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New York Times article 1962: “Chiefs representing five tribes of the northern region, which formerly was British Somaliland, have petitioned Emperor Haile Selassie asking his help in liberating them from the oppression and degradation under the colonial yoke of Somali Republic rule”

In 1945 during World War 2 the United States dropped 2 nuclear weapons in Japan, the death toll is estimated to be 90k to 146k Isaaqs claim that In 2 years, Siad Barre Genocided 50k to 250k Isaaqs during the Civil war THREAD 🧵: Debunking the Isaaq Genocide & the lies of SNM

Rare Soviet documentary on Somalia in 1974

The civilian government hoarding resources ( 1960-1969) Since the mid 1960s, the civilian government turned a blind eye to the looming drought. By 1968, the drought had intensified, crippled 70% of the population . Meanwhile, MPs monopolized water wells, hoarded water, and sold it at extortionate prices. Votes were exchanged for water wells, leading to a sharp increase in their number in the Burco region—from 1,954 to 18,000.

🔥INCREDIBLE DISCOVERY 🔥 Only 26 village schools in all of Northern Somalia under the British and they cost an exorbitant amount. (British Somaliland) The languages taught were English and Arabic Meanwhile in their first year of the revolution the XHKS built 200 schools +

In a speech Idi Amin declared that all whites should be removed from South Africa and “Siad Barre should show Africans how to reach Cape Town.”

Sayyid Mohammad Abdullah Hassan had riflemen within his army whose sole task was to eliminate British officers. During one confrontation, these Dervish riflemen called out to the Somaliland Camel Corps and urged them to surrender. The Camel Corps responded defiantly: "come and bring us." The Dervishes replied mockingly: "Ho you want ammunition, just come here and we will give you plenty." The Dervishes continued, boasting of their earlier victories: "We have defeated the English, Manning, and Plunkett, and killed them. We have their weapons, their clothes; see them for yourselves, and spare your lives." One British officer remarked that this was an “English quarrel,” indicating that English prestige and pride were now at stake, turning the Somaliland campaign into something they felt compelled to handle personally.

The perception that southerners were less qualified than northerners was one of the driving factors behind secessionism. Due to the Sayyid’s legacy and his campaigns against the British, northerners became hostile to all forms of education. As a result, the British hired Kenyans and Indians as civil administrators in the protectorate. By 1958, Indians held all the key posts in the British Somaliland Protectorate, and not a single Somali served as a minister. Unlike the north, where Christian missionaries were present but produced no Somali civil administrators, southerners did not convert to Christianity yet nevertheless took advantage of administrative opportunities between the 1940s and 1960s. As a result, the south developed a class of educated individuals who entered the civil service, a development largely absent in the north.

UPDATED THREAD 🧵: The Isaaq Genocide, a politically motivated myth. In 1945 during WW2 the United States dropped 2 nuclear weapons in Japan, the death toll is estimated to be 90k to 146k. Isaaqs claim that in 2 years, Siad Barre genocided up to 200k Isaaqs during the SNM counterinsurgency. Includes new sources

𝗥𝗮𝗸𝗶𝘆𝗮 𝗢𝗺𝗮𝗿’𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁: 𝗔 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁? By the end of 1989, an estimated figure of approximately 5,000 deaths in northern Somalia had emerged as the broadly accepted consensus among mainstream analysts and political observers. However, media reporting increasingly shifted toward far higher estimates often ranging between 50,000 to 60,000 deaths. These figures were frequently justified through repeated citation of Rakiya Omar’s report, 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘢: 𝘈 𝘎𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘵 𝘞𝘢𝘳 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘐𝘵𝘴 𝘖𝘸𝘯 𝘗𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦, which came to occupy a central position in post-1991 narratives. Rakiya Omar’s father, Abdullahi Omar, founded an Arabic news press ( Al Liwa ) in 1958 Hargeisa. The co-founder and editor in chief was Ahmed Jim’ale. Ahmed Jim‘ale was a founding member of the SNM and served as its first chairman. The editorial staff included Ahmed Yusuf Duaale, who was later convicted of attempting to sell state secrets to Ethiopia. Notably, online obituaries and biographical notices of Rakiya Omar’s father describe him as one of the pillars of the SNM. The preface to Rakiya Omar’s report states that it is based on interviews conducted with refugees in England, Wales and Djibouti. Rakiya Omar was denied access to refugee camps in Ethiopia. Interviews took place in Cardiff, home to the UK’s oldest Somali community, historically predominantly Isaaq. By contrast, the field investigation by Robert Gersony, which included visits to refugee camps in Ethiopia highlights a clear methodological divide. Gersony concluded that no more than 5 thousand people died. Rakiya Omar is related to journalist Rageh Omar.