn’t do it.

And y’all, it scared me SO BAD that I screamed like I have never screamed before. It wasn’t even that it was a mouse that scared me- it was just the unexpectedness of it.

Andy tears into the room with glazed over eyes and crazy hair.

Apparently the children had been awake and I had taken a shower and Andy was asleep in Rory’s bed (because around here- you just find a place and park it to try to get some adequate sleep).

So I pause and say, “Um, were you still asleep?????” and he’s all, “Well… well… uh….. yeah I guess I was.” And I got so distracted at the hilarity of him lookin’ crazy and not even realizing he was in Rory’s bed snoozin’ while the kids were up doing their own thing.

I promptly told him that HE SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO ME. There actually was something in our bathroom for once and he should never doubt my sanity EVER AGAIN.

So that’s how this week started.

Then I got sick and that was a crazy time because I hallucinated about being stranded in Alaska and Andy had not adequately prepared me to survive in cold weather scenarios.

And I kept waking up in the middle of our bedroom in a ball, shivering.

So that was fun and clearly all his fault because HE DIDN’T PREPARE ME.

I knew I was doomed with Ryder having the flu when she started grabbing in the air saying, “No snakes! No! Don’t come near me!” while staring up in the sky at nothing.

This morning was the first time I’ve felt normal since Monday and I’ve been spending lots of time trying love on the girls but NOT AT THE SAME TIME since Ryder’s sick.

Do you know how hard that is, people?!

Rory has spent the entire week being Andy’s buddy and she has had the best time.

Though, I’m quite concerned because she’s been calling Ryder a “perp” all day.

Example: “Hey you little perp! I’m gonna shoot!”

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So as soon as Andy gets home from work I will be quizzing him on the reasons she now has this word in her vocabulary….

I’m guessing there was a Law & Order: SVU marathon on and they watched together?????

Thoughts anyone?????

I think I will start referring to the mouse in my bathroom as “the perp”.

I was beginning to see a silver lining of all the sickness last night as I went to bed. Andy was up in the playroom sleeping and I was in our room settling in to my pillows. As I’m laying there trying to drift off to sleep I keep hearing this amazingly awful noise. I thought Andy was watching some sort of movie with a car chase or explosions or chainsaws…

so I start to march up there to tell him to quiet down already when I realized…

All that horrible noise was coming from HIM.

And WHO KNEW but when someone sleeps above you in a poorly insulated room it sounds like a freight train being chased and then bombed and then chainsawed in half.

Oh. My. MERCY.

Then I could hear Ryder through the monitor talking to herself in her flu state and also SNORING and the random coughing.

So I was up a good portion of the night thinking…

Here I am in bed with everyone sleeping SO GOOD except me. Even though I’m ALL ALONE and THIS IS THE PRIME TIME TO SLEEP PEOPLE.

But no. NO NO NO NO NO.

It was torturous.

I’m off to stuff the 100th orange down Rory’s throat and to check temps for the 230912091233094234923-232093203904094092339202320394 time this week.

Happy Thursday!

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The Hobnob was conceived from Mike and Amy’s love of spending time playing Scrabble and other games with family and friends, while also enjoying Amy’s good eats and Mike’s specialty cocktails. They bring this “game night” concept to the hobnob for all to enjoy. Get to know Amy and Mike a little better.

Amy Voisenat is from El Paso, Texas. She worked in her father’s steakhouses since the young age of 9. Amy worked her way through every position from dishwashing to accounting, while attending the University of Texas at El Paso. In 1996, she moved to San Francisco to attend the nationally acclaimed California Culinary Academy, where she graduated in 1998.

Since then she has learned from the best chefs in the world in such well know San Francisco restaurants as: Val 21, Farallon, MC2 and Cafe Kati. Amy was the Executive Chef of Curve Bar and Restaurant in 2001-2002, where Best of San Francisco Magazine named her food Best American Bistro.

Amy worked as an opening consultant for the Kimpton Groups, Sky Hotel/39 Degrees in Aspen Colorado, where she was the hosting Chef for the world famous “Aspen Food and Wine Festival”.

Upon her return to San Francisco she worked as opening consultant for her friend and colleague Justine Miner’s RMN restaurant in the Haight. She then went on to be the Executive Chef at Catch Restaurant & Thirsty Bear Restaurant, both in San Francisco. Each of these experiences has contributed to her unique ability to create and develop international and fusion cuisine with an eye toward great local and seasonal ingredients.

She also participated in many charity events including: Project Open Hand, Share Our Strength, and Maitri, a benefit for a hospice for people living with Aids.

Amy had designed a menu of small plates American food. The idea is that you can come with friends and family, play board games and share food that is easily eaten. Some of the staples include a Wedge Salad, Cuban Sandwich, Mini Burgers, Fried Calamari.

The Hobnob will be a destination place for foodies, and for those desiring a relaxing evening of delicious food, games and specialty drinks.

Michael Voisenat is from the Bay Area and a longtime Alameda resident. He graduated from Piedmont High School and went to the University of California at Berkeley. He is well known in both the East Bay and San Francisco and affectionately known as “Mikey V.” He has been in the restaurant business since age 16. He got his first taste of the restaurant business in Hawaii where he worked in the kitchen mopping, scrubbing and assisting with food preparation.

He returned to California and worked as a pantry chef then bartending at the Rusty Pelican in Alameda. In 1989 he was the bar/restaurant manager at the Waterfront Café. He worked at Harry Dentons, South Side, Babylon, Fillmore Grill, Martini Lounge, Bimbos, and the Blue Light. In the summer of 2002 he was recruited by the Kimpton Group Hotel to open its newly acquired Sky Hotel/39 Degrees in Aspen, CO. When he returned to the Bay Area, he opened Curve Bar and Restaurant with some friends, which is where he met his wife Amy Voisenat.

Since then, they both shared the dream of opening a bar and restaurant with their own unique concepts, which is a perfect marriage of skills, Amy’s exquisite cuisine with Mike’s specialty cocktails.